HANDBOOKS for Students and General Readers 

 IN SCIENCE, LITERATURE, ART, AND HISTORY. 



Messrs. HENRV HOLT & Co. have begun the publication of a Series of 

 brief Handbooks in various departments of knowledge. The grade of the 

 books is intermediate between the so-called "pr'mers" and toe larger works 

 professing to present quite detailed views. Generallv, thijy will be found 

 available by upper classes in schools which can not give much time to the 

 subjects and by mature persons of little leisure who wish to enlarge or revise 

 their knowledge. 



The subjects and authors, so far as selected, are as follows : 



VOLUMES PUBLISHED. 



Zoolosry of the Invertebrate Animals. By ALEX. MACAUSTER, 

 M.D., Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy in the University 

 of Dublin. Special! v revised tor America by A. S. PACKARD, JR., 

 M p., Professor of Zoology and Geology in Brown University. 60 cts. 

 This and the following together in one vol., $1.00. 



Zoology of the Vertebrate Animals. By the above authors. 

 i6;no. 60 cents. This and the preceding together in one vol., $1.00. 



Zoology. The preceding two volumes in one. i6mo, $1.00. 



The Studio Arts, By ELIZABETH WINTHROP JOHNSON. i6mo. 6oc. 



Astronomy. By R. S. BALI., LL.D., F.R.S.. Astronomer Royal for 

 Ireland. Specially Revised for America by SIMOV NKWCOMB. Superin- 

 tendent American Nautical Almanac ; formerly Professor at the U. S. 

 Naval Observatory. i6mo. 6oc. 



Practical Physics Molecular Physics and Sound. By 

 FREDERICK GUTHRIE, PH.D. F.R.SS. L. & E., Professor of Physics in 

 the Royal Scho ,1 of Mines, London. i6mo. 6oc. (See Practical 

 Physics below.) 



FORTHCOMING VOL UMES. 



Architecture. By RUSSELL STURGIS, A.M., Architect, Professor of 

 Arcmtecture and the Arts of Design, in the College of the City of N. Y. 



Botany. Morphology and Physiology. By W. R McNAB, 

 M D.. F.L.S., Professor of Botany, Royal College of Science for 

 Ireland, Dublin. Revised by C. E. BESSEY, M.S., Professor of 

 Botany in the Iowa Agricultural College. 



Botany. Classification of Plants. By W. R. McNAB. Revised 



by C. E. BESSEY. 

 English Language. By T. R. LOUNSBURY, Professor in Yale College. 



English Literature. By 



French Literature. By FERDINAND BOCHER, Professor in Harvard 



University. 



German Literature. By 



History of American Politics. By ALEXANDER JOHNSTON, A.M. 

 Jurisprudence. By JOHNSON T. PLATT, Professor in the Law 



Department of Yale College. 



Practical Physics Electricity and Magnetism. By 



Prof. F. GUTHRIE, Ph.D. 

 Practical Physics Heat and Light. By Prof. F. GUTHRIE, 



Physical Geography. By CLARENCE KING, Director of the U. S. 

 Government Surveys. 



Political Economy. * By FRANCIS A. WALKER, Ph.D., Professor in 

 Yale College. 



