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Travels and Adventures of Baron Mun-
chausen, The
R.
Travels and Adventures of Baron Mun-
chausen, The
R.
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The · Amélie Rives.
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Quintus Claudius
Ernst Eckstein. 539
Quits
Baroness Tautphæus. 95
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AUTHOR
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Roman Singer, A F. Marion Crawford. 155
Romance of Dollard, The
Mary H. Catherwood. 199
Romance of a Mummy, The
Théophile Gautier. 252
Romance of a Poor Young Man, The -
Octave Feuillet. 515
Romance of the Rose, The
De Lorris and De Meung. 216
Romances of the East Count Gobineau. 171
Romany Rye
George Borrow. 49
Rome
Francis Wey. IOI
Rome, History of
Victor Duruy. 340
Rome, History of Charles Merivale. 466
Rome, Ancient, in the Light of Recent
Discoveries Rodolfo Lanciani. 298
Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare. 382
Romola
George Eliot. 514
Rory O'More -
Samuel Lover. 48
Rose Garden, The Mary F. Peard. 141
Rose and the Ring, The
W. M. Thackeray. 133
Roughing It
( Mark Twain. ” 36
Rougon-Macquart, Les
Émile Zola. 313
Roundabout Papers, The
W. M. Thackeray. 228
Rousseau's Confessions
78
Rudder Grange
F. R. Stockton. 199
Ruins
C. F. Volney. 89
Russia
D. M. Wallace. 548
Rutledge
Miriam C. Harris. 136
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.
TITLE
She
Rider Haggard. 522
She Stoops to Conquer - Oliver Goldsmith. 288
Sheridan
Mrs. Oliphant. 354
Sherlock Holmes, The Adventures of
A. Conan Doyle. 13
Sherman, Gen. W. T. , Autobiography 455
Ships that Pass in the Night
Beatrice Harraden. 369
Shirley
Charlotte Bronté. 410
Short History of the English People, A
J. R. Green. 548
Short Studies on Great Subjects
J. A. Froude. 337
Sicilian Vespers, The Casimir Delavigne. 409
Signor Io, II
Salvatore Farina. 523
Signs and Seasons John Burroughs. 549
Silas Marner
George Eliot. 549
Silence of Dean Maitland, The -
<< Maxwell Grey. ” 303
Simple Story, A
Mrs. Inchbald. 492
Sin of Joost Avelingh, The
< Maarten Maartens. ” 470
Sir Charles Grandison -
Samuel Richardson. 489
Sir George Tressady
Mrs. Humphry Ward. 256
Sir Richard F. Burton, Life of
Isabel F. Burton. 349
Six Days of Creation Tayler Lewis. 459
Sleeping Beauty
55
Social Contract, The J. J. Rousseau. 330
Social Equality
W. H. Mallock. 553
Social Life of the Chinese - Justus Doolittle. 437
Social Life in Greece J. P. Mahaffy. 508
Social Life in Old Virginia T. N. Page. 508
Social Silhouettes
Edgar Fawcett. 408
Socialism, French and German - R. T. Ely. 324
Soldiers of Fortune
R. H. Davis. 507
Somerville, Mary, Personal Recollections
of
Sonia
<< Henri Gréville. » 506
Soul of the Far East, The
Percival Lowell. 465
South-Sea Idylls - . . C. W. Stoddard. 460
Spanish Conquest in America, The
Arthur Helps. 558
Spanish Vistas
G. P. Lathrop. 508
Speed the Plough Thomas Morton. 486
Spirit of Laws, The - Montesquieu. 501
Splendid Spur, The · A. T. Quiller-Couch. 506
Standish of Standish Jane G. Austin. 506
Statesman's Year-Book
447
Stein, Life and Times of J. R. Seeley. 412
Steven Lawrence, Yeoman
Annie Edwards. 541
Stickit Minister, The S. R. Crockett. 505
Story of a Bad Boy, The T. B. Aldrich. 542
Story of Bessie Costrell, The
Mrs. Humphry Ward. 504
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356
SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST, THE
F. Max Müller, Ed. 414
St. Augustine's Confessions
78
