The book is less known to readers of this generation than it should be,
and we advise those who are not acquainted with its charm to adopt this
opportunity of making its acquaintance.”—_Christian Union_, New York
City.
“Views Afoot is a book of travel which is nearly as interesting now, as
when it first appeared over forty years ago. Taylor was a splendid
sight-seer and a rare recounter of his experiences. This new edition is
one of Alden’s efforts to bring good literature within the reach of the
poorest reader.”—_Interior_, Chicago, Ill.
Views Afoot.
“Bayard Taylor’s Views Afoot will long continue to be one of the few
books of European travel which people will delight to read. There is a
charm in the author’s style, conjoined with remarkable power of
description. The novelty of his traveling on the continent on foot, with
staff and knapsack, visiting places much out of the way, seeing the
people and living amongst them—all this makes the book a _rara avis_
among books of travel.”—_Guardian_, Philadelphia.
“Of all the works of this distinguished author, perhaps no one has more
freshness and enthusiasm than this. We have the ardor and the quick
insight of the afterwards world-renowned poet and author of books of
travel, etc., in the bud of promise. Certainly the volume is very
readable.”—_Morning Star_, Boston, Mass.
“We remember with what exquisite pleasure, in our college days, we read
this charmingly-written story of a jaunt a-foot. It was so full of life
and happiness, good-will and abounding health. This new edition does not
dim these excellences at all, and he who especially enjoys reading books
of travel will not read another until he has gone through these
fascinating pages. How cheap this edition is—only 50 cents. Give it to
some travel-mania friend.”—_Zion’s Herald_, Boston, Mass.
“John B. Alden has put the reading public under renewed obligation by
publishing a cheap edition of Bayard Taylor’s ‘Views Afoot.’ These
chapters delighted the last generation, and they still have their power
to charm and instruct.”—_Christian Standard_, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Europe SEEN WITH Knapsack and Staff.
“A poor boy, with no literary reputation, he sets out to traverse the
countries of Europe on foot. It was the beginning of an extraordinary
career as a writer, traveler and lecturer. Others have since followed in
his footsteps, but none has ever been able to surpass Bayard Taylor in
originality of observation, in perspicacity of style, or variety of
experiences. It is Europe brought to our own doors.”—_Journal and
Messenger_, Cincinnati, Ohio.
“A book well worth reprinting in attractive but inexpensive style. More
than any other, it laid the foundation of Bayard Taylor’s reputation as
a traveller and writer. These chapters are written in a style of
charming naïveté and freshness, giving the reader not the hackneyed
views of an experienced and often cynical traveller, but the fresh
enthusiasm of a generous, eager youth, visiting for the first time the
countries of which he had long dreamed. In this respect this earlier
book possesses charms which are denied the later volumes by the same
author. One of the incidental but very real advantages of this book is
to show on what a very small capital (Bayard Taylor started with only
$140), a resolute, plucky American youth can spend two years in foreign
travel, if he is willing to undergo some privations and hardships. It is
a narrative of grit, pluck and endurance as well as of foreign travel.
What was done in 1844 can be done in 1889 if one is equipped with the
same fortitude and courage.”—_Golden Rule_, Boston, Mass.
A Book for Bible Readers.
*Hurlbut. Manual of Biblical Geography. A Text-Book on Bible History,
with Maps, Plans, Charts, Diagrams and Illustrations. By Rev. J. L.
Hurlbut, D.D. Introduction by Rev. J. H. Vincent, D.D. Royal Quarto,
158 pages. Price. $2.75, reduced to $2.00 (50c);
“We predict for the Manual of Biblical Geography very great success. We
have never seen anything comparable with it.... We wonder how we ever
did without it.”—Mrs. A. C. Morrow, Editor of _The Illustrator_, N. Y.
City.
“Is an excellent book and should be in the hands of every Bible
student.”—Rev. G. M. Milligan, Toronto, Can.
“I know of no book that so well condenses and groups just what ought to
be known as a framework for all Bible study. To teach without such an
atlas is to half do it.”—Rev. E. M. Hill, Montreal, Can.
“This is one of the handiest and most helpful of the helps that I have
seen.”—Rev. P. S. Henson, D.D., Chicago, Editor _Baptist Teacher_.
