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EVOLUTION : Its Value, its Evidences, and its Relations, 

 to Religious Tliouglit. By J. Le Conte, Professor of Geology autl 

 Natui-al History in the University of California. Second Edition, 

 revised. Crown 8vo, 6s. 



The Guardian says : — " Among the numerous books which appear professing to 

 deal with the relations of physical science and religion it is a very rare pleasure to 

 meet with one like the volume before us. We have liad ' reconciliations ' from men 

 who knew much science and no theology, and from theologians who did not know 

 the outlines of the scientific doctrines they discussed. We have even had con- 

 tributions from those who might at least claim fairness on- the ground that they 

 liad no real knowledge of either natural or theological science. It would be an 

 exaggeration to say that in Professor Le Conte we have found what we have so 

 long looked for in vain. But we are able to say, after considerable experience of 

 tills kind of literature, that it stands on a ditterent level and is written in a different 

 atmosphere from all, or almost all, the books of the kind which it has been our good 

 or ill fortune to come across. Professor Le Conte is a professor of geology and 

 natural history in the University of California, and therefore has a riglit to speak on 

 the scientific question, and, moreover, without being a professed theologian, lie 

 knows what religion really has to fight for, and wliat, whether it be true or not, is 

 not essential to Christianity. He can distinguish a scientific conclusion from the 

 metaphysic whicli lies behind it, and, more wonderful than all, he can distinguish 

 between what may claim to be proved and what, however convinced he may be of 

 its triitli, is as yet only a theory or a ))rivate opinion. But we have seldom, if ever, 

 found a book, covering so much ground, with whidi a Christian theologian may, on 

 the whole, find himself so much in ;igreeraent, and from wliich he may derive so 

 much that is helpful, even wliere he cannot as yet admit the conclusions as true." 



CONSTRUCTIVE ETHICS. A Review of Modern Moral 



Philosophy in its Tliree Stages of Inter2)retation, Criticisms, and 

 Reconstruction. By W. L. Courtney, M.A., LL.D., Fellow of 

 New College, Oxford. A New Edition with a Preface by the 

 Author. Demy 8vo, 3s. 6d. 



The Spectator says:— "The book is of a very high order indeed. It is clear, 

 incisive, the statement of various systems of ethics is fair and adequate, and tlie 

 criticism of them, if brief, is trenchant and conclusive. We have read witli much 

 pleasure the historical part of tlic book, and consider it a most important contri- 

 bution to tlie literature of ethics. . . . There are many chapters in the book 

 wortliy of special notice." 



THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE: Its Origin, Course, 

 Promoters, and Results. By J. Villon Marmery, with an 

 Introduction by Samuel Laing. Demy 8vo, 7s. M. 



*,* Mr. Samuel Lain;) considers Mr. Marmei-y's book "a lem-k of great learninrt 

 and research, conveying in a clear and inteUigiUe form a mass of most -useful and 

 interesting history of the Progress of Science, from its first dawn in Egypt and 

 Chaldea, through the Greek, Arabian, Mediceval, and moda-n periods, down to the 

 j>resent day. It comprises also brief memoirs of the illustrious men to v:hom we arc 

 indebted for the principal discoveries of Science, from Thales and Pythagoras down to 

 Dancinand Herbert Spencer, and I can confidenlbj recommend it as alike interesting 

 and instructive." 



The Daily Telegraph says :— " It gives evidence of conscientious care in verifi- 

 cation, and sound judgment in the selection of materials. We fail to detect any 

 important step in the advance of science omitted, and as a rale the estimates of the 

 men who have reared the temple of knowledge are just and discriminating." 



The Daily Chronicle says :—" A really useful work. . . . Mr. Marmery has read 

 much and carefully, and in almost every instfcuce his short descriptions and other 

 statements are given with such admirable conciseness and accuracy that his 

 volume fully deserves the confidence of those to whom it appeals. ... A really 

 praiseworthy work." 



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