Saint-Simon, Memoirs of the Duke of
547
Salammbô -
Gustave Flaubert. 315
Samuel Brohl and Company
Victor Cherbuliez. 322
Samuel Sewall, and the World He Lived
In
N. H. Chamberlain. 521
Sandford and Merton Thomas Day. 325
Sandra Belloni
George Meredith. 328
Sartor Resartus
Thomas Carlyle. 402
Scarlet Letter, The - Nathaniel Hawthorne. 404
Scholar and the State, The H. C. Potter. 463
Science of Thought, The F. Max Müller. 494
Scottish Chiefs, The
Jane Porter. 442
Scouring of the White Horse, The
Thomas Hughes. 326
Sea Power, Present and Future
A. T. Mahan. 305
Seats of The Mighty, The - Gilbert Parker. 292
Self Help
Samuel Smiles. 329
Seraph
Leopold Sacher-Masoch. 468
Seven Champions of Christendom, The
Richard Johnson. 292
Sforza
W. W. Astor. 292
Shakespeare's Plays
380
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AUTHOR
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Story of Carthage, The A. J. Church. 549
Story of a Country Town, The
E. W. Howe. 505
Story of Margaret Kent, The
Ellen 0. Kirk. 505
Story of the Heavens, The R. S. Ball. 336
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Life and Letters
of .
Annie Fields. 459
Strange Adventures of Phra the Phænician,
The
E. L. Arnold. 502
Strange Story, A
Bulwer-Lytton. 549
Studies in Mediæval Life and Literature,
E. T. McLaughlin. 514
Studies of the Gods in Greece
Louis Dyer. 512
Subjection of Women, The J. S. Mill. 463
Superstition and Force H. C. Lea. 467
Surgeon's Stories, The
Zakarias Topelius. 502
Susan Fielding
Annie Edwards. 460
Sutras, The
417
Suttas, Buddhist -
Swiss Family Robinson, The - J. R. Wyss. 504
Synnöve Solbakken
Björnstjerne Björnson. 524
-
418
Timbuctoo the Mysterious Felix Dubois. 405
Timon of Athens
Shakespeare. 397
Titus Andronicus
Shakespeare. 384
Toilers of the Sea
Victor Hugo. 473
Tom Brown's School Days
Thomas Hughes. 51
Tom Burke of « Ours » Charles Lever. 484
Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott. 519
Tom Grogan F. Hopkinson Smith. 482
Tom Jones
Henry Fielding. 42
Tracts for the Times
516
Tragic Idyll, A
Paul Bourget.
480
Travels and Adventures of Baron Mun-
chausen, The
R. E. Raspe. 304
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes,
R. L. Stevenson. 478
Treasure of the Humble, The
Maurice Maeterlinck. 331
Treatise on Painting · Leonardo da Vinci. 436
Trenck, Baron, Life of (Autobiography) · 297
Trilby
George Du Maurier. 485
Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne. 517
Triumphant Democracy
Andrew Carnegie. 497
Troilus and Cressida Shakespeare. 393
Tropical Africa Henry Drummond. 559
Troubadours and Trouvères
Harriet W. Preston. 403
Troy and its Remains
Heinrich Schliemann. 465
True Relation, The - Captain John Smith. 498
Turkish Spy, The
G. P. Marana. 498
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Shakespeare. 391
Twenty Years After
Alexandre Dumas, Sr. 461
Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln
to Garfield James G. Blaine. 405
Twice-Told Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne. 290
Two Chiefs of Dunboy, The
J. A. Froude. 491
Two Gentlemen of Verona - Shakespeare. 381
Two Men
Elizabeth Stoddard. 484
Two Noble Kinsmen Shakespeare. 401
Two Years Before the Mast - R. H. Dana. 487
Typee, and Omoo Herman Melville. 488
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22
.
-
Tale Of Two Cities, A
Charles Dickens. 460
Tales from Shakespeare
Charles and Mary Lamb. 450
Tales of a Traveller - Washington Irving. 289
Talmud, The Babylonian
Taming of the Shrew, The - Shakespeare. 387
Taras Bulba.