“It will be of great service to teachers, pastors, and students of the
Bible generally.”—Rev. Geo. C. Lorimer, D.D., Chicago.
“Cannot fail to be of great service to teachers and scholars of the
Bible.”—Rev. C. S. Harrington, D.D., Middletown, Conn.
“Combines in a very high degree, convenience, accuracy, and
completeness.”—Rev. Basil Manly, Louisville, Ky.
The Koran.
The Koran of Mohammed. Translated by George Sale. 12mo., cloth, 336
pages, 60c. (20c);
The sacred book of the Mohammedans is not only a curiosity from a
literary point of view, but is also useful in showing how far inferior
to the Bible both in spirit and in teaching is the most popular
substitute which man has ever offered therefor. It contains 114 chapters
varying in length from a few lines to many pages. This is an excellent
translation, is clearly printed on good paper and nicely bound in cloth.
Costs but little and should be in every library. Will interest all
intelligent readers.
The Talmud.
Pick. The Talmud. What it is. By Rev. Bernhard Pick, Ph.D. Ideal
Edition, cloth, 60c. (20c);
“It has proved a grateful task to wander through the mazes of the Talmud
and cull flowers yet sparkling with the very dew of Eden. Figures in
shining garments haunt its recesses. Prayers of deep devotion, sublime
confidence and noble benediction, echo in its ancient tongue. Sentiments
of lofty courage, of high resolve, of infantile tenderness, of
far-seeing prudence, fall from the lips of venerable sages. No less
practicable would it be to stray with an opposite intention, and to
extract venom, instead of honey, from the flowers that seem to spring up
in self-sown profusion.”—_Edinburgh Review._
Pick. Apocryphal Life of Jesus. By Rev. Bernhard Pick, Ph.D. Ideal Ed.,
cloth, _50c._ (20c); 14 oz—The Jews Since the Destruction of
Jerusalem. Ideal Ed., cloth, _15c._ (4c); 8 oz
A Grand Book FOR THE SONS OF The Grand Army.
A large portion of the narrative and historical literature of the great
civil war has a profound interest for every patriot as well as for every
soldier. It tells of noble deeds performed by heroic men and furnishes
us with some of the most sublime instances of bravery and fidelity of
which there is either record or tradition. Among the books belonging to
this class is one which is unique in its character, intense in its
interest, and which stands in the front rank of works relating to the
war. In a vivid manner it describes the inception and incidents of that
most daring and brilliant exploit known as
The Great Locomotive Chase.
Daring and Suffering. A history of the great Raid and Locomotive chase
in Georgia in 1862. By William Pittenger. New edition, large 8vo,
illustrated, cloth, $1.50, post-paid (60c)
—The same, cheap ed., the story complete but omitting documents, paper,
40c.; cloth, 75c., post-paid.
“The story of the Andrews Railroad Raid must always be one of the most
picturesque, thrilling and moving episodes of the rebellion, and though
the facts were made public many years ago by the author of the work
before us, this exhaustive, revised and expanded narrative, will be
received with the hearty welcome it deserves. ‘Daring and Suffering’ is
indeed a remarkable book, not only for its matter, but for the manner of
its recital. It deserves to take its place with the most notable
histories of imprisonment and escape.”—_Tribune_, N. Y. City.
A DARING ENTERPRISE.
“Every reader will agree with Gen. Joseph Holt that the expedition, in
the daring of its conception, had the wildness of romance, ‘while in the
gigantic and overwhelming results it sought to obtain it was absolutely
sublime.’ An Atlanta paper said of the affair, a few days after its
failure, that it was ‘the deepest laid scheme, and on the grandest
scale, that ever emanated from the brains of any number of Yankees
combined.’ Count de Paris says in his history of the civil war in
America that, ‘despite its tragic termination, it shows what a handful
of brave men could undertake in America.’ In truth, there is no parallel
in history to this undertaking of Andrews in an enemy’s
country.”—_Commercial Gazette_, Cincinnati, O.
“This is a narrative of one of the wildest and most thrilling adventures
of the war.” _The Evening Post_, N. Y. City.
A VIVID PRESENTATION.
“The realism of the author reminds one of Tolstoi and his military
pictures in the forms of both history and romance.”—_The Eagle_,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
“So thrillingly and graphically told that the readers pulses tingle as
his fancy accompanies this wild expedition.”—_The Courier_, Buffalo, N.
