Lapas attēli
PDF
ePub

BOOKS WANTED.—Continued.

E. P. DUTTON & Co., 31 W. 23D ST., N. Y. Prayers of the Church, from the Prayer-Book arranged by Richard Newton.

Cooper's Naval History.

Goethe's Elective Affinities Translated.

Scott's Tales of a Grandfather, v. 1 and 2, Household ed.
Ticknor & F.

Captain Fracasse, Gautier. Putnam.

Abbé Barthelemy Anackaris.

Smollett, any vol., vols. numbered on title-page, Derby

& Jackson ed.

Life and Works of John Adams, v. 10, large pap.
Life and Adventures of Punchello and Other Stories.
New York Herald, Dec. 19 to 26, 29, and 31, 1862.

ESTES & LAURIAT, BOSTON, MASS.

Mass. Law Reports, complete set, either in single or double v., good second hand set at a low price.

S. B. FISHER, 685 STATE ST., SPRINGFIELD, Mass. The Study, 1881, January, April, July; 1883, July 1884, October.

The Baptist Teacher, 1882, 1884, and 1886.

FLEXNER & STAADEKER, LOUISVILLE, KY.

J. K. Ingram, Present Position and Prospects of Political
Economy.

Nichol's Literary Anecdotes of the 18th Century, 9 v.
Illustrations of the Literary History of the 18th Century,
8 v. London.

C. K. HAMILTON & Co., LEBANON, O. Price's Calculus, complete, usually in 4 v. State condidition and price. Wanted immediately.

R. C. HARTRANFT, PHILA., PA.

Print of Origin of the Stocking Loom, by F. Hall.

HOME FRIEND PUB'S, ST. LOUIS, MO.

Wylie's Book of the Bunyan Festival, il.

CHAS. E. HOUGHTON, 64 NEW PARK ST., LYNN, MASS.

[blocks in formation]

Stevens, Yorktown Centennial Handbook.
Kennedy, Life of William Wirt. 1849.

1881.

Hawkes, Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of
U.S.

Brotherherd, Book of the Signers.

Dudley, Randolph's Letters to a Young Relative. Phila.
History of William and Mary College. Phila., 1874.
Clarke, Quincy Bridge.

Schoolcraft, The Indian in His Wigwam.

Ponchert, Memoir Upon the Late War Between French
and English, 2 V.
1755-60.

The Professor in the Machine-Shop.
Catskill Fairies (3 copies).

Comfort, Folks and Fairies (2 copies).

Monette, Discovery of the Valley of the Miss., 2 v., 8°.
Goodell, Slavery and Anti-Slavery.
Gurowski, Russia As It Is. 1854.

1855.

Holmes, Annals of America, 2 v. Cambridge, 1839.
Hawison, History of Virginia, 2 v.

Jamison, Life and Times of Bertrand du Guesclin, 2 V.
Charleston, 1864.

Koeppen, The World in the Middle Ages. N. Y., 1854.
Jefferson, Writings of, 9 v. 1853.

Sabine, The American Loyalists. Boston, 1847.

Shepard, Fall of Rome and Rise of New Nationalities. 1861.

Simms, History of South Carolina. 1860.

Harper's Magazine, Aug., Nov., 1850; Dec., '51: July, '52. Taylor,,
Scribner, June, Sept., 1871; Jan., July, Sept., 72.

G. W. HUMPHREY, CARE ROBERTS BROS., BOSTON, MASS.
Harper's Weekly, nos. 2, 3, 4, 32, 111, 154, 157, 210, 404, 414.
Frank Leslie's Illustrated, July 27, 1861.

American Ornithology, v. 1. Wilson & Bonaparte, 1831.
U. P. JAMES, 131 W. 7TH ST., CINCINNATI, O.

Guest's History of English Rhythms, 2 v.

E. W. JOHNSON, 1336 B'WAY, N. Y.

Land and the Book, 2 v., Thomson.

