The work of the Open Court Publishing Co : an illustrated catalogue of its publications covering a period of twenty-one years (1887-1907) consisting of a complete book list with brief characterizatiion of authors and contents, including also a selection of noteworthy articles from the Monist and the Open court . by scholars and deepstudents for those who want the truth.—TJic Nautilus. Whoever is anxious to know how severed heads are made to talk, how bodiesare made to float in mid-air, how ghosts are made visible and incapable ofharm from sword thrust, and how bolts and handcuffs are laughed a


The work of the Open Court Publishing Co : an illustrated catalogue of its publications covering a period of twenty-one years (1887-1907) consisting of a complete book list with brief characterizatiion of authors and contents, including also a selection of noteworthy articles from the Monist and the Open court . by scholars and deepstudents for those who want the truth.—TJic Nautilus. Whoever is anxious to know how severed heads are made to talk, how bodiesare made to float in mid-air, how ghosts are made visible and incapable ofharm from sword thrust, and how bolts and handcuffs are laughed at, mayhopefully inquire within.—JVatchman, Boston, Mass. The Napoleon Myth. By Henry Ridgely Evans. Containing a reprint of TheGrand Erratum by Jean Baptiste Peres, and an Introduc-tion by Dr. Paul Carus. Illustrated. Pages, 75. cents net. (3s. 6d. net.) Concise, well studied in historical sources, and thoughtful in its estimate ofhuman credulity, the paper will not fail to interest any student of the originand growth of mythologies.—Scotsman. The whole is a summary of the results of higher criticism as applied to theNapoleon of the poptdar imagination.—Rcviciv of Rcvieivs. ARTICLE BY HENRY RIDGELY Blavatsky. Monist. Vol. XIV, p. 387. THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING CO., NAPOLEON ON THE BRIDGE OF Evanss Napoleon Myth, p. 42. THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING CO., CHICAGO. GUSTAV THEODOR FECHNER. (1801-1887.) PROFESSOR RJiCIIMiRS name is best in connectioniKith Fcchncrs Lcnc in the scic^nce of physics, ichich. is an applica-tion of IVchcrs laii for physical nieasnrenients. ^llthoui^h Profes-sor of physics he leas i^;v(///_v interesteil in psy^holoi^y and in therelation between the i:^o sciences, and became one of the foundersof the ne:< science of psychophysics based upon the obzious inter-rehition between sensation, and nerve-activity. lie was most at-tracted by those psycholoi::;icaI problems ichich deal with the re-ligious asp


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