THE 



PEOPLE'S 

 BOOKS 



A LIBRARY OF NEW BOOKS BY WRITERS OF 



DISTINCTION, BRINGING WITHIN THE 



REACH OF ALL THE RESULTS OF 



MODERN KNOWLEDGE 



OF the manufacture of reprints of the works of the 

 great writers there has been no end. Reprints 

 represent in the main the work of the last generation. 

 Their value no one questions, but we live in a world that 

 moves on, and moves rapidly, to the conquest of new 

 knowledge. More rapidly than of yore, therefore, the 

 old standards become antiquated, while the conditions of 

 modern life demand at every turn some acquaintance with 

 the most recent results of investigation Yet no attempt 

 has been made to throw open to all the treasures of Science, 

 Philosophy, History, and Literature, which are known to 

 scholars of the present generation. 



In "THE PEOPLE'S BOOKS" the publishers are 

 making a bold effort to supply this clamant demand. 

 Their ambition is not a modest one, as the details of the 

 features of the scheme given below will show, but it has 



