story, and we have given you two. "We and Our Neighbors," therefore,
are ready to receive your congratulations.
THE END.
* * * * *
A LIST OF BOOKS
PUBLISHED BY
J. B. FORD & CO.,
_27 Park Place, New York._
_For Sale by all Booksellers, or mailed post-paid upon receipt of
price by the Publishers._
ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY, BY AUTHORS.
Amelia E. Barr.
=_Romances and Realities:_= Tales, Sketches and Papers. 1 vol.
12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"Mrs. Barr's strong and cultivated pen has secured for
her writings a public welcome and graceful appreciation.
She unites the solidity of scholarly study with the
graces of a style fitted both to instruct and please her
readers."--_Christian at Work._
Catharine E. Beecher.
=_Principles of Domestic Science_= as Applied to the Duties and
Pleasures of Home. 1 vol. 12mo. _Profusely Illustrated._ Cloth, $2.
Prepared with a view to assist in training young women for the
distinctive duties which inevitably come upon them in household
life, this volume has been made with especial reference to the
duties, cares, and pleasures of _the family_, as being the place
where, whatever the political developments of the future, woman,
from her nature of body and of spirit, will find her most engrossing
occupation. It is full of interest for all intelligent girls and young
women.
=_Educational Reminiscences and Suggestions._= The fruit of
more than half a century of unremitting and successful labor for the
education of women, this is of great interest to educators. 16mo.
$1.00.
"The book is of course forcibly written, and is full of
interest."--_Hartford Courant._
Edward Beecher, D.D.
=_History of Opinions of the Scriptural Doctrine of
Retribution._= _In Preparation._
The appearance of this book is awaited with very great and manifest
interest. An eminent authority speaks of it as "A series which opens
up the thought of the early Church on the subject of universal
salvation with great clearness, and gives the result of life-long
research, on a subject of great interest to every believer."
Henry Ward Beecher.
=_Sermons_=, from Phonographic Reports by T. J. Ellinwood, for
fifteen years Mr. Beecher's Special Reporter. Uniformly bound in dark
brown English cloth. Each volume contains twenty-six Sermons, and the
Prayers before the Sermons. Ten vols. 8vo. Cloth, $2.50 each. The Set,
$22.50.
Each volume contains six months' sermons (from 450 to 500 pp.), issued
in uniform style. The _First Series_ has an excellent steel portrait
of Mr. Beecher; the _Second Series_, a fine interior view of Plymouth
Church. The other volumes are not illustrated.
"These corrected sermons of perhaps the greatest of living
preachers--a man whose heart is as warm and catholic as his
abilities are great, and whose sermons combine fidelity
and scriptural truth, great power, glorious imagination,
fervid rhetoric, and vigorous reasoning, with intense human
sympathy and robust common-sense."--_British Quarterly
Review._
"There is not a discourse in all this large collection that
does not hold passages of great suggestiveness and power
for the most ordinary, unsympathizing reader--illustrations
of great beauty and point, eloquent invitations to better
life, touching appeals to nobler purposes and more generous
action."--_Springfield Republican._
=_Yale Lectures on Preaching._= Delivered before the classes
of theology and the faculty of the Divinity School of Yale College.
Uniform edition of the Author's Works.
FIRST SERIES, Winter of 1872--_The Personal
Elements_ which bear an important relation to Preaching.
1 vol. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25.
SECOND SERIES, Winter of 1873--_Social and
Religious Machinery of the Church_ as related to preaching.
1 vol. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
THIRD SERIES, Winter of 1874--_Methods of Using
Christian Doctrines_, in their relations to individual
dispositions and the wants of the community.
1 vol. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
The three volumes in neat box, $4.00.
"Full of common-sense and a knowledge of human nature, and
admirably adapted to meet wants in preachers which no other
writer can so well supply."--_Watchman and Reflector._
"Marvelous exhibitions of deep piety, sound sense, quick
wit, and fervid address; interesting to all Christian
readers--invaluable to the beginning preacher."--_Prof. H.
