THE CRITICAL PERIOD OF AMERICAN HISTORY. 1783-1789.

With Map, Notes, etc.  Crown 8vo, $2.00.

The author combines in an unusual degree the impartiality of the trained scholar with the fervor of the interested narrator....  The volume should be in every library in the land.—­The Congregationalist (Boston).

An admirable book....  Mr. Fiske has a great talent for making history interesting to the general reader.—­New York Times.

THE BEGINNINGS OF NEW ENGLAND;

Or, the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty.  Crown 8vo, $2.00.

It deals with the early colonial history of New England in the entertaining and vivid style which has marked all of Mr. Fiske’s writings on American history, and it is distinguished, like them, by its aggressive patriotism and its justice to all parties in controversy....  The whole book is novel and fresh in treatment, philosophical and wise, and will not be laid down till one has read the last page, and remains impatient for what is still to come.—­Boston Post.

THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE.

In Riverside Library for Young People.  With Maps. 16mo, 75 cents.

John Fiske’s “War of Independence” is a miracle....  A book brilliant and effective beyond measure....  It is a statement that every child can comprehend, but that only a man of consummate genius could have written.—­Mrs. CAROLINE H. DALL, in the Springfield Republican.

The story of the Revolution, as Mr. Fiske tells it, is one of surpassing interest.  His treatment is a marvel of clearness and comprehensiveness; discarding non-essential details, he selects with a fine historic instinct the main currents of history, traces them with the utmost precision, and tells the whole story in a masterly fashion.  His little volume will be a text-book for older quite as much as for young readers.—­Christian Union (New York).

OUTLINES OF COSMIC PHILOSOPHY

Based on the Doctrine of Evolution, with Criticisms on the Positive Philosophy.  In two volumes. 8vo, $6.00.

“You must allow me to thank you for the very great interest with which I have at last slowly read the whole of your work....  I never in my life read so lucid an expositor (and therefore thinker) as you are; and I think that I understand nearly the whole, though perhaps less clearly about cosmic theism and causation than other parts.  It is hopeless to attempt out of so much to specify what has interested me most, and probably you would not care to hear.  It pleased me to find that here and there I had arrived, from my own crude thoughts, at some of the same conclusions with you, though I could seldom or never have given my reasons for such conclusions.”—­CHARLES DARWIN.