Studies on Baptism, Ford,

Handbook on Baptism, Ingham,

Scott's Commentary, 4to ed.

E. P. JUDD, NEW HAVEN, CONN.

Harmony of the Four Gospels, revised version.

JOHN T. KERRIGAN, 910 ELM ST., DALLAS, TEX.

Old Collection of Readings and Recitations, ed. by
Ep. Sargent.

Purple and Fine Linen, Fawcett.

American Standard Speaker, pub. before the war.

Voice of Seven Thunders, Martin.

Out of Egypt, by Geo. F. Pentecost, Funk & Wagnalls'
Standard Lib.

Any of Grace Aguilar's works.

Wild Irish Girl, a Novel.

Complete set Mohammedan Theology.
Angus, Practical Stair Railing.

Joslin's Satire on the Times.

The Dividing Line Between Federal and Local Authority, Douglas.

LEA BROS. & Co., 706 SANSOм St., Phila., Pa. Pedlington and the Little Pedlingtonians.

LEGGAT BROS., 81 CHAMBERS ST., N. Y.

Bartlett's Heroes of the Indian Rebellion.

Buffalo Land, 2 copies.

Buell Genealogy.

R. M. LINDSAY, 11TH AND WALNUT STS., PHILA., PA. Irving, Life and Letters, 3 V.; Biographies; Salmagundi; Spanish Papers. National ed., cl.

Pardoe's Louis XIV., old Eng. ed.

J. B. LIPPINCOTT Co., 717 MARKET ST., PHILa., Pa. Butler's Ecclesiastical History, 2 v.

Church Review, issued July, 1889, containing articles by
prominent S. S. workers.

W. H. LOWDERMILK & Co., WASHINGTON, D. C.
Lowe, Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena.
Knight, Old England, 2 v., folio.

Pearse, Concise History of Iron Manufacture in American
colonies.

Iron Age, 1879, complete, or Jan. 2 alone.

S. B. LUYSTER, 98 NASSAU ST., N. Y.

Cooper, Jack Tier; Oak Openings; Heidenmauer; Afloat and Ashore; Precaution. Townsend ed., Darley pl. Doran's Knights and Their Days, cl. London.

"Ohio. 1854.

Thiers, The Mississippi Bubble. N. Y., 1859.
Douglas, Manual of Telegraph Construction.
Vivian, Copper Smelting.

Bancroft, Miscellanies.

American Devon Herd Book, by Sessions, v. 5.
Marsh, Robin Hood.

Smith, Northerner in New England.

Davis, Elsie's Summer in the Rocky Mountains.
Hayes, Open Polar Sea.

Benjamin, Art in America.

Contemporary Art in Europe.

Greeley, Three Years' Arctic Service.

Franklin, Voyage to the Polar Sea. Phila., 1824.

Hayes, Arctic Boat Journey.

Story of a Millionaire.

Girls Four Years in Boys' College.

Bickmore, East Indian Archipelago.
Geddes, Evolution of Sex.

Stone, Magnetic Variation in U. S.
Kossuth Exile.

McIntosh, Essays, 1 v., 8°.

Alison, Essays, 1 v., 8°.

Martin Merivale.

Leslie, Live and Learn.

Stephens, Phemie Frost's Experiences.

Baker, Cast Up By the Sea.

Alcott, Morning-Glories.

Hudson, Tables for Calculating the Cubic Contents of
Excavations and Embankments, v. 1.

Guettier, Metallic Alloys.

MCDONNELL BROS., 185 DEARBORN ST., CHICAGO, ILL. Encyclopædia Britannica, Scribner ed., cl., uncut preferred.

JOHN MACFARLANE, 153 WOODWARD AVE., DETROIT, MICH.
Set Beacon-Lights History, 7 v.
Cities of the World, 9 v.

JOSEPH MACLEAN, 2206 PHILA. St., PHILA., PA. Genealogies of the following families or any books relating to them, whether alone or in connection with other names, viz.: Matthews, Sayre, Myers, Elkins, and Lane. Blavatsky's History of Theosophy.

