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The Flying- Machine. From an Engineering Standpoint. A Reprint of the 

 "James Forrest" Lecture, 1914, by permission of the Institution of Civil 

 Engineers. Including a Discussion Concerning the Theory of Sustentation 

 and the Expenditure of Power in Flight, a Paper presented at a Meeting of 

 the International Engineering Congress in San Francisco, 191 5. By F. W. 

 Lanchester, M.Inst.C.E., M.I.M.E., M.Inst.A.E., Member of Advisory Com- 

 mittee for Aeronautics. (Pp. vi + 135, with 56 figures in the text.) Price 

 4s. 6d. net. 



What is Instinct ? Some Thoughts on Telepathy and Subconsciousness in 

 Animals. By C. Bingham Newland. London : John Murray, Albemarle 

 Street, W., 1916. (Pp. 213, with 19 illustrations.) Price 6.y. net. 



On Causation, with a Chapter on Belief. By Charles A. Mercier, M.D., F.R.C.P., 

 F.R.C.S. London : Longmans, Green & Co., 39, Paternoster Row, E.C., and 

 New York, Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras, T916. (Pp. xii + 228.) Price 4^. 

 net. 



New Essays concerning Human Understanding. By Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ; 

 together with an Appendix consisting of some of his shorter pieces. Trans- 

 lated from the original Latin, French, and German, with Notes, by Alfred 

 Gideon Langley, A.M. Second Edition. Chicago and London : The Open 

 Court Publishing Company, 1916. (Pp. xix + 861.) Price 12s. net. 



Diderot's Early Philosophy Works. Translated and Edited by Margaret Jourdain. 

 The Open Court Series of Classics of Science and Philosophy, No. 4. 

 Chicago and London : The Open Court Publishing Company, 19 16. (Pp. 

 246.) Price 4s. 6d. net. 



Herbert Spencer. By Hugh Elliot. Makers of the Nineteenth Century. Edited 

 by Basil Williams. London: Constable & Co., Ltd., 1917. (Pp. vi + 330.) 

 Price 6s. net. 



The British Campaign in France and Flanders, 1914. By Arthur Conan Doyle. 

 London, New York, Toronto: Hodder & Stoughton, 1916. (Pp. xv + 344.) 

 Price 6s. net. 



Essays in War-time. By Havelock Ellis. London : Constable & Co., 1916. 

 (Pp. v + 252.) Price $s. net. 



Heine's Poem : The North Sea. Translated by Howard Mumford Jones. 

 Chicago and London : The Open Court Publishing Company, 1916. (Pp. 

 129.) 



Comptes Rendus of Observation and Reasoning. By J. Y. Buchanan, M.A., 

 F.R.S., Commandeur de 1'Ordre de Saint Charles de Monaco, Vice-President 

 du Comite de Perfectionnement de l'lnstitut Oceanographique (Fondation 

 Albert 1", Prince de Monaco). Cambridge : at the University Press, 191 7. 

 (Pp. xl + 452, with 14 plates.) Price 7s. 6d. net. 



The Pan-german Plot Unmasked. Berlin's Formidable Peace-Trap of "The 

 Drawn War." By Andre Cheradame. Translated by Lady Frazer, with an 

 Introduction by the Earl of Cromer, O.M. London : John Murray, Albemarle 

 Street, W., 1917. (Pp. xxxi + 235, with maps.) Price 2s. 6d. 



A Scientific German Reader. Edited with Introduction, Notes, and Vocabulary 

 by Herbert Z. Kip, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Germanic Languages at 

 Vanderbilt University. With a frontispiece and 31 other illustrations. New 

 York : Oxford University Press (American Branch). (Pp. xvi + 445.) 



This is one of the Oxford German Series by American Scholars, and con- 

 sists of a series of excellent essays designed to teach the English reader both 

 natural science and the German language. 



