This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...in simple, clear and intelligible language." Now that is exactly what nine-hundred-and-ninetynine in a thousand of us want, if it isn't dry, and it isn't dry. Few of those who have the wonderful knowledge of what is going on have the gift of popular explanation--the gift of telling of it. Mr. Allen has that gift; the knowledge, the teaching grace, the popular faculty. Common Sense Science. By Grant Allen. 318 pages. Si.50. By no means a list of new-found facts; but the bearings of them on common subjects. We don't go on talking as if the earth were the centre of things, as if Galileo never lived. Huxley and Spencer have got to be heard. Shall we wait two-hundred-andfifty years? The book is simply an easy means of intelligence. Elizabeth P. Peabody, at the age of eighty-four years, has made a book of a number of essays, written during fifty years of a most productive life on subjects of lasting interest, published forgotten years ago in Emerson's Magazine, The Dial, Lowell's Pioneer, etc. Last Evening with Allston and Other Papers, 350 pages. $ 1.50. The wife of Fremont, the Pathfinder of forty years ago and almost President thirty years ago, has written a bookful of reminiscences. Souvenirs of My Time. By Jessie Benton Fremont. 393 pages. $1.50. Mrs. Fremont has long been known as a brilliant converserand story-teller. Her later years have been given to making books; and the books have the freshness and sparkle of youth. A writer who keeps his name to himself had been telling his children what heraldry had to do with our stars and stripes, with the seals of the United States and of the States themselves. "It occurred to him "--what are we not indebted to children for nowadays?--"that heraldry, brilliant with memories...