PACKARD'S (DR. A. S., Jr.) WORKS. Guide to the Study of Insects, and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to Crops. For the use of Colleges, Farm Schools, and Agriculturists. With fifteen plates and six hundred and seventy woodcuts. Sixth Edition. 8vo. $5.00.
"This introduction to the study of insects is designed to teach the beginner the elements of entomology, and to serve as a guide to the more elaborate treatises and memoirs which the advanced student may wish to consult."
"In order to make it of value to farmers and gardeners, whose need the writer has kept in view, and that it may be used as a text-book in our agricultural colleges, concise accounts have been given of insects, injurious or beneficial to vegetation, or those in any way affecting human interests."—Extract from Author's Preface.
Outlines of Comparative Embryology. Copiously illustrated. 8vo. $2.50.
"Must remain for many years the one standard work on the subject. . . . . Altogether it forms one of the most valuable works of science yet published in this country, and it is safe to say that no working naturalist can do without it."—Popular Science Monthly.
SUMNER'S (PROF. W. G.) HISTORY OF AMERICAN CURRENCY. With Chapters on the English Bank Restriction and Austrian Paper Money. To which is appended "The Bullion Report." Large 12mo. With diagrams. $3.00.
"A most valuable collection of facts, thoroughly digested and properly arranged. . . . The work is of great merit. . . . Pre-eminently a book for the times. . . . Terse and epigrammatic at times, his book has a freshness and vivacity rarely found in works of the kind."—Atlantic Monthly.
WALKER'S (F. A.) WORKS. Wages. A Treatise on Wages and the Wages Class. By Francis A. Walker, M.A., Ph.D. 8vo. 3.50.
"The most complete and exhaustive treatise on the wages question with which we are acquainted . . . the general correctness of its line of argument is in striking contrast to much that has been written on the subject, and especially to the similar work which in recent times has attracted most attention."—Nation.
"The subject, which is commonly reckoned dry and uninteresting, is treated in such a manner as to interest and entertain, as well as instruct the reader. The author has done a great deal of honest and conscientious work in the way of educating the people in political economy and the true principles of finance."—N. Y. Tribune.
Money. By Francis A. Walker. 8vo. $4.00.
"A real treasure house of information. . . . We do not recall the name of an author of any important contribution to the discussion of the laws of money who is not here briefly, but intelligently quoted. . . . The essential facts of monetary experience in every country are presented with sufficient fulness and with judicious mingling of authority on disputed points. The work will win a very honorable place for its author among the few who are advancing towards the mastery of a most difficult science."—N. Y. Tribune.
"The book will not only interest the reader, it will set him thinking for himself."—N. Y. World.
