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LIBRARY of Modern Knowledge

Is made up of absolutely new books by leading authorities

The editors are Professors Gilbert Murray, H. A. L. Fisher, W. T. Brewster and J. Arthur Thomson.

Cloth bound, good paper, clear type, 256 pages per volume, bibliographies, indices, also maps or illustrations, where needed. Each complete and sold separately. Per volume, 90 cents.
LITERATURE AND ART.
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73.EURIPIDES AND HIS AGE. By Gilbert Murray, Regius Professor of Greek, Oxford.
101.DANTE. By Jefferson B. Fletcher, Columbia University. An interpretation of Dante and his teaching from his writings.
2.SHAKESPEARE. By John Masefield. “One of the very few indispensable adjuncts to a Shakespearean Library.”—Boston Transcript.
81.CHAUCER AND HIS TIMES. By Grace E. Hadow, Lecturer, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford; Late Reader, Bryn Mawr.
97.MILTON. By John Bailey.
59.DR. JOHNSON AND HIS CIRCLE. By John Bailey. Johnson’s life, character, works, and friendships are surveyed; and there is a notable vindication of the “Genius of Boswell.”
83.WILLIAM MORRIS: HIS WORK AND INFLUENCE. By A. Clutton Brock, author of “Shelley: The Man and the Poet.” William Morris believed that the artist should toil for love of his work rather than the gain of his employer, and so he turned from making works of art to remaking society.
75.SHELLEY, GODWIN AND THEIR CIRCLE. By H. N. Brailsford. The influence of the French Revolution on England.
70.ANCIENT ART AND RITUAL. By Jane E. Harrison, LL. D., D. Litt. “One of the 100 most important books of 1913.”—New York Times Review.
45.MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE. By W. P. Ker, Professor of English Literature, University College, London. “One of the soundest scholars. His style is effective, simple, yet never dry.”—The Athenaeum.
87.THE RENAISSANCE. By Edith Sichel, author of “Catherine de Medici,” “Men and Women of the French Renaissance.”
89.ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE. By J. M. Robertson, M. P., author of “Montaigne and Shakespeare,” “Modern Humanists.”
27.MODERN ENGLISH LITERATURE. By G. H. Mair. From Wyatt and Surrey to Synge and Yeats. “One of the best of this great series.”—Chicago Evening Post.
61.THE VICTORIAN AGE IN LITERATURE. By G. K. Chesterton.
40.THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. By L. P. Smith. A concise history of its origin and development.
66.WRITING ENGLISH PROSE. By William T. Brewster, Professor of English, Columbia University. “Should be put into the hands of every man who is beginning to write and of every teacher of English who has brains enough to understand sense.”—New York Sun.
58.THE NEWSPAPER. By G. Binney Dibblee. The first full account from the inside of newspaper organization as it exists to-day.
48.GREAT WRITERS OF AMERICA. By W. P. Trent and John Erskine, Columbia University.
93.AN OUTLINE OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE. By Maurice Baring, author of “The Russian People,” etc. Tolstoi, Tourgenieff, Dostoieffsky, Pushkin (the father of Russian Literature,) Saltykov (the satirist,) Leskov, and many other authors.
31.LANDMARKS IN FRENCH LITERATURE, By G. L. Strachey, Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge. “It is difficult to imagine how a better account of French Literature could be given in 250 pages.”—London Times.
64.THE LITERATURE OF GERMANY. By J. G. Robertson.
62.PAINTERS AND PAINTING. By Sir Frederick Wedmore. With 16 half-tone illustrations.
33.ARCHITECTURE. By Prof. W. R. Lethaby. An introduction to the history and theory of the art of building.
NATURAL SCIENCE.
68.DISEASE AND ITS CAUSES. By W. T. Councilman, M. D., LL. D., Professor of Pathology, Harvard University.
85.SEX. By J. Arthur Thompson and Patrick Geddes, joint authors of “The Evolution of Sex.”
71.PLANT LIFE. By J. B. Farmer, D. Sc., F. R. S., Professor of Botany in the Imperial College of Science, London. This very fully illustrated volume contains an account of the salient features of plant form and function.
