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THE
Alden Catalogue
OF
CHOICE BOOKS.

May 30, 1889.
_Superseding all previous dates._

WATCH-WORDS of the REVOLUTION:

Give the best book for the least money possible.

1,000,000 books, profit 1 cent each—$10,000, but 1,000 books, profit
$1.00 each—$1,000 only.

Publish books, only, that DESERVE to sell—merit wins in the end.

To make $1.00 and a friend is better than $5.00 profit.

“Push things” and “Fight it out on this line.”—U. S. Grant.

TERMS, FREIGHT, POSTAGE, ETC.

Prices Include cost of prepaying transportation by mail or express, unless “at store” is specified. Formerly, prices were at store, always, cost of transportation being added. The change is one of convenience rather than of increase or of decrease, but on many books there is a substantial reduction in price.

Stockholders or Bondholders of the Alden Publishing Co. are allowed a _reduction_ from Catalogue prices of the amount indicated by the figures in parenthesis; for instance: Alden’s Manifold Cyclopedia, per volume, cloth 60c. (20c.) means 40 cents net to Stockholders. To avoid possible misunderstanding, orders at _Stockholders’ prices must invariably_ be accompanied by remittance, and by _Coupon_ or a _Certificate_ which is supplied to Stockholders for that purpose. Terms for Stock will be found elsewhere under the head of “Co-operative Publishing;” terms for Bonds will be seen by copy of the Bond itself elsewhere printed.

John B. Alden, Publisher,
THE ALDEN PUBLISHING CO., Proprietors.
NEW YORK, 393 Pearl Street. P. O. Box 1227.

_CHICAGO_, 242 Wabash Avenue.

_PHILADELPHIA_, 13 South 9th Street.

_ATLANTA_, 6 Whitehall Street.

_TORONTO_, 30 Adelaide Street, East.

Co-operative Publishing.

The Alden Publishing Co. was organized June 1888 with a view, on the part of its promoters, to consolidating and strengthening various interests which had previously been allied, but independent, and of introducing to the fullest practicable extent the principle of _co-operation_ for the _benefit of buyers_ of books. The amount of capital paid up Feb. 4, 1889, was $61,167.00. A dividend of _five per cent._ was paid Dec. 20, 1888. The business is recently growing very rapidly, and the prospects are extremely encouraging.

The Alden Publishing Co.

The Company was incorporated June, 1888; authorized capital $500,000: shares $1.00 each. The capital stock of the Company is sold at par for cash, in lots of not less than five shares, and is _NOT_ assessible, and there is absolutely no liability to stockholders whose shares are fully paid for, under any circumstances, other than the liability for salaries of employes, which is common to, we believe, all of the States, and is practically no liability, salaries being paid weekly or fortnightly.

_All dividends_ will be paid _in cash_, but each Stockholder will be allowed the privilege of taking instead of cash any books sold by the Company to the amount of the dividend, at special reduced prices to stockholders, which makes the dividend _equivalent to about 16 per cent_. _Prices to Stockholders_ are the regular prices _reduced_ by the amount indicated by the figures in parenthesis immediately following the Catalogue price.

Stockholders have the privilege of purchasing at any time any books sold by the Company at a small advance upon the cost, this privilege being limited in amount to a sum not exceeding, in any one year, the par value of the Stock owned by the purchaser. For prices to stockholders, see catalogue.

Some limitation is, obviously, necessary; otherwise any one at enmity with the enterprise, might, on an investment of $10.00, purchase an unlimited quantity of books at reduced prices, and undersell us with our own customers. The privilege is open to Stockholders immediately upon investment being made.

What lover of good books can not afford to take at least _ten shares_? How many friends might, with advantage, take a hundred, or more shares? A million dollars capital would not suffice to manufacture the books our patrons are urgently calling for: we are doing now an immense business for the amount of our capital, which business will be increased as our resources are enlarged.

