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80. Common-Sense in Law.
By PROF. PAUL VINOGRADOFF, D.C.L., LL.D. Social and Legal Rules--Legal
Rights and Duties--Facts and Acts in Law--Legislation--Custom--Judicial
Precedents--Equity--The Law of Nature.

49. Elements of Political Economy.
By S.J. CHAPMAN, Professor of Political Economy and Dean of Faculty
of Commerce and Administration, University of Manchester.

11. The Science of Wealth.
By J.A. HOBSON, author of _Problems of Poverty_. A study of the
structure and working of the modern business world.

1. Parliament. Its History, Constitution, and Practice.
By SIR COURTENAY P. ILBERT, Clerk of the House of Commons.

16. Liberalism.
By PROF. L.T. HOBHOUSE, author of _Democracy and Reaction_. A masterly
philosophical and historical review of the subject.

5. The Stock Exchange.
By F.W. HIRST, Editor of the London _Economist_. Reveals to the
non-financial mind the facts about investment, speculation, and the
other terms which the title suggests.

10. The Socialist Movement.
By J. RAMSAY MACDONALD, Chairman of the British Labor Party.

28. The Evolution of Industry.
By D.H. MACGREGOR, Professor of Political Economy, University of Leeds.
An outline of the recent changes that have given us the present
conditions of the working classes and the principles involved.

29. Elements of English Law.
By W.M. GELDART, Vinerian Professor of English Law, Oxford. A simple
statement of the basic principles of the English legal system on which
that of the United States is based.

32. The School: An Introduction to the Study of Education.
By J.J. FINDLAY, Professor of Education, Manchester. Presents the
history, the psychological basis, and the theory of the school with
a rare power of summary and suggestion.

6. Irish Nationality.
By MRS. J.R. GREEN. A brilliant account of the genius and mission of
the Irish people.

NATURAL SCIENCE

68. Disease and Its Causes.
By W.T. COUNCILMAN, M.D., LL.D., Professor of Pathology, Harvard
University.

85. Sex.
By J. ARTHUR THOMPSON and PATRICK GEDDES, joint authors of _The
Evolution of Sex_.

71. Plant Life.
By J.B. FARMER, D.Sc., F.R.S., Professor of Botany in the Imperial
College of Science. This very fully illustrated volume contains an
account of the salient features of plant form and function.

63. The Origin and Nature of Life.
By BENJAMIN M. MOORE, Professor of Bio-Chemistry, Liverpool.

90. Chemistry.
By RAPHAEL MELDOLA, F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry, Finsbury Technical
College. Presents the way in which the science has developed and the
stage it has reached.

53. Electricity.
By GISBERT KAPP, Professor Of Electrical Engineering, University of
Birmingham.

54. The Making of the Earth.
By. J.W. GREGORY, Professor of Geology, Glasgow University. 38 maps
and figures. Describes the origin of the earth, the formation and
changes of its surface and structure, its geological history, the first
appearance of life, and its influence upon the globe.

56. Man: A History of the Human Body.
By A. KEITH, M.D., Hunterian Professor, Royal College of Surgeons.
Shows how the human body developed.

74. Nerves.
By DAVID FRASER HARRIS, M.D., Professor of Physiology, Dalhousie
University, Halifax. Explains in non-technical language the place and
powers of the nervous system.

21. An Introduction to Science.
By PROF. J. ARTHUR THOMSON, Science Editor Of the Home University
Library. For those unacquainted with the scientific volumes in the
series, this would prove an excellent introduction.

14. Evolution.
By PROF. J. ARTHUR THOMSON and PROF. PATRICK GEDDES. Explains to the
layman what the title means to the scientific world.

23. Astronomy.
By A.R. HINKS, Chief Assistant at the Cambridge Observatory.
"Decidedly original in substance, and the most readable and
informative little book on modern astronomy we have seen for a long
time."--_Nature_.

24. Psychical Research.
By PROF. W.F. BARRETT, formerly President of the Society for Psychical
Research. A strictly scientific examination.

9. The Evolution of Plants.
By DR. D.H. SCOTT, President of the Linnean Society of London. The
story of the development of flowering plants, from the earliest
zoological times, unlocked from technical language.

43. Matter and Energy.
By F. SODDY, Lecturer in Physical Chemistry and Radioactivity,
University of Glasgow. "Brilliant. Can hardly be surpassed. Sure to
attract attention."--_New York Sun_.

41. Psychology, The Study of Behaviour.
By WILLIAM MCDOUGALL, of Oxford. A well digested summary of the
essentials of the science put in excellent literary form by a leading
authority.

42. The Principles of Physiology.
By PROF. J.G. MCKENDRICK. A compact statement by the Emeritus Professor
at Glasgow, for uninstructed readers.

37. Anthropology.
By R.R. MARETT, Reader in Social Anthropology, Oxford. Seeks to plot
out and sum up the general series of changes, bodily and mental,
undergone by man in the course of history. "Excellent. So enthusiastic,
so clear and witty, and so well adapted to the general
reader."--_American Library Association Booklist_.

