in the old form of monographs reaching the
special student only. As a consequence there are subjects of the deepest
present and permanent interest, almost all of whose literature exists
only in the shape of detached papers, individually so famous that their
topics and opinions are in everybody's mouth--yet collectively only
accessible, for re-reading and comparison, to those who have carefully
preserved them, or who are painstaking enough to study long files of
periodicals.

In so collecting these separate papers as to give the reader a fair if
not complete view of the discussions in which they form a part; to make
them convenient for reference in the future progress of those
discussions; and especially to enable them to be preserved as an
important part of the history of modern thought,--it is believed that
this series will do a service that will be widely appreciated.

Such papers naturally include three classes:--those which by their
originality have recently led discussion into altogether new channels;
those which have attracted deserved attention as powerful special pleas
upon one side or the other in great current questions; and finally,
purely critical and analytical dissertations. The series will aim to
include the best representatives of each of these classes of expression.

It is designed to arrange the essays included in the Series under such
general divisions as the following, to each of which one or more volumes
will be devoted:--

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS,
NATURAL SCIENCE,
RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY,
QUESTIONS OF BELIEF,
ECONOMICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE,
HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY,
LITERARY TOPICS.

Among the material selected for the first volume (International
Politics), which will be issued immediately, are the following papers:

Archibald Forbes's Essay on "The Russians, Turks, and Bulgarians;"
Vsct. Stratford de Redcliffe's "Turkey;" Mr. Gladstone's
"Montenegro;" Professor Goldwin Smith's Paper on "The Political
Destiny of Canada," and his Essay called "The Slaveholder and the
Turk;" Professor Blackie's "Prussia in the Nineteenth Century;"
Edward Dicey's "Future of Egypt;" Louis Kossuth's "What is in Store
for Europe;" and Professor Freeman's "Relation of the English People
to the War."

Among the contents of the second volume (Questions of Belief), are:

The two well-known "Modern Symposia;" the Discussion by Professor
Huxley, Mr. Hutton, Sir J.F. Steph