76 Per Cent. Annual Dividends!

_The Literary Revolution_ has never assumed to furnish books at a price below what would permit a fair profit, nor has it ever solicited investments on the basis of expectation of fabulous returns. The facts are simple, and the opportunities offered are based on common sense. If you invest $10.00 you have reasonable expectation of not less than 10 per cent. annual dividend, but as a Stockholder you also have the opportunity of purchasing with your dividend books at a price below what they would cost one _NOT_ a Stockholder—that makes your dividend equal to about _16 per cent_. Again, you, as a Stockholder, are allowed the opportunity of purchasing, _if you want them_, during each year, books at _special prices_ to an amount not greater than the par value of your Stock which, as will be seen from the list of prices to Stockholders, average (on our own publications) about _40 per cent._ below what the same books would cost one not a Stockholder. In other words, you can buy $16.00 worth of books for about $10.00, thus saving $6.00, which is equal to 60 per cent. on your $10.00 stock, which, added to 16 per cent. dividend, makes practically _76 per cent._ per annum on your investment. If you own $100.00 or more Stock you have similar privileges to the larger amount—if you don’t want so many books for your own use you can accommodate your friends or you can sell the books at a profit.

Literary Revolution Savings-Bonds.

To meet the convenience of friends of the enterprise who hesitate to make an investment of a character so permanent as in the Capital Stock of the Company, a _Savings-Bond_ is now issued, payable three months, six months or twelve months from its date, which affords every facility given by the ownership of Stock, but pays approximately _60 per cent._ per annum, instead of 76 per cent. A copy of the Bond, elsewhere, gives full particulars.

Remittances may be addressed to John B. Alden, or to

THE ALDEN PUBLISHING COMPANY,
_393 Pearl Street, New York_, or any Branch Office.

Alphabetical Catalogue.

Æsop’s Fables, complete, illustrated. Ideal Edition, cloth, 25c. (6c),

*Abbott, Jacob. Rollo’s Tour in Europe. 10 vols., ill., 16mo, $10.00,
reduced to $5.60 (50c)

—*The Florence Stories. 6 vols., 12mo, ill., $5.00, reduced to $3.50
(50c)

A’Kempis. Imitation of Christ, The. By Thomas A’Kempis. 12mo, cloth,
45c. (10c);

Alden’s Illustrated Juveniles.

Alden. Stories and Ballads for Young Folks. By Ellen Tracy Alden,
Illustrated, cl., 45c. (15c);

Alden’s Juvenile Story Book. 12mo, 302 pages, illustrated, fine cloth,
ornamented, 45c. (15c);

—Juvenile Gems of Song and Story. Ideal Edition, extra cloth,
ornamented, red edges, 45c. (15c);

—Juvenile Book of Knowledge, illustrated, 12mo, cloth, ornamented, 45c.
(15c);

Alden’s Home and Handy Atlas.

Alden’s Home Atlas of the World. In one large quarto vol. 11x14 inches
in size, containing 112 pages of handsomely engraved and colored maps.
Also an index of over 5,000 cities, rivers, mountains, etc. throughout
the world, showing exact location. Cloth, $2.25 (80c); Agents Wanted.

Alden’s Handy Atlas of the World. 133 colored maps, diagrams, tables,
etc. Price, 30c. (8c);

Alden’s Manifold Cyclopedia.

Alden’s Manifold Cyclopedia of Knowledge and Language is publishing in
30 or more volumes, with thousands of illustrations. Ideal Edition,
about 640 pages each, Brevier type. Price per vol., cloth, 60c. (20c);
half Morocco, marbled edges, 75c. (25c). A specimen vol. may be
ordered and returned if not wanted. _sixteen vols. now ready._ Volumes
issued at intervals of about one month. Price of the sixteen vols.,
cloth, for cash received before July 1, 1889. $8.00 For half Morocco,
add 15 cents a volume. AGENTS WANTED.

Alden’s Literary Cyclopedia.

Alden’s Cyclopedia of Universal Literature is publishing in volumes of
about 500 pages each. Ideal Edition, large type. It will be completed
in not less than 15 nor more than 20 volumes, issued at intervals.
Price per volume, cloth, gilt top, 60c. (20c); half Morocco, 70c.
(25c). A specimen volume may be ordered and returned if not wanted.
_13 vols., now ready._ Price of the first 18 vols., cloth, for cash
received before July 1, 1889, $6.50 For half Morocco, add 10 cents a
volume. AGENTS WANTED.

Alden’s “New” Ideal Revolver.

