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Utopia, by Sir Thomas More

More, Sir Thomas: Utopia. Ideal Edition, cloth. 30c. (10c)

Muller, Geo. Life of the Author of “Life of Trust,” by his wife, cl., 25c. (10)

Nelson. Dorance; A Novel. By R. E. Nelson. 12mo, cloth, 75c. (25c).

*Newton. Cyclopædia of Bible Illustrations, being a storehouse of Similes, Allegories, and Anecdotes. Edited by Rev. R. Newton, D.D. 12mo, cloth, $1.25, reduced to 90c. (20)

Nuttall’s Great Dictionary, Cheap

*Nuttall’s Standard Dictionary of the English Language. A new illustrated edition; revised, extended, and improved throughout, by Rev. James Wood, Edinburgh. 100,000 references and all the new words. The handiest lexicon in the world. In large crown 8vo, 832 pp., cloth, $1.50, reduced to 90c. (15c) With patent cut-in index, 20 cents extra.

*Old London Street Cries, and Cries of To-Day. 16mo., 50c, reduced to 25c. (7c)

Oliphant, Mrs. M. O. W. A Country Gentleman. 30c. (10c)

Owen. Dupleix and the Indian Empire. By Samuel J. Owen. Ideal Edition, cl., 20c. (4c)

Brilliant Essays – Beauty and Evolution

Parker. The Spirit of Beauty. Essays, scientific and æsthetic, by Prof. Henry W. Parker; large 12mo, cloth, gilt top, 85c. (25c)

*Parloa. Appledore Cook Book, The. By Miss Parloa. 12mo, cloth, $1.25, reduced to 80c. (15c)

Peabody. Cecil’s Natural History. I. – Beasts. II. – Birds. III. – Insects. By S. H. Peabody, Pres. University of Illinois. With numerous illustrations. 12mo. Small Pica type, 90c. (25c)

*Percy. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. By Bishop Percy. In 3 vols., Royal 8vo, cloth gilt, gilt tops. Price reduced from $18.00 to $5.60 ($1.50)

Peyton, Thos.: The Glasse of Time. Ideal Edition, cloth, gilt top, 40c. (15c)

Phillips, Wendell. Memorial Oration of Geo. W. Curtis, to which is added Mr. Phillips’s famous address on The War for the Union. Elzevir Edition, cloth, 25c. (6c)

The Talmud – Interwoven Gospels

Pick: The Talmud: What it is. By Rev. Bernhard Pick. Ph.D. Ideal Edition, cloth. 60c. (20c)

– Apocryphal Life of Jesus. By Rev. Bernhard Pick. Ph.D. Ideal Ed., cloth, 60c. (20c)

– The Jews Since the Destruction of Jerusalem. Ideal Ed., cloth, 20c. (4c)

Pittenger. The Interwoven Gospels. The four histories of Jesus Christ blended into a complete and continuous narrative in the words of the Gospels. According to the American Revised Version of 1881. Compiled by Rev. William Pittenger. 12mo, cloth, with maps, 90c. (30c)

A Great War Story

Pittenger. A History of the great Raid and Locomotive Chase in Georgia in 1862. By William Pittenger. New edition, large 8vo, illustrated, cloth, $1.50 (60c)

– The same, cheap ed., the story complete but omitting documents, paper, 40c.; cloth, 75c.

Wonders and Curiosities of the World

*Platt. World’s Cyclopedia of Wonders and Curiosities. Compiled by I. Platt, D.D.; illustrated, nearly 1,000 pages. Large, 8vo, price $3.00, reduced to $1.60 (35c)

Plutarch’s Lives, complete. An edition in large type, 3 vols., large 12mo, cloth, former price $4.50, reduced to $2.00 (40c)

– *The same, with unimportant lives omitted. 12mo, cloth, 75c. (15c)

Pratt, Jerry. By Ellen F. Pratt, 12mo, cloth, 75c. (25c).