N. Day, College Courant._
=_Star Papers:_= or, Experiences of Art and Nature. New Edition,
with many additional Papers. Uniform Edition of the Author's Works.
1 vol. 12mo. Cloth, $1.75.
"We have nothing in the way of descriptive writing, not
even the best sketches of Washington Irving, that exceeds
in richness of imagery and perspicuity of statement these
'Star Papers.'"--_Methodist Home Journal._
"A book to be read and re-read, and always with a fresh
sense of enjoyment."--_Portland Press._
"So full of rural life, so sparkling with cheerfulness,
so holy in their tenderness, and so brave in nobility of
thought."--_Liberal Christian._
=_Lectures to Young Men_= on Various Important Subjects. New
Edition, with additional Lectures. Uniform Edition of the Author's
Works. 1 vol. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"Wise and elevating in tone, pervaded by earnestness, and
well fitted for its mission to improve and benefit the
youth of the land."--_Boston Commonwealth._
"Written with all the vigor of style and beauty of language
which characterize everything from the pen of this
remarkable man. They are a series of fearless dissertations
upon every-day subjects, conveyed with a power of eloquence
and a practical illustration so unique as to be oftentimes
startling."--_Philadelphia Enquirer._
=_Pleasant Talk About Fruits, Flowers, and Farming._= New
Edition, with much additional matter. Uniform Edition of the Author's
Works. 1 vol. 12mo. Cloth, $2.00.
A delightful book. The poetry and prose of Beecher's Farm and Garden
experiences.
"Not merely readable and instructive, but singularly
fascinating in its magnetic style."--_Philadelphia Press._
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=_Norwood: or, Village Life in New England._= A
Novel. Uniform Edition of the Author's Works; also,
uniform with J. B. F. & Co.'s _Novel Series_. 1 vol. 12mo.
_Illustrated_, $2.00.
"Embodies more of the high art of fiction than any half
dozen of the best novels of the best authors of the day.
It will bear to be read and re-read as often as Dickens's
'Dombey' or 'David Copperfield.'"--_Albany Evening Journal._
"The book is wholesome and delightful, to be taken up again
and yet again with fresh pleasure."--_Chicago Standard._
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=_Lecture Room Talks._= A Series of Familiar
Discourses, on Themes of Christian Experience.
Phonographically reported by T. J. Ellinwood. Uniform
Edition of the Author's Works. 1 vol. 12mo. With Steel
Portrait. Price, $1.75.
"It is easy to see why the old-fashioned prayer-meeting
has been replaced by that eager and crowded assembly
which throngs the Plymouth Lecture Room each Friday
evening."--_New York Evangelist._
=_The Overture of Angels._= A Series of Pictures of
the Angelic Appearances Attending the Nativity of Our Lord.
A Chapter from the "Life of Christ." _Illustrated._ 1 vol.
12mo. $2.00.
A beautiful and characteristically interesting treatment of all the
events recorded in the Gospels as occurring about the time of the
Nativity. Full of poetic imagery, beauty of sentiment, and vivid
pictures of the life of the Orient in that day.
"The style, the sentiment, and faithfulness to the spirit
of the Biblical record with which the narrative is treated
are characteristic of its author."--_Worcester (Mass.) Spy._
"A perfect fragment."--_N.Y. World._
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=_English and American Speeches_= on Politics, War,
and various miscellaneous topics. Uniform Edition of the
Author's Works. 1 vol. 12mo. _In preparation._
This will include all of the more important of Mr.
Beecher's Speeches which have been preserved.