N, F. Gogol. 497
Tartarin of Tarascon Alphonse Daudet. 503
Tartuffe
Molière. 526
Telemachus, Adventures of -
Fénelon. 504
Tempest, The
Shakespeare. 400
Temple House
E. B. Stoddard. 496
Ten Thousand a Year S. C. Warren. 482
Tenants of Malory, The
Sheridan Le Fanu. 541
Tennyson, Alfred (Lord), Life of
Hallam Tennyson. 483
Tent Life in Siberia George Kennan. 324
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy. 516
Thaddeus of Warsaw - Jane Porter. 482
Thoughts Concerning the Interpretation
of Nature
Denis Diderot. 483
Three Americans and Three Englishmen,
C. F. Johnson. 515
Three English Statesmen - Goldwin Smith. 510
Three Musketeers, The
Alexandre Dumas, Sr. 461
Through Night to Light . .
Friedrich Spielhagen. 410
Through the Dark Continent
H. M. Stanley. 478
Till Eulenspiegel
487
UARDA
G. M. Ebers. 522
Unclassed, The
George Gissing. 496
Uncle Remus
J. C. Harris. 518
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Mrs. Stowe. 518
Under the Yoke
Ivan Vazoff. 490
Underground Russia
“Stepniak. ) 323
Undine
La Motte Fouqué. 489
Undiscovered Country, The -
W. D. Howells. 291
Upanishads, The
416
Usurper, The
Judith Gautier. 523
Utopia
Sir Thomas More. 401
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VALENTINE Vox, THE VENTRILOQUIST
Henry Cockton. 488
Van Bibber and Others R. H. Davis. 410
Vanity Fair · . . . W. M. Thackeray. - 406
Vathek, The History of the Caliph
William Beckford. 493
Vedas and Vedic Hymns, The
415
Vera Vorontsoff Sonya Kovalevsky. 323
Verdant Green, Mr. , The Adventures of
(Cuthbert Bede. ) 528
Very Hard Cash
Charles Reade. 267
Vicar of Wakefield, The
Oliver Goldsmith. 486
Vicomte de Bragelonne, The
Alexandre Dumas, Sr. 461
Victorian Poets, The · · E. C. Stedman. 490
Virgin Soil
Ivan Turgeneff. 473
Virginians, The
W. M. Thackeray. 51
Vishnu, Institute of
417
Vision of Piers Plowman, The
402
Visits to the Monasteries of the Levant
Robert Curzon. 467
Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Mandeville 467
Voltaire, Life of
James Parton. 521
Voyage Around my Chamber
Xavier De Maistre. 521
Whip and Spur
G. E. Waring, Jun. 373
White Aprons
Maud W. Goodwin. 529
White Company, The A. Conan Doyle. 522
White Rocks, The
Édouard Rod. 306
Wide, Wide World, The - Susan Warner. 495
Wild Irish Girl, The Lady Morgan. 438
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Goethe. 404
Will, On the Freedom of the
Jonathan Edwards. 344
William Tell
Schiller. 407
Window in Thrums, A J. M. Barrie. 471
Winning of the West, The
Theodore Roosevelt. 495
Winter's Tale, A
Shakespeare. 399
With Fire and Sword, The Deluge, and Pan
Michael Henryk Sienkiewicz. 457
With the Procession Henry B. Fuller. 552
Without Dogma Henryk Sienkiewicz. 470
Wives and Daughters Mrs. Gaskell. 488
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 530
Woman in White, The Wilkie Collins. 321
Women, Friendship of W. R. Alger. 529
Woodman, The
Quesnay de Beaurepaire. 501
Woodstock
Sir Walter Scott. 545
Wreck of the Grosvenor, The
W. Clark Russell. 305
Wrecker, The
R. L. Stevenson. 546
Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë. 302
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-
.
