UNIVERSITY MANUALS 



THE EARTH'S HISTORY 



An Introduction to Modern Geology. By R. D. ROBERTS, 

 M.A., Camb., D.Sc., Lond. With colored Maps and Illustra- 

 tions. I2mo, $1.50 net. 



The purpose of this volume is to furnish a sketch of the methods and 

 chief results of geological inquiry, such as a student, or a reader interested 

 in the subject for its own sake, would desire to obtain. It is shown that 

 Geology is not a mere description of rocks and fossils, but a history, and 

 the purpose of the geologist is to reconstruct from ancient fragmentary 

 remains the old conditions that characterized successive stages of develop- 

 ment in a word, to make out the life history of the earth. Some of the 

 problems are : the nature of the crust movements to which land-areas and 

 mountain ranges are due ; what was the distribution of land and water when 

 each group of rocks was formed ; what the extent and contour of the land 

 were, the condition of its surface and the forms of life ; what the oceanic 

 conditions, depths, life inhabiting the water, nature and extent of the 

 materials brought down by rivers. 



The records of this series of events are to be found in the successive 

 groups of rocks, and the chief object of this volume is to present in broad 

 outline results of geological research which throw light upon the structural 

 history of the earth, and the method by which that history is worked 

 out. 



THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 



By CHARLES E. MALLET, Balliol College, Oxford. I2mo, 

 $1.00 net. 



CONTENTS : Introductory I. Condition of France in the Eighteenth Cen- 

 tury II. Last Years of the Ancient Regime III. The Early Days of the 

 Revolution IV. Labours of the Constituent Assembly V. Parties and Poli- 

 ticians under the Constituent Assembly VI. The Rise of the Jacobin 

 Party VII. Influence of the War upon the Revolution VIII. Fall of the 

 Gironde IX. The Jacobins in Power X. The Struggle of Parties and 

 the Ascendency of Robespierre XI. The Reaction Tables of Dates 

 Appendix of Books Index. 



This book has a special value to students and readers who do not own the 

 great works of such writers as De Tocqueville, Taine, Michelet, and Von Sybel; 

 for it summarizes what these and other writers tell us. Mr. Mallet presents 

 economic and political aspects of society before the Revolution ; attempts to 

 explain why the Revolution came ; why the men who made it failed to attain 

 the liberty they so ardently desired, or to found the new order which they hoped 

 to see in France ; by what arts and accidents, owing to what deeper causes, an 

 inconspicuous minority gradually grew into a victorious party ; how external 

 circumstances kept the revolutionary fever up, and forced the Revolution for- 

 ward. He undertakes to make clear the mystery of the time, the real character 

 and aims of the men who grasped the supreme power in 1793-4, who held it 

 with such a combination of energy and folly, of heroism and crime, and who 

 proceeded, through anarchy and terror, to experiment how social misery could 

 be extinguished and universal felicity attained, by drastic philosophic remedies, 

 applied by despots, and enforced by death. History offers no problem of more 

 surpassing interest, and none more perplexing or obscure. 



