The Alden Catalogue of Choice Books, May 30, 1889

Drummond: Natural Law in the Spiritual World. New Edition, cloth, 12mo, 50c. (15c)

– The same. Cheap Edition, cloth, 30c. (9c)

George Eliot’s Works

*Eliot. George Eliot’s Complete Works, popular edition, eight vols., 12mo, cl. $3.75 (60c)

– *Eliot, George, complete works, a fine library edition, in 8 vols., large 12mo, elegantly bound in half Russia, $5.75 ($1.00)

– Eliot, George, Works of. Small octavo edition, cloth, gilt top. Per vol. 60c. (10c); 1. Felix Holt, and Poems; 2. Adam Bede.

– Essays and Leaves from a Note Book. Caxton ed. 40c. (15c)

Eliot, George: Silas Marner. Small Pica type, small quarto, paper 10c. (4c); cloth, 25c. (7c)

– Romola. 12mo, cloth, 35c. (7c)

Elzevir Classics. Type always large. Each vol. complete in itself. Vol. I. See Classic Poems.

Vol. II. 342 pages. Cloth, 35c. (12c) Contents: By Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle. The Spectre Bridegroom. By Canon F. W. Farrar, The Burning of Rome. By Andrew Wilson, The Sea Serpents of Science. By James Parton, Sir Isaac Newton. By W. Mattieu Williams, World-Smashing, Meteoric Astronomy, Lunar Volcanoes. By Frank H. Norton, Paul Gustave Dore. By Bertha Thomas, Richard Wagner. By Dean Swift, The Battle of the Books. By Orpheus C. Kerr, “Puts” and “Calls,” At Easter, Hygeia in the South, The “Last” Man-Epithalamium, In Lent, A Fable of Finance, Condensed Tragedies, A Stoop to Conquer, Squibs for “The Fourth,” Beauty and Booty. By S. Baring-Gould, Legend of the Wandering Jew. By J. H. Merle D’Aubigne, Erasmus and Henry VIII. From Blackwood’s Magazine, James Ferguson, “Astronomer.”

Vol. III. Contains 330 pages. Cloth, 35c. (12c) Contents: By George Rawlinson. The Civilizations of Asia. By John Caird, Buddhism. By Charles Kingsley. The Celtic Hermits. By Cunningham Geikie, The Crucifixion. By Frederick W. Farrar, Seneca and St. Paul. By Conybeare and Howson, A Half Hour with St. Paul. By Franz Delitzsch, Jesus and Hillel. By F. Godet, The Four Chief Apostles. By Mrs. Müller, Life of George Müller.

Vol. IV. Contains 363 pages. Cloth, 35c. (12c) Contents: By Herbert Spencer, The Coming Slavery, Philosophy of Style. By Matthew Arnold. Numbers, Emerson. By George William Curtis, Wendell Phillips. By Wendell Phillips, The War for the Union. By Robert Giffen, Progress of the Working Classes. By T. H. Huxley, Evidences of Evolution. By John Tyndall, Count Rumford. By Edward Orton, Public Health.

Emerson and Epictetus

Emerson. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Popular Works. Nature and Other Essays. Ideal Edition, cloth, 30c. (8c); half Morocco, 40c. (15c) Essays, First Series. Ideal Edition, cloth, 30c. (8c); half Morocco, 40c. (15c) Essays, Second Series. Ideal Edition, cloth. 30c. (8c) Essays complete in one vol., half Morocco, 75c. (25c) New England Reformers, and Divinity College Address, Ideal Edition, cloth, 35c. (12c)

Emerson’s Essays, First Series. Small octavo, Pica type, printed on fine, large paper, giving wide margins, and elegantly bound in half Morocco, marbled edges. Price 75c. (25c)

English Men of Letters. Each vol. is complete in itself. Vols. I., II., and III. are all sold. IV. Aldus edition half Rus., gilt top, contains: Chaucer, by Ward; Spenser, by Church; Cowper, by Goldwin Smith; Southey, by Dowden: Milton, by Pattison, 40c. (15c) V. Acme edition, contains: De Foe, by Minton; Johnson, by Leslie Stephen; Scott, by Hutton; Thackeray, by Trollope; Goldsmith, by Black. Price 30c. (7c)

Epictetus, The Teachings of, translated with notes. Ideal edition. 210 pp., cloth, 30c. (10c)

Famous Warriors. Life of Hannibal, by Thomas Arnold of Rugby; Life of Cæsar, by H. G. Liddell. Life of Cromwell, by Lamartine. Ideal Edition, cloth. 35c. (10c)