Alden’s Ideal Revolving Book-Case, No. 3. Has four shelves, adjustable,
giving 136 inches of shelf room, size of case 19 inches wide, 12
inches deep, 48 inches high, or four feet, including the base. Is made
of perfectly kiln-dried cherry birch, with birds-eye maple panels;
hand carved; built on ingenious but simple interlocking principles,
doing away, mainly, with screws, nails or glue; may be knocked down
and set up again in five minutes; price $10.00 at store.

No. 4, similar to No. 3, but without the birds-eye panels, and “solid”
instead of “knock down,” price $8.00 at store.

Allen, History and Mystery of Common Things. By W. C. Allen. 12mo,
cloth, 50c. (15c);

Allerton, Poems of the Prairies. By Ellen P. Allerton. Ideal Edition,
cl. gilt top, 60c. (25c);

American Humorists—American Patriotism.

American Humorists. Sketches, with illustrative specimens, of the six
most famous of American humorous writers, Irving, Holmes, Lowell,
Artemus Ward, Mark Twain, and Bret Harte. By H. R. Haweis. Elzevir
Edition, cloth; price reduced from $2.00 to 25c. (9c);

American Patriotism. Famous Orations and Patriotic Papers connected with
American History. Compiled by S. H. Peabody, President of the
University of Illinois. 12mo, 681 pages, Brevier type, half Morocco,
marbled edges. 85c. (25c);

Greek and Roman Classics, in English.

Ancient Classics for English readers. The volumes contain about 200
pages each, Brevier type, leaded, and are sold separately, in paper,
at _10c._; cloth, 25c. (6c). Also bound three volumes in one, arranged
in the order given below. Price per volume, half Russia, 60c. (17c);
per set of 6 volumes, _$2.85_ (70c). 1. Cæsar; 2. Herodotus; 3.
Cicero; 4. Demosthenes; 5. Aristotle; 6. Plato; 7. Horace; 8. Juvenal;
9. Tacitus; 10. Virgil; 11. Homer’s Iliad; 12. Homer’s Odyssey; 13.
Xenophon; 14. Æschylus; 15. Sophocles; 16. Pliny; 17. Aristophanes;
18. Greek Anthology; 19. Euripides; 20. Livy; 21. Ovid; 22;
Thucydides; 23. Lucian; 24. Plautus and Terrence; 25. Lucretius; 26.
Pindar; 27. Hesiod and Theognis. Volumes numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 cannot be supplied in half Russia. Nos. 6 and
10 cannot be supplied in paper.

Marcus Aurelius, Emperor.

Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius. The Thoughts of, translated by George Long,
with a sketch of his Life and a view of his Philosophy. Ideal Edition,
cloth, 30c. (7c)

Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. Large 12mo, cloth, 30c. (7c)

Argyll, Arnold, Bacon, Locke.

Argyll; The Unity of Nature. 12mo, 354 pages, Long Primer type, leaded,
cloth, 75c. (25c)

—Primeval Man. Uniform with The Reign of Law. Cloth; price reduced from
$1.50 to 40c. (15c)

Arnold. Light of Asia, by Edwin Arnold, cloth, 30c. (7c)

—Indian Song of Songs, by Edwin Arnold, cloth, 25c. (6c)

—Pearls of the Faith, by Edwin Arnold, cloth, 25c. (6c)

*Arthur. Home Stories. By T. S. Arthur, 6 vols., ills., 16mo, cloth, per
set, $3.40 (50c)

1. Sunshine at Home.

2. Hidden Wings.

3. Sowing the Wind.

4. Not Anything, or Peace.

5. The Peacemaker.

6. After a Shadow.

Bacon’s Essays. With notes of Devey. Elzevir Ed., cloth. 3Oc. (10c)

Bacon’s Essays, and Locke on the Understanding, in one vol. half Russia,
45c. (15c)

Baldwin. Maurice Rossman’s Leading. A Novel. By Mary R. Baldwin, 12mo,
cloth, 60c.

Baring-Gould. Curious Myths of the Middle Ages. By S. Baring-Gould.
Elzevir Ed., cloth, 40c. (15c)

—Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets. By S. Baring-Gould. Elzevir
Ed., cloth. 50c. (15c)

Beecher, Beckford, Birrell.

