"A most interesting _resume_ of the revelations which science has made concerning the habits of human beings in primitive times, and especially as to the place, the duties, and the customs of women."--_Philadelphia Inquirer._ _THE PYGMIES._ By A. DE QUATREFAGES, late Professor of Anthropology at the Museum of Natural History, Paris. With numerous Illustrations. 12mo. Cloth, $1.75. "Probably no one was better equipped to illustrate the general subject than Quatrefages. While constantly occupied upon the anatomical and osseous phases of his subject, he was none the less well acquainted with what literature and history had to say concerning the pygmies.... This book ought to be in every divinity school in which man as well as God is studied, and from which missionaries go out to convert the human being of reality and not the man of rhetoric and text-books."--_Boston Literary World._ _THE BEGINNINGS OF WRITING._ By W. J. HOFFMAN, M. D. With numerous Illustrations. 12mo. Cloth, $1.75. This interesting book gives a most attractive account of the rude methods employed by primitive man for recording his deeds. The earliest writing consists of pictographs which were traced on stone, wood, bone, skins, and various paperlike substances. Dr. Hoffman shows how the several classes of symbols used in these records are to be interpreted, and traces the growth of conventional signs up to syllabaries and alphabets--the two classes of signs employed by modern peoples. IN PREPARATION. _THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS._ By Dr. SCHMELTZ. _THE ZUNI._ By FRANK HAMILTON CUSHING. _THE AZTECS._ By Mrs. ZELIA NUTTALL. * * * * * _HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES_, from the Revolution to the Civil War. By JOHN BACH McMASTER. To be completed in six volumes. Vols. I, II, III, and IV now ready. 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $2.50 each. "... Prof. McMaster has told us what no other historians have told.... The skill, the animation, the brightness, the force, and the charm with which he arrays the facts before us are such that we can hardly conceive of more interesting reading for an American citizen who cares to know the nature of those causes which have made not only him but his environment and the opportunities life has given him what they are."--_N. Y. Times._ [Illustration: JOHN BACH McMASTER.]