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American Statesmen.

A SERIES OF BIOGRAPHIES OF MEN CONSPICUOUS IN THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.

EDITED BY

JOHN T. MORSE, JR.

John Quincy Adams. By JOHN T. MORSE, JR., author of a “Life of Alex

ander Hamilton," etc.

Alexander Hamilton. By HENRY CABOT LODGE, author of "The English Colonies in America," etc.

John C. Calhoun. By Dr. H. VON HOLST, author of the "Constitutional History of the United States."

Andrew Jackson. By Prof. WILLIAM G. SUMNER, author of "History of American Currency," etc.

John Randolph. By HENRY ADAMS, author of "New England Federal

ism," etc.

James Monroe. By D. C. GILMAN, President of Johns Hopkins University,

Baltimore.

Thomas Jefferson. By JOHN T. Morse, Jr.

Daniel Webster. By HENRY CABOT LODGE.

Albert Gallatin. By JOHN AUSTIN STEVENS, recently editor of "The Magazine of American History."

James Madison. By SYDNEY H. GAY, author (with William Cullen Bryant) of "A Popular History of the United States."

John Adams. By JOHN T. MORSE, Jr.

Each volume is 16mo, bound in cloth, gilt top, price $1.25.

The series of monographs on American Statesmen, now in progress of publication, is an undertaking that is likely to have no slight effect upon the popular comprehension of the inheritance and duties of the American citizen. The educational influence of such books is, in fact, not to be easily overestimated. Nothing can be truer than the maxim that the genesis and development of a nation are best studied in the lives of its

great men, and in the compact and readable volumes which Mr. Morse has edited, the history of whole epochs is skillfully condensed. To young men, especially, they will form a political library of the utmost value. The reader who takes them up seriatim cannot fail to find his ideas broadened, his patriotism deepened, his conception of our national destiny made more definite and complete. - Boston Traveller.

IN PREPARATION.

Henry Clay. By Hon. CARL SCHURZ.
Samuel Adams. By JOHN FISKE.

Martin Van Buren. By Hon. WILLIAM DORSHEIMER.

And others to be announced hereafter.

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American Men of Letters.

BIOGRAPHIES OF DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN AUTHORS.

EDITED BY

CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER.

Washington Irving. By CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER, author of " In

the Levant," "My Summer in a Garden,” etc.

Noah Webster. By HORACE E. SCUDDER, author of "Stories and Romances," "A History of the United States of America,” etc.

Henry D. Thoreau. By FRANK B. SANBORN.

George Ripley. By Rev. OCTAVIUS BROOKS FROTHINGHAM, author

of "Transcendentalism in New England."

James Fenimore Cooper. By THOMAS R. LOUNSBURY, Professor of English in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College.

Margaret Fuller Ossoli.

By THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON,

author of "Malbone," "Oldport Days," etc.

Ralph Waldo Emerson. By OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, author of "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table," "John Lothrop Motley," etc.

Edgar Allan Poe.

By GEORGE E. WOODBERRY, author of "A History of Wood-Engraving." (Nearly Ready.)

Each volume, with Portrait of the subject of the Biography, 16mo, cloth, gilt top, $1.25.

The volumes of this series differ widely in the literary and personal characteristics of their subjects, and hardly less in style of treatment; but each is excellent in its way, and tells attractively the story of a life that contributed positively to American literature. Speaking of the series the New York Times says: "Mr. Warner is doing in his biographical series a service to the public, the full extent of which, while well rewarded in a commercial sense, is doubtless not generally and rightfully appreciated. Honest and truly important work it is that he and his colleagues are doing."

(In Preparation.)

Edmund Quincy. By SYDNEY HOWARD GAY.
Nathaniel Parker Willis. By HENRY A. BEERS.

Nathaniel Hawthorne. By JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
William Cullen Bryant. By JOHN BIGELOW.
Bayard Taylor. By JOHN R. G. HASSARD.
William Gilmore Simms. By GEORGE W. Cable.
Benjamin Franklin. By JOHN BACH MCMASTERr.

Others to be announced hereafter.

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OUTLINES OF COSMIC PHILOSOPHY,

Based on the Doctrine of Evolution. With Criticisms on the Positive Philosophy. 2 vols. 8vo, pp. 480, 530, $6.00.

Mr. DARWIN, after reading this work, wrote as follows to Mr. Fiske:

"You must allow me to thank you for the very great interest with which I have at last slowly read the whole of your work. . . . I never in my life read so lucid an expositor (and therefore thinker) as you are.... It pleased me to find that here and there I had arrived, from my own crude thoughts, at some of the same conclusions with you, though I could seldom or never have given my reasons

for such conclusions."

This work of Mr. Fiske's may be not unfairly designated the most important contribution yet made by America to philosophical literature. His theory of the influence of prolonged infancy upon social development (Part II., chap. xxii.) entitles Mr. Fiske's work to be considered a distinctly important contribution to the theory of the origin of species, and of the origin of Man in particular. — Academy (London).

MYTHS AND MYTH-MAKERS:

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THE UNSEEN WORLD, AND OTHER ESSAYS.
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CONTENTS: The Unseen World; The To-morrow of Death; The Jesus of History; The Christ of Dogma; A Word about Miracles; Draper on Science and Religion; Nathan the Wise; Historical Difficulties; The Famine of 1770 in Bengal; Spain and the Netherlands; Longfellow's Dante; laine's St. Peter; A Philosophy of Art; Athenian and American Life.

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EXCURSIONS OF AN EVOLUTIONIST.

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CONTENTS: Europe before the Arrival of Man; The Arrival of Man in Europe; Our Aryan Forefathers; What we Learn from Old Aryan Words; Was there a Primeval Mother-Tongue? Sociology and Hero Worship; Heroes of Industry; The Causes of Persecution; The Origin of Protestantism; The True Lesson of Protestantism; Evolution and Religion; The Meaning of Infancy; A Universe of Mind-Stuff; In Memoriam: Charles Darwin.

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