The Roman Question Part 21

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12mo. 336 pages. 75 cents.

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The Physiology of Common Life. By George Henry Lewis, Author of _Seaside Studies_, _Life of Goethe_, etc. No. 1. Just Ready. Price 10 cents.

EXTRACT FROM PROSPECTUS.

No scientific subject can be so important to Man as that of his own Life. No knowledge can be so incessantly appealed to by the incidents of every day, as the knowledge of the processes by which he lives and acts. At every moment he is in danger of disobeying laws which, when disobeyed, may bring years of suffering, decline of powers, premature decay. Sanitary reformers preach in vain, because they preach to a public which does not understand the laws of life--laws as rigorous as those of Gravitation or Motion.

Even the sad experience of others yields us no lessons, unless we understand the principles involved. If one Man is seen to suffer from vitiated air, another is seen to endure it without apparent harm; a third concludes that "it is all chance," and trusts to that chance. Had he understood the principle involved, he would not have been left to chance--his first lesson in swimming would not have been a shipwreck.

The work will be ill.u.s.trated with from 20 to 25 woodcuts, to a.s.sist the exposition. It will be published in monthly numbers, uniform with Johnston's _Chemistry of Common Life_.

The History of Civilization in England. By Henry Thos. Buckle. Vol.

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Legends and Lyrics. By Anne Adelaide Proctor, (Daughter of the Poet, Barry Cornwall.) One very neat volume, 12mo. Second edition. 75 cents.

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The Handy-Book on Property Law, in a series of Letters. By Lord St.

Leonards, (Sir Edward Sugden.) 1 vol., 16mo., Cloth, 75 cents.

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The Manual of Chess; Containing the Elementary Principles of the Game.

Ill.u.s.trated with numerous Diagrams, recent Games and Original Problems. By Charles Kenny. 1 vol. 12mo. Price 50 cents.

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Sixty Years' Gleanings from Life's Harvest. A Genuine Autobiography.

By John Brown. 1 vol. 12mo. Cloth, $1.

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