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RECENT BOOKS BY DISTINGUISHED SPECIALISTS. 



Foot=Notes to Evolution. 



A Series of Popular Addresses on the Evolution of Life. By David Starr Jordan, 

 Ph. D., President of Leland Stanford, Jr., University. 121110. Cloth, $1.50. 

 This book is a popular review of the evolution philosophy of to-day, considered more 

 especially in its biological aspects. The essential unity of all organisms, both plant and 

 animal, the fact that progress in life consists solely of adaptation to environment, and the rela- 

 tion of heredity and degeneration to the evolutional scheme, are among the points of special 

 interest dealt with in the volume. In a chapter entitled "The Woman of Evolution " various 

 aspects of the woman question are discussed from the standpoint of the evolutionist. A chap- 

 ter is also devoted to an examination of the essentials of science and the ultimate test of truth. 

 The inclusion of material of biographical and historic interest, as well as the popular character 

 of the discussions, gives the volume an especial attractiveness for the general reader. 



Outlines of the Earth's History. 



A Popular Study in Physiography. By Prof. N. S. Shaler, of Harvard University. 

 Illustrated. 121110. Cloth, $1.50. 



" Professor Shaler's bald title does not do him justice. It is too modest, and gives only the 

 barest idea of the richness of the contents which lie between the covers of his book. From the 

 first page onward it reads like a romance, and holds the attention with engrossing interest." 

 — New York Bookman. 



Studies of Good and Evil. 



By Josiah Royce, Professor of the History of Philosophy in Harvard University. 

 121110. Cloth, $1.50. 



" Professor Royce is well known as one of the ablest writers on philosophical and ethical 

 subjects in the country, and what he says on these themes is always worthy of attention." — 

 Brooklyn Eagle. 



Evolutional Ethics and Animal Psychology. 



By E. P. Evans, author of " Animal Symbolism in Ecclesiastical Architecture," etc. 

 1 2ino. Cloth, $1 .7s. 



" This is a highly instructive and entertaining communication out of the author's rich treas- 

 ure-house of facts and reflections in the province of natural history. The presentation of them 

 is free from all metaphysical jargon, plain and vivid, and enlivened by a fund of charming in- 

 cidents and anecdotes touching the life of the lower animals. One feels throughout that the 

 author has a wealth of humor at his disposal, and that, above all, he is a man with the heart in 

 the right place ; and this renders the reading of the book a real delight. . . . Mr. Evans plucks 

 repeatedly to pieces with keen logic and fine sarcasm the verbal quibblings and hair-splittings 

 by which theologians and metaphysicians have endeavored, by means of arbitrary definitions, to 

 maintain an essential difference between mental faculties in man and the lower animals. 

 Matchless is the manner in which, in the eighth chapter, he makes short work of the somewhat 

 arrantly pretentious Professor Max Miiller. " — Miinchener Xeuesten Nachrichten. 



Wages and Capital. 



An Examination of the Wages Fund Doctrine. By F. W. Taussig, Professor of 

 Political Economy in Harvard University, author of "Tariff History of the United 

 States " and "The Silver Situation in the United States." 121110. Cloth, $i.so. 



" There can be no question as to the importance of Dr. Taussig's temperate discussion of a 

 subject which has long engaged the attention of scholars on both sides of the Atlantic. Our 

 author offers the conclusions which a brilliant and independent mind has reached after patient 

 and impartial investigation of an exceedingly difficult question." — Pkila. Evening Bulletin. 



What is Electricity? 



By Prof. John Trowbridge, of Harvard University. 121110. Cloth, $1.50. 



" The book is ... an authority on the subject of which it treats, and bears marks on every 

 page that Professor Trowbridge has given it the fruits of his best work." —Boston Herald. 



The Psychology of Suggestion. 



A Research into the Subconscious Nature of Man and Society. By Boris Sidis, 

 M. A., Ph. D., Associate in Psychology at the Pathological Institute of the New 

 York State Hospitals. With an Introduction by Prof. William James, of Harvard 

 University. Illustrated. 121110 Cloth, Si. 7s. 

 "One of the most complete studies of the subject ever published, and a most meritorious 

 investigation of the nature of subconsciousness." — Revue Philosophique, Paris. 



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