Beckford. Vathek. By Wm. Beckford. Ideal Edition, Small Pica type,
cloth, 30c. (10c)

Beecher, Henry Ward. Lectures to Young Men. A new and handsome edition,
large type, large 12mo, cloth, gilt top. Price reduced from $1.50 to
60c. (20c)

Bernard. Civil Service Reform. By Geo. S. Bernard. Ideal Ed., cloth,
30c.

Birrell. Obiter Dicta. By Augustine Birrell. Ideal Ed., cl., 30c. (7c);
half Mo., 45c. (12c)

Book-Lover’s Rosary. Elzevir Edition, gilt edges, ornamented, 30c. (10c)

*Book of the Ocean, and Life on the Sea. Thrilling adventures of ocean
life. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, 672 pages, $1.25, reduced to 80c.
(15c)

Berkowitz. Judaism on the Social Question. By Rabbi H. Berkowitz, D.D.
Ideal Ed., cl., 60c. (20c)

Boswell, Bronte, Bryant, Buffon.

Boswell’s Life of Johnson. Croker’s Edition, in 4 volumes, large 12mo,
cloth, $2.75 ($1.25)

Brooklyn Bridge, Orations at opening, by Hewitt and Dr. R. S. Storrs,
cloth, 25c. (10c)

Bronte. Jane Eyre. By Charlotte Bronte, 12mo, cloth, 30c. (6c)

Brown. A Sea-Island Romance. By William Perry Brown, 12mo, cloth, 60c.
(20c)

Bryant’s Poems. Ideal Edition, cloth, 3Oc. (7c)

Buffon’s Natural History. Large 12mo, 588 pages, numerous illustrations,
Cloth. 60c. (20c)

Bulwer’s Wit and Wisdom. Compiled by Callie L. Bonney, 12mo, cloth, 60c.
(20c)

Bunyan, Burke, Burns.

Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. New Ideal Edition; cloth, 20c. (4c)

Burke on the Sublime and Beautiful. New Ideal Edition, Long Primer type,
cloth, 30c. (10c)

Burns, Robert: Poetical Works. Elzevir Edition, complete in three
volumes, of 353, 330 and 356 pages. Bourgeois type, leaded. The set,
fine cloth, $1.40 (45c); full Russia, gilt edges, $2.25 (60c)

—The same complete in one volume, large octavo, large type, 65c. (15c);

Caesar, Life of. By Liddell. Ideal Edition, Long Primer type, cloth,
25c. (7c)

Calhoun, Life of John C. Calhoun, by Jenkins. Large 12mo, 454 pages.
Cloth, price 60c. (17c)

Campbell’s Interest Tables. 16mo, cloth, price reduced from $2.50 to
60c. (25c) Showing interest on any sum from $1.00 to $10,000 at 3, 7,
8, 9 and 10 per cent. Also Time Table, etc.

Carlyle’s Choice Works—Cheap.

Carlyle. Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History. By Thomas
Carlyle. Ideal edition Brevier type; cloth, 30c. (11c)

—Popular Works. French Revolution, Elzevir Edition, Brevier type,
leaded, 2 volumes, cloth $1.00 (30c) Past and Present, 12mo, cloth,
40c. (10c)

Carlyle—A Fine Edition.

—Essays. Containing Portraits of John Knox: Signs of the Times; Jean
Paul Friedrich Richter, again; Schiller; Characteristics, and Other
Essays. Price $1.00 (20c)

—Essays: Goethe, Burns, Scott, and other Essays. $1.00 (20c)

—Heroes, Early Kings of Norway, etc. Containing Early Kings of Norway;
Heroes and Hero Worship; Life of Heyne; Jean Paul Richter: Chartism.
Price $1.00 (20c)

—Sartor Resartus; Past and Present, etc., $1.00 (20)

—Life of Frederick the Great. 4 vols., $4.50 ($1.00)

—Life of Cromwell, and of John Sterling; 2 vols. $2.25 (50c)

The Faith Cure.

