=BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES.= First Series. =Contemporary Statesmen of Europe.= Edited by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. They are handsomely printed in square 16mo, and attractively bound in cloth extra. Price per vol. $1 50 Vol. I. English Statesmen. By T.W. Higginson. " II. English Radical Leaders. By R.J. Hinton. " III. French Leaders. By Edward King. " IV. German Political Leaders. By Herbert Tuttle. These volumes are planned to meet the desire which exists for accurate and graphic information in regard to the leaders of political action in other countries. They will give portraitures of the men and analysis of their lives and work, that will be vivid and picturesque, as well as accurate and faithful, and that will combine the authority of careful historic narration with the interest attaching to anecdote and personal delineation. "Compact and readable * * * leaves little to be desired."--_N.Y. Nation._ Transcriber's Note: Page 232--Changed spelling of conquerer to conqueror. End of Project Gutenberg's Is Life Worth Living?, by William Hurrell Mallock