*Poe. Prose Stories. By Edgar Allan Poe. 12mo, $1.00, reduced to 60c. (10c)

Poetical “Wonder-Book.” Containing in one octavo volume, richly bound in fine cloth, with ink and gold ornamentation, complete poetical works of Scott, Burns, and Moore. $1.75 (40c)

Popular Classical Quotations, 320 pages, 12mo. cloth, price $1.50 reduced to 30c. (6c)

Potwin. The Triumph of Life. By Rev. Thomas Stoughton Potwin. Ideal Edit., cl., 60c. (25c)

Proctor’s Popular Science

Proctor. Light Science, Familiar Essays, Hereditary Traits, etc. By Prof. R. A. Proctor, 8vo. cloth, 90c. (35c)

Pryde. Highways of Literature. By David Pryde. F.R.S.E. Elzevir Ed., cloth, 25c. (7c)

Ramage, C. T. Great Thoughts by Greek Authors. Cloth, 50c. (15c)

Rankin. Ingleside Rhaims. By Rev. J. E. Rankin, D.D. Ideal Edition, cloth. 60c. (20c)

Rankin. Hymns Pro Patria. By Rev. J. E. Rankin, D.D. Ideal Edition, cloth, 60c. (20c).

Prescott. Ferdinand and Isabella. By Wm. H. Prescott. Illustrated Library Edition, in two vols., small octavo, $1.25 (35c) Popular edition, without illustrations, one vol., 85c. (20c)

– Prescott’s Biographical and Critical Miscellanies. Ideal Edition, cl., 40c. (15c); hf Mco., 55c. (20c)

Rawlinson’s Historical Works

Rawlinson. Seven Great Monarchies. By George Rawlinson. 3 vols., 12mo, with many hundred illustrations and maps. Cloth, gilt tops, $2.75 (80c)

– Rawlinson’s History of Ancient Egypt. With Several Hundred Illustrations, in two large 12mo vols., cloth, gilt tops. Price of the set reduced from $6.00 to $1.50 (50c)

– Historical Evidences. By Rawlinson. 12mo, cloth, gilt top. 60c. (20c)

– Egypt and Babylon from Sacred and Profane Sources. By Rawlinson, cl., gilt top, 50c. (15c)

– Religions of the Ancient World. By Rawlinson. 12mo, cloth, gilt top, 50c. (15c)

Reade. A Good Fight. A Novel. By Chas. Reade, 12mo, cloth, 30c. (6c)

*Recitations and Readings, Two Hundred. 350 pages, 12mo, cloth, 45c. (12c)

– *Ogilvie’s Popular. 12mo. 360 pages, cloth, 45c. (12c)

– *Ostler Joe, and Other Choice Recitations. 12mo. 372 pages, 45c. (12c)

Richardson. Choice of Books, The. By Prof. C. F. Richardson. Cloth. 30c. (8c)

Roget’s Thesaurus. 12mo, half Russia, price reduced from $2.50 to $1.25 (40c); cloth, $1.15 (30c) Either style with patent cut-in index, 40 cents extra.

Rollin and Ruskin

*Rollin’s Ancient History. Small Pica type, large quarto, cloth, $2.00 (35c)

Ruskin’s Choice Works. Sesame and Lilies. Cloth, 30c. (10c) Crown of Wild Olive. Cloth. 30c. (10c) Ethics of the Dust: cloth, 30c. (10c) The three volumes in one, half Morocco, 60c. (20c)

Ruskin, John, Works of. Vols. sold separately as priced: 1. Fors Clavigera, 2 vols., $2.25 (50c) 2. Arrows of the Chace; Aratra Penteleci: Construction of Sheepfolds, $1.20 (25c) 3. The Seven Lamps of Architecture; Architecture and Painting; Queen of the Air; Ethics of the Dust, $1.20 (25c)

– Art and Life; A Ruskin Anthology. Compiled by Wm. Sloane Kennedy. Small octavo, with two portraits and other illus.; cloth, gilt top, $1.15 (30c); half Morocco, $1.40 (45c)

St. Augustine – St. Pierre – Schiller

St. Augustine, Confessions of. Translated by E. D. Pusey. D.D. Ideal Edition, cloth. 60c. (16c)

Saintine. Picciola. Translated from the French of J. X. B. Saintine. Ideal Ed., cloth, 30c. (10c)

St. Pierre. Paul and Virginia. From the French of Bernadin St. Pierre. Ideal Ed., cl., 30c. (12c)

Sayings, Wise and Otherwise, by the author of Sparrowgrass Papers, cloth, 30c. (8c)

*Schiller: Complete Works. Library Ed. Ill., large type, 8 vols. 12mo, cloth, $12.00, reduced to $6.75 (1.50)

Schiller’s History of the Thirty Years’ War in Germany. Elzevir Ed., cloth, 50c. (15c)

Schmauk. Charms and Secrets of Good Conversation. By Theodore E. Schmauk; 32mo, paper, 10c.