*Farmer’s Barn Book. By Clater, Youatt, Skinner and Mills. A Treatise on the Management of Live Stock in Health and Disease. 12mo, cloth, $1.25 reduced to 80c. (15c)

Farrar, Florian, Fouque

Farrar. Seekers after God. By Canon Farrar. Long Primer type, leaded. 12mo, cloth, 40c. (15c)

– Lectures, Addresses and Essays. By Canon Farrar. Ideal Ed., clo. 40c. (17c)

Florian’s Fables. Translated into English verse by Gen. J. W. Phelps. With numerous very fine illustrations by J. J. Grandville. Cloth, gilt edges, price $1.15 (40c)

Fouque, Baron De La Motte: Undine Ideal Edition, cloth, 25c. (7c)

Franklin Literary Nuggets

Franklin Literary Nuggets, The. Size 4½ x 6 inches, about 200 pages each. Fine cloth binding, gilt tops. Per volume, 30c. (8c)

1. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.

2. The Castle of Otranto. By Horace Walpole.

3. My Ten Years’ Imprisonment. By Silvio Pellico.

4. Lessing’s Nathan the Wise.

5 and 6. White’s Natural History of Selborne, 2 vols.

7. Izaak Walton’s Complete Angler.

8. Addison and Steele’s Sir Roger de Coverley.

9. Herodotus’ Egypt and Scythia.

10. Marco Polo’s Voyages and Travels.

11. Sir Thomas Brown’s Religio Medici.

Froissart, Frost, and Froude

*Froissart’s Chronicles. Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the adjoining countries. By Sir John Froissart. Prefaced by a Life of the author and an Introductory Essay by John Lord. Imperial octavo, 650 pages; 115 illustrations. Cloth. $1.50 (35c)

Frost: Cyclopedia of Eminent Christians. 8vo. 672 pages. Small Pica type, cloth, 75c. (25c)

Froude, Jas. A.: Historical and Critical Essays. Ideal Ed. cloth. 50c. (15c)

– History of the Knights Templars. Ideal Edition, cloth, 25c. (8c)

Dr. Geikie’s Popular Books

Geikie. The Holy Land and the Bible. A Book of Scripture Illustrations gathered in Palestine. By Cunningham Geikie, D.D. Beautifully printed from Small Pica type, with a map and over 200 fine illustrations, from drawings by the celebrated American artists, Harry Fenn and J. D. Woodward. In 2 vols, small quarto, cloth. $2.00 (65c); elegantly bound in half Morocco. $2-75 ($1.00)

– Hours with the Bible. By Cunningham Geikie, D.D. In 6 vols., 12mo, illustrated. I. Creation to Patriarchs: II. Moses to Judges: III. Samson to Solomon: IV. Rehoboam to Hezekiah: V. Manasseh to Zedekiah: VI. Exile to Malachi. Per vol. cloth. 50c. (20c); half Mco., 65c. (25c); per set, cloth. $2.75 (90c); half Morocco. $3.50 ($1.20) Index vol. including Texts of the Bible Illustrated; cloth, 30c. (10c); half Mco., 40c. (11c)

– Entering on Life. By Cunningham Geikie. A Book for Young Men. 12mo, cloth, 40c. (15c)

– The same, Cheap edition, cloth, 30c. (7c.)

Gibbon and Goethe

Gibbon’s Rome. With Milman’s Notes. 3 vols., 12mo. cloth, $2.00 (35c)

*Goethe’s Complete Works. Edited by the Rev F. H. Hedge, D.D., and Prof. Leopold Noa. Popular edition, Illustrated. 5 vols., $7.50, reduced to $5.75 ($1.00)

A Russian Historical Novel

Gogol. Taras Bulba, By Nikolai Vassilievitch, translated by Jeremiah Curtin. cloth, 60c. (20c)

Goldsmith, Oliver, Works of. Edited by Sir James Prior. In 4 vols., 12mo, $3.00 ($1.25)

– Vicar of Wakefield: Ideal Edition. Cloth. 30c. (11c)

– She Stoops to Conquer: Ideal Edition. Cloth, 25c. (7c)

Goldsmith, Life of: by Washington Irving. Elzevir Ed., gilt edges, 50c. (20c); cloth, 30c. (9c)

Gray. Lost – Two Little Girls. By P.L. Gray. Ideal Edition, large type, cloth, 60c. (20c)

