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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 story-tellers is a happy idea, and it seems as if for a few hours of really enjoyable entertainment nothing better could be devised. There is a special charm about a good short tale, and these twenty samples of feminine literature afford a chance for interesting comparison of achievement in the same plane and with nearly similar opportunity. The sad, the gay, the sentimental, the horrible, the good, the real, are to be found in these pages viewed and dealt with in various ways; and none 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 this side of the Atlantic has been prepared by Laura C. Holloway. This vivacious lady and charming author has written as an introduction to each story, a bit of the biography of each of her chosen lady writers; making her work still more interesting by prefixing a portrait to 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 from me. They are in everyone’s hands; they live in everyone’s memory: 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

“The admirable ease and grace of the narrative as well as the pleasing truth with which the principal characters are designed, make the Vicar of Wakefield one of the most delicious morsels of fictitious composition 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 the simple gracefulness of their language is quite worthy of the author of ‘Wakefield.’” —London Quarterly Review.

“The $5.00 Edition of Irving’s Works arrived to-day; the type, binding, paper and printing are superb: the cheapest set of books I ever purchased. Accept our congratulations.” – W. H. Kelsey, Springville, W. T.

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 has read Green. The enthusiasm and painstaking accuracy of the author, 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); 12 oz Stories from Famous Ballads, cl., 30c. (10c); 10 oz

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

The FABLES of FLORIAN. Translated into English verse by Gen. J. W. Phelps, late member of the Vermont Historical Society, author of “A History of Madagascar,” etc. With numerous very fine illustrations by J. J. Grandville. Elegantly bound in fine cloth, gilt edges, ornamented, price $1.15

The above described work is presented to our patrons with an unusual degree of pleasure, and some pride. The fables are good reading – old and young will be delighted with them; they are worthy of place by the side of Æsop’s and La Fontaine’s; the illustrations are simply superb, true to the text, supplementing and enforcing the teachings of the author, and true to art, original, graphic, and charming.

“Of all the collections of Fables which have appeared since La Fontaine, that of Florian is, beyond dispute, the best. It is also, of all the works of the author, that in which his talent as a writer and as a poet shows to the greatest advantage. In regard to merit of originality, the author avows himself that he has put under contribution all his predecessors; Æsop, Pilpay, Gay, and above all, the Spanish poet Yriarte, who has furnished him the most pleasing apologues. It is worthy of remark that in this kind of literature, whose object is no less to instruct than to please, Florian has one advantage over La Fontaine, that of being in general better adapted to the unaffected simplicity of childhood.” —Grand Dictionnaire Universel du xixe. Siècle.

“Good of every description prevails in this collection. You find here some fables of touching interest, others of a sweet and playful humor, others of a biting subtilty, and still others in a loftier strain without being above that of the fable. The poet understands how to vary his colors with the subjects; he can describe and converse, relate and moralize. We nowhere feel the effort and are always sensible of the metre.” —La Harpe.

“In the writings of Florian we are solely interested with the meaning of the tale, with its moral, which is always refined and delicate, and with his ingenuous and even epigrammatic style. Florian loves Horace, Virgil, La Fontaine, is delighted with Montaigne and the poetic tales of the 16th century; he notices the caprices and little irregularities of human nature, without being a biting critic or a profound moralist. Under the gentle form of fables he threw an agreeable breeze of ridicule both upon the individual and upon society, as if he hoped to reform.” —M. St. Marc Girardin.

“Few readers of French are unacquainted with the works of Florian. His style, at once elegant and easy, has universally recommended him to the teachers of language, and Telemachus is commonly succeeded or supplanted by some work of Florian. In the circulating libraries the Tales of Florian are almost as generally read as those of Voltaire and Marmontel. He possesses indeed very great attractions for the lovers of light reading. His narrative is spirited and interesting. Love, Friendship, and Heroism are his themes, and he commonly descants upon them with that genuine warmth which results from the combination of sensibility with genius.

“The feelings with him are never exalted at the expense of virtue. His women are tender without licentiousness, and his heroes daring without violating the laws of their country, or questioning the existence of their Creator. He combines the morality of Fenelon with the enthusiasm of Rousseau or St. Pierre. His writings derive an additional charm from his glowing descriptions of the beauties of nature. He seems tenaciously to uphold the poetical connection between rural life and moral purity, and loves to annex to tales of love and hardihood their appropriate scenery of rivers, woods, and mountains.” —London Quarterly Review.

The Unity of the Truth

The Unity of the Truth in Christianity and Evolution. By J. Max Hark, D.D. 12mo. 293 pages. Small Pica type, leaded, cloth, gilt top, uncut pages, 90c.

Few books of its kind recently published have aroused more discussion and called forth more varied and contradictory opinions. For example, The Andover Review gave fifteen pages to a criticism of its positions; while The Christian Union, of equal authority, declares that “The volume deserves to take rank with the works of Munger, Newman Smyth, and Prof. Drummond.” The N. Y. Independent, though granting that “in many respects the volume is instructive and suggestive,” and “its aim merits commendation,” has devoted over four columns to combatting its arguments; whereas the critical Sunday-School Times has heartily commended it in a leading review. While the Presbyterian Quarterly (S. C.) condemns it as being “of no more use than to show the antagonism of the human heart to the things of God,” the Reformed Review (Pa.) praises it as “an earnest effort towards the solution of a grave and difficult problem,” and says, “The author deserves the thanks of all who are sincerely interested in the progress of religion and in the welfare of the Church.” Such contradictions from such sources are the strongest proof of the importance of the work, and of the need of every intelligent person’s reading and judging it for himself. At the same time, however, by far the greater weight of criticism, religious and secular, is favorable to it, as will be seen by the following few

Critical Comments

“A very remarkable book, written in a nervous, brilliant style, each phrase a squarely-planted and advancing step. That it will bring peace and conviction to many restless souls cannot be doubted.” —The World, N. Y. City.

“We have seen no volume which seems to us so thorough and intelligent in its purpose to consider the relations between modern evolutionary thought and ancient Christian faith and doctrines. Does not attempt to reconcile science and religion by tearing away either the one or the other.” —The Christian Union, N. Y. City.

“A good, wholesome book, brief enough for the busiest Christian, an honest untechnical book, of plain words, and powerful. It is an admirable essay, informed with the essence of true religion, and destined to bring light to many struggling Christians.” —The Press, Philadelphia.

“He speaks with freshness and enthusiasm. We are persuaded that Dr. Hark’s purpose and spirit are such that good will be wrought by his work.” —Illus. Christian Weekly, N. Y. City.

“A candid and thoughtful discussion; expounded with much earnestness and a fine religious spirit.” —Literary World, Boston.

“It can hardly fail to help the candid reader to a wider and more satisfactory view of God, of Providence, of Prayer, and of Religion. Whatever does this for man has proved an infinite blessing to him.” —Christian Evangelist, St. Louis.

“Significant as showing very clearly the drift of the orthodox creed in the hands of its intelligent supporters.” —Sunday News, Charleston, S. C.

“A sincere and reverent endeavor to help all inquiring souls, in trouble concerning the conflict between evolution and the doctrines of Christianity.” —The Interior, Chicago.

“No writer could approach any question with a more candid spirit or more honorable motive. We wish every clergyman could read the work, and every other person indeed who is interested in the question of evolution.” —Herald of Gospel Liberty, Dayton, O.