Science Essays. Spencer’s Philosophy of Style, Huxley’s Evidences of Evolution, Wilson’s Sea Serpents of Science. Williams’s World Smashing. Rawlinson’s Civilizations of Asia; cloth, 25c. (8c)

Scott. Beautiful Homes. The Art of beautifying suburban home grounds, by Frank J. Scott, large octavo, very finely illustrated, handsomely bound, price reduced from $8.00 to $3.00 ($1.00)

Scott’s Waverley Novels

Scott. Waverley Novels. By Sir Walter Scott. New. 1888, Library Edition, with illustrations; 12 vols., large 12mo, cloth, gilt top, price $7.75 ($1.50)

Scott. Waverley Novels. Fine Library edition, small octavo, gilt top. The following volumes are sold separately at 50c. (10c), each: 1. Woodstock, 2. Count Robert, 3. Peveril of the Peak, 4. Antiquary, 5. Legend of Montrose, 6. Anne of Geierstein, 7; Fortunes of Nigil, 8. Bride of Lammermoor, 9. St. Ronan’s Well, 10. Midlothian, 11. The Pirate, 12. Fair Maid of Perth, 13. The Monastery, 14. The Abbot, 15. Red Gauntlet, 16. The Betrothed, 17. Quentin Durward.

Scott, Sir Walter: Poetical Works. 4 volumes, cloth, $1.75 (70c); half Morocco, $2.25 (90c) The same in one vol., 8vo, cloth. 65c. (15c)

The Lady of the Lake. Cloth, 30c. (10c)

– Ivanhoe. By Sir Walter Scott, 12mo, cloth, 35c. (7c)

The Ideal Shakespeare – Six Vols., big type, $3!

Shakespeare. The Ideal Shakespeare. The text complete in 12 volumes, Long Primer type, fine heavy paper, bound in fine cloth, gilt tops, price $6.00 ($2.50); half Morocco, $7.20 ($2.50); The same, on lighter paper bound in 6 vols., cloth. $3.00 ($1.40) An extra vol., giving glossary, concordance, etc., cloth. 50c. (15c); half Morocco, 60c. (20c) See Elzevir Library for plays at 7 cts. each. 20 for $1.00.

*Shakespeare. Complete Poetical and Dramatic Works. More than 1,000 pp., 8vo, sheep, $4.50, reduced to $2.00 (35c) The same, cloth, $2.00, reduced to $1.50 (25c)

Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Elzevir edition, half Russia, price nominal, 20c. (4c)

*Shakespearian Quotations, Dictionary of. Cl., 12mo, $1.25, reduced to 85c. (20c)

The School for Scandal

Sheridan. The School for Scandal. By Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Ideal Ed., cloth, 25c. (6c)

Smalley. History of the Republican Party, by Eugene V. Smalley. New edition, revised to 1888; with numerous portraits. 12mo, paper. 25c. (10c), cloth, 60c. (20c)

Smith’s Bible Dictionary. Exact reprint of the Boston $3.00 edition. Cloth, 75c. (20c)

Smith. Lang Syne; or The Wards of Mount Vernon. By Mary Stuart Smith. 12mo, paper, 30c. (10c)., cloth, 60c. (20c)

Smith. The London Medical Student. By Albert Smith. 12mo, cloth, 50c. (20c).

By Herbert Spencer

Spencer, Herbert: On Education. Elzevir Edition, cloth, 50c. (15c)

– Data of Ethics, Progress and Its Laws. Philosophy of Style, etc., 8vo cloth, 90c. (35c)

Standard Poets. Fine and Cheap Editions

Standard Poets. Library and Presentation Editions (all 20 per cent.).

S. P. Aytoun and Macaulay, 45c.

*Bo. Coleridge, 55c.

*Bo. Cowper, 55c.

*Bo. Crabbe, 55c.

*L. P. George Eliot 60c.

†L. P. Goldsmith, 55c.

Br. Hemans, 55c.

*S. P. Herbert, 50c.

L. P. Hood, 55c.

L. P. Ossian, 50c.

*L. P. Poetry of Flowers, 50c.

*S. P. Procter, Adelaide, 50c.

*P. Rogers, 50c.

*L. P. D. G. Rossetti, 50c.

†L. P. Schiller, 50c.

Br. Scott, 50c.

*N. Spenser, 55c.