Green’s England – Guizot’s France

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)

Greenwood, Grace. My Pets, cloth. 35c. (10c); Stories for Home Folks, cl., 45c. (15c)

– Merrie England and Bonnie Scotland in 1 vol., 60c. (15c). Stories for Home Folks and Stories of France and Italy, in 1 vol., 60c. (15c)

– *Queen Victoria. Her Girlhood and Womanhood. 16mo cloth, ill. $1.50 reduced to $1.00 (15c)

*Guizot’s History of France. Illustrated Library Edition, 427 fine engravings, 8 vols., 12mo, half Morocco, $6.00 ($1.25)

Guizot’s History of Civilization. 12mo, cloth. 50c. (15c)

Haggard. King Solomon’s Mines. By H. Rider Haggard. Paper 5c., cloth, 20c. (4c)

Haliburton. Sam Slick, the Clockmaker. Paper 5c.,; cloth, 20c. (4c)

Hallam and Hamerton

Hallam’s History of the Middle Ages. Complete, with all the notes, in four small quarto, finely illustrated volumes, cloth. $2.25 (50c): in two vols. half Morocco, marbled edges. $3.00 ($1.00)

Hamerton’s The Intellectual Life. Elzevir Ed., cloth, 60c. (20c); half Morocco, 75c. (25c)

Hannibal, Life of, by Thomas Arnold of Rugby, 25c. (7c)

The Unity of the Truth

Hark. The Unity of the Truth, in Christianity and Evolution. By J. Max Hark D.D. 12mo. 8 pages. Small Pica type, leaded, cloth, gilt top, 90c. (40c)

*Hartley, Ladies Book of Etiquette. 12mo. cloth, $1.25, reduced to 75c. (15c)

*Hartley, Gentlemen’s Book of Etiquette. 12mo, cloth, $l.25, reduced to 75c. (15c)

Hawthorne’s Popular Works

Hawthorne’s Popular Works. Ideal Edition, cloth binding, each volume complete and sold separately.

Twice Told Tales. First series, 30c (8c) Second series, 30c (8c)

Twice Told Tales. New Ed., 2 vols. in one, fine heavy paper, large margins, very fine edition, half Morocco binding, 85c.

Mosses from an Old Manse. First series, 30c. (8c) Second series, 30c. (8c)

Mosses from an Old Manse. New Ed. 2 vols. in one, fine heavy paper, large margins, very fine edition, half Morocco binding, 85c.

Grandfather’s Chair, 30c. (8c)

*Henderson. Common Sense in the Kitchen. A Treatise on Cooking, with Receipts, etc. 12mo, cloth,

$1.25, reduced to 80c. (15c)

The Woman’s Story – 20 Famous Women.

Holloway. 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). AGENTS WANTED.

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.

Holyoake’s Manual of Co-operation. Ideal Edition, paper, 10c.; cloth, 30c. (11c)

*Hood, Thomas, Choice Works. In prose and verse, including “The Cream of the Comic Annuals,” life of author, portrait; over 200 illus. Crown 8vo, 775 pp., cloth. $1.50, reduced to 75c. (15c)

Houston, Sam: Life and Achievements of Sam Houston, Hero and Statesman. By C. Edwards Lester. With fine portrait. Elzevir Edition, cloth, 30c. (8c)

*Hoyle’s Games. By Thomas Frere. Revised ed., 16mo, cloth, ills., $1.00, reduced to 70c. (15c)

Tom Brown at Rugby – 1 °Cents

Hughes. Tom Brown at Rugby. By Thomas Hughes. Paper, 10c. (4c), cloth, 25c. (7c)

Hume’s Great History – Fine Edition

Hume: History of England. With a fine portrait, 6 vols. bound in three, 8vo, 3,472 pages. Pica type, printed on fine paper, cloth, gilt tops, per set, $4.00 ($1.20)

*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)

A New History of French Literature

Hutson. The Story of Beryl. By Prof. Hutson. Ideal Ed. Paper. 15c., cl., 35c. (10c)

– Out of a Besieged City. By Prof. Hutson. Paper, 10c., cloth, 25c. (6c)

– The Beginnings of Civilization. By Prof. Chas. Woodward Hutson. Ideal Ed., cl., 60c. (20c)

– A History of French Literature. By Prof. Chas. Woodward Hutson, of the University of Mississippi. 12mo, cloth, $1.10 (40c)

Six Famous Statesmen

International Statesman Series. Biographies of great social and political leaders. Edited By Lloyd C. Sanders. Cloth, per vol., 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.

