Part 21 (2/2)
17. _HEALTH AND DISEASE_
By W. LESLIE MACKENZIE, M.D., Local Government Board, Edinburgh. ”The science of public health administration has had no abler or more attractive exponent than Dr Mackenzie. He adds to a thorough grasp of the problems an illuminating style, and an arresting manner of treating a subject often dull and sometimes unsavoury.”--_Economist._
18. _INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICS_
By A. N. WHITHEAD, 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, and has the breadth of view which is so requisite in presenting to the reader its aims. His exposition is clear and striking.”--_Westminster Gazette._
19. _THE ANIMAL WORLD_
By Professor F. W. GAMBLE, D.Sc., F.R.S. With Introduction by Sir Oliver Lodge. (Many Ill.u.s.trations.) ”A delightful and instructive epitome of animal (and vegetable) life.... A most 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, F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S., Author of ”Text-Book of Insanity,” etc. ”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. ”As a former President of the Psychical Research Society, he is familiar with all the developments of this most fascinating branch of science, and thus 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_
By A. R. HINKS, M.A., Chief a.s.sistant, Cambridge Observatory, ”Original in thought, eclectic in substance, and critical in treatment.... No better little book is available.”--_School World._
32. _INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE_
By J. ARTHUR THOMSON, M.A., Regius Professor of Natural History, Aberdeen University. ”For those who have not yet become possessed of the Library, this would form an appropriate introduction. Professor Thomson's delightful literary style is well known; and here he discourses freshly and easily on the methods of science and its relations with philosophy, art, religion, and practical life.”--_Aberdeen Journal._
36. _CLIMATE AND WEATHER_
By H. N. d.i.c.kSON, D.Sc. Oxon., M.A., F.R.S.E., President of the Royal Meteorological Society; Professor of Geography in University College, Reading. (With Diagrams.) ”The author has succeeded in presenting in a very lucid and agreeable manner the causes of the movement of the atmosphere and of the more stable winds. The information throughout appears to be reliable, and is certainly conveyed in an attractive form.”--_Manchester Guardian._
41. _ANTHROPOLOGY_
By R. R. MARETT, M.A., Reader in Social Anthropology in Oxford University. ”An absolutely perfect handbook, so clear that a child could understand it, so fascinating and human that it beats fiction 'to a frazzle.'”--_Morning Leader._
44. _THE PRINCIPLES OF PHYSIOLOGY_
By Prof. J. G. MCKENDRICK, M.D.
46. _MATTER AND ENERGY_
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