*L. P. H. Taylor, 50c.

*S. P. Thomson, 50c.

†L. P. Wesley, Charles, 50c.

*Bo. H. Kirke White, 50c.

Abbreviations: – The letters prefixed to the above titles indicate the type used in each volume, as follows: N., Nonpareil; M., Minion; Br., Brevier; Bo., Bourgeois; L. P., Long Primer; S. P., Small Pica; P., Pica. Titles marked with the asterisk (*), I have also in plain cloth binding, at a price 15 per cents lower. Those marked with the obelisk (†), I have in plain cloth only, at a price of 15 cents lower.

Stephens, Alex. H., Life of. By Frank H. Norton. Elzevir Edition, cloth, 25c. (6c)

Stevenson. The Merry Men and Other Tales. By R. L. Stevenson. 12mo, cloth, 30c. (8c)

– Prince Otto: A Romance. By R. L. Stevenson. Paper, 5c.; cloth, 20c. (4c)

Stretton. Bede’s Charity: A Novel, by Hesba Stretton. 12mo, cloth, 30c. (10c)

Stowe. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. By Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. 12mo, cloth, large type, price $1.00, reduced to 85c. (15c)

– *Bible Heroines. By Harriet Beecher Stowe. With an illustration in oil from a celebrated painting by Paul Delaroche. 8vo, cloth, former price, $2.50, reduced to 90c. (35c)

*Sue, Eugene. The Wandering Jew. 12mo, $1.50, reduced to 85c. (15c)

– *The Mysteries of Paris. 12mo, $1.50, reduced to 85c. (15c)

Swinburne. Locrine; A Tragedy. By Algernon Charles Swinburne. 12mo, cloth, 25c. (6c)

Swiss Family Robinson. 12mo, cloth, 35c. (6c)

Tadlock. Bohemian Days. By Clara Moyse Tadlock. A narrative of a recent journey around the world. Small 8vo, cloth, finely illustrated, $1.50 (60c)

Taine’s History of English Literature. Large 12mo, Brevier type, unabridged, cloth, 75c. (20c)

*Talmage, Dr. T. De Witt. The Wedding Ring, etc. A Series of Sermons. 12mo, cloth, 45c. (12c)

* – The Battle for Bread. Sermons. 12mo, cloth, 45c. (12c)

Bayard Taylor’s Famous Book

Taylor. Views Afoot; or Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff. By Bayard Taylor. With two portraits and an introduction by N. P. Willis. 12mo, 481 pages. Long Primer type, cloth, 60c. (20c)

Taylor’s Popular Health Books

Taylor. Popular Health Books. By George H. Taylor, M.D. Health by Exercise, 12mo, illustrated; cloth, $1.00 (50c); Health for Women, cloth. 75c. (35c); Manual Massage, 12mo, cloth, 75c. (35c); Mechanical Massage, 12mo, cloth, 75c. (35c); Paralysis, 12mo, cloth, 75c. (35c); Pelvic and Hernial Therapeutics. 12mo, cloth. $1.00 (50c)

Taylor. The Progress of Learning. By Geo. Lansing Taylor, S.T.D. 12mo, cloth, 30c. (8c)

Thackeray’s Novels

Thackeray. Complete Works of Wm. M. Thackeray Library Edition, with profuse illustrations; 10 volumes, large 12mo. cloth, gilt top, price $6.50 ($1.00) hf Mco., marbled edges, $9.00 ($1.90)

Illus. Library ed., small 8vo, gilt top. Odd volumes of this fine edition are sold at 60c. (10c) each. 2. Paris, Irish, and Eastern Sketches; 3. Barry Lyndon. Great Hoggarty Diamond; 4. Roundabout Papers, Four Georges, etc.; 5. Burlesques, Yellowplush Papers. 6. Christmas Books, Book of Snobs, and Ballads.

From Log Cabin to White House

Thayer. Garfield. Life of James A. Garfield, or from Log Cabin to the White House. By William M. Thayer With Eulogy by Hon. James G. Blaine. Large 12mo. Cloth, 60c. (22c)

*Thomas. The American Fruit Culturist. 8vo, cloth, $3.00, reduced to $1.15 (30c)

The Elzevir Library – Continued

(All 40 per cent. to Stockholders.)

By MAURICE THOMPSON.

300 Browsing and Nibbling. 2c

302 Cuckoo Notes. 3c

303 Anatomy of Bird Song. 3c

305 Some Hyoid Hints. 2c

BIOGRAPHY.