Vitruvius and Dion Cassius, English trans.
Sam Slick and Nova Scotia, Halyburton.
Jail Journal of Mitchell.

Wilkinson's Egyptians, complete set.
Black's Atlas, latest ed. in the sheets.

Comte's Positive Philosophy, best ed., Eng.

Huxley's Protoplasm and Man's Place, Eng. ed.

Tyndall's Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers, Eng. ed.
Complete Works, English ed.

Burton's Valley of the Indus, Eng, ed.
Rawlinson's Syria, best ed.

Payne's Decameron, Villon Soc'y copy, 3 v.
Gautier's Maupin, Vizitelly plates.

MAURO & WILSON, BURLINGTON, Iowa.
Wilson's Ornithology.

[blocks in formation]

1821.

Clean copies in cloth of early ed. of Prescott's Works. Harpers and Phillips & Sampson.

Longfellow's Works, subscription ed.

Michaux and Nuttall's North American Sylva.

D. S. MILLER & Co., WATERTOWN, N.Y.

Ranney's Electricity in Medicine, pub. by D. Appleton & Co.

HENRY MILLER, 65 NASSAU ST., N. Y.

The Infidel, by Dr. Bird.

Mistakes of a Lifetime, by Waldo Hutchings.
Ivanhoe, by Rossiter Johnson.

MILLER'S, 2 ARCADE COURT, CHICAGO, ILL. Transactions of American Society of Mechanical Engi

[merged small][ocr errors][ocr errors][merged small][ocr errors][ocr errors][merged small]

Burnley's History of the Buccaneers.

Schomburghk's History of Barbadoes.
Hazard's Cuba, with Pen and Pencil.

JOHN P. MORTON & Co., LOUISVILLE, KY. Taine's French Revolution, v. 2. edition of 1878 or 1881, cloth. Holt.

NATIONAL PUB. & PRINTG. Co., Box 41, MILWAUKEE, Wis.
Shelley, P. B., Poetical Works, ed. by Mrs. Shelley, with
Boston.
a memoir, v. 1, 3, separate.

NICHOLAS & BUCHANAN, TOLEDO, O.
When I Was a Little Girl, by E. Tabor. Published by
Macmillan, 1871.

Bar Harbor Days.

Clarke's Shakespeare Key.

[blocks in formation]

GEO, H. RIGBY, 2413 E. CUMBERLAND ST., Phila., Pa. London Graphic, v. 6.

[ocr errors]
[ocr errors]

1885 to 1888.

Speaker's Garland, 100 choice selections.

Around the World with General Grant, pts. 19 and 29. Picturesque America, v. 2.

J. FRANCIS Ruggles, BronSON, MICH.

Jacalliot's Bible in India.

Hagar: A Story of To-day, by Carey.
Brinton's Myths of New World.

Hobart's Calculator. Cin., 1850.

Practical Stair Builder's Guide, Cupper's.

WM. RUTTER & Co., S. W. Cor. 7TH AND CHERRY STS., PHILA., PA.

English Bards and Scotch Raviewers, Byron.

Odd vols. of North American Sylva, Michaux and Nut-
tall, ed. of Rice & Hart or Rice & Rutter of Phila.
W. J. SHUEY, DAYTON, O.

Queen of the Adriatic, Adams.
Ironquill.

WILLIAM T. SMITH & Co., UTICA, N. Y. Britannica, v. 20 to completion, in black cl. and shp., Stoddart's ed.

A. H. SMYTHE, 41 S. HIGH ST., COLUMBUS, O. Binney's Land and Fresh Water Shells of N. A. Government publication.

STANTON & DAVENPORT, WHEELING, W. Va.
New or good second-hand, cloth:
Delaplaine, Walworth.

Godfrey Morgan, Verne.

Hayne's Legends and Lyrics.

Lord's Beacon Lights of History.

Rifle and Hound in Ceylon, Baker.

African Hunting, Baldwin.

