Books and reading; Children's literature -- Bibliography
ROBERT KENNEDY DUNCAN. _The New Knowledge._
A popular exposition of theories of matter that have developed since
the discovery of radioactivity. Intelligible to any (intelligent)
high-school pupil.
EPICTETUS. _Discourses._
The English translation in _Bohn’s Library_.
FRANCIS GALTON. _Natural Inheritance._ _Inquiries into Human Faculty._
The second volume is in _Everyman’s Library_.
ARCHIBALD GEIKIE. _Class-Book of Geology._
HENRY GEORGE. _Our Land and Land Policy._ _The Science of Political
Economy._
ASA GRAY. _Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States._
ARTHUR TWINING HADLEY. _The Education of the American Citizen._
HERMANN LUDWIG FERDINAND VON HELMHOLTZ. _Popular Lectures on
Scientific Subjects._
In the English translation by Edmund Atkinson with Helmholtz’s
“Autobiography” and an introduction by Tyndall.
KARL HILTY. _Happiness: Essays on the Meaning of Life._
Translated by Francis Greenwood Peabody.
WILLIAM TEMPLE HORNADAY. _The American Natural History._
CHARLES DE FOREST HOXIE. _How the People Rule; Civics for Boys and
Girls._
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY. _Darwiniana._ _Evolution and Ethics._ _Man’s
Place in Nature._
Huxley is the greatest man of letters among modern English men of
science. A volume of his essays is in _Everyman’s Library_.
ERNEST INGERSOLL. _Book of the Ocean._
Especially for young people.
HAROLD JACOBY. _Practical Talks by an Astronomer._
WILLIAM JAMES. _The Principles of Psychology._ _The Will to Believe._
HERBERT KEIGHTLY JOB. _Among the Water-Fowl._
DAVID STARR JORDAN. _True Tales of Birds and Beasts._
Especially for young readers.
WILLIAM THOMSON (Lord Kelvin). _Popular Lectures and Addresses._
HENRY DEMAREST LLOYD. _Wealth Against Commonwealth._
An important work on modern economic and business problems.
JOHN STUART MILL. _On Liberty._ _Principles of Political Economy._
JOHN MORLEY. _On Compromise._
HUGO MÜNSTERBERG. _Psychology and Life._ _On the Witness Stand._
FREDERIC WILLIAM HENRY MYERS. _Science and a Future Life._
SIMON NEWCOMB. _Astronomy for Everybody._
GEORGE HERBERT PALMER. _The Field of Ethics._ _The Nature of Goodness._
WALTER HORATIO PATER. _Plato and Platonism._
FRIEDRICH PAULSEN. _Introduction to Philosophy._
The excellent English translation affords within easy compass a view
of philosophy equal to several elementary courses in philosophy at a
university. It may be begun by any young man or woman of, say, eighteen.
PLATO. _Dialogues._
The “Republic” is in _Everyman’s Library_ and in other cheap editions.
Several of the dialogues are to be found under the title, “Trial and
Death of Socrates” in the _Golden Treasury Series_. See also Walter
Pater’s “Plato and Platonism.” The great Plato in English is Jowett’s.
JACOB AUGUST RIIS. _The Battle with the Slum._ _How the Other Half
Lives._ _The Children of the Poor._
Among the most sensible, sympathetic and human of modern works on
sociology.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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