als._

The Contemporary Science Series will bring within general reach of the
English-speaking public the best that is known and thought in all
departments of modern scientific research. The influence of the scientific
spirit is now rapidly spreading in every field of human activity. Social
progress, it is felt, must be guided and accompanied by accurate
knowledge,--knowledge which is, in many departments, not yet open to the
English reader. In the Contemporary Science Series all the questions of
modern life--the various social and politico-economical problems of
to-day, the most recent researches in the knowledge of man, the past and
present experiences of the race, and the nature of its environment--will
be frankly investigated and clearly presented.

The first volumes of the Series will be:--

THE EVOLUTION OF SEX. By Prof. PATRICK GEDDES and J. ARTHUR THOMSON. With
90 Illustrations, and about 300 pages. [_Now Ready._

ELECTRICITY IN MODERN LIFE. BY G. W. DE TUNZELMANN. With 88 Illustrations.
[_Ready 25th November._

THE ORIGIN OF THE ARYANS. By Dr. _Isaac Taylor_. With numerous
Illustrations. [_Ready 25th December._

The following Writers, among others, are preparing volumes for this
Series:--

Prof. E. D. Cope, Prof. G. F. Fitzgerald, Prof. J. Geikie, G. L. Gomme, E.
C. K. Gonner, Prof. J. Jastrow (Wisconsin), E. Sidney Hartland, Prof. C.
H. Herford, J. Bland Sutton, Dr. C. Merrier, Sidney Webb, Dr. Sims
Woodhead, Dr. C. M. Woodward (St. Louis, Mo.), etc.

LONDON: WALTER SCOTT, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row.

_Crown 8vo, about 350 pp. each, Cloth Cover, 2s. 6d. per vol.
Half-polished Morocco, gilt top, 5s._

COUNT TOLSTOI'S WORKS.

Arrangements have been made to publish, in Monthly Volumes, a series of
translations of works by the eminent Russian Novelist, Count Lyof. N.
Tolstoi. The English reading public will be introduced to an entirely new
series of works by one who is probably the greatest living master of
fiction in Europe. To those unfamiliar with the charm of Russian fiction,
and especially with the works of Count Tolstoi, these volumes will come as
a new revelation of power.

_The following Volumes are already issued_--

A RUSSIAN PROPRIETOR.
THE COSSACKS.
IVAN ILYITCH, AND OTHER STORIES.
THE INVADERS, AND OTHER STORIES.
MY RELIGION.
LIFE.
MY CONFESSION.
CHILDHOOD, BOYHOOD, YOUTH.
THE PHYSIOLOGY OF WAR.
ANNA KARENINA. (2 Vols.)
WHAT TO DO?
WAR AND PEAC