=_Eyes and Ears:_= or, Thoughts as They Occur, by One
Who Keeps his Eyes and Ears Open. New Edition. Uniform
Edition of the Author's Works. 1 vol. 12mo. Cloth. _In
preparation._
=_Royal Truths._= This is a selected gathering of
papers, passages, illustrations, descriptions, from
sermons, speeches, prayer-meeting discourses, writings,
etc., which has had a large sale both in England and
America. The New Edition will be enlarged by the addition
of much new matter of interest, Uniform Edition of the
Author's Works. 1 vol. 12mo. _In preparation._
=_Views and Experiences of Religious Matters._=
Originally published as a second collection of religious
"Star Papers," these admirable and helpful articles will be
added to by others, heretofore unpublished. Uniform Edition
of the Author's Works. 1 vol. 12mo. _In preparation._
Thomas K. Beecher.
=_Our Seven Churches._= Eight Lectures. 1 vol. 16mo. Paper, 50
cts.; Cloth, $1.00.
A most valuable exponent of the doctrines of the leading religious
denominations, and a striking exhibition of the author's magnanimity
and breadth of loving sympathy.
"The sermons are written in a style at once brilliant,
epigrammatic, and readable."--_Utica Herald._
"This little book has created considerable discussion among
the religious journals, and will be read with interest by
all."--_Phila. Ledger._
"There is hardly a page which does not offer a fresh
thought, a genial touch of humor, or a suggestion at which
the reader's heart leaps up with grateful surprise that
a minister belonging to a sect can think and speak so
generously and nobly."--_Milwaukee Sentinel._
A. H. Bogardus.
=_Field, Cover, and Trap Shooting._= By the Champion Wing Shot of
America. Edited by Chas. J. Foster. 1 vol. 12mo. With Steel Portrait
of the Author, and an Engraving of the Champion Medal. Cloth, $2.00.
A compendium of many years of experience, giving hints for skilled
marksmen and instructions for young sportsmen, describing the haunts
and habits of game birds, flight and resorts of water fowl, breeding
and breaking of dogs, and everything of interest to the sportsman.
The author is "champion wing-shot of America," who knows a gun
as Hiram Woodruff knew a horse. And he has the same careful and
competent editor who put Woodruff's "Trotting Horse of America" into
shape--Chas. J. Foster, so many years sporting editor of Wilkes'
_Spirit of the Times_.
"No sportsman can peruse this book without profit and
instruction; while to the young beginner with the gun,
and to the amateur who can spend but a few months in the
year in this healthful and delightful pursuit, it will be
invaluable."--_Wilkes' Spirit._
Henry Churton.
=_Toinette:_= A Tale of Transition. 1 vol. 12mo. Extra Cloth,
Fancy Stamped Ink and Gilt Side. $1.50.
Not only a brilliant picture of individual life, full of stirring
scenes and emotional characters, but a graphic delineation of
slave-life and emancipation, by one who lived under the old _régime_
at the South, and saw it give place to the new. Companion piece to
"Uncle Tom's Cabin," this powerful novel finishes what that great work
began.
"Clearly conceived and told with power.... There is not a
prosy chapter in the book. The author grasps the elements
of his story with a firm hand and combines them into vivid
scenes."--_Liberal Christian._
"Absolutely thrilling in some of its situations and
delineations."--_Chicago Evening Journal._
"A remarkable book. It is fascinating, thrilling, and its
scenes are vivid as the lightnings."--_Atlanta (Ga.,)
Methodist Advocate._
Mrs. S. M. Davis.
=_The Life and Times of Sir Philip Sidney._= A New and Revised
Edition, with Index, etc. Three steel plates; Portrait of Sidney; View
of Penshurst Castle; and Fac-simile of Sidney's manuscript. 12mo. Silk
Cloth, Beveled Boards, Stamped with Sidney's Coat-of-Arms in Ink and
Gold, $1.50.
"An elaborate sketch of a most interesting
character."--_Chicago Evening Journal._
"Its binding is exquisitely chaste."--_N.Y. World._
"Beautifully complete in every detail."--_New Haven Journal
& Courier._
Edward Eggleston.
=_The Circuit Rider:_= A Tale of the Heroic Age. Author of
"_The Hoosier Schoolmaster_," etc. Illustrated with over thirty
characteristic drawings by G. G. White and Sol Eytinge. 1 vol. 12mo.