Carter. Divine Healing: or, The Atonement for Sin and Sickness. By Capt.
R. Kelso Carter. Small quarto. Small Pica type, paper, 25c. (10c),
cloth, 60c. (20c)

*Chambers’s Encyclopedia, edition of 1885. Nearly 13,000 pages. With
revised American statistics. Containing 27,000 distinct Articles and
index to 17,000 incidentally mentioned subjects. 12 vols. Crown, 8vo,
nonpariel type, $18.00, reduced to $8.00 ($1.50); _at store_

—Chambers’s English Literature. Edited by Robert Chambers, LL.D.,
revised by Robert Caruthers, LL.D. 8 vols. in 4, cloth, $2.50 (70c)

Charles. The Schonberg-Cotta Family. Small quarto. Paper _15c._ (7c);
cloth, 30c. (10c)

*Chavasse. Advice to a Wife. By Henry P. Chavasse. 16mo, cloth, 75c.
(15c)

—*Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children. 16mo, cloth,
75c. (15c)

Chinese Classics. The works of Confucius and Mencius. Translated by
James Legge, D.D. Library Ed., Pica type, small octavo, cloth, 85c.
(35c)

The Great Classics, for Young Folks.

*Church, Alfred J. Stories from the Classics. Each 1 vol., 12mo, cloth,
$1.50, reduced to 75c. (25c)

Stories from Homer,

Stories of Virgil,

Stories from the Greek Tragedians,

Roman Life in the Days of Cicero,

Stories from Livy,

Stories of the Persian War from Herodotus,

Two Thousand Years Ago; or the Adventures of a Roman Boy,

Stories from Herodotus,

Classic Comedies. Goldsmith, Sheridan and Jonson. Ideal Ed., cloth, 50c.
(15c)

Classic Poems, Ideal Edition, Cheap.

Classic Poems, first series. Ideal Edition. 364 pages, large type,
cloth, 45c. (14c), half Mco. 60c. (15c)

Classic Poems, second series. Ideal Edition, 445 pages, cloth, 45c.
(14c), half Mco. 60c. (15c)

First Series: Oliver Goldsmith, Robert Burns, George Eliot, Jean
Ingelow, Schiller, Alfred Tennyson, Campbell, Coleridge, Macaulay,
Aytoun, Edgar A. Poe, Goethe.

Second Series: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Southey, De
Morlaix, Keats, Shelley, Matthew Arnold, Chaucer, Hood, Cowper, Gray,
Addison, Spenser, Richard H. Dana.

Cooper, Peter. Life of, by C. Edwards Lester, cloth. 25c. (8c)

Cooper. The Last of the Mohicans. By J. Fennimore Cooper. 12mo, cloth,
35c.

Cottin. Elizabeth; or, the Exiles of Siberia. By Madame Cottin. Ideal
Ed., 7c.; cl., 25c. (7c)

The Kalevala—A Great Literary Discovery.

Crawford. The Kalevala. The National Epic Poem of the Finlanders.
Translated into English Verse, by Dr. John Martin Crawford. In two
volumes, small octavo, Small Pica type, leaded, cloth, gilt top, $2.25
(75c); half Morocco, $2.75 (85c); in one volume cl., gilt top, $1.70
(60c)

Cromwell, Life of. By Lamartine. Ideal Edition, paper, _8c._, post-paid;
cloth, 25c. (7c)

*Cruden’s Concordance to the Holy Bible. _Unabridged._ 872 three-column
pages, imperial octavo, bound in cloth, price $1.50, reduced to $1.10
(20c)

The Lamplighter.

Cummins. The Lamplighter. A Novel, by Maria S. Cummins. New Edition.
Cloth, _50c._ (20c)

Curtis. The Fate of a Fool. By Emma Ghent Curtis. 12mo, cloth, 60c.
(20c)

Dante’s Divine Comedy, The Story of. By Harriette R. Shattuck. Ideal
Ed., cloth. 20c. (4c)

*D’Aubigne. History of the Reformation. By J. H. Merle D’Aubigne, D.D.
With about 200 wood engravings. 727 large double-column pages, $3.00,
reduced to $1.75 (60c)

Daudet’s Great Satirical Novel.

Daudet. The Immortal. By Alphonse Daudet. 12mo, cloth. 60c. (20c)

Davidson. The Poetry of the Future. By Jas. Wood Davidson. Elzevir Ed.,
cl., gilt top, _60c._ (25c)

Dawson’s Story of Earth and Man.

