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MAR 20 1928

LIBRARY

Gift of

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Charles & Coolidge

Copyright, 1914

By P. F. COLLIER & SON

MANUFACTURED IN U. S. A.

Designed, Printed, and Bound at
The Collier Press, New York

CONTENTS

HISTORY

I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION. By Robert Matteson Johnston, M.A.

(Cantab.), Assistant Professor of Modern History in Har-

vard University.

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II. ANCIENT HISTORY. By William Scott Ferguson, Ph. D., Pro-
fessor of History in Harvard University.

III. THE RENAISSANCE. By Murray Anthony Potter, Ph. D., Assist-
ant Professor of Romance Languages in Harvard University.
IV. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. By Robert Matteson Johnston,
M.A. (Cantab.)

V. THE TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. By
Frederick Jackson Turner, Ph. D., LL. D., Litt. D., Pro-
fessor of History in Harvard University.

POETRY

I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION. By Carleton Noyes, A. M., formerly
Instructor in English in Harvard University.

II. HOMER AND THE EPIC. By Charles Burton Gulick, Ph. D.,
Professor of Greek in Harvard University, and (1911-1912)
in the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

III. DANTE. By Charles Hall Grandgent, A. B., Professor of Ro-

mance Languages in Harvard University. .

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IV. THE POEMS OF JOHN MILTON. By Ernest Bernbaum, Ph. D.,

Instructor in English in Harvard University.

V. THE ENGLISH ANTHOLOGY. By Carleton Noyes, A.M.

NATURAL SCIENCE .

I. GENERAL INTRODUCTION. By Lawrence Joseph Henderson,

M. D., Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry in Har-

vard University.

II. ASTRONOMY. By Lawrence Joseph Henderson, M.D. .

III. PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY.

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By Lawrence Joseph Henderson,

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IV. THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES. By Lawrence Joseph Henderson,

M. D.

V. KELVIN ON "LIGHT" AND "THE TIDES." By William Morris

Davis, M. E., Ph. D., Sc. D., Sturgis-Hooper Professor of

Geology, Emeritus, in Harvard University, Fellow of the

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Exchange Pro-

fessor to the University of Berlin and to the Sorbonne.

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