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tarian and a Socialist. "Science and Revolution" is an essential link in the chain of evidence proving that conclusions drawn by Socialists from the facts of science.

5. The Triumph of Life. By Wilhelm Boelsche. Translated by May Wood Simons. Cloth, 50 cents.

The German critics agree that this book is even more interesting than "The Evolution of Man," by the same author. It tells of the struggle of life against its physical environment, and introduces a wealth of scientific detail charming set forth. The German original contains no illustrations, but our edition is fully illustrated with pictures that aid materially in an understanding of the text.

A study of how life begins and how it ends. It does not duplicate any other book in this series, but is a special investigation into the laws which govern the reproduction of life. It also deals with the methods by which the life of each separate individual is brought to an end, and shows that in an overwhelming majority of cases throughout the whole animal kingdom death is violent rather than "natural." Even among human beings a really "natural" death is rare. The author suggests that with improved conditions of living, most premature deaths may be prevented, and that in that event the fear of death, which causes so much of the misery of the world, may disappear.

7. The Making of the World. By Dr. M. Wilhelm Meyer. Translated by Ernest Untermann. Cloth, 50 cents.
This is a companion volume to "The End of the World," and traces the processes through which new suns and new worlds come into being to take the place of those that have grown old and died. It is an essential link in the chain of evidence proving that the human mind is not something apart from nature but only another manifestation of the one force that pervades all "matter." The book has twenty-four