WAGES OF SIN, THE "Lucas Malet. 481
Wanda
<< Quida. " 480
Wandering Jew, The Eugène Sue. 468
Wandering Jew, The M. D. Conway. 456
War and Peace
Lyof Tolstoy. 457
Waverley
Sir Walter Scott. 434
Wealth Against Commonwealth
H. D. Lloyd. 483
Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith. 511
Webster, Daniel
H. C. Lodge. 533
Weir of Hermiston R. L. Stevenson. 492
Wetherel Affair, The J. W. De Forest. 481
What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
W. G. Sumner. 499
When Valmond Came to Pontiac
Gilbert Parker. 326
YEMASSEE, THE
W. G. Simms. 407
Yesterday, To-Day, and Forever -
E. H. Bickersteth. 471
Yesterdays with Authors J. T. Fields. 509
Yone Santo
E. H. House. 437
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418
ZEND-AVESTA, THE
Zincali, The
George Borrow. 469
Zoroastrian Sacred Books
418
Zury; The Meanest Man in Spring County
Joseph Kirkland. 503
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SYNOPSES OF
NOTED BOOKS
Cosmic Philosophy, Outlines of, by activity. In short, the essayist's defini-
John Fiske. (1875. ) In these two tion of the Cosmic theory is as follows:
small volumes, one of the most eminent "Life — including also intelligence as the
of modern thinkers presents the philo- | highest known manifestation of life - is
sophic and scientific doctrines of Herbert the continuous establishment of relations
Spencer, developed into a complete the- within the organism in correspondence
ory of the universe. Added to the out- with relations existing or arising in the
line of the evolutionary philosophy, as environment;) and his statement of the
represented by Mr. Spencer, is a body Cosmic law of social progress is this: --
of original speculation and criticism set «The evolution of society is a contin-
forth with immense learning and inge- uous establishment of psychical relations
nuity, and in a style which is a model of within the community, in conformity to
clearness and force. Most of Mr. Fiske's physical and psychical relations arising
first volume is taken up with the Pro- in the environment; during which both
legomena, in which are expounded the the community and the environment pass
fundamental principles of Cosmism.
Quintus Claudius
Ernst Eckstein. 539
Quits
Baroness Tautphæus. 95
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AUTHOR
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Roman Singer, A F. Marion Crawford. 155
Romance of Dollard, The
Mary H. Catherwood. 199
Romance of a Mummy, The
Théophile Gautier. 252
Romance of a Poor Young Man, The -
Octave Feuillet. 515
Romance of the Rose, The
De Lorris and De Meung. 216
Romances of the East Count Gobineau. 171
Romany Rye
George Borrow. 49
Rome
Francis Wey. IOI
Rome, History of
Victor Duruy. 340
Rome, History of Charles Merivale. 466
Rome, Ancient, in the Light of Recent
Discoveries Rodolfo Lanciani. 298
Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare. 382
Romola
George Eliot. 514
Rory O'More -
Samuel Lover. 48
Rose Garden, The Mary F. Peard. 141
Rose and the Ring, The
W. M. Thackeray. 133
Roughing It
( Mark Twain. ” 36
Rougon-Macquart, Les
Émile Zola. 313
Roundabout Papers, The
W. M. Thackeray. 228
Rousseau's Confessions
78
Rudder Grange
F. R. Stockton. 199
Ruins
C. F. Volney. 89
Russia
D. M. Wallace. 548
Rutledge
Miriam C. Harris. 136
-
.