Extra Cloth, Gilt, and Ink-Stamped Covers, $1.75.
This story is exciting widespread interest, both as a powerful novel
and genuine love-story, and as a graphic picture of the West in the
adventurous days of saddle-bags and circuit-riding preachers.
"The breezy freshness of the Western prairie blended with
the refinements of literary culture. It is alive with the
sound of rushing streams and the echoes of the forest, but
shows a certain graceful self-possession which betrays the
presence of the artist's power."--_N. Y. Tribune._
"It is his best work; a grand story; a true picture of the
past and of itinerant life in the old times of simplicity
and hardship."--_N. Y. Methodist._
"The best American story, and the most thoroughly American
one, that has appeared for years."--_Phila. Evening
Bulletin._
Ferdinand Fabbre.
=_The Abbe Tigrane_=, Candidate for the Papacy. Translated from
the French by Rev. Leonard Woolsey Bacon. 18mo. Cloth, $1.50.
One of the most brilliant satires of the day. An entertaining and
exciting tale, giving the mode of French ecclesiastical life and of
Romish political intrigue in Europe.
Rev. T. A. Goodwin, A.M.
=_The Mode of Man's Immortality:_= or, The When, Where and How
of the Future Life. Author of "_The Perfect Man_," and late Editor of
"_The Indiana Christian Advocate_." 1 vol. 12mo. Cloth, $1.25.
"Certainly shows with great force the well-nigh insuperable
difficulties attending the common opinions of the
resurrection of the actual body that is placed in the dust,
and develops quite a consistent and interesting theory in
reference to the nature of the resurrection life."--_Zion's
Herald._
Robertson Gray.
=_Brave Hearts._= A Novel. By Robertson Gray (R. W. Raymond). 1
vol. 12mo. _Illustrated._ Cloth. $1.75.
A characteristic American tale, with Illustrations by Darley,
Stephens, Frank Beard, and Kendrick.
"About as pure, breezy, and withal, readable a story
of American life as we have met with this long
time."--_Congregationalist._
"Its pictures of the strange life of those early California
days are simply admirable, quite as good as anything Bret
Harte has written."--_Lit. World._
Grace Greenwood.
=_New Life in New Lands._= Notes of Travel Across the American
Continent, from Chicago to the Pacific and Back. 1 vol. 12mo. $2.00.
This is a gathered series of letters, racy, brilliant, piquant; full
of keen observation and pungent statement of facts, picturesque in
delineation of scenes on the plains, in the mountains, and along the
sea.
"Among the best of the author's productions, and every way
delightful."--_Boston Post._
"The late William H. Seward characterized her account of
Mormons and Mormonism as the most graphic and trustworthy
he had ever read."--_Methodist Home Journal._
"Grace always finds lots of things no one else would see;
and she has a happy knack of picking up the mountains
and cities and big trees and tossing them across the
continent right before the reader's eyes. It's very
convenient."--_Buffalo Express._
=_Heads and Tails:_= Studies and Stories of Pets. Square
16mo. Illustrated. Extra Cloth, Beveled Boards, Elaborate Gilt and
Ink-Stamped Sides, Gilt Edges, $2.00.
"It consists of a dozen or more of her delightfully bright
sketches, mostly having the charm of personal experiences,
in which she pictures in her own inimitable way, so full of
wit, of pathos, of good sense, of tenderness, and of real
rollicking fun, her own adventures, or those of other young
and old folks who love animals.... The stories are told in
the author's happiest style."--_Christian Union._
"Grace Greenwood is gifted with a special knack at
story-telling for young folks, and Heads and Tails, with
its stories of pet birds, cats, etc., is a delightful
book."--_Chicago Advance._
"We don't know where there is pleasanter reading than in
these stories of pets."--_Boston Commonwealth._
Rev. S. B. Halliday.
=_Winning Souls._= Sketches and Incidents During Forty Years of
Pastoral Work. 1 vol. 12mo. Cloth, $1.00.