Could You Forgiye Her?

Lea's National Medical Dictionary, subscription.
In Darkest Africa. Stanley, subscription.

Her Friend Lawrence, Benedict.

Madame, Benedict.

Twixt Hammer and Anvil, Benedict.

Poets and Poetry of America, Griswold:

G. E. STECHERT, 828 B'WAY, N. Y.

Bartlett, Personal Narrative of Explorations in Texas, N. Mex., Calif., 2 v. 1854.

Mass. Hist: Soc. Coll., 46 v.

T

Peter Force, ed., Collection of Tracts Rel. to Origin,
Settlement of Colonies U. S.. 4 v.

American State Papers, complete set or single vols.
Journals of Cong., 1774 to 1788, 4 V.

Spark's Diplomatic Correspondence of the Revolution,

12 V.

Philadel

E. STEIGER & Co., 25 PARK PL., N. Y. American Journal of Obstetrics. 1883-1884. Bigelow, The Life of Benjamin Franklin, v. 1. phia, 1875. Chinshingura or, The Loyal: League a Japanese romance. New York, 1876.

Gallatin, Synopsis of the Indian Tribes Within the United States. Worcester, 1836.

Semi-Civilized Nations of Mexico, Yucatan, and Central America. New York, 1854.

Luther S. Cushing, Lex Parlamentaria Americana. Bos

ton, 1856.

Fallows, Handbook of Briticisms.

TAYLOR, AUSTIN & Co.; CLEVELAND, O.

Don Quixote, any good ed.

Origin of Esop's Fables.

Bayne's Lessons From My Masters:

Taine, Study of Tennyson.

Bell's British Theatre.

Dilke's British Army.

Higginson's Short Studies of American Authors. 1879.

Alger's Solitudes of Nature and of Man, 1st ed.

Curtis, Homes of American Authors.

Thoreau, Spring in Massachusetts. 1881.

[ocr errors]

Excursions. 1863.

Saltus' Literary Sketches. Heine's Scintillations. Holt. Auerbach's Edelweiss.

[ocr errors]

Carus, Physiognomy German.

Wedgwood's Etymology, pts. 2, 3, and 4. Sheldon.

TIBBALS BOOK Co., 26 WARREN ST., N. Y.

Metaphors of St. Paul.

Supernatural Religion.

Trapp's Commentary.

Campbell and Rice Debate.

Liddon's Works, any.

C. L. TRAVER, TRENTON, N. J. Political Science Quarterly, v. 3, nos. 3 and 4.

Memoirs of the Duke of Rovigo, v. 1.

D. H. TRIPP & Co., 206 MAIN ST., PEORIA, ILL. Littell's Living Age, 156 to date, bound or unbound, although in publisher's binding preferred.

St. Nicholas, V. 14, nos. 1, 2, and 4.

Financial History of the War, by E. G. Spalding.

BOOKS WANTED.—Continued.

KING BROS., 3 FOURTH ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Bancroft's Histories Pacific States, cl. binding, $2.50 per v,

[blocks in formation]

Dalton, Topographical Anatomy of the Brain.
Archives of Pediatrics, 1890, April only.

North American Review, v. 116 and 122, 1873 and 1876.
Ten Years as Cowboy, 471 pp.

Hunting Grounds of the Far West, a Description of the
Plains and Indians of the Great American Desert.
Catlin, N. A. Indians, 2 v. 1821.

Schoolcraft, Information Respecting the Historical Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the U. S., 5 V. 1853.

Am. Jrl. of the Medical Sciences, Aug., 1889, separate.
C. H. WHITING, 44 MADISON ST., CHICAGO, ILL.

Owen's Complete Works, new or second-hand."

C. H. WILCOX & Co., 150 IST ST., PORTLAND, OREGON. Art Interchange, March 15.

History of Republican Party, E. N. Smalley, 1888 ed.
L. J. WRIGHT, LOCKPORT, N. Y.

