The Contemporary Science Series. 



Edited by Havelock Ellis. 



Croivn Zvo, Cloih. Price %\.2<^ per Volume. 



I. THE EVOLUTION OF SEX. By Prof. Patrick Geddes 



and J. A. Thomson. With 90 Illustrations. Second Edition. 

 " The authors have brought to the task — as indeed their names guarantee 

 — a wealth of knowledge, a lucid and attractive method of treatment, and a 

 rich vein of picturesque language," — Nature. 



II. ELECTRICITY IN MODERN LIFE. By G. W. de 



TUNZELMANN. With 88 Illustrations. 

 " A clearly- written and connected sketch of what is known about elec- 

 tricity and magnetism, the more prominent modern applications, and the 

 principles on which they are based," — Saturday Reviezv. 



IIL THE ORIGIN OF THE ARYANS. By Dr. Isaac 



Taylor. Illustrated. Second Edition. 



" Canon Taylor is probably the most encyclopsedic all-round .scholar now 



living. His new volume on the Origin of the Aryans is a first-rate example 



of the excellent account to which he can turn his exceptionally wide and 



varied information. . . . Masterly and exhaustive." — Pall Mall Gazette. 



IV. PHYSIOGNOMY AND EXPRESSION. By P. Mante- 



GAZZA. Illustrated. 

 "Brings this highly interesting subject even with the latest researches. 

 . . . Professor Mantegazza is a writer full of life and spirit, and the natural 

 attractiveness of his subject is not destroyed by his scientific handling of it." 

 Literary iVorld (Boston). 



V. EVOLUTION AND DISEASE, By J. B. Sutton, F.R.C.S. 



With 135 Illustrations. 

 "The book is as interesting as a novel, without sacrifice of accuracy or 

 system, and is calculated to give an appreciation of the fundamentals of 

 pathology to the lay reader, while forming a useful collection of illustrations 

 of disease for medical re{exencQ.'"^/our}tal of Mental Science. 



VI. THE VILLAGE COMMUNITY. By G. L. Gomme. 



Illustrated. 

 " His book will probably remain for some time the best work of reference 

 for facts bearing on. those traces of the village community which have not 

 been effaced by conquest, encroachment, and the heavy hand of Roman 

 law." — Scottish Leader. 



VIL THE CRIMINAL. By Havelock Ellis. Illustrated. 



"An ably written, an instructive, and a most entertaining book." — L^au 

 Quarterly Review. 



"The sociologist, the philosopher, the philanthropist, the novelist — 

 all, indeed, for whom the study of human nature has any attraction — will 

 find Mr. Ellis full of interest and suggestiveness." — Academy. 