The author of this volume for some time past has been, and now is,
engaged as assistant in the pastoral labors of Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn (Rev. H. W. Beecher's), where, in visiting among the sick,
the poor, and the afflicted of that large parish, he is continually
encountering new and interesting phases of heart-life. These simple
records of scenes among his earlier labors possess a peculiar interest.
"Full of valuable suggestions to ministers in the
department of active duty."--_Methodist Recorder._
"The book is tenderly written, and many of its pathetic
scenes will be read with moistened eyes. We recommend the
book to pastors and people."--_Boston Christian Era._
=_The Little Street-Sweeper:_= or, Life among the Poor. 1 vol.
12mo. Illustrated. _In preparation._
Joseph W. Long.
=_American Wild-Fowl Shooting._= 1 vol. 12mo. _Illustrated._
Fancy Stamped Cloth, $2.00.
A book of practical specific instruction as to the different species,
habits, haunts and pursuits of wild-fowl, the building and use of
blinds, boats, decoys, &c., the training of water-retrievers, and many
miscellaneous hints of great value to hunters of wild game-fowl. Full
of admirable descriptions, adventure, &c., &c. _The only book of the
kind in the English Language._
"We know of no book that treats so fully as this of the
habits of our inland wild-fowl and the methods of hunting
them."--_Phila. Enquirer._
Amelia Perrier.
=_A Good Match._= A Novel. Author of "_Mea Culpa_." 1 vol. 12mo.
Cloth, $1.50.
A clever and amusing Novel, agreeably written, racy, and lively.
"A very readable love story, tenderly told."--_Hearth and
Home._
"The characters appear and act with a real
life."--_Providence Press._
S. S. Randall, A.M.
(_Superintendent of Public Education in New York City._)
=_History of the State of New York_=, from the Date of the
Discovery and Settlements on Manhattan Island to the Present Time.
A Text-Book for High Schools, Academies, and Colleges. 1 vol. 12mo.
Illustrated. Cloth, $1.75.
Officially adopted by the Boards of Education in the cities of New
York, Brooklyn, and Jersey City, for use in the Public Schools; and in
Private Schools throughout the State.
Rossiter W. Raymond, Ph. D.
_U.S. Commissioner Mining Statistics; Pres't. Am. Inst. Mining
Engineers; Editor Engineering and Mining Journal; Author of "Mines,
Mills, and Furnaces," etc., etc._
=_Silver and Gold:_= An Account of the Mining and Metallurgical
Industry of the United States, with reference chiefly to the Precious
Metals. 1 vol. 8vo. Cloth, $3.50.
"Valuable and exhaustive work on a theme of great import to
the world of industry."--_Philadelphia Inquirer._
"A repository of much valuable current information:"--_N.
Y. Tribune._
=_Mining Industry of the States and Territories_= West of
the Rocky Mountains; including Descriptions of Quartz, Placer,
and Hydraulic Mining; Amalgamation, Concentration, Smelting, etc.
Illustrated with nearly one hundred Engravings and Maps, and a Colored
Geological Map of the United States, 1 vol. 8vo. Cloth, $4.50.
"Recognized in this country and in Europe as professionally
authoritative and interesting to a remarkable
degree."--_Washington Chronicle._
=_The Man in the Moon_= and Other People. Square 16mo.,
Illustrated. Extra Cloth, beveled boards, handsome gilt and ink
stamped sides, gilt edges, $2.00.
Twenty of Ros. Raymond's best stories, some published before, others
not. They embrace Fairy Stories, Wonder Stories, Christmas Stories,
Thanksgiving Stories, Stories of Adventure, of War, of Love, Stories
about Dogs, about Birds, about Boys and about Girls--and all bright,
witty, engaging and delightful.
The Brooklyn _Eagle_ says: "His tales have won great
popularity by their wit, delicate fancy, and admirable good
sense."
Sarah Bridges Stebbins.
