The Alden Catalogue of Choice Books, May 30, 1889

– The Heart of Midlothian 20c

– Castle Dangerous 10c

– Southey, Life of, by Prof. Dowden 10c

Literary Portraits and Biographies

Literary Portraits. Biographical and critical studies of contemporary and classic authors, with selections from their writings. 26 portraits and other illustrations. Reprinted from “Literature,” Alden’s illustrated weakly magazine. 454 pages, small quarto, cloth, 90c. (30c)

Literary Portraits. Second Series. Uniform in all respects with First Series in style and price.

Livingstone, Stanley, Africa

Livingstone, Stanley and other celebrated travels and adventures in Africa, with numerous illustrations. 8vo. cloth. 75c. (20c)

Locke, John. On the Conduct of the Understanding. Cloth, 25c. (7c)

*Locke. Art of Correspondence. By John S. Locke. 16mo, cloth, $1.00, reduced to 75c. (15c)

Longfellow, Lossing, Lowell, Lubbock

Longfellow: Voices of the Night, and Other Poems. Ideal Edition, cloth. 30c. (10c) The Spanish Student, and Other Poems; cl., 30c. (10c) The above in one vol., half Mco., 60c. (25c)

Longfellow’s Prose Works. Hyperion and Outre Mer, in one volume, large 12 mo., cloth. 60c. (20c)

Lossing. Eminent Americans. By Benson J. Lossing, LL.D. 12mo, cl., 90c. (25c); half Mco., $1.10 (35c)

Lowell, James Russell: Early Poems. Ideal Edition, cloth. 30c. (10c)

Lover. Handy Andy. By Samuel Lover, 12mo. cloth. 30c. (8c)

Lubbock. The Pleasures of Life. By Sir John Lubbock. Ideal Edition, cloth, 30c. (10c)

*McKeever. Popular stories, by Harriet B. McKeever. Cloth. Each $1.25, reduced to 70c. (20c)

No. 1. Maude and Miriam; or, the Fair Crusader.

No. 2. Silver Threads.

No. 3. Westbrooke Parsonage.

No. 4. Twice Crowned, A Tale of the Days of Queen Mary.

No. 5. Edith’s Ministry.

No. 6. Woodcliff.

Macaulay’s England and Essays

*Macaulay’s England. 5 vols., 12mo, cloth, $5.00, reduced to $2.00 (40c) The same half Russia, $7.50 reduced to $3.50 (60c)

Macaulay’s Essays. On Bacon, Hastings, and Pitt; Ideal Ed., cloth. 35c. (8c)

Madagascar. A Sketch. Historical and Descriptive. By Gen. J. W. Phelps. 12mo, cl., 30c. (10c)

Geo. MacDonald’s Novel

MacDonald. Home Again: A Novel. By George MacDonald; paper, 6c., cl., 20c. (4c)

McKay, James T.: Robinson Brown, a Story; paper. 5c.

*Malcom. Bible Dictionary. 18mo, cloth, $1.00, reduced to 60c. (20c)

Martineau. Famous People. Biographical Sketches by Harriet Martineau. 12mo. cl., 60c. (20c)

*Maryatt, Captain. Principal works of. 3 large vols., 8vo. cloth, $6.00 reduced to $3.75 (60c)

Meredith’s Lucile – Joan of Arc

Meredith. Lucile; A Novel in Verse. By Owen Meredith. Ideal Edition, cloth. 30c. (10c)

*Mesnier’s French-English and English-French Dictionary. 16mo. cloth, 70c. (15c)

Michelet. Joan of Arc, Life of. By Jules Michelet. Ideal Edition, cloth, 25c. (7c)

Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. Elzevir Edition, cloth, 30c. (7c)

Famously Funny

Miller. What Tommy Did. By Emily Huntington Miller. Illustrated. 16mo. cloth. 50c. (15c)

Milton: Poetical Works. Elzevir Edition, 2 volumes, cloth. 80c. (30c): half Morocco, $1.10 (35c)

Milton: Prose Works. 12mo. Small Pica type, leaded, with full index cloth, 60c. (20c)

Mitchel’s Planetary and Stellar Worlds

Mitchel. Planetary and Stellar Worlds, By Gen. O. M. Mitchel. Small quarto, Small Pica type. Price reduced from $1.50: paper. 15c., cloth. 35c. (7c)

*Montaigne’s Complete Works. With life by William Hazlitt. 1 vol., octavo, cloth. With portraits, $3.00, reduced to $1.90 (40c)

*Moody, D. L., Ten Days with. Sermons at Northfield, Mass. 12mo, cloth, 45c. (12c)

Moore: Poetical Works. Elzevir Edition, 3 volumes, cloth $1.40 (50c); full Russia, $2.25 (75c)

– Poems complete. Octavo Edition, cloth, 65c. (15c)

– Lalla Rookh. cloth. 30c. (10c)

*Moore’s Universal Assistant and Complete Mechanic, 1016 pages, 500 engravings, “over 1,000,000 Industrial Facts, Calculations, Receipts, Processes, Trade Secrets,” for every business. Cloth, $2.50, reduced to $1.40 (30c)

– *Three Thousand Things Worth Knowing. Compiled by R. Moore, author of the Universal Assistant and Complete Mechanic. Large 12mo, 410 pages, of small solid type, cloth, 45c. (12c)

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