Constable and Gillies, Bric-a-Brac ser., 1875 or '76 ed., white cl., stamped with black.

S. H. YERKES, TOMKINSVILLE, N. Y. National Music of Ireland, by Michael Conran, any ed. S. ZICKEL, P. O. Box 3001, N. Y. The Infidel; or, Ferdinand Cortes, by Robert Montgomery Bird. Said to have been published 1835 at Philadelphia; a good price paid for it.

BOOKS FOR SALE.

SAMUEL CARSON & Co., 208 POST ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Bancroft's Histories of Pacific States, cl., $2.25; shp., $2.75.

E. DARROW & Co., ROCHESTER, N. Y. Turner's Phelps and Gorham Pioneer Purchase of Western N. Y.

Litchfield County, Conn., Centennial Celebration.
Smith's Early Indiana Trials.

Reveries of a Bachelor, Ik Marvel. Baker & Scribner, 1850.

Ward's Churches of Rochester.

THOMAS W. DURSTON, SYRACUSE, N. Y.

The Syracuse Blue-Book, containing address of the Society and wealthy ladies and gentlemen of Syracuse. Price, $3.00, postpaid.

23 copies Doré's Masterpieces.

Representative Poems.
Gold to Gray.

Child's Bible, gilt.

[ocr errors]

47

44

7

[merged small][ocr errors][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors]

plain.

46

morocco.

Wonders, plain.

gilt. leather.

All new, published by Cassell, retail price, $491.50; will sell the lot for $100.

E. J. ERTZBERGER, 112 CHESTNUT ST., ALBANY, N. Y. Shakespeare, Illustrated by Kenney Meadows, complete in 52 parts, $7.50.

Abbott's History of Civil War, 2 v., cloth, clean as new, $3.50.

Herndon and Gibbons, Explorations of the Valley of the Amazon, 2 v., cloth, $2.

JOSEPH MACLEAN, 2206 PHILA. ST., PHILA., Pa.
Britannica, 8th ed., 22 v., hf. mor., new. $44.00.
Harper's Weekly, 1860 to 1877, 18 v. $60.00.
Ball's Indian Mutiny, 2 v., full mor. $7.50.
Bancroft's U. S., 10 v., cl., v. 10 shp. $21.50.
Canova's Works, 3 v., hf. rox. 1849. $10.50.

Chambers's Ency., 10 v., hf. mor., and Index. 1867. $11.
Romola, Geo. Eliot, de luxe ed., 2 v. $12.50.
Mushet, On Iron and Steel. 1840. $10.00.
Osburn, "

[ocr errors]

1869. $11.00. Lesley's Guide to Iron Trade, hf. mor. $7.00. Crooks and Rohrig's Metallurgy, v. 2 and 3. $14.00. Truran, On Iron. 1855. $3.00; hf. mor. 1865. $12.00. Burgh's Boilers, hf. mor. $12.50.

[ocr errors]

Marine Engineering, hf. mor. $9.00.
Compound Engines. $6.00.

Rankine's Machine Tools, hf. mor. $12.00.

Schoolcroft's N. A. Indians, 5 vols., uncut. $17.50.
Art Treasures of America, 10 sections in 10 silk portfolios,
no. 56, pub. $200.00, for $55.00.

MILLER'S, 2 ARCADE COURT, CHICAGO.
Publishers' Weekly, v. 25 to 36 inclusive, 12 v., $5.00.
Irving's Life Columbus, 3 V. 1828. $6.00.
Bryant's Poems, bds. 1832. $5.00.

Natural History of Birds of U. S., by Wilson, with life by Ord, 3 v., text and atlas of plates, colored, 4 v. 1828. $40.00.

$3.00.

P. O. Box 336, ALBANY, N. Y. Littell's Living Age, 80 nos, clean as new. Leslie's Weehly, 100 odd War nos. $3.50. Leslie's Pictorial History of the War, nos. 1 to 33, lacks no. 25, and no. 8 damaged. $2.00,

Harper's Magazine, v. 3, 4, 5, clean in shp. $4.00.