Y.
“A vivid and authentic account of Andrews’ railroad raid—a most daring
adventure.”—_The News_, Chicago.
THE SONS OF VETERANS
and, indeed, every American, young or old, should read this record of an
heroic effort and the failure of a brilliant enterprise.
“‘Daring and Suffering’ should be read by every American boy that he may
see what deeds of daring Americans will do for love of country.”—_The
Republican_, Washington, D. C.
“This expedition has been so nearly forgotten that the public ought to
be under great obligations to Mr. Pittenger for recording at length the
bravery and endurance of those who participated in it. While such men
exist the republic may never fear for its safety.”—_The Sun_, N. Y.
City.
A COMPLETE AND ACCURATE RECORD.
“The author has consulted every available source of information, has
gone repeatedly over the ground, explored the Government archives at
Washington and files of Confederate newspapers, and obtained the
assistance of survivors on both sides of the struggle. He is thus able
to present a vivid, impartial and perfectly authenticated picture of the
most romantic event of the civil war, the full story of which has never
before been told.” The illustrations also add greatly to the interest
and value of the work.
20 Popular Stories $1.00!
The Woman’s Story, as told by twenty famous American women, whose names
are appended. Edited by Laura C. Holloway, with a biographical sketch
and a fine portrait of each author. Large 12mo, cloth, $1.00 (30c):
Harriett Beecher Stowe.
Harriett Prescott Spofford.
Rebecca Harding Davis.
Edna Dean Proctor.
“Josiah Allen’s Wife.”
Nora Perry.
Augusta Evans Wilson.
Louise Chandler Moulton.
Celia Thaxter.
“Grace Greenwood.”
Abba Gould Woolson.
Mary J. Holmes
Margaret E. Sangster.
Oliver Thorne Miller.
Elizabeth W. Champney.
Julia C. R. Dorr.
Marion Harland.
Louisa May Alcott.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Rose Terry Cooke.
“This collection of the best stories by twenty of the foremost American
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but writers of acknowledged ability are admitted to the group.”—_Daily
Alta Californian_, San Francisco, Cal.
“Besides being enjoyable reading, it is a valuable book of reference for
information concerning the most celebrated literary women of
America.”—_National Baptist_, Philadelphia, Pa.
19 FINE PORTRAITS.
“A compilation of a score of stories written by noted lady authors on
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each—with the exception of one case, Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davis, who
“won’t sit for anybody.” * * * How much of interest is added to a
literary production—especially a woman’s—if one can see the author’s
portrait too!”—_The Times_, Hartford, Conn.
“It is quite interesting and curious to see which of their own stories
these Writers considered their best.”—_The Homestead_, Springfield,
Mass.
20 Biographies of Famous Women.
“Among the many excellent books relating to women from the pen of this
author, this is the most unique in its plan. It is a library in itself,
a library affording the best specimens from all the leading lady authors
of America. To enumerate the writers from whom the selections are taken,
would be sufficient to awaken a desire to have the book, but when we add
that there is a portrait of each of these famous authors except one, and
that there is a biographical sketch of each written in Mrs. Holloway’s
attractive style, the merits and value of the work will begin to
appear.”—_Farm, Field and Stockman_, Chicago, Ill.
Oliver Goldsmith.
Oliver Goldsmith, The Works of. Edited by Sir James Prior. In 4 vols.,
12mo, $3.00 ($1.25);
The only edition embodying the full performances of and fairly
exhibiting Goldsmith genius. Contains many and valuable additions to
collections previously issued.
“Goldsmith, both in verse and prose, was one of the most delightful
writers in the language. His verse flows like a limpid stream. His ease
is quite unconscious. Everything in him is spontaneous, unstudied,
unaffected, yet elegant, harmonious, graceful, and nearly
faultless.”—Hazlitt.
“The ‘Traveller’ and the ‘Deserted Village’ scarcely claim any notice
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they are felt in everyone’s heart; they are daily the delight of
millions.”—Henry Neele.
“Sir, it is the great excellence of a writer to put into his book as
much as his book will hold. Goldsmith has done this in his history. He
has the art of saying everything he has to say in a pleasing
manner.”—Dr. Johnson.
