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17. HEALTH AND DISEASE
- By W. Leslie Mackenzie, M.D., Local Government Board, Edinburgh. "Dr Mackenzie adds to a thorough grasp of the problems an illuminating style, and an arresting manner of treating a subject often dull and sometimes unsavoury."—Economist.
18. INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICS
- By A. N. Whitehead, Sc.D., F.R.S. (With Diagrams.) "Mr Whitehead has discharged with conspicuous success the task he is so exceptionally qualified to undertake. For he is one of our great authorities upon the foundations of the science."—Westminster Gazette.
19. THE ANIMAL WORLD
- By Professor F. W. Gamble, D.Sc., F.R.S. With Introduction by Sir Oliver Lodge. (Many Illustrations.) "A delightful and instructive epitome of animal (and vegetable) life. . . . A fascinating and suggestive survey."—Morning Post.
20. EVOLUTION
- By Professor J. Arthur Thomson and Professor Patrick Geddes. "A many-coloured and romantic panorama, opening up, like no other book we know, a rational vision of world-development."—Belfast News-Letter.
22. CRIME AND INSANITY
- By Dr C. A. Mercier. "Furnishes much valuable information from one occupying the highest position among medico-legal psychologists."—Asylum News.
46. PSYCHICAL RESEARCH
- By Sir W. F. Barrett, F.R.S., Professor of Physics, Royal College of Science, Dublin, 1873–1910. "What he has to say on thought-reading, hypnotism, telepathy, crystal-vision, spiritualism, divinings, and so on, will be read with avidity."—Dundee Courier.
31. ASTRONOMY
- By A. R. Hinks, M.A., Chief Assistant, Cambridge Observatory. "Original in thought, eclectic in substance, and critical in treatment. . . . No better little book is available."—School World.
32. INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE
- By J. Arthur Thomson, M.A., Regius Professor of Natural History, Aberdeen University. "Professor Thomson's delightful literary style is well known; and here he discourses freshly and easily on the methods of science and its relations with philosophy, art, religion, and practical life."—Aberdeen Journal.
36. CLIMATE AND WEATHER
- By Prof. H. N. Dickson, D.Sc.Oxon., M.A., F.R.S.E., President of the Royal Meteorological Society. (With Diagrams.) "The author has succeeded in presenting in a very lucid and agreeable manner the causes of the movements of the atmosphere and of the more stable winds."—Manchester Guardian.
41. ANTHROPOLOGY
- By R. R. Marett, M.A., Reader in Social Anthropology in Oxford University. "An absolutely perfect handbook, so clear that a child could understand it, so fascinating and human that it beats fiction 'to a frazzle.'"—Morning Leader.
44. THE PRINCIPLES OE PHYSIOLOGY
- By Prof. J. G. McKenkrick, M.D. "It is a delightful and wonderfully comprehensive handling of a subject which, while of importance to all, does not readily lend itself to untechnical explanation. . . . Upon every page of it is stamped the impress of a creative imagination."—Glasgow Herald.
46. MATTER AND ENERGY
- By F. Soddy, M.A., F.R.S. "Prof. Soddy has successfully accomplished the very difficult task of making physics of absorbing interest on popular lines."—Nature.
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