_Fourteen discourses on the following subjects:--On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge; Emancipation--Black and White; A Liberal Education, and where to find it; Scientific Education; on the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences; on the Study of Zoology; on the Physical Basis of Life; the Scientific Aspects of Positivism; on a Piece of Chalk; Geological Contemporaneity and Persistent Types of Life; Geological Reform; the Origin of Species; Criticisms on the “Origin of Species;” on Descartes’ “Discourse touching the Method of using one’s Reason rightly and of seeking Scientific Truth._” ESSAYS SELECTED FROM LAY SERMONS, ADDRESSES, AND REVIEWS. Crown 8vo. Cloth. 2_s._ _Whilst publishing a second edition of his_ Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews, _Professor Huxley has, at the suggestion of many friends, issued in a cheap and popular form the selection we are now noticing. It includes the following essays:--_(1) _On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge._ (2) _A Liberal Education, and where to find it._ (3) _Scientific Education, notes of an after-dinner speech._ (4) _On the Physical Basis of Life._ (5) _The Scientific Aspects of Positivism._ (6) _On Descartes’ “Discourse touching the Method of using one’s Reason Rightly and of seeking Scientific Truth._” *Kennedy.*--LEGENDARY FICTIONS OF THE IRISH CELTS. Collected and Narrated by PATRICK KENNEDY. Crown 8vo. With Two Illustrations. 7_s_. 6_d._ “_A very admirable popular selection of the Irish fairy stories and legends, in which those who are familiar with Mr. Croker’s, and other selections of the same kind, will find much that is fresh, and full of the peculiar vivacity and humour, and sometimes even of the ideal beauty, of the true Celtic Legend._”--SPECTATOR. *Kingsley* (*Canon*).--_See also_ “HISTORIC SECTION,” “WORKS OF FICTION,” _and_ “PHILOSOPHY;” _also_ “JUVENILE BOOKS,” _and_ “THEOLOGY.” THE SAINTS’ TRAGEDY: or, The True Story of Elizabeth of Hungary. By the Rev. CHARLES KINGSLEY. With a Preface by the Rev. F. D. MAURICE. Third Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 5_s._ ANDROMEDA, AND OTHER POEMS. Third Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 5_s._ PHAETHON: or, Loose Thoughts for Loose Thinkers. Third Edition. Crown 8vo. 2_s._ *Lowell* (*Professor*).--AMONG MY BOOKS. Six Essays. By JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, M.A., Professor of Belles Lettres in Harvard College. Crown 8vo. 7_s._ 6_d._ _Six Essays: Dryden; Witchcraft; Shakespeare Once More; New England Two Centuries ago; Lessing; Rousseau and the Sentimentalists._ UNDER THE WILLOWS, AND OTHER POEMS. By JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. Fcap. 8vo. 6_s._ “Under the Willows _is one of the most admirable bits of idyllic work, short as it is, or perhaps because it is short, that have been done in our generation._”--SATURDAY REVIEW. *Masson* (*Professor*).--ESSAYS, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL. Chiefly on the British Poets. By DAVID MASSON, LL.D., Professor of Rhetoric in the University of Edinburgh. 8vo. 12_s._ 6_d._