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MYTH AND SCIENCE. By Tito Vignoli. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
Contents: The Ideas and Sources of Myth; Animal Sensation and Perception; Human Sensation and Perception; Statement of the Problem; The Animal and Human Exercise of the Intellect in the Perception of Things; The Intrinsic Law of the Faculty of Apprehension; The Historical Evolution of Myth and Science; Of Dreams, Illusions, Normal and Abnormal Hallucinations, Delirium, and Madness.
"His book is ingenious; ... his theory of how science gradually differentiated from and conquered myth is extremely well wrought out, and is probably in essentials correct."—Saturday Review.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION; or, The Health Laws of Nature. By Felix L. Oswald, M. D. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.
The greater part of the contents of this volume appeared in a series of papers in "The Popular Science Monthly," where they attracted wide attention on account of the freshness of many of the ideas and the force with which they were presented. No recent book on this subject is marked with so much special learning, original illustration, and incisive argument.
Contents: Diet; In-door Life; Out-door Life; Gymnastics; Clothing; Sleep; Recreation; Remedial Education; Hygienic Precautions; Popular Fallacies.
"The title would seem to point to a dry, technical essay, on a much-discussed subject, but the reader who, entertaining that idea, passes it by, misses a strong, pungent book, full of common-sense suggestions, many of which, however, run counter to the popular idea. The author believes that the principal cause of human degeneration is the use of unnatural food."—Boston Transcript.
"There is no question about the great value of these essays as instructors in what is most healthful in diet, gymnastics, in-door and out-door sports, clothing, sleep, and recreation, and as furnishing hints on remedial education and hygienic precautions."—Utica Herald.
"Dr. Oswald is as epigrammatic as Emerson, as spicy as Montaigne, and as caustic as Heine."—Philadelphia Press.
HISTORY OF FRANCE. New volume in "History Primers," edited by J. R. Green. By Charlotte M. Yonge. 18mo, cloth, flexible. 45 cents.
THE SONG WAVE: A Collection of Choice Music, with Elementary Instruction. For the School-Room, Institute-Hall, and Home Circle.
Containing a brief, practical, and comprehensive course of elementary instruction, with a great variety of selections, adapted to all occasions, including standing favorites and many new songs. 8vo, boards, 80 cents.
DIE ANNA-LISE: A German Play by Hermann Hersch, with an Interlinear Translation, and Directions for learning to read German. By C. F. Kroeh, A. M., Professor of Modern Languages in the Stevens Institute of Technology. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.
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CAPITAL AND POPULATION: A Study of the Economic Effects of their Relations to Each Other. By Frederick B. Hawley. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
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SHAKESPEARE FROM AN AMERICAN POINT OF VIEW; including an Inquiry as to his Religious Faith and to his Knowledge of Law; with the Baconian Theory considered. By George Wilkes. Third edition, revised and corrected by the author. 8vo. Cloth, $3.50.
THE RHYMESTER; or, The Rules of Rhyme. A Guide to English Versification. With a Dictionary of Rhymes, an Examination of Classical Measures, and Comments upon Burlesque, Comic Verse, and Song-Writing. By the late Tom Hood. Edited, with Additions, by Arthur Penn. 18mo, cloth, gilt or red edges. Uniform with "The Orthoëpist" and "The Verbalist," $1.00.
Three whole chapters have been added to this work by the American editor—one on the sonnet, one on the rondeau and the ballade, and a third on other fixed forms of verse; while he has dealt freely with the English author's text, making occasional alterations, frequent insertions, and revising the dictionary of rhymes.
STUDIES IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST. By the Rev. A. M. Fairbairn, D. D., Principal of Airedale College, Bradford, and author of "Studies in the Philosophy of Religion and History." 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
Contents: The Historical Conditions—The Narratives of the Birth and Infancy—The Growth and Education of Jesus; His Personality—The Baptist and the Christ—The Temptation of Christ—The New Teacher; the Kingdom of Heaven—Galilee, Judea, Samaria—The Master and the Disciples—The Earlier Miracles—Jesus and the Jews—The Later Teaching—The Later Miracles—Jericho and Jerusalem—Gethsemane—The Betrayer—The Chief Priests—The Trial—The Crucifixion—The Resurrection.
"These 'Studies in the Life of Christ' are not exhaustive and critical discussions on the Gospel history, but are simply attempts at orientation—at reaching points of view from which the life of Christ may be understood and construed.... The author sends the volume forth in the hope that it may help to make the Person it seeks to interpret more real, living, and lovable, to the men of to-day."—From Preface.
"Professor Fairbairn's thoughtful and brilliant sketches. Dr. Fairbairn's is not the base rhetoric often employed to hide want of thought or poverty of thought, but the noble rhetoric which is alive with thought and imagination to its utmost and finest extremities."—Rev. Samuel Cox, in the Expositor.
"We can scarcely describe the depth and truthfulness and power of his teaching as given here. From the beginning to the end, with not more than two or three exceptions, what the author says is more than satisfactory. The volume is one more suited for study than for mere reading; and yet, as regards the matter of style, it is fully equal to Canon Farrar's popular delineation, while, as regards wisdom, it is vastly superior to it."—The Churchman.
"These 'studies' are admirable. They are evangelical and modern, and in thought and style of expression are strong, clear, and fresh. They do not ignore the objections and arguments of skeptics, but clearly Christ is to the author more than a mere mental abstraction."—The United Presbyterian.