J. W. RANDOLPH & ENGLISH, RICHMOND, Va. Audubon's Birds of America, 7 v., and Audubon and Bachman's Quadrupeds of North America, 2 v., set, 10 V., 655 colored plates, roy. 8°, antique mor., a little rubbed, otherwise a nice set. Price on application. S. J. W. REYNOLDS, COOPERSTOWN, N. Y. Century Magazine, v. 1 to present time, nearly all bound

Write.

H. SCHOONMAKER, 347 RACE ST., CINCINNATI, O. Chisholm's Life Assurance Commutation Tables, 2 V. 1858. $15.00.

Hamilton's Lectures on Quaternions. 1853. $15.00.
De Morgan's Calculus. Best offer.

Other mathematical works.

A. H. SMITH, 249 HENNEPIN AVE., MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Harper's Monthly Magazine, from v. 1 to 67, inclusive.

Ye Little Olde Booke Store, Springfield, Mass. Harper's Weekly, May 7-Dec. 31, 1859, hf. shp.; 1860. hf. shp.; Jan. 5-Nov. 23, 1861, hf. shp.; 1862, hf. shp.: 1863, hf. shp.; April 2-Dec. 31, 1864, hf. shp.; 1865-1874, except July-Dec., 1869, hf. mor. In all 26 v. $125.00.

[blocks in formation]

SITUATIONS WANTED.-Continued.

WANTED, after June 30, position in library,cataloguing preferred. Have had three years' experience in library of 18,000 volumes; can read French, German, and Latin easily. First-class references given. Address

CLEAVES BENNETT, Champaign, Ill.

COPYRIGHT NOTICES.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS,

COPYRIGHT OFFICE, WASHINGTON, Nos. 11,429 V. to 11,450 V., inclusive.-To wit: Be it remembered, That on the 7th day of April, Anno Domini 1890, Marcius Willson, of Vineland, N. J., and N. A. Calkins, of New York, have deposited in this office the titles of Charts, the titles or descriptions of which are in the following words, to wit: "School and Family Charts, accompanied by a Manual of Object Lessons and Elementary Instruction." By Marcius Willson and N. A. Calkins.

No. 1, Elementary: Familiar Objects represented by Words and Pictures; No. 2, Reading: First Lessons: No. 3. Reading: Second Lessons; No. 4, Reading: Third Lessons: No. 5, Reading: Fourth Lessons; No. 6, Reading: Fifth Lessons; No. 12, Forms and Solids; No. 14, The Chromatic Scale of Colors." In renewal for 14 years from April 30, 1890, when the first term of 28 years will have expired.

"No. 20, Botany: The Classification of Plants." In renewal for 14 years from May 29, 1890, when the first term of 28 years will have expired.

"No. 7, Elementary Sounds; No. 11, Lines and Measures: No. 13, Familiar Colors; No. 15, Zoological; Economical Uses of Animals-Representative of Some of the Leading Orders and Divisions of Quadrupeds; No. 16, Zoological: The Classification of Animals-Class 1, Mammalia; No. 17, Zoological: Class 2, Aves or Birds; No. 18, Zoological; Class 3, Reptiles-Class 4, Fishes; No. 19. Botanical: Forms of Leaves, Stems, Roots, and Flowers: No. 21, Botany: Economical Uses of Plants; No. 22, Botanical: Economical Uses of Plants-continued." In renewal for 14 years from July 23, 1890, when the first term of 28 years will have expired.

No. 8, Phonic Spelling; No 9, Writing; No. 10, Drawing Elementary, Geometrical, and Perspective.' In renewal for 14 years from August 15, 1890, when the first term of 28 years will have expired.

The rights whereof they claim as authors, in conformity with the laws of the United States respecting copyrights. A. R. SPOFFORD, Librarian of Congress.

SPECIAL NOTICES.