17. Crime and Insanity.
By DR. C.A. MERCIER, author of _Text-Book of Insanity_, etc.

12. The Animal World.
By PROF. F.W. GAMBLE.

15. Introduction to Mathematics.
By A.N. WHITEHEAD, author of _Universal Algebra_.

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

69. A History of Freedom of Thought.
By JOHN B. BURY, M.A., LL.D., Regius Professor of Modern History in
Cambridge University. Summarizes the history of the long struggle
between authority and reason and of the emergence of the principle
that coercion of opinion is a mistake.

55. Missions: Their Rise and Development.
By MRS. MANDELL CREIGHTON, author of _History of England_. The author
seeks to prove that missions have done more to civilize the world than
any other human agency.

52. Ethics.
By G.E. MOORE, Lecturer in Moral Science, Cambridge. Discusses what
is right and what is wrong, and the whys and wherefores.

65. The Literature of the Old Testament.
By GEORGE F. MOORE, Professor of the History of Religion, Harvard
University. "A popular work of the highest order. Will be profitable
to anybody who cares enough about Bible study to read a serious book
on the subject."--_American Journal of Theology_

50. The Making of the New Testament.
By B.W. BACON, Professor of New Testament Criticism, Yale. An
authoritative summary of the results of modern critical research with
regard to the origins of the New Testament.

96. A History of Philosophy.
By CLEMENT C.J. WEBB, Oxford.

35. The Problems of Philosophy.
By BERTRAND RUSSELL, Lecturer and Late Fellow, Trinity College,
Cambridge.

44. Buddhism.
By MRS. RHYS DAVIDS, Lecturer on Indian Philosophy, Manchester.

46. English Sects: A History of Nonconformity.
By W.B. SELBIE, Principal of Manchester College, Oxford.

60. Comparative Religion.
By PROF. J. ESTLIN CARPENTER.

88. Religious Development Between Old and New Testaments.
By R.H. CHARLES, Canon of Westminster. Shows how religious and ethical
thought grew between 180 B.C. and 100 A.D.

LITERATURE AND ART

73. Euripides and His Age.
By GILBERT MURRAY, Regius Professor of Greek, Oxford.

81. Chaucer and His Times.
By GRACE E. HADOW, Lecturer Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford; Late Reader,
Bryn Mawr.

70. Ancient Art and Ritual.
By JANE E. HARRISON, LL.D., D.Litt. "One of the 100 most important
books of 1913."--_New York Times Review_.

61. The Victorian Age in Literature.
By G.K. CHESTERTON.

97. Milton.
By JOHN BAILEY.

59. Dr. Johnson and His Circle.
By JOHN BAILEY. Johnson's life, character, works, and friendships are
surveyed; and there is a notable vindication of the "Genius of
Boswell."

58. The Newspaper.
By G. BINNEY DIBBLE. The first full account, from the inside, of
newspaper organization as it exists to-day.

62. Painters and Painting.
By SIR FREDERIC WEDMORE. With 16 half-tone illustration.

64. The Literature of Germany.
By J.G. ROBERTSON.

48. Great Writers of America.
By W.P. TRENT and JOHN ERSKINE, of Columbia University.

87. The Renaissance.
By EDITH SICHEL, author of _Catherine de Medici, Men and Women of the
French Renaissance_.

101. Dante.
By JEFFERSON B. FLETCHER, Columbia University, An interpretation of
Dante and his teachings from his writings.

93. An Outline of Russian Literature.
By MAURICE BARING, author of _The Russian People_, etc. Tolstoi,
Tourgenieff, Dostoieffsky, Pushkin (the father of Russian Literature),
Saltykov (the satirist), Leskov, and many other authors.

40. The English Language.
By L.P. SMITH. A concise history of its origin and development.

45. Medieval English Literature.
By W.P. KER, Professor of English Literature, University College,
London. "One of the soundest scholars. His style is effective, simple,
yet never dry."--_The Athenaeum_.

89. Elizabethan Literature.
By J.M. ROBERTSON, M.P., author of _Montaigne and Shakespeare, Modern
Humanists_.

27. Modern English Literature.
By G.H. MAIR. From Wyatt and Surrey to Synge and Yeats. "One of the
best of this great series."--_Chicago Evening Post_.

2. Shakespeare.
By JOHN MASEFIELD. "One of the very few indispensable adjuncts to a
Shakespearean Library."--_Boston Transcript_.

31. Landmarks in French Literature.
By G.L. STRACHEY, Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge. "It is
difficult to imagine how a better account of French Literature could
be given in 250 pages."--_London Times_.

38. Architecture.
By PROF. W.R. LETHABY. An introduction to the history and theory of
the art of building.

66. Writing English Prose.
By WILLIAM T. BREWSTER, Professor of English, Columbia University.
"Should be put into the hands of every man who is beginning to write
and of every teacher of English that has brains enough to understand
sense."--_New York Sun_.

83. William Morris: His Work and Influence.
By A. CLUTTON BROCK, author of _Shelley: The Man and the Poet_. William
Morris believed that the artist should toil for love of his work rather
than the gain of his employer, and so he turned from making works of
art to remaking society.

75. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle.
By H.N. BRAILSFORD. The influence of the French Revolution on England.

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