The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-08-13
HOME UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.

From Henry Holt and Company. New
York. we have FIVE more volumes OF the
Home University Library series, ten OF
which have been reviewed recently IN
these columns. The volumes now re-
ceived are as follows:
The Science of Wealth. by ]. A. Hob
son, an experienced and able writer on
economic subjects. This volume con-
tains n study Of the structure and work
ing OF the modern business world in
which wealth is made and distributed
as income to those who have made IT,
or can lawfully get hold of it. II de-
scr,bes the ways in which the productive
powers of labor. ability. land, capital,
and society, rs we'll as movements OF
migration. are applied in the various
trades, arts, and provisions for the pro-
duction Of material goods and services,
and the ways in which the payment of
this work are regulated and carried out.
The chapter titles are; 1'Thc Meaning
of Wenlth;' "The Business and the
Trade;'' "The Industrial System:
IS How the Industrial System Works;
"Costs and Surplus;' Unproduetive
Surplus; - 1sWagcs; /" "Profts; - lex.
change and Prices" 'sDcmand and
Supply" 1.-The Labor Movement and
State Socialism; "Foreign Trade;
"Human Values. - Under every title
the author has shown his fitness and
high ability to deal with the subject
treated; and the book rs whole is one
of trst-elass Importance.
The next volume. No. 12 in the series,
is "'The Animal World, by f, w.
Gamble. T. r. s., Professor OF Zoology
in the University of Birmingham, with
introduction by Sir Oliver Lodge, i. X.
S. In this work we find described the
structure and classification of animals,
the movements, succession, and dlstrlbu-
tion of animals; the quest for food; how
animals breathe; the colors of animals;
the senses of animals; their societies
and associations; the care Of the young;
life-histories of animals; heredlty and
variation. There is also a glossary
index aad photography. The work is IL
lustrated. and is one of high value.
Mediaeyal Europe, by Fl. w c. Davis,
is No. l3 in the series, The author is
known from his previous historical stud
les and publications, and in this work
he does full Justice to his high reputa-
ton He tells here of the fall of the
Roman Empire; OF the Barbarian king
doms which succeeded; of the empire
and the new monarchics; of feudalism.
of the Papacy before Gregory VII; OF
the Hildebrandine Church; of the me
diaeval state; of the expansion of Eu-
rope and the crusades. and of the free
towns. There lis a note also on books;
and there are maps of the barbarian
kingdoms, of the FrankIsh empire, of
France, of the Holy Roman empire, of
the crusadcs, and of the Alps and North
Italy 1t is work that can be unre
servedly commended TO the general read
or. as well rs to the student.
Evolution. by Patrick Geddes and j.
Arthur Thomson. is No. ii in the series.
The Introduction describes very fully
authors in writing this book. and their
methods of procedure, They give the
subject successive ard scquential treat"
ment under the following chapter titles:
Evidence of Evolution from Explorer
and Paleontologist; A" Evidences of
Evolution from Anatomist. Embryolo-
gist and Physioloeist; - "Great Steps
in Evolution" " Variation and Hered-
itv; - Selcction:' "Oreanism, Fnnc,
Theories in their Social Origins and
Intor-Actions; NtThe Evolution Pro-
cess Once More Reinterprcted. Each
division of the subject is fully and lu
cidlv treated so that no one can read
without receiving instruction and ex-
panslon of mind. a valuable bibliog-
raphy at the end of the work shows
The sources from which the material has
been drawn. It is highly satisfactory
and valuable work
An Introduction TO Mathematics. by
\. n. Whitehead, is No. II Of the series.
The author has heretofore given to the
public n work of great erudition and
Instructive purpose in his q Universal
Algebra Tn this book we have re-
view Of mathematics in general from
the elementary principles to the higher
branches. There is discussion of the
abstract nature of mathematics, and of
the different forms in which mathe.
mntical processes are presented, the
Formulas and diagrams are clear and
exact, and in every process the author g
thorough command Of his subject is
evident. and it is evident also that he
has mastery of the subject far beyond
the limits TO which he traces it and its
various subdivisions in the present
work The mathematical student is Ger.
tain TO receive benefit from the perusal
of this work.