TITLE
She
Rider Haggard. 522
She Stoops to Conquer - Oliver Goldsmith. 288
Sheridan
Mrs. Oliphant. 354
Sherlock Holmes, The Adventures of
A. Conan Doyle. 13
Sherman, Gen. W. T. , Autobiography 455
Ships that Pass in the Night
Beatrice Harraden. 369
Shirley
Charlotte Bronté. 410
Short History of the English People, A
J. R. Green. 548
Short Studies on Great Subjects
J. A. Froude. 337
Sicilian Vespers, The Casimir Delavigne. 409
Signor Io, II
Salvatore Farina. 523
Signs and Seasons John Burroughs. 549
Silas Marner
George Eliot. 549
Silence of Dean Maitland, The -
<< Maxwell Grey. ” 303
Simple Story, A
Mrs. Inchbald. 492
Sin of Joost Avelingh, The
< Maarten Maartens. ” 470
Sir Charles Grandison -
Samuel Richardson. 489
Sir George Tressady
Mrs. Humphry Ward. 256
Sir Richard F. Burton, Life of
Isabel F. Burton. 349
Six Days of Creation Tayler Lewis. 459
Sleeping Beauty
55
Social Contract, The J. J. Rousseau. 330
Social Equality
W. H. Mallock. 553
Social Life of the Chinese - Justus Doolittle. 437
Social Life in Greece J. P. Mahaffy. 508
Social Life in Old Virginia T. N. Page. 508
Social Silhouettes
Edgar Fawcett. 408
Socialism, French and German - R. T. Ely. 324
Soldiers of Fortune
R. H. Davis. 507
Somerville, Mary, Personal Recollections
of
Sonia
<< Henri Gréville. » 506
Soul of the Far East, The
Percival Lowell. 465
South-Sea Idylls - . . C. W. Stoddard. 460
Spanish Conquest in America, The
Arthur Helps. 558
Spanish Vistas
G. P. Lathrop. 508
Speed the Plough Thomas Morton. 486
Spirit of Laws, The - Montesquieu. 501
Splendid Spur, The · A. T. Quiller-Couch. 506
Standish of Standish Jane G. Austin. 506
Statesman's Year-Book
447
Stein, Life and Times of J. R. Seeley. 412
Steven Lawrence, Yeoman
Annie Edwards. 541
Stickit Minister, The S. R. Crockett. 505
Story of a Bad Boy, The T. B. Aldrich. 542
Story of Bessie Costrell, The
Mrs. Humphry Ward. 504
-
-
356
SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST, THE
F. Max Müller, Ed. 414
St. Augustine's Confessions
78
Saint-Simon, Memoirs of the Duke of
547
Salammbô -
Gustave Flaubert. 315
Samuel Brohl and Company
Victor Cherbuliez. 322
Samuel Sewall, and the World He Lived
In
N. H. Chamberlain. 521
Sandford and Merton Thomas Day. 325
Sandra Belloni
George Meredith. 328
Sartor Resartus
Thomas Carlyle. 402
Scarlet Letter, The - Nathaniel Hawthorne. 404
Scholar and the State, The H. C. Potter. 463
Science of Thought, The F. Max Müller. 494
Scottish Chiefs, The
Jane Porter. 442
Scouring of the White Horse, The
Thomas Hughes. 326
Sea Power, Present and Future
A. T. Mahan. 305
Seats of The Mighty, The - Gilbert Parker. 292
Self Help
Samuel Smiles. 329
Seraph
Leopold Sacher-Masoch. 468
Seven Champions of Christendom, The
Richard Johnson. 292
Sforza
W. W. Astor. 292
Shakespeare's Plays
380
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AUTHOR
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TITLE
AUTHOR
PAGE
.
-
Story of Carthage, The A. J. Church. 549
Story of a Country Town, The
E. W. Howe. 505
Story of Margaret Kent, The
Ellen 0. Kirk. 505
Story of the Heavens, The R. S. Ball. 336
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, Life and Letters
of .
Annie Fields. 459
Strange Adventures of Phra the Phænician,
The
E. L. Arnold. 502
Strange Story, A
Bulwer-Lytton. 549
Studies in Mediæval Life and Literature,
E. T. McLaughlin. 514
Studies of the Gods in Greece
Louis Dyer. 512
Subjection of Women, The J. S. Mill. 463
Superstition and Force H. C. Lea. 467
Surgeon's Stories, The
Zakarias Topelius. 502
Susan Fielding
Annie Edwards. 460
Sutras, The
417
Suttas, Buddhist -
Swiss Family Robinson, The - J. R. Wyss. 504
Synnöve Solbakken
Björnstjerne Björnson. 524
-
418
Timbuctoo the Mysterious Felix Dubois. 405
Timon of Athens
Shakespeare. 397
Titus Andronicus
Shakespeare. 384
Toilers of the Sea
Victor Hugo. 473
Tom Brown's School Days
Thomas Hughes. 51
Tom Burke of « Ours » Charles Lever. 484
Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott. 519
Tom Grogan F. Hopkinson Smith. 482
Tom Jones
Henry Fielding. 42
Tracts for the Times
516
Tragic Idyll, A
Paul Bourget.
