=29.=--=Problems of Life and Reproduction.= By MARCUS HARTOG, D. Sc., Professor of Zoology in University College, Cork. 8vo.
The author uses all the legitimate arms of scientific controversy in assailing certain views that have been widely pressed on the general public with an assurance that must have given many the impression that they were protected by the universal consensus of biologists. Among the subjects considered are: "The Cellular Pedigree and the Problem of Heredity"; "The Relation of Brood-Formation to Ordinary Cell-Division"; "The New Force, Mitokinetism"; "Nuclear Reduction and the Function of Chroism"; "Fertilization"; "The Transmission of Acquired Characters"; "Mechanism and Life"; "The Biological Writings of Samuel Butler"; "Interpolation in Memory"; "The Teaching of Nature Study."
=30.=--=Problems of the Sexes.= By JEAN FINOT, Author of "The Science of Happiness," etc. Translated under authority by Mary J. Safford. 8vo.
A masterly presentation of the attitude of the ages toward women and an eloquent plea for her further enfranchisement from imposed and unnatural limitations. The range of scholarship that has been enlisted in the writing may well excite one's wonder, but the tone of the book is popular and its appeal is not to any small section of the reading public but to all the classes and degrees of an age that, from present indications, will go down in history as the century of Woman.
=31.=--=The Positive Evolution of Religion.= Its Moral and Social Reaction. By FREDERIC HARRISON. 8vo.
The author has undertaken to estimate the moral and social reaction of various forms of Religion--beginning with Nature Worship, Polytheism, Catholicism, Protestantism, and Deism. The volume may be looked upon as the final word, the summary of the celebrated author's philosophy--a systematic study of the entire religious problem.
=32.=--=The Science of Happiness.= By JEAN FINOT, Author of "Problems of the Sexes," etc. Translated from the French by Mary J. Safford. 8^o.
In this work, which was crowned by the Academy, the author considers a subject, the solution of which offers more enticement to the well-wisher of the race than the gold of the Incas did to the treasure-seekers of Spain, who themselves doubtless looked upon the coveted yellow metal, however mistakenly, as a key to the happiness which all are trying to find. "Amid the noisy tumult of life, amid the dissonance that divides man from man," remarks M. Finot, "the Science of Happiness tries to discover the divine link which binds humanity to happiness through the soul and through the union of souls." The author considers the nature of happiness and the means of its attainment, as well as many allied questions.