By G. K. CHESTERTON. “No one will put it down without a
sense of having taken a tonic or received a series of electric
shocks.”--_The Times._
73. _THE WRITING OF ENGLISH._
By W. T. BREWSTER, A.M., Professor of English
in Columbia University. “Sensible, and not over-rigidly
conventional.”--_Manchester Guardian._
75. _ANCIENT ART AND RITUAL._
By JANE E. HARRISON, LL.D., D.Litt. “Charming in style and
learned in manner.”--_Daily News._
76. _EURIPIDES AND HIS AGE_
By GILBERT MURRAY, D.Litt., LL.D., F.B.A., Regius
Professor of Greek at Oxford. “A beautiful piece of work....
Just in the fulness of time, and exactly in the right place....
Euripides has come into his own.”--_The Nation._
87. _CHAUCER AND HIS TIMES_
By GRACE E. HADOW.
89. _WILLIAM MORRIS: HIS WORK AND INFLUENCE_
By A. CLUTTON BROCK.
93. _THE RENAISSANCE_
By EDITH SICHEL.
95. _ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE_
By J. M. ROBERTSON, M.P.
_Science_
7. _MODERN GEOGRAPHY_
By Dr MARION NEWBIGIN. (Illustrated.) “Geography, again:
what a dull, tedious study that was wont to be!... But Miss Marion
Newbigin invests its dry bones with the flesh and blood of romantic
interest.”--_Daily Telegraph._
9. _THE EVOLUTION OF PLANTS_
By Dr D. H. SCOTT, M.A., F.R.S., late Hon. Keeper of the
Jodrell Laboratory, Kew. (Fully illustrated.) “Dr Scott’s candid
and familiar style makes the difficult subject both fascinating and
easy.”--_Gardeners’ Chronicle._
17. _HEALTH AND DISEASE_
By W. LESLIE MACKENZIE, M.D., Local Government Board,
Edinburgh.
18. _INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICS_
By A. N. WHITEHEAD, Sc.D., F.R.S. (With Diagrams.) “Mr
Whitehead has discharged with conspicuous success the task he is so
exceptionally qualified to undertake. For he is one of our great
authorities upon the foundations of the science.”--_Westminster
Gazette._
19. _THE ANIMAL WORLD_
By Professor F. W. GAMBLE, F.R.S. With Introduction by Sir
Oliver Lodge. (Many Illustrations.) “A fascinating and suggestive
survey.”--_Morning Post._
20. _EVOLUTION_
By Professor J. ARTHUR THOMSON and Professor
PATRICK GEDDES. “A many-coloured and romantic panorama,
opening up, like no other book we know, a rational vision of
world-development.”--_Belfast News-Letter._
22. _CRIME AND INSANITY_
By Dr C. A. MERCIER. “Furnishes much valuable information
from one occupying the highest position among medico-legal
psychologists.”--_Asylum News._
28. _PSYCHICAL RESEARCH_
By Sir W. F. BARRETT, F.R.S., Professor of Physics,
Royal College of Science, Dublin, 1873-1910. “What he has to
say on thought-reading, hypnotism, telepathy, crystal-vision,
spiritualism, divinings, and so on, will be read with
avidity.”--_Dundee Courier._
31. _ASTRONOMY_
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