S. H. CHADBOURNE, Dealer in Old Books and Magazines, 57 Warren St., Roxbury, Mass. Catalogue No. 7, AMERICANA AND NATURAL HISTORY. Now ready.

COMPLETE sets of all the leading Magazines and Re

views, and back numbers of some three thousand different periodicals, for sale, cheap, at the AMERICAN AND FOREIGN MAGAZINE DEPOT, 47 Dey St., New York.

NOTICE TO THE TRADE.-If you require wants to complete serial publications, foreign or domestic

[merged small][graphic][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][merged small][merged small][graphic][merged small][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][ocr errors][merged small][merged small]

magazines, reviews, or periodicals of any description, the Edited by Rev. Chas. Gore, M.A.,

largest stock in the United States is to be found at JOHN BEACHAM'S, 7 Barclay Street, New York.

YALE MILITARY LECTURES.

By C. A. L. TOTTEN, U.S.A., Prof. Mil. Sci. and Tac., S S.S., Yale. Series of 1890. Just issued. 12th thousand. With illustrations and tables. 1 vol., 8vo, paper, 50 cts. A complete and timely survey of the outlook at home and abroad. Liberal discounts to the trade. Orders solicited. Send for circulars.

THE OUR RACE PUBLISHING CO., P. O. Box 1333, New Haven, Conn.

[blocks in formation]

Principal of Pusey House, and Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.

WILL BE READY ABOUT JUNE 3.

8vo, Cloth, $3.00.

"As a mere intellectual pleasure we can justly say that we have not often chanced upon a reading equal to that of Lux Mundi,' and as a defence and confirmation of the Faith, nothing more acceptable has for a long time come in our way."-Churchman.

May be obtained from any bookseller, or will be sent free, by mail, on receipt of price, by

E. & J. B. YOUNG & CO.,

Cooper Union, Fourth Ave., N. Y.

VERYBODY, in this world, preferring

EVER

other things being

wants the best of everything. equal -American books, on the principle that the best reading for Americans is that which is instinct with the true American spirit.

All well and good. Human nature is pretty apt to be right in its tendencies. Only these need direction. This passion for the best is no exception, because the best of many things is not, taken by itself, worth the labor of the getting. Life may be, and often is, frittered away in the quest of it-the best dress, the best dinner, the best carriage, the best furniture, the best reception of the season, the best bank account.

It seems, then, that the all-essential thing is not so much to get the best, as the best of the best.

The gaudiest sunflower is not, by any means, a rose, nor the prize pumpkin a peach, and it makes all the difference in the world with the aroma and savor of life, you may be sure of it, whether it is given up to coveting its choicest peaches and roses or its pumpkins and sunflow

ers.

Money may do its best to get the best and yet fail to get anything that makes for the best in life. Whatever helps us to love larger loves, to live larger lives, to enjoy larger joys-this is the best of the best.

There are many other things that give this aid, but no one thing perhaps that does more than books, the best books, and this means the records of the best that has been thought and said and done in the world.

For over a score of years the D. Lothrop Company have been bringing out these books, always

They are thus doing the very thing that Henry Cabot Lodge, in a recent speech, said Congress ought to do, namely, “furnishing to the reading public, to the boys and girls, to the young men and women of an impressionable age, books which are American books, not foreign books, not the cheap books of France, dedicated as Matthew Arnold has said, 'to the Goddess of Lubricity,' not the second class of English novels about dukes and duchesses and lords and ladies, not books which contain ideas. hostile to our institutions, but American books that will breathe American ideas and teach them to respect and admire American government and society, and not a system of government and society wholly alien to them."

This firm have now in preparation the finest line of Holiday Books ever made in any country. Having at last no resource left but to eclipse themselves, they propose to do that, even if they have to make double the usual outlay of labor and money to do it.

In richness and variety and interest, in every quality, in short, that makes books desirable, the issues of 1890 will be nearer perfection than ever before, and thatall book-lovers know it coming from the D. Lothrop Company, means a great deal.

« iepriekšējāTurpināt »