Dawson. The Story of the Earth and Man. By Sir John W. Dawson. Small
quarto, cloth, illust., price reduced from $1.50 to 50c. (20c) Cheap
edition in paper, without illust., _15c._ (4c)

De Foe: Robinson Crusoe. 12mo, cloth, 30c. (7c)

De Stael. Corinne. A Novel. By Madam De Stael, 12mo, cloth, 30c. (9c)

De Quincey: Confessions of an Opium-Eater. Elzevir Ed., cloth, 25c. (7c)

The “Boz” Dickens—$3.00!

*Dickens. Charles Dickens’ Complete Works, “Boz” Edition, in six vols.,
small 8vo, good type, with numerous illus., well printed on fair
paper, cl., $3.00 (75c)

—Illustrated Edition of the works of Charles Dickens, published in small
octavo volumes, fine cloth, gilt tops, far superior in quality to any
“cheap” edition in the market. Closing out at _50c._ (10c) per volume,
1. Pickwick; 2. Oliver Twist, Pictures from Italy, and American Notes;
3. Old Curiosity Shop and Hard Times; 4. Great Expectations; 5.
Barnaby Rudge; 6. Child’s England.

Dickens’ Works. Caxton illustrated edition; per vol., cloth. _40c._
(10c) 1. Pickwick Papers; 2. Martin Chuzzlewit; 3. Child’s History of
England; 4. Little Dorrit.

Dickens. Three Christmas Stories, Carol, Chimes and Cricket. Cloth, 30c.
(11c)

Donohue. Idyls of Israel and other Poems. By D. J. Donohue. 16mo, cloth,
gilt top, _80c._ (30c).

The Famous Dore Galleries.

Dore Bible Gallery. Containing one hundred superb illustrations and a
page of explanatory text facing each. Large quarto (10x12 inches),
cloth, ornamented, price $1.80 (50c) In full Morocco, $7.00; $3.50
(75c)

*Dore: Paradise Lost. By John Milton. With the celebrated illustrations
of Gustave Doré, fifty in number, size 10x12 inches. The whole richly
bound, extra cloth, beveled boards, gilt edges, gold title and
ornamentation, $1.80 (50c) In full Morocco, $7.00; $3.50 (75c)

—*Dante. Inferno. Translated by Carey. Portrait and 75 full-page
engravings from designs by Doré. Cheap edition, cloth, $4.00; $1.80
(30c) In full Morocco, $7.00; $3.50 (75c)

Douglas. Strange Threads. A Novel. By J. Douglas. 12mo, cloth, 60c.
(15c)

Drake. The Indians of North America. By S. G. Drake. 800 pp., 8vo,
cloth, $1.25 (40c)

Drisler. Seven Infelicities and One Felicity. A Humorous Story. By Mary
Drisler. Paper, _5c._

Drummond’s Natural Law.

Drummond: Natural Law in the Spiritual World. New Edition, cloth, 12mo,
50c. (15c)

—The same. Cheap Edition, cloth, 30c. (9c)

George Eliot’s Works.

*Eliot. George Eliot’s Complete Works, popular edition, eight vols.,
12mo, cl. $3.75 (60c)

—*Eliot, George, complete works, a fine library edition, in 8 vols.,
large 12mo, elegantly bound in half Russia, $5.75 ($1.00)

—Eliot, George, Works of. Small octavo edition, cloth, gilt top. Per
vol. 60c. (10c); 1. Felix Holt, and Poems; 2. Adam Bede.

—Essays and Leaves from a Note Book. Caxton ed. 40c. (15c)

Eliot, George: Silas Marner. Small Pica type, small quarto, paper _10c._
(4c); cloth, 25c. (7c)

—Romola. 12mo, cloth, 35c. (7c)

Elzevir Classics. Type always large. Each vol. complete in itself. Vol.
I. See Classic Poems.

Vol. II. 342 pages. Cloth, 35c. (12c) Contents: By Washington Irving,
Rip Van Winkle. The Spectre Bridegroom. By Canon F. W. Farrar, The
Burning of Rome. By Andrew Wilson, The Sea Serpents of Science. By
James Parton, Sir Isaac Newton. By W. Mattieu Williams,
World-Smashing, Meteoric Astronomy, Lunar Volcanoes. By Frank H.
Norton, Paul Gustave Dore. By Bertha Thomas, Richard Wagner. By Dean
Swift, The Battle of the Books. By Orpheus C. Kerr, “Puts” and
“Calls,” At Easter, Hygeia in the South, The “Last” Man-Epithalamium,
In Lent, A Fable of Finance, Condensed Tragedies, A Stoop to Conquer,
Squibs for “The Fourth,” Beauty and Booty. By S. Baring-Gould, Legend
of the Wandering Jew. By J. H. Merle D’Aubigne, Erasmus and Henry
VIII. From Blackwood’s Magazine, James Ferguson, “Astronomer.”

