Transcriber's Notes: Italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and bold text by =equal signs=. Blank pages have been eliminated. Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original. A few typographical errors have been corrected. _Funk & Wagnalls' Important Publications._ The Science of Politics. BY WALTER THOMAS MILLS, Secretary of the National Intercollegiate Association. A timely work for every citizen. The book is wholly practical and untechnical and is directly suited to the needs of every citizen. 12mo, cloth, 204 pages. Price, $1.00. Pres. Julius H. Seelye, of Amherst College, says: "With its clearness and force I am much pleased." Frances E. Willard says: "Mr. Mills has done an important service to the cause of good government by setting in a clear light before the citizen his personal relation to government by a political party. May his book have a million readers." Public Opinion, Washington, D. C., says: "The book is interesting and instructive, and the style is vigorous and refined." Foundation of Death. BY AXEL GUSTAFSON, the celebrated English Reformer. A practical study of the Drink Question. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. The Boston Transcript: The entire subject is handled in a most judicious manner, and we recommend the book as one of exceptional value in these times of alcoholic discussions. No advocate of temperance can do without it, for it is a compendium of the world's experience and the world's opinions. Nobody Knows. BY "A NOBODY." A treatise on applied Christianity under the guise of fiction. An original, interesting work. 12mo, cloth, $1.25. A book of great directness and earnestness, in which the hero brings about a moral and social reformation by a reconciliation between employer and employee, between the church and the masses. A model of terse epigrammatic English. Not a dull line in it. TALKS TO FARMERS. BY REV. CHARLES H. SPURGEON. NEW YORK: FUNK & WAGNALLS, PUBLISHERS, 18 AND 20 ASTOR PLACE. 1889. TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE THE SLUGGARD'S FARM, 1 THE BROKEN FENCE, 24 FROST AND THAW, 39 THE CORN OF WHEAT DYING TO BRING FORTH FRUIT, 56 THE PLOUGHMAN, 71 PLOUGHING THE ROCK, 88 THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER, 103 THE PRINCIPAL WHEAT, 118 SPRING IN THE HEART, 132 FARM LABORERS, 149 WHAT THE FARM LABORERS CAN DO, AND WHAT THEY CANNOT DO, 164 THE SHEEP BEFORE THE SHEARERS, 181 IN THE HAY-FIELD, 196