_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 ZUÑI._ By FRANK HAMILTON CUSHING. _THE AZTECS._ By Mrs. ZELIA NUTTALL. D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK. _NEW EDITION OF PROF. HUXLEY'S ESSAYS._ _COLLECTED ESSAYS._ By THOMAS H. HUXLEY. New complete edition, with revisions, the Essays being grouped according to general subject. In nine volumes, a new Introduction accompanying each volume. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25 per volume. VOL. I.--METHOD AND RESULTS. VOL. II.--DARWINIANA. VOL. III.--SCIENCE AND EDUCATION. VOL. IV.--SCIENCE AND HEBREW TRADITION. VOL. V.--SCIENCE AND CHRISTIAN TRADITION. VOL. VI.--HUME. VOL. VII.--MAN'S PLACE IN NATURE. VOL. VIII.--DISCOURSES, BIOLOGICAL AND GEOLOGICAL. VOL. IX.--EVOLUTION AND ETHICS, AND OTHER ESSAYS. "Mr. Huxley has covered a vast variety of topics during the last quarter of a century. It gives one an agreeable surprise to look over the tables of contents and note the immense territory which he has explored. To read these books carefully and studiously is to become thoroughly acquainted with the most advanced thought on a large number of topics."--_New York Herald._ "The series will be a welcome one. There are few writings on the more abstruse problems of science better adapted to reading by the general public, and in this form the books will be well in the reach of the investigator.... The revisions are the last expected to be made by the author, and his introductions are none of earlier date than a few months ago [1893], so they may be considered his final and most authoritative utterances."--_Chicago Times._ "It was inevitable that his essays should be called for in a completed form, and they will be a source of delight and profit to all who read them. He has always commanded a hearing, and as a master of the literary style in writing scientific essays he is worthy of a place among the great English essayists of the day. This edition of his essays will be widely read, and gives his scientific work a permanent form."--_Boston Herald._ "A man whose brilliancy is so constant as that of Prof. Huxley will always command readers; and the utterances which are here collected are not the least in weight and luminous beauty of those with which the author has long delighted the reading world."--_Philadelphia Press._