Vol. III. Contains 330 pages. Cloth, 35c. (12c) Contents: By George
Rawlinson. The Civilizations of Asia. By John Caird, Buddhism. By
Charles Kingsley. The Celtic Hermits. By Cunningham Geikie, The
Crucifixion. By Frederick W. Farrar, Seneca and St. Paul. By Conybeare
and Howson, A Half Hour with St. Paul. By Franz Delitzsch, Jesus and
Hillel. By F. Godet, The Four Chief Apostles. By Mrs. Müller, Life of
George Müller.

Vol. IV. Contains 363 pages. Cloth, 35c. (12c) Contents: By Herbert
Spencer, The Coming Slavery, Philosophy of Style. By Matthew Arnold.
Numbers, Emerson. By George William Curtis, Wendell Phillips. By
Wendell Phillips, The War for the Union. By Robert Giffen, Progress of
the Working Classes. By T. H. Huxley, Evidences of Evolution. By John
Tyndall, Count Rumford. By Edward Orton, Public Health.

Emerson and Epictetus.

Emerson. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Popular Works. Nature and Other Essays.
Ideal Edition, cloth, 30c. (8c); half Morocco, 40c. (15c) Essays,
First Series. Ideal Edition, cloth, 30c. (8c); half Morocco, 40c.
(15c) Essays, Second Series. Ideal Edition, cloth. 30c. (8c) Essays
complete in one vol., half Morocco, 75c. (25c) New England Reformers,
and Divinity College Address, Ideal Edition, cloth, 35c. (12c)

Emerson’s Essays, First Series. Small octavo, Pica type, printed on
fine, large paper, giving wide margins, and elegantly bound in half
Morocco, marbled edges. Price 75c. (25c)

English Men of Letters. Each vol. is complete in itself. Vols. I., II.,
and III. are all sold. IV. Aldus edition half Rus., gilt top,
contains: Chaucer, by Ward; Spenser, by Church; Cowper, by Goldwin
Smith; Southey, by Dowden: Milton, by Pattison, 40c. (15c) V. Acme
edition, contains: De Foe, by Minton; Johnson, by Leslie Stephen;
Scott, by Hutton; Thackeray, by Trollope; Goldsmith, by Black. Price
30c. (7c)

Epictetus, The Teachings of, translated with notes. Ideal edition. 210
pp., cloth, 30c. (10c)

Famous Warriors. Life of Hannibal, by Thomas Arnold of Rugby; Life of
Cæsar, by H. G. Liddell. Life of Cromwell, by Lamartine. Ideal
Edition, cloth. 35c. (10c)

*Farmer’s Barn Book. By Clater, Youatt, Skinner and Mills. A Treatise on
the Management of Live Stock in Health and Disease. 12mo, cloth, $1.25
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Plutarch’s Lives, complete. An edition in large type, 3 vols., large
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Pratt, Jerry. By Ellen F. Pratt, 12mo, cloth, 75c. (25c).

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Poetical “Wonder-Book.” Containing in one octavo volume, richly bound in
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Popular Classical Quotations, 320 pages, 12mo. cloth, price $1.50
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Potwin. The Triumph of Life. By Rev. Thomas Stoughton Potwin. Ideal
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Ramage, C. T. Great Thoughts by Greek Authors. Cloth, 50c. (15c)

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St. Augustine—St. Pierre—Schiller.

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Saintine. Picciola. Translated from the French of J. X. B. Saintine.
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Sayings, Wise and Otherwise, by the author of Sparrowgrass Papers,
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Scott’s Waverley Novels.

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Smith. Lang Syne; or The Wards of Mount Vernon. By Mary Stuart Smith.
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Smith. The London Medical Student. By Albert Smith. 12mo, cloth, 50c.
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By Herbert Spencer.

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—Data of Ethics, Progress and Its Laws. Philosophy of Style, etc., 8vo
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