A series of little books dealing with various branches of useful knowledge, and treating each subject in clear, concise language, as free as possible from technical words and phrases, by writers of authority in their various spheres. Each book complete in itself. Illustrated. 18mo. Cloth. 35 cents net per volume; postage, 4 cents per volume additional.

• THE STORY OF EXTINCT CIVILIZATIONS OF THE WEST. By Robert E. Anderson. M.A., F.A.S.
• THE STORY OF ALCHEMY. By M. M. Pattison Muir.
• THE STORY OF ANIMAL LIFE. By B. Lindsay.
• THE STORY OF THE ART OF MUSIC. By F. J. Crowest.
• THE STORY OF THE ART OF BUILDING. By P. L. Waterhouse.
• THE STORY OF BOOKS. By Gertrude B. Rawlings.
• THE STORY OF KING ALFRED. By Sir Walter Besant.
• THE STORY OF THE ALPHABET. By Edward Clodd.
• THE STORY OF ECLIPSES. By G. F. Chambers, F.R.A.S.
• THE STORY OF THE LIVING MACHINE. By H. W. Conn.
• THE STORY OF THE BRITISH RACE. By John Munro, C.E.
• THE STORY OF GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERY. By Joseph Jacobs.
• THE STORY OF THE COTTON PLANT. By F. Wilkinson, F.G.S.
• THE STORY OF THE MIND. By Prof. J. Mark Baldwin.
• THE STORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY. By Alfred T. Story.
• THE STORY OF LIFE IN THE SEAS. By Sydney J. Hickson.
• THE STORY OF GERM LIFE. By H. W. Conn.
• THE STORY OF THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE. By D. Archibald.
• THE STORY OF EXTINCT CIVILIZATIONS OF THE EAST. By Robert Anderson. M.A., F.A.S.
• THE STORY OF ELECTRICITY. By John Munro, C.E.
• THE STORY OF A PIECE OF COAL. By E. A. Martin, F.G.S.
• THE STORY OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM. By G. F. Chambers, F.R.A.S.
• THE STORY OF THE EARTH. By H. G. Seeley, F.R.S.
• THE STORY OF THE PLANTS. By Grant Allen.
• THE STORY OF "PRIMITIVE" MAN. By Edward Clodd.
• THE STORY OF THE STARS. By G. F. Chambers, F.R.A.S.
• OTHERS IN PREPARATION.

PROF. JOSEPH LE CONTE'S WORKS.

ELEMENTS OF GEOLOGY. A Text-Book for Colleges and for the General Reader. With upward of 900 Illustrations. New and enlarged edition. 8vo. Cloth, $4.00.

"Besides preparing a comprehensive text-book suited to present demands, Professor Le Conte has given us a volume of great value as an exposition of the subject, thoroughly up to date. The examples and applications of the work are almost entirely derived from this country, so that it may be properly considered an American geology. We can commend this work without qualification to all who desire an intelligent acquaintance with geological science, as fresh, lucid, full, and authentic, the result of devoted study and of long experience in teaching."—Popular Science Monthly.

EVOLUTION AND ITS RELATION TO RELIGIOUS THOUGHT. With numerous Illustrations. New and enlarged edition. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

"The questions suggested by this title must weigh with more or less persistence on the mind of every intelligent and liberal thinker.... The man who can keep his science and his religion in two boxes, either of which may be opened separately is to be congratulated. Many of us can not, and his peace of mind we can not attain. Therefore every contribution toward a means of clearer vision is most welcome, above all when it comes from one who knows the ground on which he stands, and has conquered his right to be there.... Professor Le Conte is a man in whom reverence and imagination have not become desiccated by a scientific atmosphere, but flourish, in due subordination and control, to embellish and vivify his writings. Those who know them have come to expect a peculiar alertness of mind and freshness of method in any new work by this author, whether his conclusions be such as they are ready to receive or not."—The Nation.

RELIGION AND SCIENCE. A Series of Sunday Lectures on the Relation of Natural and Revealed Religion, or the Truths revealed in Nature and Scripture. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

"We commend the book cordially to the regard of all who are interested in whatever pertains to the discussion of these grave questions, and especially to those who desire to examine closely the strong foundations on which the Christian faith is reared,"—Boston Journal.

SIGHT. An Exposition of the Principles of Monocular and Binocular Vision. With Illustrations, 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

"Professor Le Conte has long been known as an original investigator in this department; all that he gives us is treated with a master hand. It is pleasant to find an American book that can rank with the very best of foreign books on this subject."-The Nation.

A STUDY IN PSYCHOLOGY.

Genius and Degeneration.

By Dr. William Hirsch. With a Preface by Prof. Dr. E. Mendel. Translated from the second edition of the German work. Large 8vo, uniform with Nordau's "Degeneration." Cloth, $3.50.

