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FIRST CENTURY OF THE REPUBLIC. A Review of American 

 Progress. 8vo, Cloth, $5 00 ; Sheep, $5 50 ; Half Morocco, $7 25. 



Contents. 



Introduction : I. Colonial Progress. By Eugene Lawrence II. Mechanical 



Progress. By Edward H. Knight. — III. Progress in Manufacture. By the 

 Hon. David A. Wells.— IV. Agricultural Progress. By Professor William 

 H. Brewer. — V. The Development of our Mineral Resources. By Professor 

 T. Sterry Hunt. — VI. Commercial Development. By Edward Atkinson. 

 — VII. Growth aud Distribution of Population. By the Hon. Francis A. 

 Walker. — VIII. Monetary Development. By Professor William G, Sum- 

 ner. — IX. The Experiment of the Union, with its Preparations. By T. D. 

 Woolsey, D.D., LL.D. — X. Educational Progress. By Eugene Lawrence. 

 — XI. Scientific Progress: 1. The Exact Sciences. By F. A. P. Barnard, 

 D.D., LL.D. 2. Natural Science. By Professor Theodore Gill.— XII. A 

 Century of American Literature. By Edwin P. Whipple. — XIII. Progress 

 of the Fine Arts. By S. S. Conant. — XIV. Medical and Sanitary Progress. 

 By Austin Flint, M.D. — XV. American Jurisprudence. By Benjamin 

 Vaughan Abbott.— XVI. Humanitarian Progress. By Charles L. Brace. 

 —XVII. Religious Development. By the Rev. John F. Hurst, D.D. 



MOTLEYS DUTCH REPUBLIC. The Rise of the Dutch Republic. 

 A History. By John Lothrop Motley, LL.D., D.C.L. With a 



Portrait of William of Orange. 3 vols., 8vo, Cloth, $10 50; Sheep, 

 $12 00; Half Calf, $17 25. 



MOTLEY'S UNITED NETHERLANDS. History of the United Neth- 

 erlands : from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Years' 

 Truce — 1609. With a full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against 

 Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By 

 John Lothrop Motley, LL.D., D.C.L. Portraits. 4 vols., 8vo, 

 Cloth, $14 00; Sheep, $16 00; Half Calf, $23 00. 



MOTLEY'S LIFE AND DEATH OF JOHN OF BARNEVELD. The 



Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a 

 View of the Primary Causes and Movements of "The Thirty-years' 

 War." Bv John Lothrop Motley, LL.D., D.C.L. Illustrated. la 

 2 vols.. 8vo, Cloth, $7 00 ; Sheep, $8 00; Half Calf, $11 50. 



