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MEMOIRS OF PROF. E. L. YOU MANS. 



LIVINGSTON YOU MANS, Inter- 

 preter of Science for the People. A Sketch of his Life, with 

 Selections from his Published Writings, and Extracts from his 

 Correspondence with Spencer, Huxley, Tyndail, and others. 

 By JOHN FISKE. With Two Portraits. I2mo. Cloth, $2.00. 



"Whether as a memorial ot a noteworthy man, or as a record ot a most important 

 phase of intellectual life in our own time, the volume is entirely admirable, and must 

 be given a high place in the honorable list of recent biography." Philadelphia. 

 Times. 



" His life was at once inspiring and interesting. His career gave to manhood in 

 America an ornament as well as a potent example. While he lived, he helped to 

 enrich thousands of lives. Now that he is gone, Prof, t iske's beautiful biography 

 not only shows us how noble the man himself was, but how great was the public 

 loss, and how precious must remain the possession of such a memory." i\ew York 

 Times. 



" It was eminently proper that the biography of Mr. Youmans should be written, 

 and certainly there could not have been chosen a fitter man than Mr. Fiske to write 

 it An acquaintance daring back thirty years is itself a qualification, and when to this 

 are added Mr. Fiske's ability and the lucid method which characterizes his work, the 

 elements for a satisfactory memoir are all present." Philadelphia Bul.etin. 



" To enumerate Youmans's achievements in the dissemination and interpretation 

 of scientific truth is to sum up the reco.-d of an epoch from the view-point of the 

 gradual enlightenment of the American people. When Mr. Fiske reminds us that 

 the discovery and propagation of truth are functions seldom united in one person, and 

 that science, like religion, must have its apostles, he speaks as one having experience 

 and authority ; and no one will dispute his competence to define and r.pp'.aud the 

 services which his friend rendered in the capacity of a breaker of the bread of science 

 to the multitude." Mew York Sun. 



" The selection of Prof. John Fiske as the biographer of the late Prof. Youmans 

 was the best thing that could be madi. Prof. Youmans has done more for the dis- 

 semination of scientific information, and the cultivation of a taste for such knowledge, 

 than any other American of his day." Cleveland Plain Dealer. 



" We shall not be misunderstood as agreeing with all the views recorded here by 

 Prof. Youmans, from whom we were often compelled to differ while he lived, when we 

 say that we have read the book with great interest, and are thankful that one who 

 truly and unselfishly labored in the cause of popular science has so worthy a memo- 

 rial. "-New York Observer. 



" He had the broad democratic spirit, and the absolute unselfishness which it 

 reveals at every moment and in every act of his life ; and Mr. Fiske has written a biog- 

 raphywhicli is tender and true, and rich and strong. To it are appended some of his 

 writings which have a fitting place here, and fully illustrate his mental gifts and con- 

 victions." Boston Herald. 



" Edward Livingston Youmans was a remarkable character, and the world could 

 ill afford to lack a history of his life. Fortunately, the tvst biographer possible has 

 undertaken to write that histoty, and all thoughtful readers may rejoice thereat ; for 

 John Fiske came to this task well fitted in every way by his intimate personal acquaint- 

 ance with Mr. Youmans, extending through many years." Chicago Inter-Ocean. 



" Prof. John Fiske has performed a labor of love for the friend whose name is it< 

 title, and one of whose closest intimates he was. The volume is a good example of 

 friendly but not unwholesomcly laudatory biography." Botton CoHgregationalut. 



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