63.THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF LIFE. By Benjamin M. Moore, Professor of Bio-Chemistry, Liverpool.
90.CHEMISTRY. By Raphael Meldola, F. R. S., Professor of Chemistry, Finsbury Technical College. Presents the way in which the science has developed and the stage it has reached.
53.ELECTRICITY. By Gisbert Kapp, Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Birmingham.
54.THE MAKING OF THE EARTH. By J. W. Gregory, Professor of Geology, Glasgow University. 38 maps and figures. Describes the origin of the earth, the formation and changes of its surface and structure, its geological history, the first appearance of life, and its influence upon the globe.
56.MAN: A HISTORY OF THE HUMAN BODY. By A. Keith, M. D., Hunterian Professor, Royal College of Surgeons, London. Shows how the human body developed.
74.NERVES. By David Fraser Harris, M. D., Professor of Physiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax. Explains in non-technical language the place and powers of the nervous system.
21.AN INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE. By Prof. J. Arthur Thomson, Science Editor of the Home University Library. For those unacquainted with the scientific volumes in the series, this should prove an excellent introduction.
14.EVOLUTION. By Prof. J. Arthur Thomson and Prof. Patrick Geddes. Explains to the layman what the title means to the scientific world.
23.ASTRONOMY. By A. R. Hinks, Chief Assistant at the Cambridge Observatory. “Decidedly original in substance, and the most readable and informative little book on modern astronomy we have seen for a long time.”—Nature.
24.PSYCHICAL RESEARCH. By Prof. W. F. Barrett, formerly President of the Society for Psychical Research.
9.THE EVOLUTION OF PLANTS. By Dr. D. H. Scott, President of the Linnean Society of London. The story of the development of flowering plants, from the earliest zoological times, unlocked from technical language.
43.MATTER AND ENERGY. By F. Soddy, Lecturer in Physical Chemistry and Radioactivity, University of Glasgow. “Brilliant. Can hardly be surpassed. Sure to attract attention.”—New York Sun.
41.PSYCHOLOGY, THE STUDY OF BEHAVIOUR. By William McDougall, of Oxford. A well digested summary of the essentials of the science put in excellent literary form by a leading authority.
42.THE PRINCIPLES OF PHYSIOLOGY. By Prof. J. G. McKendrick. A compact statement by the Emeritus Professor at Glasgow, for uninstructed readers.
37.ANTHROPOLOGY. By R. R. Marett, Reader in Social Anthropology, Oxford. Seeks to plot out and sum up the general series of changes, bodily and mental, undergone by man in the course of history. “Excellent. So enthusiastic, so clear and witty, and so well adapted to the general reader.”—American Library Association Booklist.
17.CRIME AND INSANITY. By Dr. C. Mercier, author of "Crime and Criminals,” etc.
12.THE ANIMAL WORLD. By Prof. F. W. Gamble.
15.INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICS. By A. N. Whitehead, author of “Universal Algebra.”
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION.
69.A HISTORY OF FREEDOM OF THOUGHT. By John B. Bury, M. A., LL. D., Regius Professor of Modern History in Cambridge University. Summarizes the history of the long struggle between authority and reason and of the emergence of the principle that coercion of opinion is a mistake.
96.A HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. By Clement C. J. Webb, Oxford.
35.THE PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY. By Bertrand Russell, Lecturer and Late Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge.
60.COMPARATIVE RELIGION. By Prof. J. Estlin Carpenter, “One of the few authorities on this subject compares all the religions to see what they have to offer on the great themes of religion.”—Christian Work and Evangelist.
44.BUDDHISM. By Mrs. Rhys Davids, Lecturer on Indian Philosophy, Manchester.
46.ENGLISH SECTS: A HISTORY OF NONCONFORMITY. By W. B. Selbie. Principal of Manchester College, Oxford.
55.MISSIONS: THEIR RISE AND DEVELOPMENT. By Mrs. Mandell Creighton, author of “History of England.” The author seeks to prove that missions have done more to civilize the world than any other human agency.
