_30 Lafayette Place, New York._
Sir Philip Sidney: His Life and Times. By Mrs. S. M. Henry Davis, Author
of "Norway Nights and Russian Days." _Steel portrait_ of Sidney.
"Compels the reader's attention, and leaves upon his mind
impressions more distinct and lasting than the greatest historians
are in the habit of making.... We long to see the story of Sidney's
life take its proper place in the hearts of American
youth."--_Christian Union._
Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life. By Wm. Osborne
Stoddard, Secretary to President Lincoln.
"Graphic and entertaining ... as rich in incident as any romance,
and sparkling with wise wit and racy anecdote. It comprises a large
mass of valuable and judiciously epitomized
information."--_Harper's Monthly._
Henry Ward Beecher: His Personality, Career and Influence in Public
Affairs. By John R. Howard. _With portraits._
"Altogether the finest bit of biographic work that has been done in
many a day."--Albion W. Tourgee.
"Gives a well-proportioned view of Beecher's whole career, and is
enriched with many personal reminiscences, anecdotes and letters
accumulated by Mr. Howard during his forty years of intimate
friendship and twenty of close association in literary and business
matters with Mr. Beecher, as his publisher."--_Brooklyn Times._
Bismarck: His Authentic Biography. By George Hezekiel. _Historical
Introduction_ by Bayard Taylor. _Profusely Illustrated: New Map, etc._
"Noteworthy for the fullness of its details and the great variety
of hitherto unknown facts and incidents that are recorded in
it."--_N. Y. Sun._
Bryant and His Friends: A Memoir of Wm. Cullen Bryant, and Reminiscences
of the best-known Knickerbocker Writers--Irving, Halleck, Paulding,
Cooper, Dana, etc., etc. By James Grant Wilson. _Illustrated_ with
portraits and manuscript fac-similes.
"A standard volume of literary history."--_Boston Traveller._
Life and Letters of John H. Raymond. Organizer and First President of
Vassar College. Edited by Harriet Raymond Lloyd. _Steel Portrait._ Ex.
cloth, beveled,
"A book, the charm of which it is not easy to express.... This
admirably judicious record of a wholly and singularly beautiful,
strong, wise, consecrated life."--_Chicago Advance._
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