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106 CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH
an honest hesitation in his manner that seems to admit the force of
the argument on the other side.
Both for the general reader and for the prospective candidate for a
Rhodes scholarship the present volume will be of value and interest.
The long first chapter, dealing with the life of Cecil Rhodes, is an excellent
bit of biography, and succeeding chapters (two of them, concerning
the more intimate details of the Oxford system, contributed
by F. J. Wylie) give a commendably clear and readable account of the
purpose of the foundation, the methods of its administration, and the
advantages offered by an Oxford course." Nation, 1913.
(Call number 378.4 P24)
The Home University Library of Modern Knowledge
Edited by Herbert Fisher, Gilbert Murray, and others
"This is a series of specially written books on subjects of importance
and interest in the chief departments of human learning. These
books are all of approximately uniform size (about 250 small pages)
and are sold at the uniform price of fifty cents per volume. Each volume
is complete in itself and is sold separately from others in the series
...The series is distributed among the fields of literature and art,
philosophy and religion, history, natural science, and social science.
The aim in each instance is to present the freshest information on each
subject and to ignore discarded theories and hypotheses that have been
found, as a result of modern research, to be clearly untenable. The
books are admirably adapted to the needs of men and women who have
not been able to specialize in particular fields of knowledge, but who
wish to obtain accurate and sound ideas of what has been found out
by the specialists. The series appeals less to the imaginative and
dramatic instincts of readers than to the sober, earnest desire for
knowledge that is often encountered in mature life. The volume on
Polar Exploration, for example, instead of giving a narrative of the
thrilling exploits of the various Arctic expeditions, summarizes, in a
graphic and useful way, the precise results of those expeditions in the
form of increased knowledge concerning the earth's surface, and the
. . .vegetable and animal life existing thereon.. .'The Home University
Library' is in no sense a reprint of classic texts. It is all new material,
and represents the latest research and the most critical thought of
those who are entitled to be regarded, by the English-speaking world
at least, as masters of their several specialties." Review of reviews, 1912.
The Library has the following of the volumes which have been
published in this series:
Religion. Philosophy. Ethics
The problems of philosophy, by Bertrand Russell 104 R9IP
Psychical reseach, by W. F. Barrett 134 B26