11 Sir Isaac Newton. James Parton. 2c

16 Life of Gustave Doré. Illustrated. 2c

35 Alex. H. Stephens. Norton. 8c

38 Richard Wagner. Bertha Thomas. 2c

41 Peter Cooper. C. Edwards Lester. 8c

50 Life of Irving, by R. H. Stoddard, and three other biographical sketches. 10c

75 Sam Houston. C. Edwards Lester. 15c

100 James Ferguson, the Astronomer. 2c

104 Count Rumford. John Tyndall. 2c

135 Wendell Phillips. Geo. Wm. Curtis. 2c

142 Emerson. Matthew Arnold. 2c

155 Thomas Carlyle. Augustine Birrell. 2c

178 Life of Hannibal. Thomas Arnold, of Rugby 8c

183 Julius Cæsar. H. G. Liddell. 8c

219 Charles Brockden Brown. Prescott. 3c

22 °Cervantes. ′ 3c

221 Sir Walter Scott. ′ 5c

222 Moliere. Wm. H. Prescott. 3c

Marcus Aurelius. Matthew Arnold. 3c

Thackeray. By author of Rab and His Friends. 5c

Cyrus the Great. Geo. Rawlinson. 2c

ANCIENT CLASSICS —Each 10c.

These are not literal translations, but, far more interesting to the average reader, they are biographical and critical, giving extended selections (translated) at once characteristic of the author, and entertaining.

22 Cæsar. Anthony Trollope.

23 Herodotus. Geo. C. Swayne.

24 Cicero. W. Lucas Collins.

31 Aristotle. Sir Alex. Grant.

34 Horace. Theodore Martin.

39 Juvenal. Edward Walford.

45 Tacitus. W. B. Donne.

73 Homer’s Odyssey.

72 Homer’s Iliad. W. L. Collins.

77 Æschylus. Bishop of Colombo.

80 Pliny. Church and Brodribb.

81 Aristophanes. W. L. Collins.

82 Greek Anthology. Lord Neaves.

85 Euripides. W. B. Donne.

86 Livy. W.L. Collins

87 Ovid. Rev. A. Church.

90 Thucydides. W. L. Collins.

91 Lucian. W. L. Collins.

92 Plautus and Terrence. W. L. Collins.

95 Lucretius. W. H. Mallock.

96 Pindar. Rev. F. D. Morice.

97 Hesiod and Theognis. Davis.

MISCELLANEOUS.

