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The Alden Catalogue of Choice Books, May 30, 1889
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Drummond’s Natural Law

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

“Almost a revelation.” —Christian Union. “Grand reading for the clergy.” – Bishop Coxe. “A most original and ingenious book, instructive and suggestive in the highest degree.” —Nonconformist. “One of those rare books which find a new point of view from which old things themselves become new.” —Chicago Standard. “Too much cannot be said in praise of it, and those who fail to read it will suffer a serious loss.” —The Churchman. “In Drummond’s book we have none of the nonsense of the new theology, but the old theology splendidly illumined by the newest scientific knowledge.” – Dr. Henson, Chicago.

A Romance of Geology

Dawson. The Story of the Earth and Man. By Sir John W. Dawson. Small quarto, cloth, illust., price reduced from $1.50 to 50c. (20c) Cheap edition in paper, without illust., 15c. (4c)

“This veteran scientist is as enthusiastic and hard-working as a boy, and whatever he writes is stamped with the highest authority. It gives us pleasure to commend this book.” —Morning Star, Boston.

“This book has been universally commended as containing the substance of knowledge about the evolution of earth and man, though the author can hardly be called an evolutionist. This republication is in cheap form and places a very valuable work in the hands of any one who desires to read it.” —World, Omaha.

Peerless Old Boswell!

Boswell’s Life of Johnson. Croker’s Edition, in 4 volumes, large 12mo, cloth, $2.75 ($1.25)

“The richest dictionary of wit and wisdom any language can boast of. Enlarged and illuminated by the researches and sagacious running criticism of Mr. Croker, it is, without doubt – excepting a few immortal monuments of creative genius – that book which would be most prized in other days and countries by the students of ‘us and our history.’” —London Quarterly Review.

“We cannot believe that any subsequent improvement will ever be made upon this edition; and we have no doubt that it will excite the curiosity and reward the attention of the reading world.” —North Am. Review.

Evolution from a Christian Standpoint

Hark. The Unity of the Truth, in Christianity and Evolution. By J. Max Hark D.D. 12 mo, 293 pages. Small Pica type, leaded, cloth, gilt top, 90c. (40c)

“A thoughtful and scholarly work, written in the interest of persons who are bewildered by the teaching of unbelieving evolutionists.” —Christian Standard, Cincinnati, O.

“No one can be more sure and clear than Dr. Hark, that whatever may hereafter come to be the final, clearly and indisputably settled results of scientific examination, they will be found to be in perfect accordance with the equally carefully ascertained teachings of the Christian revelation. In that firm faith we may all agree and encourage science to the most diligent examination, only bidding it not to be too sure of its conclusions until the evidence is complete.” —The Lutheran, Philadelphia, Pa.

Evolution Again.

Rich, delicate, robust.” R. S. Storrs, D. D

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

“I have been delighted, instructed and morally animated by The Spirit of Beauty. It gives rich, delicate and robust expression to a various knowledge, as well as to fine, devout and far-reaching thought. I have not for long taken up a book which has interested me so immediately, or refreshed me so abundantly.” – Rev. R. S. Storrs, D.D.

“Every page shows the author’s warm sympathy alike with what is best in modern scientific and Christian thought – his enthusiasm for nature, for humanity and for God.” —The Advance, Chicago, Ill.

“It is not the ‘bigoted’ theologian who rises this time in the higher interests of humanity, but the trained and well-informed scientist. It is an arrow from within the fort, and its destructive power is all the greater because the bowman himself takes ‘some stock in Darwin’s Origin of Species.’ The fact that the bow has been bent not directly for the purpose of rescuing religion, but for the rescue of beauty and art and morality and civilization from the toils of a false science, will give the book a hearing where the argument from religious grounds would have none. We know of no better book to be placed into the hands of the college student or young doctor or lawyer whose casual reading or not wholly mature thinking has infected him with agnostic or Spencerian views.” —The Lutheran, Philadelphia, Pa.

Library of Universal History

Library of Universal History. 4 vols., 12 mo, 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.

An extremely valuable series. Volume I. covers the period from the creation of the world to the fall of Rome; Volume II. treats of the Middle Ages; Volume III. comes down to the present time, and Volume IV. forms a summary of the historical phase of the Science of Geology. Excellent for students and for general readers.

Washington!

By Washington Irving. Irving’s Complete Works

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 (6Oc); half Morocco, $3.00 (75c) Popular Edition. In two vols., 12mo, cloth, $1.25 (35c); half Morocco, $1.75 (60c)

Irving’s Collected Works (complete except Washington), in 9 vols., half Morocco, marbled edges Price, $6.25 ($1.60). The same in 6 vols., cloth, $4.50 (90c)

“Irving is an author every American child should early become acquainted with and learn to love. His genial spirit, kindly humor, and pure style, fit him eminently to become the literary model of our young folks, and the worthy introduction to the further study of our literature.” —School Journal, Lancaster, Pa.