By Washington Irving

Irving’s Collected Works (complete except Washington), The same in 6 vols., cloth. $4.50 (90c)

Irving’s Life of Washington. Illustrated Library Edition, in 4 volumes, small octavo, Long Primer type, including 108 fine illustrations, cloth, gilt tops, $2.50 (60c); half Morocco. $3.00 (75c) Popular Edition. In two vols., 12mo. cloth. $1.25 (35c); half Morocco, $1.75 (60c)

Irving, Washington, Life of. By R. H. Stoddard. Elzevir Edition, cloth, gilt, 25c. (7c)

Irving’s Select Works. (30 per cent.).

Tales of a Traveller; paper, 15c.; cloth. 30c.

Wolfert’s Roost, etc.; paper, 10c.; cloth, 30c.

Conquest of Granada; paper, 17c.;

Conquest of Spain; paper, 10c.

Life of Mahomet; paper, 20c; cloth, 40c.

Abbottsford and Newstead Abbey; paper, 8c.

Spanish Voyages of Discovery: paper, 10c.

Crayon Papers; paper, 12c; cloth, 25c; cloth, gilt edges, 40c.; half Russia, 40c.

Life of Goldsmith; paper, 15c; cloth, 35c; cloth, gilt edges, 45c; half Russia, 45c.

Astoria: paper, 15c.

Captain Bonneville, paper, 15c.

Rip Van Winkle and Other Sketches; cloth, 25c. cloth, gilt edges. 40c.

Tour of the Prairies: paper, 10c.

Bracebridge Hall, cloth, 30c.

Knickerbocker’s New York, cloth, 30c.

Salmagundi. 12mo. cloth, 30c.

The Sketch Book, 12mo, paper, 15c., cloth, 30c.

Jerrold, Johnson, and Jonson

Jerrold. Mrs. Caudle’s Curtain Lectures. By Douglas Jerrold. Ideal Ed., cloth. 30c. (10c)

Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. By Samuel Johnson. Ideal Edition, cloth. 25c. (7c)

– Rasselas, Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield, St. Pierre’s Paul and Virginia, in one vol., cloth, 50c. (20c)

Jonson. Every Man in His Humor. By Ben Jonson. Ideal Edition, cloth, 25c. (7c)

*Jones and Small. Joyful Tidings and Good News. Sermons by Sam Jones and Sam Small. Large 12mo, 316 pages, cloth, 45c. (12c)

*Josephus’s Complete Works. Tr. by Whiston. Large quarto; Pica type, cloth, $2.00 (30c)

Greece and Rome – Popular Histories

Keightley’s History of Rome, 12mo. over 900 pages, cloth, $1.25, reduced to 75c. (20c)

Keightley’s Popular History of Greece. 480 pages, 12mo, cloth. $1.25, reduced to 60c. (20c)

Kennedy. The Railway: Its Wonders and Curiosities. By William Sloane Kennedy. With 24 unique engravings. 12mo, cloth, price reduced from $1.25 to 75c. (25c)

Kerr, Orpheus C.: Studies in Stanzas, Ballads and Broadsides. 16mo, gilt edges, 50c. (18c)

Great Kingdoms of the World

*Kingdoms of the World. Popular Histories, brought down to the present time. Each in one vol., 8vo, cloth, $2.00, reduced to $1.25 (20c)

Italy, By J. S. C. Abbott.

Russia, By J. S. C. Abbott.

Austria, By J. S. C. Abbott.

Prussia. By J. S. C. Abbott.

Turkey. By Edson L. Clark.

Egypt. By J.C. McCoan.

Germany. By Baring-Gould.

Kingsley’s Hypatia – The Koran

Kingsley. The Hermits. By Rev. Charles Kingsley. 340 pages, cloth, 40c. (15c)

– Hypatia: A Novel. By Charles Kingsley. 12mo, cloth, 30c. (6c)

*Kitto’s Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature. 2 vols. 8vo. Price $2.50 (60c)

Koran of Mohammed, The. Translated by George Sale. 12mo., cloth, 336 pages, 60c. (20c)

Lamartine and Lamb

Lamartine. Life of Mary Queen of Scots. By Lamartine. Ideal Ed., cloth, 25c. (7c)

– Fior D’Aliza. By Alphonse de Lamartine. Elzevir Edition, cloth, 30c. (11c)

– Life of Cromwell. By Lamartine. Ideal Edition, cloth, 25c. (7c)