Dr. Hirsch's acute and suggestive study of modern tendencies was begun before "Degeneration" was published, with the purpose of presenting entirely opposite deductions and conclusions. The appearance of Dr. Nordau's famous book, with its criticisms upon Dr. Hirsch's position, enabled the latter to extend the scope of his work, which becomes a scientific answer to Dr. Nordau, although this was not his specific purpose originally. Dr. Nordau has startled the reading world by his cry of "Degeneration"; Dr. Hirsch opposes his conclusions by demonstrating the difference between "Genius" and "Degeneration," and analyzing the social, literary, and artistic manifestations of the day dispassionately and with a wealth of suggestive illustrations.

"The first intelligent, rational, and scientific study of a great subject.... In the development of his argument Dr. Hirsch frequently finds it necessary to attack the positions assumed by Nordau and Lombroso, his two leading adversaries.... Only calm and sober reason endure. Dr. Hirsch possesses that calmness and sobriety. His work will find a permanent place among the authorities of science."—New York Herald.

"Dr. Hirsch's researches are intended to bring the reader to the conviction that 'no psychological meaning can be attached to the word genius.'... While all men of genius have common traits, they are not traits characteristic of genius; they are such as are possessed by other men, and more or less by all men.... Dr. Hirsch believes that most of the great men, both of art and science, were misunderstood by their contemporaries, and were only appreciated after they were dead."—Miss J. L. Gilder in the Sunday World.

"'Genius and Degeneration' ought to be read by every man and woman who professes to keep in touch with modern thought. It is deeply interesting and so full of information that by intellectual readers it will be seized upon with avidity."—Buffalo Commercial.

"A SUBJECT GREAT AND FASCINATING."

Degeneration.

By Professor Max Nordau. Translated from the second edition of the German work. 8vo. Cloth, $3.50.

"A powerful, trenchant, savage attack on all the leading literary and artistic idols of the time by a man of great intellectual power, immense range of knowledge, and the possessor of a lucid style rare among German writers, and becoming rarer everywhere, owing to the very influences which Nordau attacks with such unsparing energy, such eager hatred."—London Chronicle.

"Let us say at once that the English-reading public should be grateful for an English rendering of Max Nordau's polemic. It will provide society with a subject that may last as long as the present government.... We read the pages without finding one dull, sometimes in reluctant agreement, sometimes with amused contempt, sometimes with angry indignation."—London Saturday Review.

"Herr Nordau's book fills a void, not merely in the systems of Lombroso, as he says, but in all existing systems of English and American criticism with which we are acquainted. It is not literary criticism pure and simple, though it is not lacking in literary qualities of a high order, but it is something which has long been needed, for of literary criticism, so called, good, bad, and indifferent, there is always an abundance: but it is scientific criticism—the penetration to and the interpretation of the spirit within the letter, the apprehension of motives as well as means and the comprehension of temporal effects as well as final results, its explanation, classification, and largely condemnation, for it is not a healthy condition which he has studied, but its absence, its loss; it is degeneration.... He has written a great book, which every thoughtful lover of art and literature and every serious student of sociology and morality should read carefully and ponder slowly and wisely."—Richard Henry Stoddard in the Mail and Express.

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY'S PUBLICATIONS

EVOLUTION OF MAN AND CHRISTIANITY.

New edition. By the Rev. Howard MacQueary. With a new Preface, in which the Author answers his Critics, and with some important Additions. 12mo. Cloth, $1.75.

"This is a revised and enlarged edition of a book published last year. The author reviews criticisms upon the first edition, denies that he rejects the doctrine of the incarnation, admits his doubts of the physical resurrection of Christ, and his belief in evolution. The volume is to be marked as one of the most profound expressions of the modern movement toward broader theological positions."—Brooklyn Times.

HISTORY OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN RELIGION AND SCIENCE. By Dr. John William Draper. 12mo, Cloth, $1.75.

"The keynote to this volume is found in the antagonism between the progressive tendencies of the human mind and the pretensions of ecclesiastical authority, as developed in the history of modern science. No previous writer has treated the subject from this point of view, and the present monograph will be found to possess no less originality of conception than vigor of reasoning and wealth of erudition."—New York Tribune.

A CRITICAL HISTORY OF FREE THOUGHT IN REFERENCE TO THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. By Rev. Canon Adam Storey Farrar, D. D., F. R. S., etc. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

"A conflict might naturally be anticipated between the reasoning faculties of man and a religion which claims the right, on superhuman authority, to impose limits on the field or manner of their exercise. It is the chief of the movements of free thought which it is my purpose to describe, in their historic succession and their connection with intellectual causes. We must ascertain the facts, discover the causes, and read the moral."—The Author.

CREATION OR EVOLUTION? A Philosophical Inquiry. By George Ticknor Curtis, 12mo. Cloth, $2.00.

"A treatise on the great question of Creation or Evolution by one who is neither a naturalist nor theologian, and who does not profess to bring to the discussion a special equipment in either of the sciences which the controversy arrays against each other, may seem strange at first sight; but Mr. Curtis will satisfy the reader, before many pages have been turned, that he has a substantial contribution to make to the debate, and that his book is one to be treated with respect. His part is to apply to the reasonings of the men of science the rigid scrutiny with which the lawyer is accustomed to test the value and pertinency of testimony, and the legitimacy of inferences from established facts."—New York Tribune.