Vicar of Wakefield: Ideal Edition. Cloth, _25c._ (11c); 10 oz
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on which the human mind was ever employed. We read the Vicar of
Wakefield in youth; we return to it again and again, and bless the
memory of an author who contrives so well to reconcile us to human
nature.”—Sir Walter Scott.
She Stoops to Conquer: Ideal Edition. Cloth, _20c._ (7c); 8 oz
She Stoops to Conquer.—“I know of no comedy for many years that has so
much exhilarated an audience; that has answered so much the great end of
comedy, making an audience merry.”—Samuel Johnson.
Life of Goldsmith: by Washington Irving. Elzevir Ed., gilt edges, _40c._
(20c); cloth, _25c._ (9c); 14 oz
“No poet’s letters in the world, not even those of Cowper, appear to us
more interesting for the light they throw on the habits and feelings of
the man who wrote them; and we think it will be also acknowledged that
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of ‘Wakefield.’”—_London Quarterly Review._
“The $5.00 Edition of Irving’s Works arrived to-day; the type, binding,
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Green’s Brilliant History.
Green’s Larger History of the English People. 5 vols., 16mo, illustrated
with about 100 fine engravings: half Morocco, _$3.50_ ($1.00): the
same without illustrations, Elzevir Edition, cloth, _$2.25_ (40c);
half morocco, _$2.75_ (60c);
Green’s History as above, in one vol., 8vo, without illustrations,
cloth, _$1.25_ (35c):
A copy of this magnificent work should be in every home in which the
English language is spoken.
“No man can claim to be thoroughly posted on English history unless he
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and the luminous style in which he writes, stamp the history as a
classic. Every man who has Anglo-Saxon blood in his veins will be
thrilled through and through by the author’s tribute to the race. It
will live long as the most attractive of the numerous English
histories”—_Cen’l Baptist_, St. Louis.
“In many respects the most satisfactory History of England that has yet
been written. It is certainly wonderfully cheap.”—_The North American_,
Philadelphia.
“Is recognized by scholars as the best complete modern History of
England in existence. Its finish of style removes it from the catalogue
of books of reference, and makes the study of it a delight.”—_Press_,
St. Paul, Minn.
“Green’s History is one of the most brilliant and thoroughly valuable
historical works which has appeared in many years. Fairly ranking with
Macaulay’s great work in the absorbing interest of its narrative, it
excels that in adaptation to popular needs, in that it covers the entire
period of English history from the earliest to modern times, instead of
a brief period as does Macaulay.”—_Methodist Recorder_, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Grace Greenwood’s My Pets, cloth. _30c._ (10c): 10 oz Stories for Home
Folks, cl., _40c._ (15c); 14oz Travel and History, cl., _30c._ (10c);
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A Great French Novel.
The Immortal. By Alphonse Daudet. 12mo, cloth, 60c. (20c);
“It is a satire on the famous company of the ‘Immortals,’ and any one
who reads it, will discover the peculiar talents of the author. He has a
very retentive memory, and extraordinary powers of description. He gives
to his heroes and heroines a life-like reality, so that the reader is
carried right on into the turmoil of their existence. Daudet makes his
characters perform the most merciless and pitiless actions, and his
powers of description are so vivid, that the reader moves on with it
all, in spite of himself. Get a copy of the book and test the truth of
this assertion.”—_The School Journal_, N. Y. City.
“The book springs out of Daudet’s unquestionable and irrepressible
genius; he dips his pen, not in malice, but in a literary inspiration
which delights all Europe and America.”—_The Church Year_, Jacksonville,
Fla.
“The book is a fierce onslaught on the French Academy, but exhibits the
best traits of its accomplished author, a man who is never dull and has
most extraordinary powers of description and character drawing, his
stories always offering not puppets, but men and women moving before
one’s eyes.”—_Christian Intelligencer_, N. Y. City.
A Great Russian Novel.
Gogol. Taras Bulba, translated by Jeremiah Curtin, cloth, 60c. (20c);
“This thrilling Cossack tale is put into English by Jeremiah Curtin,
with a ‘dedication’ to Hon. Andrew G. Curtin, in which is set forth the
fact (as shown by correspondence between Napoleon III. and Alexander
II.) that France and England had agreed to recognize the Southern
Confederacy, and were only kept from it by Russia’s friendliness to us.
