HANDBOOKS for Students and General Readers 

 IN SCIENCE^ LITERATURE, ART, AND HISTORY. 



Messrs. HENRY HOLT & Co. have begun the publication of 

 a Series of brief Hand-books in various departments of know- 

 ledge. They will be suitable for the use of persons already 

 possessing the usual elements of education who wish, in the 

 shortest possible time, to get a general knowledge of the sub- 

 jects treated in the Series. The principal fields they seek to 

 occupy are in the upper classes of public and private schools, 

 and among mature persons of little leisure who wish to enlarge 

 or revise their knowledge. 



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



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



and the Arts of Design, in the College of the City of New York. 

 The Studio Arts, By ELISABETH WINTHROI- JOHNSON. 

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



Ireland. 



Botany. By 



Chemistry. By 



English Language. By THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY, Professor in Yale 



College. 



English Literature. By 



French Literature. By FERDINAND BOCHKK, Professor in Harvard 



University. 



Geology. By 



German Literature. By 



Health. By 



Jurisprudence. By JOHNSON T. PI.ATT, Professoi in the Law 



Department of Yale College . 

 Music. By 



Physical Geography. By CLARENCE KING, U.S. Geologist in 



charge of survey of the 4oth Parallel. 

 Physics. By 



Political Economy. By FRANCIS A. WALKEK, Ph.D., Professor in 

 Vale College. 



Zoology. By A. MC-ALISTER. M.D., Professor in the University of 

 Dubl.n. 



' N. B. Any books in the series that may be the work 

 of foreign authors will be specially revised for America by some 

 one among the best American authorities. 