372 Washington’s Farewell Address, Etc. 3c

5 The Sea-Serpents of Science. A. Wilson. 2c

7 Motive and Habit of Reading. C. F. Richardson. 2c

10 Queen Mabel and Other Poems. E. T. Alden 2c

12 World-Smashing, Etc. W. M. Williams. 2c

13 A Half Hour in Natural History. Peabody. 2c

30 Highways of Literature. David Pryde. 8c

40 Sunshine, and Other Stories, E. T. Alden. 2c

42 The Civilizations of Asia. Rawlinson. 2c

371 The Evidences of Evolution. Huxley. 2c

64 Bacon’s Essays. Complete. 12c

66 The Celtic Hermits. Charles Kingsley. 2c

69 A Half Hour with St. Paul. Conybeare and H. 2c

79 The Spectre Bridegroom. Washington Irving. 12c

83 Fior D’Aliza. Lamartine. 2c

99 The Four Chief Apostles. F. Godet. 2c

103 The Battle of Marathon. Sir Edward Creasy. 2c

109 The Battle of Hastings. Creasy. 2c

111 The Battle of Saratoga. Creasy. 2c

113 Conduct of the Understanding. John Locke. 8c

116 Luther Anecdotes. Dr. Macaulay. 8c

122 Public Health. Edw. Orton. LL.D. 2c

129 Erasmus and Henry VIII. D’Aubigne. 2c

132 On Liberty. John Stuart Mill. 10c

134 Numbers. Matthew Arnold. 2c

137 Progress of the Working Classes. R. Giffen. 3c

143 Thoughts from Greek Authors. Æschylus, Etc. 2c

145 The Same – Aristotle, Etc. 2c

146 The Same – Demosthenes, Diogenes, Etc. 2c

147 The same – Euripides, etc. 2c

155 Thomas Carlyle. By the author of Obiter Dicta. 3c

157 On Leaves. Sir John Lubbock. 10c

160 Obiter Dicta. Augustine Birrell. 15c

365 Burke on the Sublime and Beautiful. 10c

163 Co-operation. G. J. Holyoake. 10c

173 Civil Service Reform. Geo. S. Bernard. 18c

185 Erasmus and Luther. J. A. Froude. 2c

200 Pleasures of Reading. Sir John Lubbock. 2c

229 History of the Knights Templars. Froude. 5c

234 Transcendentalism, an Essay. 5c

281 Rasselas. Dr. Johnson. 7c

290 Picciola. J. X. B. Saintine. 7c

321 The Love of Books. John Bright. 2c

349 Rip Van Winkle. Irving. 2c

On Education. James Anthony Froude. 3c

Rab and his Friends. Dr. John Brown. 2c

The Lamp of Memory. Ruskin. 2c

Message of the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth.

Andrew D. White. 3c

Women and Marriage. Philip G. Hamerton. 3c

Selections from Confucius and Mencius. 3c

The Choice of Books. Prof. Chas. F. Richardson. 10c

Classic Essays. Part II. (complete). 10c

Socialism. John Stuart Mill. 5c

Madagascar, a History. J. W. Phelps. 10c

Irving’s Sketch Book. 15c

Standard Poets – Fine Binding – Cheap

*Poetical Works: Library Edition of the Standard Poets. Each bound in half Russia, marbled edges. In new and attractive style of binding. 12mo, each $1.00,; 60c. (10c):

Aurora Leigh,

Browning (Mrs.),

Browning (Robert),

Bryant,

Burns,

Byron,

Campbell,

Chaucer,

Christian Year,

Coleridge,

Cook (Eliza),

Cowper,

Dante,

Eliot (George),

Familiar Quotations,

Familiar Poems,

Faust (Goethe’s),

Goethe’s Poems,

Golden Treasury,

Goldsmith,

Hemans,

Herbert,

Hood,

Hugo (Victor),

Iliad,

Ingoldsby Legends,

Jean Ingelow,

Keats,

Lady of the Lake,

Lalla Rookh,

Lay of the Last Minstrel,

Longfellow,

Lucile,

Marmion,

Meredith (Owen),

Milton,

Moore,

Mulock (Miss),

Odyssey,

Percy’s Reliques,

Pilgrim’s Progress,

Pope,

Procter,

Red Letter Poems,

Schiller,

Scott,

Shelley,

Southey,

Spanish Ballads,

Spenser,

Tennyson,

Thomson,

Virgil,

White, Kirke,

Whittier,

Wordsworth.

Good paper, large and clear type, ample margins, excellent press work and a somewhat odd but remarkably neat and tasteful style of binding, together with the nature of their contents cause these books to combine the useful and the ornamental in a high degree. The price, low before, is reduced one-half.

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. (30c); 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.

“I have two encyclopedias – Chambers’s and the Britannica – but for handy reference I prefer the Manifold. It is the Encyclopedia for the student, author and poor man.” – D. W. Hull, Colfax, Iowa.

“The work is marked by uniform excellence, each volume being packed with just such information on the manifold topics treated of as is ordinarily desired. The illustrations are numerous and helpful. It is a Cyclopedia for the people, and it is made available to all by the extremely small price.” —Christian Intelligencer, New York.

Alden’s Cyclopedia of Literature

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 13 vols., cloth, for cash received before July 1, 1889, $6.50. For half Morocco, add 10 cents a volume. AGENTS WANTED.

“No student of literature can afford to be without this work; and to subscribe for it at once, and study each volume as it comes out, is the best way for those who have not much time or money at their disposal. There is really no reason why the lover of the best literature should not read this excellent selection steadily through from the first page to the last.” —National Baptist, Philadelphia.

“I have received thirteen volumes of Alden’s Cyclopedia of Literature, and am more than satisfied with them. I think the same amount of equally well digested information could not have been brought to my shelves from other sources for double the cost of these volumes. Both their manner and matter are excellent.” – H. H. McIntire, West Randolph, Vt.

“We hail with pleasure every new volume of this most unique and interesting work.” —Farm, Field and Stockman, Chicago, Ill.

“I have received volumes XII. and XIII. of the Cyclopedia of Universal Literature, and am more and more surprised at the cheapness and thoroughness of the work. When completed, I do not think there will be its equal in the language.” – Mrs. Lois J. Campbell, Fairfield, Pa.