The preface by the translator, too, is full of historic interest,
preparing the reader to understand the story of old Taras.”—_Christian
Standard_, Cincinnati.
“Although the reader may not admire all the traits of character of old
Taras Bulba, he will become so interested in the story at the very
beginning that he will not be willing to lay the book down until
completed. The whole volume is so full of valuable information that no
one can afford not to read it.”—_The Democrat_, Madison, Wis.
“A more romantic and profoundly interesting recital has not come to our
notice that involved Russian politics and character and Polish
patriotism and devotion. Gogol is entitled by this work to rank with
Turgenieff, and while he is not the philosopher that Tolstoi is, nor a
man of such learning, he is worthy to be his contemporary and is equally
graceful and vigorous in his style.”—_Record-Union_, Sacramento, Cal.
“This singular story is full of graphic touches. Now they paint the
squalor of the Jews’ quarter in Warsaw, now the fierce combat of half
savage men, now the flower-strewn steppes, and now the deepest,
tenderest passion of the human heart. The translator does not exaggerate
in his praise of Gogol’s work.”—_Christian Cynosure_, Chicago.
Great Statesmen.
International Statesman Series. Biographies of great social and
political leaders. Edited by Lloyd C. Sanders. Cloth, per vol., 75c.;
reduced to 60c. (15c):
1. Lord Beaconsfield. By T. E. Kebbel.
2. Viscount Palmerston. By Lloyd C. Sanders.
3. Prince Metternich. By G. B. Malleson.
4. O’Connell. By J. A. Hamilton.
5. Lord Bolingbroke. By Arthur Hassall.
6. Sir Robert Peel. By F. C. Montague.
This series presents in a concise and eminently readable form
biographical sketches of the great leaders in the political history of
the world. It will cover ancient as well as modern times and will
include the representative men of all prominent nations. These books
contain about 225 pages each, bound in uniform style, and are very
cheap.
“The volumes and the series have particular reasons to engross the
attention of students, among general readers; and it may safely be
predicted that the series will afford quite as intelligent and clear a
view of the course and expression of English politics as can be secured
without long and laborious search of many and more or less conflicting
volumes. The books are models in typographical qualities, and are
inexpensive.”—_Boston Globe_.
CIVILIZATION.
The Beginnings of Civilization. By Prof. Charles Woodward Hutson. Ideal
Ed., cl., 60c. (20c);
“To-day the secrets of prehistoric humanity lie beneath the surfaces of
language and archæology. We gaze into the depths and see the objects
lying along the bottom, but we do not all see alike. Perhaps we are not
yet acquainted with the media through which we look. Whether we are
contented or not to take as final the present conclusions of any one of
the various schools of archæologists, it remains that the facts or data
are intensely interesting. Touching the origin of man, it is probable
that we shall never be able to determine from the Bible or from
ethnology whether all men sprang from one pair or from many; and
salvation does not depend upon a decision. Whether, with the Duke of
Argyll, we believe humanity to have retrogressed as a result of the
Fall: whether with the Jews of the Talmud and Book of Zohar, we suppose
that man was created first as a beast, and after ages received the
spirit by the breath of God; or whether we hold man to be the result of
natural selection and survival of the fittest acting as forces upon some
protoplasmic blobs of jelly, we shall never get beyond conjecture. These
questions Professor Hutson has ignored as vain and profitless. In his
volume he has succeeded in condensing and including more learning,
philosophic thought, and curious and significant data than it has been
our fortune to behold these many days. His object is to take up the
prehistoric ages of the Egyptians, Chaldeans, Hittites, Phœnicians,
Hebrews, Assyrians, Teutons, Etruscans, Hellenes, Kelts, Hindus,
Chinese, Slavs, etc.; and, broad as seems the field, he has not
contented himself with easy and vague generalizations, but by a concise
and compact style, has been able to introduce a great number of data.
Small as this book is, we can hardly trust ourselves to express our
sense of its value, lest we seem to exaggerate.”—_The School Journal_,
N. Y. City.
_Artistically, it is, perhaps, the finest product of The Literary
Revolution._
FLORIAN’S FABLES.
Finely Illustrated Edition.