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h_ 80 _full-page illustrations_. 300 pp. 8vo. $5.00, _net special_. Accounts and pictures by contemporaries ingeniously arranged to give the effect of a continuous history, and dealing with such topics as the personality of Queen Elizabeth, the execution of Mary Stuart, characteristic traits of Cromwell, the return of Charles II., the Stuarts in exile, Queen Anne and the Marlboroughs, etc., etc., illustrated by 80 portraits, fac-similes, caricatures, etc., reproduced directly from the rarest original mezzotint and line engravings. _N.Y. Tribune_: "It is not unlikely that he who has dipped into this book in the early afternoon will find himself still reading when night comes.... A better book to put in the hands of the lover of history, whether he be a beginner or an old student, we do not know." WALKER'S DISCUSSIONS IN ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS By the late General FRANCIS A. WALKER. Edited by Prof. DAVIS R. DEWEY. _With portrait_. 454 + 480 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. $6.00, _net special_. _The Dial_: "Clear and interesting to the general reader, as well as instructive to the careful student." BREAL'S SEMANTICS lxvi + 336 pp. 12mo, $2.50, _net_. Studies in the Science of Significations, as distinguished from the Science of Sounds (Phonetics). The style is pleasing, and the enjoyment of the book requires no previous philological training. SWEET'S PRACTICAL STUDY OF LANGUAGES By Prof. HENRY SWEET of Oxford. 12mo. $1.50, _net_. xii, 1900 "Clear and interesting to the general reader, as well as instructive to the careful student."--_The Dial_. _AN IMPORTANT WORK BY THE LATE_ FRANCIS A. WALKER _President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Professor of Political Economy and History in Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College; late chief of the U.S. Bureau of Statistics; Superintendent of the Ninth Census; author of the Statistical Atlas of the United States, etc._ DISCUSSIONS IN ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS Edited by Professor DAVIS R. DEWEY. _With portrait._ 454 + 481 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. $6.00, _net_. VOL. I. Finance and Taxation, Money and Bimetallism, Economic Theory. VOL. II. Statistics, National Growth, Social Economics. The author had hoped to bring these papers together himself. _The Dial_: "Professor Dewey has performed a real service to the public, as well as to the memory of his late chief.... In the present collection the editor has not included everything General Walk
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