D. APPLETON & @0,’8 PUBLICATIONS. 
MEMOIRS OF PROF. E. L. YOUMANS. 
EDWARD LIVINGSTON YOUMANS, Interpreter of Science 
for the People. A Sketch of his Life, with Selections from his 
Published Writings, and Extracts from his Correspondence with 
Spencer, Huxley, Tyndall, and others. By JOHN Fiske. With 
Two Portraits. 12mo. 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 
Limes. 
‘* 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. Fiske’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.”—New Vork 
Times. 
“It was eminently proper that the biography of Mr. Youmans should be written, 
and certainly there could not have been se a fitter man than Mr. Fiske to write 
it. An acquaintance dating 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 Bulletin, 
**To enumerate Youmans’s achi in the di ination and interpretation 
of scientific truth is to sum up the record 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 applaud the 
services which his friend rendered in the capacity of a breaker of the bread of science 
to the multitude.”—New York Sun. 
“The selection of Prof. John Fiske as the biographer of the late Prof. Youmans 
was the best thing that could be made. 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- 
vial.”"—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- 
raphy which is tender and true, and rich and strong. To it are appended somé 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 best biographer possible has 
undertaken to write that history, 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 Jnter-Ocean. 
“Prof. John Fiske has performed a labor of love for the friend whose name is its 
title, and one of whose closest intimates he was. The volume is a good example of 
friendly but not unwholesomely laudatory biography.” —Boston Congregationalist, 
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