52.ETHICS. By G. E. Moore, Lecturer in Moral Science, Cambridge. Discusses what is right and what is wrong, and the whys and wherefores.
65.THE LITERATURE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. By George F. Moore, Professor of the History of Religion, Harvard University. “A popular work of the highest order. Will be profitable to anybody who cares enough about Bible study to read a serious book on the subject.”—American Journal of Theology.
88.RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS. By R. H. Charles, Canon of Westminster. Shows how religious and ethical thought between 180 B. C. and 100 A. D. grew naturally into that of the New Testament.
50.THE MAKING OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. By B. W. Bacon, Professor of New Testament Criticism, Yale. An authoritative summary of the results of modern critical research with regard to the origins of the New Testament.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
91.THE NEGRO. By W. E. Burghardt DuBois, author of “Souls of Black Folks,” etc. A history of the black man in Africa, America or wherever else his presence has been or is important.
77.CO-PARTNERSHIP AND PROFIT SHARING. By Aneurin Williams, Chairman, Executive Committee, International Co-operative Alliance, etc. Explains the various types of co-partnership and profit-sharing, and gives details of the arrangements now in force in many of the great industries.
99.POLITICAL THOUGHT: THE UTILITARIANS. FROM BENTHAM TO J. S. MILL. By William L. P. Davidson.
98.POLITICAL THOUGHT: FROM HERBERT SPENCER TO THE PRESENT DAY. By Ernest Barker, M. A.
79.UNEMPLOYMENT. By A. C. Pigou, M. A., Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge. The meaning, measurement, distribution, and effects of unemployment, its relation to wages, trade fluctuations, and disputes, and some proposals of remedy or relief.
80.COMMON-SENSE IN LAW. By Prof. Paul Vinogradoff, D. C. L., LL. D. Social and Legal Rules—Legal Rights and Duties—Facts and Acts in Law—Legislation—Custom—Judicial Precedents—Equity—The Law of Nature.
49.ELEMENTS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. By S. J. Chapman, Professor of Political Economy and Dean of Faculty of Commerce and Administration, University of Manchester.
11.THE SCIENCE OF WEALTH. By J. A. Hobson, author of “Problems of Poverty.” A study of the structure and working of the modern business world.
1.PARLIAMENT. ITS HISTORY, CONSTITUTION, AND PRACTICE. By Sir Courtenay P. Ilbert, Clerk of the House of Commons.
16.LIBERALISM. By Prof. L. T. Hobhouse, author of “Democracy and Reaction.” A masterly philosophical and historical review of the subject.
5.THE STOCK EXCHANGE. By F. W. Hirst, Editor of the London Economist. Reveals to the non-financial mind the facts about investment, speculation, and the other terms which the title suggests.
10.THE SOCIALIST MOVEMENT. By J. Ramsay Macdonald, Chairman of the British Labor Party.
28.THE EVOLUTION OF INDUSTRY. By D. H. MacGregor, Professor of Political Economy, University of Leeds. An outline of the recent changes that have given us the present conditions of the working classes and the principles involved.
29.ELEMENTS OF ENGLISH LAW. By W. M. Geldart, Vinerian Professor of English Law, Oxford. A simple statement of the basic principles of the English legal system on which that of the United States is based.
32.THE SCHOOL: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF EDUCATION. By J. J. Findlay, Professor of Education, Manchester. Presents the history, the psychological basis, and the theory of the school with a rare power of summary and suggestion.
6.IRISH NATIONALITY. By Mrs. J. R. Green. A brilliant account of the genius and mission of the Irish people. “An entrancing work, and I would advise every one with a drop of Irish blood in his veins or a vein of Irish sympathy in his heart to read it.”—New York Times Review.
GENERAL HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY.
102.SERBIA. By L. F. Waring, with preface by J. M. Jovanovitch, Serbian Minister to Great Britain. The main outlines of Serbian history, with special emphasis on the immediate causes of the war, and the question which will be of greatest importance in the after-the-war settlement.
