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THE CRADLE OF THE HUMAN RACE AT THE NORTH POLE.

A Story of the Prehistoric World. By WILLIAM F. WARREN, S. T. D., LL. D., President of Boston University, Corporate Member of the American Oriental Society, author of "The True Key to Ancient Cosmology and Mythical Geography," etc., etc. With Original Illustrations. 1 vol. 8vo, $2.00.

[From the Author's Preface.]

This book is not the work of a dreamer. Neither has it proceeded from a love of learned paradox. Nor yet is it a cunningly devised fable aimed at particular tendencies in current science, philosophy, or religion. It is a thoroughly serious and sincere attempt to present what is to the author's mind the true and final solution of one of the greatest and most fascinating of all problems connected with the history of mankind.

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It may be proper to add that apart from its immediate purpose the book has interest, and, it is hoped, value as a contribution to the infant science of Comparative Mythology. ... The indications of the polocentric character common to the mythical systems of sacred geography among all ancient peoples will probably be new to every reader. The new light thrown upon such questions as those relating to the direction of the Sacred Quarter, the location of the Abode of the Dead, the character and position of the Cosmical Tree, the course of the backward-flowing Ocean-river, the correlation of the "Navels" of Earth and Heaven, - not to enumerate other points, can hardly fail to attract the lively attention of all students and teachers of ancient mythology and mythical geography.

Congressional Government.

A Study of American Politics. By WOODROW WILSON. 1 vol. 16mo, $1.25.

Mr. Wilson has made a very careful and thorough study of the American system of Congressional government, which students of politics will find richly worth reading. He institutes a comparison of Congressional government with the Parliamentary government of Great Britain, indicating their points of likeness and of difference, and touches briefly on German and French Parliamentary government. He also points out the marked and progressive departure of Congress from the programme designed for it by the framers of the Constitution. Both historically and politically his work is one of great value, and cannot fail to command immediate and general attention.

The Religious Aspect of Philosophy.

A Critique of the Bases of Conduct and of Faith, By JOSIAH ROYCE, Ph. D., Instructor in Philosophy in Harvard College. 1 vol. crown 8vo, $2.00.

This work has peculiar claims to attention now, when the interest in religious questions is so keen and so general. It discusses the deepest problems of religion in close connection with the first principles of a system of philosophy; not in a technical form, but so as to appeal to general readers who are interested in philosophy, and to students of philosophy who are interested in religion and human life. It is entirely free from any sectarian bias, and aims to show that the prevalent doubts about the basis of religion, when properly understood, contain the germ of a permanent doctrine about religion.

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GLENAVERIL; or, The Metamorphoses. A Poem in Six Books. By the EARL OF LYTTON (OWEN MEREDITH), author of "Lucile." To be published in Six Monthly Parts. Price 25 cents each part. Part I. ready early in April.

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lated from the French by Lady CLAUD HAMILTON. With an Introduction by Professor TYNDALL. 12mo, cloth, $1.25.

follow in its principal developments this un-
interrupted series of scientific conquests. -
From the Preface.

A record in which the verities of science
are endowed with the interest of romance.
Professor TYNDALL.
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THE ADVENTURES OF TIMIAS TERRYSTONE.
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