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PROMPT SERVICE GUARANTEED. HALDEMAN-JULIUS PUBLICATIONS, DEPT. B-103, GIRARD, KANSAS 825,000 Words of Text! 3,488 Pages! 98 PAYMENT IN FULL A Complete List of All the Titles in the 60-Volume Educational Course IMPORTANT NOTE: These volumes are original, copyright works, available only in this series and prepared especially for the series of which they are a part. These 60 books must be.ordered as a set—the individual titles should not be ordered separately. ENGLISH (Grammar) 1. Common Faults in Writing Eng- lish. Containing Faults of Grammar, Miscellaneous Faults, Errors in the Use of Words and Index, 2. Spelling Self Taught. Contain- ing General Principles, Capital and Hyphen, Word Groups (with helpful rules), Word Building and Changing, etc. 3, Grammar Self Taught. Contain- ing the Parts of Speech, The Sentence. Parsing, etc. 4. Punctuation Self Taught. 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Contain- ing Music of the Ancients, Church Music, etc. BUSINESS (Commercial Subjects) 28. Outline of Economics (Wealth). Containing Machinery, Production, Industry, Exchange, Banks, Interest, Profits, Rent, Wages, Taxes, etc. 29. How Wall Street Works. How money is made in the buying and selling of stocks and bonds. 30. United States Commercial Ge- ography. 31. A Handbook of Commercial Law. Containing Contracts, Mort- gages, Real Estate, Insurance, etc. 32. How to Write Business Letters. Complete with samples. 33. Typewriting Self Taught. Ap- proved touch system, with exercises, diagram, etc. 34. How Properly. to Write Telegrams SCIENCE 35. Chemistry for Beginners. Con- taining the Elements, Atomic Weights, Valency, Periodic’ Law, Formulae, Organic and Inorganic Chemistry, etc. - 36. Physics Self Taught. Containing Gravitation, Inertia, Force, Motion. Heat, Light, Sound, Electricity and Magnetism. 37. Astronomy for Beginners. Con- taining the Solar System, the Sun, the Planets, the Moon, Comets, Stars, etc. 38. Psychology for Beginners. Con- taining the Mind, Subconscious, Will, Perception, Memory, etc. 39. The Riddle of Human Behavior. 40. Evolution Made Plain. The facts about the evolution of the earth and life upon it. 41. Great Men of Science. 42. Facts You Should Know About Animal Life (Introduction of Zoology). Containing the Classification of the Animal Kingdom. 43. Manual Training: Elements of Woodworking. X MATHEMATICS 44. Elementary Plane Geometry Self Taught. Complete with theorems, problems, diagrams, etc. 45. Curiosities of Mathematics. Con- taining Squaring of Circle, Pi, Trisec- tion of an Angle, Compound Interest, Prime Number, etc. 46. Arithmetic Self Taught (Part I). Containing Numeration and Notation, Addition, Multiplication, Subtraction, Division, Factoring and Cancellation, Fractions, Decimals, Percentage, Aver- ages, Ratio and Proportion, with Exercises. 47. 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