A century of science and other essays,

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.