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 SCIENCE AND SOCIOLOGY

SCIENCE

GREAT ASTRONOMERS. By Sir Robert Ball, D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S.

With numerous full-page and other illustrations. In demy 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d. net.

" Sir Robert Ball's gifts as a narrator are very great. He is, of course, a master of his subject. . . . The most earth-bound mortal who opens this book must go on with it." — Daily Chronicle.

IN STARRY REALMS. By the same Author. The Wonders of the Heavens. With numerous full-page and other illustrations. In demy 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d. net.

" The style of popular exposition adopted throughout is indeed admirable, the illustrations are excellent, the binding is tasteful, and the print good." — Saturday Review.

IN THE HIGH HEAVENS. By the same Author. A popular account of recent interesting astronomical events and phenomena, with numerous full-page and other illustrations. In demy 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d. net.

" It has," says The Scotsman, " the freshest knowledge and the best scientific thought."

ASTRONOMY FOR EVERYBODY. By Professor Simon Newcombe. LL.D. With an Introduction by Sir Robert Ball. Illustrated. A popular exposition of the Wonders of the Heavens. In demy Svo. cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d. net.

BY LAND AND SKY. By the Rev. John M. Bacon. M.A., F.R.A.S.

The Record of a Balloonist. With four Illustrations. In demy Svo, cloth gilt, gilt top, 3s. 6d. net.

SOCIOLOGY

SOCIALISM. By Professor Robert Flint, LL.D. New, Revised and Cheaper Edition. In demy Svo, cloth gilt, 6s. net.

" A new, revised and cheaper edition of Professor Flint's masterly study will be generally welcomed. The revision has been carefully carried out, but the original text has been as far as possible pre- served. References show that the additional notes are well up to date." — Daily Mail.

THE PEOPLE OF THE ABYSS. By Jack London. A study of the social and economic conditions of life in the East End of London. By the author of The Call of the Wild. With 24 illustrations from actual photographs. In crown Svo, cloth gilt, 6s.

"... Mr. Jack London, who is already known to the British public as a fine descriptive writer, has done for the East End of London, what he did for the Klondyke — has described it fully and faithfully, looking at it as intimately as dispassionately." — Daily Chronicle.

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