Modern Geography :: THE HOME UNIVERSITY LIBRARY of Modern Knowledge

THE HOME UNIVERSITY 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.
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