By GISBERT KAPP, D.Eng., Professor of Electrical Engineering in the
University of Birmingham. (Illustrated.) "It will be appreciated
greatly by learners and by the great number of amateurs who are
interested in what is one of the most fascinating of scientific
studies."--_Glasgow Herald._
62. _THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF LIFE_
By Dr BENJAMIN MOORE, Professor of Bio-Chemistry, University College,
Liverpool. "Stimulating, learned, lucid."--_Liverpool Courier._
67. _CHEMISTRY_
By RAPHAEL MELDOLA, F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry in Finsbury
Technical College, London. Presents clearly, without the detail
demanded by the expert, the way in which chemical science has
developed, and the stage it has reached.
72. _PLANT LIFE_
By Prof. J. B. FARMER, D.Sc., F.R.S. (Illustrated.) "Professor Farmer
has contrived to convey all the most vital facts of plant physiology,
and also to present a good many of the chief problems which confront
investigators to-day in the realms of morphology and of
heredity."--_Morning Post._
78. _THE OCEAN_
A General Account of the Science of the Sea. By Sir JOHN MURRAY,
K.C.B. F.R.S. (Colour plates and other illustrations.)
79. _NERVES_
By Prof. D. FRASER HARRIS, M.D., D.Sc. (Illustrated.) A description,
in non-technical language, of the nervous system, its intricate
mechanism and the strange phenomena of energy and fatigue, with some
practical reflections.
86. _SEX_
By Prof. PATRICK GEDDES and Prof. J. ARTHUR THOMSON, LL.D. (Illus.)
88. _THE GROWTH OF EUROPE_
By Prof. GRENVILLE COLE, (Illus.)
_Philosophy and Religion_
15. _MOHAMMEDANISM_
By Prof. D. S. MARGOLIOUTH, M.A., D.Litt. "This generous shilling's
worth of wisdom.... A delicate, humorous, and most responsible
tractate by an illuminative professor."--_Daily Mail._
40. _THE PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY_
By the Hon. BERTRAND RUSSELL, F.R.S. "A book that the 'man in the
street' will recognise at once to be a boon.... Consistently lucid and
non-technical throughout."--_Christian World._
47. _BUDDHISM_
By Mrs RHYS DAVIDS, M.A. "The author presents very attractively as
well as very learnedly the philosophy of Buddhism."--_Daily News._
50. _NONCONFORMITY: Its ORIGIN and PROGRESS_
By Principal W. B. SELBIE, M.A. "The historical part is brilliant in
its insight, clarity, and proportion."--_Christian World._
54. _ETHICS_
By G. E. MOORE, M.A., Lecturer in Moral Science in Cambridge
University. "A very lucid though closely reasoned outline of the logic
of good conduct."--_Christian World._
56. _THE MAKING OF THE NEW TESTAMENT_
By Prof. B. W. BACON, LL.D., D.D. "Professor Bacon has boldly, and
wisely, taken his own line, and has produced, as a result, an
extraordinarily vivid, stimulating, and lucid book."--_Manchester
Guardian._
60. _MISSIONS: THEIR RISE and DEVELOPMENT_
By Mrs CREIGHTON. "Very interestingly done.... Its style is simple,
direct, unhackneyed, and should find appreciation where a more
fervently pious style of writing repels."--_Methodist Recorder._
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