IVTUMBERS 1 TO 79. 



PRITIOUS numbers of this LIBRARY were known by the name STANDARD s 

 SKRIES. A list of these 79 books will be found on the 3d page of the cover 

 of this volume. They are printed in 4to, 8vo, and 12mo sizes, and are bound 

 in postal card manilla. They are standard books and are very cheap. 



SCIENCE IN SHORT CHAPTERS. 



By W. MATHIEU WILLIAMS, F.R.A.S., F.C.S. 



THIS book has been just published in England at $2 American monev 

 and the imported edition is selling in America at $3.50. The author was bor u 

 in Flintshire, Wales, and first came into public notice as the author of a book 

 entitled, " Through Norway with a Knapsack," which has gone through several 

 editions. He is the author of other books, but this last one SCIENCE IN 

 SHORT CHAPTERS is doubtless the most useful and popular of his works. 

 He who wishes to become well versed in scientific literature will be saved many 

 a weary hour of hard study by this book ; and the particular subject in science 

 he wishes to understand he will find placed before him in a style as interesting 

 and charming as a story. Mr. Williams' articles are eagerly sought for by the 

 best literary papers and magazines of Great Britain. He is a leading and 

 independent thinker and often crosses swords with the most renowned scientists 

 of the day, 



PAXTON HOOD'S LIFE OF CROMWELL. 



No. 80 STANDARD LIBRARY (No. 1, 1883 Series). Price, 25c. 



CIRCLES. 



WHAT can better and more rapidly cultivate the literary taste than the rightly man- 

 ;ed Heading Circle ? In a number of localities, sometimes within churches, sometimes 

 lolly secular such circles have been in operation during the past year. Cheap books 

 take them easily possible. It will be no difficult task to establish such circles in con- 

 :ion with the STANDARD LIBRARY. A valuable book can now be secured, without 

 overtaxing the purse, by each member of the club every two weeks. It can be read dur- 

 ing: the intervening period. A critical essay upon the book by some one appointed for 

 this purpose should be read and then the discussion made general in which the merits 

 and demerits of the book may be pointed out, or the subject of the book be discussed 

 It 18 wonderful how rapidly by such a plan a literary taste is developed. 

 To encourage the formation of these Circles we will give the following 



PRIZES: 



1. We will donate Ten Dollars' worth of any of our books to the Library of the 

 Reading Circle that will send us the best plan of organization for a Reading 

 Circle on or before April 1, 1883. 



8. We will donate Five Dollars' worth of any of our books to the Library of the 

 Reading Circle that will send us the best critical escay on any one of the 26 books 

 issued during 1683. The essay must be written by a member of the Reading Circle, 

 and must be sent us within eight weeks after the date of the issue of the book. 

 The date of issue is printed on each book. Each essay should contain about 2500 

 words. This offer holds for the 26 books published this year. We will claim the 

 privilege of publishing in book-form the 26 successful essays at the close of the year. 



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