480
Travels and Adventures of Baron Mun-
chausen, The
R. E. Raspe. 304
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes,
R. L. Stevenson. 478
Treasure of the Humble, The
Maurice Maeterlinck. 331
Treatise on Painting · Leonardo da Vinci. 436
Trenck, Baron, Life of (Autobiography) · 297
Trilby
George Du Maurier. 485
Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne. 517
Triumphant Democracy
Andrew Carnegie. 497
Troilus and Cressida Shakespeare. 393
Tropical Africa Henry Drummond. 559
Troubadours and Trouvères
Harriet W. Preston. 403
Troy and its Remains
Heinrich Schliemann. 465
True Relation, The - Captain John Smith. 498
Turkish Spy, The
G. P. Marana. 498
Twelfth Night, or What You Will
Shakespeare. 391
Twenty Years After
Alexandre Dumas, Sr. 461
Twenty Years of Congress: From Lincoln
to Garfield James G. Blaine. 405
Twice-Told Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne. 290
Two Chiefs of Dunboy, The
J. A. Froude. 491
Two Gentlemen of Verona - Shakespeare. 381
Two Men
Elizabeth Stoddard. 484
Two Noble Kinsmen Shakespeare. 401
Two Years Before the Mast - R. H. Dana. 487
Typee, and Omoo Herman Melville. 488
-
22
.
-
Tale Of Two Cities, A
Charles Dickens. 460
Tales from Shakespeare
Charles and Mary Lamb. 450
Tales of a Traveller - Washington Irving. 289
Talmud, The Babylonian
Taming of the Shrew, The - Shakespeare. 387
Taras Bulba.
N, F. Gogol. 497
Tartarin of Tarascon Alphonse Daudet. 503
Tartuffe
Molière. 526
Telemachus, Adventures of -
Fénelon. 504
Tempest, The
Shakespeare. 400
Temple House
E. B. Stoddard. 496
Ten Thousand a Year S. C. Warren. 482
Tenants of Malory, The
Sheridan Le Fanu. 541
Tennyson, Alfred (Lord), Life of
Hallam Tennyson. 483
Tent Life in Siberia George Kennan. 324
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy. 516
Thaddeus of Warsaw - Jane Porter. 482
Thoughts Concerning the Interpretation
of Nature
Denis Diderot. 483
Three Americans and Three Englishmen,
C. F. Johnson. 515
Three English Statesmen - Goldwin Smith. 510
Three Musketeers, The
Alexandre Dumas, Sr. 461
Through Night to Light . .
