presents
The Outline of Knowledge
edited by James A. Richards
This is a 20-volume collection of encyclopedic information
edited by James A. Richards and published in 1924.
Below we link to scans of these volumes at HathiTrust and Google Books.
Please let us know if any of the links do not work for you, or if you
know of better online copies.
- Volume I: The Romance of Evolution by Frederick H. Martens
(HathiTrust)
- Volume II: The Story of Religion and Philosophic Thought; The Personal Romance of History
(Google Books)
- Volume III: The Romance of the Arts by Frederick H. Martens
(Google Books)
- Volume IV: The History of the World [to the end of the Middle Ages] by Arthur Donald Innes
(Google Books)
- Volume V: The History of the World [from the end of the Middle Ages to the 1850s] by Arthur Donald Innes
(HathiTrust)
- Volume VI: Geology;
Biology;
Zoology
(Google Books)
- Volume VII: Botany;
Astronomy;
Atoms, Molecules, and Electrons
(HathiTrust)
- Volume VIII: Chemistry;
Physics;
Electricity;
Medicine;
Mathematics
(HathiTrust)
- Volume IX: Sacred Writings
(Google Books)
- Volume X: The Book of Good Manners;
Essays of Culture;
Physical Beauty;
Color Harmony and Design;
Sex;
Chesterfield's Letters
(Google Books)
- Volume XI: History of Literature;
English Poetry
(Google Books)
- Volume XII: English Poetry [continued]
(HathiTrust)
- Volume XIII: Philosophy
(HathiTrust)
- Volume XIV: Essays
(Google Books)
- Volume XV: Travel
(HathiTrust)
- Volume XVI: Herodotus;
Cicero;
Utopia;
Plutarch's Lives
(Google Books)
- Volume XVII: Drama
(HathiTrust)
- Volume XVIII: Shakespeare's Dramas;
Famous Orations
(Google Books)
- Volume XIX: Fables and Fairy Tales
(Google Books)
- Volume XX: The History of the World [from the 1850s];
The Romance of Money;
The Reader's Guide
(Google Books)
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