33.THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND. By A. F. Pollard, Professor of English History, University of London.
95.BELGIUM. By R. C. K. Ensor, Sometime Scholar of Balliol College. The geographical, linguistic, historical, artistic and literary associations.
100.POLAND. By J. Alison Phillips, University of Dublin. The history of Poland with special emphasis upon the Polish question of the present day.
34.CANADA. By A. G. Bradley.
72.GERMANY OF TO-DAY. By Charles Tower.
78.LATIN AMERICA. By William R. Shepherd, Professor of History, Columbia. With maps. The historical, artistic, and commercial development of the Central South American republics.
18.THE OPENING UP OF AFRICA. By Sir H. H. Johnston.
19.THE CIVILIZATION OF CHINA. By H. A. Giles, Professor of Chinese, Cambridge.
36.PEOPLES AND PROBLEMS OF INDIA. By Sir T. W. Holderness. “The best small treatise dealing with the range of subjects fairly indicated by the title.”—The Dial.
26.THE DAWN OF HISTORY. By J. L. Myers, Professor of Ancient History, Oxford.
92.THE ANCIENT EAST. By D. G. Hogarth, M. A., F. B. A., F. S. A. Connects with Prof. Myers’s “Dawn of History” (No. 26) at about 1000 B. C. and reviews the history of Assyria, Babylon, Cilicia, Persia and Macedon.
30.ROME. By W. Warde Fowler, author of “Social Life at Rome,” etc.
13.MEDIEVAL EUROPE. By H. W. C. Davis, Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford, author of “Charlemagne,” etc.
3.THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. By Hilaire Belloc.
57.NAPOLEON, By H. A. L. Fisher, Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield University. Author of “The Republican Tradition in Europe.”
20.HISTORY OF OUR TIME. (1885-1911). BY C. P. Gooch.
22.THE PAPACY AND MODERN TIMES. By Rev. William Barry, D. D., author of “The Papal Monarchy,” etc. The story of the rise and fall of the Temporal Power.
4.A SHORT HISTORY OF WAR AND PEACE. By G. H. Perris, author of “Russia in Revolution,” etc.
94.THE NAVY AND SEA POWER. By David Hannay, author of “Short History of the Royal Navy,” etc. A brief history of the navies, sea Power, and ship growth of all nations, including the rise and decline of America on the sea, and explaining the present British supremacy.
8.POLAR EXPLORATION. By Dr. W. S. Bruce, Leader of the “Scotia” expedition. Emphasizes the results of the expeditions.
51.MASTER MARINERS. By John R. Spears, author of “The History of Our Navy,” etc. A history of sea craft adventure from the earliest times.
86.EXPLORATION OF THE ALPS. By Arnold Lunn, M. A.
7.MODERN GEOGRAPHY. By Dr. Marion Newbigin. Shows the relation of physical features to living things and to some of the chief institutions of civilization.
76.THE OCEAN. A GENERAL ACCOUNT OF THE SCIENCE OF THE SEA. By Sir John Murray, K. C. B., Naturalist H. M. S. “Challenger,” 1872-1876, joint author of “The Depths of the Ocean,” etc.
84.THE GROWTH OF EUROPE. By Granville Cole, Professor of Geology, Royal College of Science, Ireland. A study of the geology and physical geography in connection with the political geography.
AMERICAN HISTORY.
47.THE COLONIAL PERIOD (1607-1766). By Charles McLean Andrews, Professor of American History, Yale.
82.THE WARS BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AMERICA (1763-1815). By Theodore C. Smith, Professor of American History, Williams College. A history of the period, with especial emphasis on The Revolution and The War of 1812.
67.FROM JEFFERSON TO LINCOLN (1815-1860). By William MacDonald. Professor of History, Brown University. The author makes the history of this period circulate about constitutional ideas and slavery sentiment.
25.THE CIVIL WAR (1854-1865). By Frederick L. Paxson, Professor of American History, University of Wisconsin.
69.RECONSTRUCTION AND UNION (1865-1912). By Paul Leland Haworth. A History of the United States in our own times.
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