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EVOLUTION : Its Value, its Evidences, and its Kelations, 

 to Religious Thought. By J. Le Conte, Professor of Geology and 

 Natural History in the University of California. Second Edition, 

 revised. Crown 8vo, 6s. 



The Guardian says : — " ASaongthe numerous books which appear professing to 

 deal with the relations of physical science and religion it is a very rare pleasure to 

 meet with one like the volume before us. We have had ' reconciliations ' from men 

 who knew much science and no theology, and &om theologians who did not know 

 the outlines of the scientific doctrines they discussed. We have even had con- 

 tributions from those who might at least claim fairness on- the ground that they 

 had no real knowledge of either natural or theological science. It would be an 

 exaggeration to say tiiat in Professor Le Conte we have found what we have so 

 long looked for in vain. But V7e are able to say, after considerable experience of 

 this kind of literature, that it stands on a different level and is written in a difTerent 

 atmosphere from all, or almost all, the books of the kind which it has been our good 

 or ill fortune to come across. Professor Le Conte is a professor of geology and 

 natural history in the University of California, and therefore has a right to speak on 

 .the scientific question, and, moreover, without being a professed theologian, he 

 knows what religion really has to fight for, and what, whether it be true or not, is 

 not essential to Christianity. He can distinguish a scientific conclusion from the 

 metaphysic which lies behind it, and, more wonderful than all, he can distinguish 

 between what may claim to be proved and what, however convinced he may be of 

 its truth, is as yet only a theory or a private opinion. But we have seldom, if ever, 

 found a hook, covering so much ground, with which a Christian theologian may, on 

 the whole, find himself so much, in agreement, and from which he may derive so 

 much that is helpful, even where he cannot as yet admit the conclusions as true." 



CONSTRUCTIVE ETHICS. A Review of Modern Moral 

 Philosophy in its Three Stages of Interpretation, Criticisms, and 

 Reconstruction. By W. L. Cotjetnbt, M.A., LL.D., Fellow of 

 New College, Oxford. A New Edition with a Preface by the 

 Author. Demy 8vo, 3s. 6d. 



TJie Spectator says: — "The book is of a very high order indeed. It is clear, 

 incisive, the statement of various systems of ethics is fair and adequate, and the 

 criticism of them, if brief, is trencliant and conclusive. We have read with much 

 pleasure the historical part of tlie hook, and consider it a most important contri- 

 bution to the literature of ethics. . . . There are many chapters in the book 

 worthy of special notice." 



THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE: Its Origin, Course, 



Promoters, and Results. By J, Villon Marmehy, with an 

 Introduction by Samuel Laing. Demy 8vo, 7s. 6d. 



*^* Mr. Samuel Laing considers Mr. Marmeryy book "a toorJc of gi-eat learning 

 and research^ conveying in a clear and intelligible form a mass of most useful and 

 interesting- history of the Progress of Science, from, its first dawn in Egypt and 

 Chaldea, through the Greek, Arabian, Medicevaly and modem periods, down to the 

 present day. Jt com/prises also brief memoirs of the illustrious men to whom we are 

 indebted for the principal discoveries of Science, from Thales and Pythagm^as down to 

 Dai-win and Herbert SpencCTj and I can confidently recommend it as alike interesting 

 and instructive." 



The Daily Telegraph says : — " It gives evidence of conscientious care in verifi- 

 cation, and sound, judgment in the selection of materials. We fail to detect any 

 important step in the advance of science omitted, and as a rule the estimates of .the 

 men who have reared the temple of knowledge are just and discriminating," 



The Daily Chronicle says: — "Areally useful work. . . . Mr. Marmery has read 

 much and carefully, and in almost every instance his short descriptions and other 

 statements are given with such admirable conciseness and accuracy that his 

 volume fully deserves the confidence of those to whom it appeals. ... A really 

 praiseworthy work." 



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