Title: A century of science, and other essays /
Authors: Fiske, John, 1842-1901.
Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin,
Year: 1899
Subjects: Youmans, Edward Livingston,; Vane, Henry,; Parkman, Francis,; Freeman, Edward A.; Shakespeare, William, Authorship.; Cook, Joseph,; Science History; Evolution; Arbitration (International law); Folklore Ireland; Science history; Cambridge (Mass.) Description and travel.
Contents: Century of science -- Doctrine of evolution; its scope and purport -- Edward Livingston Youmans -- Part played by infancy in the evolution of man -- Origins of liberal thought in America -- Sir Harry Vane -- Arbitration treaty -- Francis Parkman -- Edward Augustus Freeman -- Cambridge as village and city -- Harvest of Irish folk-lore -- Guessing at half and multiplying by two -- Forty-years of Bacon-Shakespeare folly -- Some cranks and their crochets.