Friedrich Spielhagen. 410
Through the Dark Continent
H. M. Stanley. 478
Till Eulenspiegel
487
UARDA
G. M. Ebers. 522
Unclassed, The
George Gissing. 496
Uncle Remus
J. C. Harris. 518
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Mrs. Stowe. 518
Under the Yoke
Ivan Vazoff. 490
Underground Russia
“Stepniak. ) 323
Undine
La Motte Fouqué. 489
Undiscovered Country, The -
W. D. Howells. 291
Upanishads, The
416
Usurper, The
Judith Gautier. 523
Utopia
Sir Thomas More. 401
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AUTHOR
PAGE
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TITLE
VALENTINE Vox, THE VENTRILOQUIST
Henry Cockton. 488
Van Bibber and Others R. H. Davis. 410
Vanity Fair · . . . W. M. Thackeray. - 406
Vathek, The History of the Caliph
William Beckford. 493
Vedas and Vedic Hymns, The
415
Vera Vorontsoff Sonya Kovalevsky. 323
Verdant Green, Mr. , The Adventures of
(Cuthbert Bede. ) 528
Very Hard Cash
Charles Reade. 267
Vicar of Wakefield, The
Oliver Goldsmith. 486
Vicomte de Bragelonne, The
Alexandre Dumas, Sr. 461
Victorian Poets, The · · E. C. Stedman. 490
Virgin Soil
Ivan Turgeneff. 473
Virginians, The
W. M. Thackeray. 51
Vishnu, Institute of
417
Vision of Piers Plowman, The
402
Visits to the Monasteries of the Levant
Robert Curzon. 467
Voiage and Travaile of Sir John Mandeville 467
Voltaire, Life of
James Parton. 521
Voyage Around my Chamber
Xavier De Maistre. 521
Whip and Spur
G. E. Waring, Jun. 373
White Aprons
Maud W. Goodwin. 529
White Company, The A. Conan Doyle. 522
White Rocks, The
Édouard Rod. 306
Wide, Wide World, The - Susan Warner. 495
Wild Irish Girl, The Lady Morgan. 438
Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
Goethe. 404
Will, On the Freedom of the
Jonathan Edwards. 344
William Tell
Schiller. 407
Window in Thrums, A J. M. Barrie. 471
Winning of the West, The
Theodore Roosevelt. 495
Winter's Tale, A
Shakespeare. 399
With Fire and Sword, The Deluge, and Pan
Michael Henryk Sienkiewicz. 457
With the Procession Henry B. Fuller. 552
Without Dogma Henryk Sienkiewicz. 470
Wives and Daughters Mrs. Gaskell. 488
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 530
Woman in White, The Wilkie Collins. 321
Women, Friendship of W. R. Alger. 529
Woodman, The
Quesnay de Beaurepaire. 501
Woodstock
Sir Walter Scott. 545
Wreck of the Grosvenor, The
W. Clark Russell. 305
Wrecker, The
R. L. Stevenson. 546
Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë. 302
-
-
.
WAGES OF SIN, THE "Lucas Malet. 481
Wanda
<< Quida. " 480
Wandering Jew, The Eugène Sue. 468
Wandering Jew, The M. D. Conway. 456
War and Peace
Lyof Tolstoy. 457
Waverley
Sir Walter Scott. 434
Wealth Against Commonwealth
H. D. Lloyd. 483
Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith. 511
Webster, Daniel
H. C. Lodge. 533
Weir of Hermiston R. L. Stevenson. 492
Wetherel Affair, The J. W. De Forest. 481
What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
W. G. Sumner. 499
When Valmond Came to Pontiac
Gilbert Parker. 326
YEMASSEE, THE
W. G. Simms. 407
Yesterday, To-Day, and Forever -
E. H. Bickersteth. 471
Yesterdays with Authors J. T. Fields. 509
Yone Santo
E. H. House. 437
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418
ZEND-AVESTA, THE
Zincali, The
George Borrow. 469
Zoroastrian Sacred Books
418
Zury; The Meanest Man in Spring County
Joseph Kirkland. 503
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I
SYNOPSES OF
NOTED BOOKS
Cosmic Philosophy, Outlines of, by activity. In short, the essayist's defini-
John Fiske. (1875. ) In these two tion of the Cosmic theory is as follows:
small volumes, one of the most eminent "Life — including also intelligence as the
of modern thinkers presents the philo- | highest known manifestation of life - is
sophic and scientific doctrines of Herbert the continuous establishment of relations
Spencer, developed into a complete the- within the organism in correspondence
ory of the universe. Added to the out- with relations existing or arising in the
line of the evolutionary philosophy, as environment;) and his statement of the
represented by Mr. Spencer, is a body Cosmic law of social progress is this: --
of original speculation and criticism set «The evolution of society is a contin-
forth with immense learning and inge- uous establishment of psychical relations
nuity, and in a style which is a model of within the community, in conformity to
clearness and force. Most of Mr. Fiske's physical and psychical relations arising
first volume is taken up with the Pro- in the environment; during which both
legomena, in which are expounded the the community and the environment pass
fundamental principles of Cosmism.