Lamb, Charles: Last Essays of Elia, cloth, gilt top, 45c. (15c): half Morocco, 65c. (25c) Complete Essays; the two vols. in one, on good paper, cloth, 60c. (20c)

A Popular Medical Cyclopedia

Lankester. Family Medical Guide. Edited by Edwin Lankester, M.D., F R.S., written by distinguished members of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, London. American edition, revised and enlarged; large 8vo, 500 pages; price in cloth $4.00, reduced to $1.00. (35c)

*Lardner. History of the World. By D. Lardner. LL.D., brought down to 1884, by H. L. Williams. 250 engravings. 12mo, cloth, gilt, $1.25 reduced to 80c. (15c)

Law. Bionopsis: A True Vision of Life. By Rev. Sidney G. Law. Small octavo, Small Pica type, leaded, 443 pages, cloth, $1.50 (45c): cloth, gilt edges. $2.00 (50c)

Leggett. A Tramp Through Switzerland. By Benj. F. Leggett, PhD. 12mo, cloth, 45c. (14c)

– A Sheaf of Song. By Benj. F. Leggett, Ph.D. 12mo, cloth, 65c. (20c)

A Library of Universal History

Library of Universal History. 4 vols., 12mo, cloth, gilt top. Each $1.50, reduced to $1.10 (40c) The set of 4 vols. $3.75 (85c)

1. Ancient History. By George Rawlinson, M.A.

2. Mediæval History. By George T. Stokes, D.D.

3. Modern History. By Arthur St. Geo. Patton.

4. Geological History. By Edw. Hull, LL.D.

A Treasury of the Best Literature

Library Magazine. First Series: 9 vols. in 6, Jan., 1879, to Dec., 1881, 5,372 pages; 16mo, cloth, $3.00. Second Series: 7 vols. in 6, Feb., 1883, to April, 1886: over 3,300 octavo pages, cloth, $4.00. Vols. I and II. combined, Feb. – Dec., 1883, 822 pages, 90c. Vol III., Jan. – July, 1884, 752 pages, 90c. Vol. IV., Aug. – Dec., 1884, 500 pages, 50c. Vol. V., Jan. – June, 1885, 576 pages, 50c. Vol. VI., July-Dec., 1885, 573 pages, 50c. Vol. VII., Jan. – April, 1886, 384 pages, 50c. Third Series: Vol II., Nov., 1886 to May, 1887, 710 pages. Vol. III., April to June, 1887, 598 pages. Vol. IV., July to Sept., 1887, 504 pages. Volume V., Oct. to Dec., 1887, 566 pages. Vol. VI., Jan. to April, 1888, 576 pages. Each vol. small quarto, cloth, 65c.; half Morocco. 80c. First Series: Vol. V., half Russia, gilt top, 25c. Vol. VI., cloth, 20c. Vol. VII., cloth, 20c. The same, half Russia, 25c. Vol. VIII., cloth, 30c. Vol. IX., cloth, 20c. (all 20 per cent.).

– Index to The Library Magazine, 1879 to 1888. Small quarto, cloth, 60c. (15c)

Light Literature: Choice and Cheap

Light Literature. Always in good and generally in large type, well printed, on good paper, and bound in paper covers. Sent post-paid at prices affixed. (all 20 per cent).

Carlyle, Thomas, Chartison 10c

Carlyle, Thomas, Past and Present 15c

Cooper, J. Fenimore, Wing and Wing 20c

Collins, Wilkie, The Moonstone 20c

De Foe, Life of, by William Minto 10c

Eliot, George, Felix Holt 20c

Gibbon, Life of, by J. C. Morrison 10c

Hay, Mary Cecil, Under the Will 10c

Irving Tales. Several good short stories 10c

Johnson, Samuel. Life of, by Leslie Stephen 10c

Linton E. Lynn. Ione Stewart 20c

Locke, Life of, by Thomas Fowler 10c

McKay, Robinson Brown 5c

Macaulay. The Athenian Orator 2c

Payne, James. The Canon’s Ward 15c

Pope, Alex. Life of, by Leslie Stephen 10c

Rawlinson, George. Cyrus the Great 2c

Read, Charles. A Perilous Secret 20c

Scott, Sir Walter. Woodstock 15c

– Chronicles of the Canongate 10c

– Count Robert of Paris 15c

– St. Ronan’s Well 15c

– Fortunes of Nigel 15c

– The Surgeon’s Daughter 10c