=_The Poetry of Pets._= 1 vol. Square 12mo. Illustrated. _In
preparation._
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
=_My Wife and I:_= Or, Harry Henderson's History. A Novel.
Illustrated. 1 vol. 12mo. Cloth, $1.75.
This charming novel is, in some respects, Mrs. Stowe's most thoughtful
and complete book. It is eminently a book for the times, giving the
author's individual ideas about the much-vexed _Woman Question_,
including marriage, divorce, suffrage, legislation, and all the rights
claimed by the clamorous.
"A capital story, in which fashionable follies are shown
up, fast young ladies weighed in the balance and found
wanting, and the value of true worth exhibited."--_Portland
Argus._
"Always bright, piquant, and entertaining, with an
occasional touch of tenderness, strong because subtle,
keen in sarcasm, full of womanly logic directed against
unwomanly tendencies."--_Boston Journal._
=_We and Our Neighbors:_= Or, The Records of an Unfashionable
Street. A Sequel to "My Wife and I." 1 vol. Illustrated by Alfred
Fredericks. 12mo. Cloth, $1.75.
As fresh, witty and charming in style as all of Mrs. Stowe's works are.
=_A Volume of Religious Meditative Articles_=, very helpful and
spiritual in their tone. _In preparation._
T. S. Verdi, A.M., M.D.
=_Maternity:_= A Popular Treatise for Wives and Mothers. _Fifth
edition._ 1 vol. 12mo. $2.25.
This book has arisen from a want felt in the author's own practice,
as a monitor to young wives, a guide to young mothers, and an
assistant to the family physician. It deals skillfully, sensibly and
delicately with the perplexities of married life, giving information
which women must have, either in conversation with physicians or
from such a source as this. Plain and intelligible, but without
offence to the most fastidious taste, the style of this book must
commend it to careful perusal. It treats of the needs, dangers, and
alleviations of the holy duties of maternity, and gives extended,
detailed instructions for the care and medical treatment of infants
and children throughout all the perils of early life.
"The author deserves great credit for his labor, and the
book merits an extensive circulation."--_U.S. Medical and
Surgical Journal (Chicago)._
"We hail the appearance of this work with true pleasure.
It is dictated by a pure and liberal spirit, and will be
a real boon to many a young mother."--_American Medical
Observer (Detroit.)_
"There are few intelligent mothers who will not be
benefited by reading and keeping by them for frequent
counsel a volume so rich in valuable suggestions. With its
tables, prescriptions, and indexes at the end, this book
ought to do much good."--_Hearth and Home._
_27 Park Place, New York._
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Transcriber's Notes
Minor punctuation typos have been silently corrected.
Page 50: Changed "acquaintainces" to "acquaintances."
(Orig: menagerie of our very miscellaneous acquaintainces!)
Page 63: Changed "Methusaleh" to "Methuselah."
(Orig: but they are old as Methusaleh.)
Page 121: Retained "fluttered," but possible typo for "flustered."
(Orig: Poor Mrs. Van Arsdel was somewhat fluttered by this alarming)
Page 136: Retained "indeeed," (she may be stretching out word for
emphasis) but it's possibly a typo for "indeed."
(Orig: "Like him! Indeeed I don't.)
Page 182: Changed "Campcell" to "Campbell."
(Orig: flesh and spirit. Dr. Campcell, a broad-shouldered,)
Page 190: Changed "gaity" to "gaiety."
(Orig: in the gaity of her heart, that evening.)
Page 223: Changed "convalesence" to "convalescence."
(Orig: in different stages of convalesence were)
Page 246: Changed "blurr" to "blur."
(Orig: only one dark, confused blurr,)
Page 299: Changed "Eleusinean" to "Eleusinian."
(Orig: some special Eleusinian mysteries)
Page 306: Changed "perculiar" to "peculiar."
(Orig: Bolton professes a perculiar skill in an omelette;)
Page 312: Changed "slelect" to "select."
(Orig: slelect associations and good behavior)