A Russian Historical Novel

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

“The characters stand forth in bold relief against a dark and gloomy background; they are like the figures of a Greek frieze in their Titanic majesty. Pleasing, no one could call the novel; fascinating it must prove to all. The story of the wars of the Cossacks and of their desperate struggles to maintain their lawless freedom is among the romances of history.” – The Golden Rule, Boston, Mass.

The Woman’s Story,

By Twenty 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.

“The volume is a worthy tribute to our American women of letters, and a fair sample of our best fiction work. It is a book that will commend itself to our patriotism, and to all lovers of our national literature.” —Christian Evangelist, St. Louis, Mo.

“It ought to prove one of the most profitable volumes the publisher has made, for such a collection of admirable short stories seldom is found within the covers of a single book. * * * A galaxy indeed of lustrous stars. The book deserves to be printed with the highest art and to be bound in morocco and gilt; but it appears with propriety in a form which brings it within the reach of persons of moderate means. Such a dollar’s worth seldom can be secured by reading households.” —Christian Intelligencer, New York City.

The Koran in English

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

By far the best translation of a book which has exerted a wonderful influence in the past and which is now accepted as a sacred volume by more than two hundred million people.

Bayard Taylor’s Most 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)

“There are few smoother or more gracefully written books of travel than Bayard Taylor’s ‘Views Afoot.’ For two years he was a wayfaring pedestrian, often reduced to a plate of soup and a crust, trudging along in a dilapidated pair of shoes, but his spirits, health, and delightful resources as a correspondent never failed. He saw Europe thoroughly for $500 earned by the way, and came back to his country quite a famous young man. His letters are good reading to-day. They present Europe from the pedestrian side; and among many literary graces they have the poetic. ‘Views Afoot’ is one of the new publications of John B. Alden, the cheapness of whose books is a modern novelty. The volume is set in a large, peculiarly distinct type, and has in all respects an attractive, comfortable appearance.” —Commercial Gazette, Cincinnati, O.

Invaluable For Home and Sunday School

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)

“The Interwoven Gospels is an exceedingly helpful and convenient arrangement, based on a good plan, and well wrought.” – Rev. Richard G. Greene, East Orange, N. J.

“The advantage of such a book, both to a young reader and to a teacher of New Testament history, in bringing the gospel narratives into their proper relations, and in giving a clear mental view of the times and seasons to which events belong, must be apparent.” —The Interior, Chicago, Ill.

“The work is well done, and the little book will be welcome aid to many in the study of the New Testament.” —The Examiner, N. Y. City.

Shakespeare. Ideal Form! Ideal Price! Ideal Type! Ideal Binding!

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.

“For a handy-volume series, agreeable to the eye and convenient we commend Mr. Alden’s publication, and the reasonable price should certainly insure its success.” —The Bookmart, New York.

“Your books came duly to hand. I am very much pleased with all their make-up, binding and contents, and especially with their marvelously low price. Only they cheat a body out of work – for Bayard Taylor and Beecher kept me from sermonizing and the Woman’s Story kept my wife from sewing all the afternoon.” – Rev. P. C. Croll, Schuylkill Haven, Pa.

“I have books from a majority of the principal publishing firms in the U.S., and I can assure all, that your work is always equal and generally superior to any of them, notwithstanding your marvelous prices.” – A. L. Campbell, Silver Creek, Ky.

Popular Medical Cyclopedia For Use in The Home

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)

“In this large work is comprised all possible self-aid in the treatment of diseases, accidents, emergencies, etc.” —Brooklyn Eagle.

“It is, in fine, the best book of the kind ever published. No family should be without it.” —Charleston Daily News and Courier.

Literary Portraits. Interesting Biography. Choice Select Readings

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 weekly magazine. 464 pages, small quarto, cloth, 90c. (30c)

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

“An interesting volume, containing sketches and portraits of General Lew Wallace and his wife, Mark Twain, Octave Thanet, Charles Reade, Maurice Thompson, Celia Thaxter, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frances E. Willard, Paul H. Hayne, Emerson, Thackeray, Joel Chandler Harris, and other literary people. The book is well printed and bound, and, like all of Mr. Alden’s publications, is sold at an astonishingly low price. Writers will find it of special interest.” —The Writer, Boston, Mass.

400 Famous Americans

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

“The work can hardly be overrated in importance. The faces of the most eminent men and women shine forth from its pages, and the events of their lives are illustrated by the author in the happiest possible manner. The American youth who owns the work may be justly envied.” —Herald of Gospel Liberty, Dayton, O.

Wonders of the Heavens

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)

“Whoever opens this book will be surprised to find how little of the technical there is in it, how popular it is in style, and plain in its statement of astronomical facts. It is one of the most brilliant and fascinating expositions of the science of the stars we have ever seen. While it cannot fail to interest the special student of the noble science of astronomy, its chief value, we judge, will consist in its charming adaptation to the tastes of the general reader.” —Guardian, Philadelphia.

“The Reader’s Pulse Tingles.”

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.

“The realism of the author reminds one of Tolstoi and his military pictures in the forms of both history and romance.” —The Eagle, Brooklyn.

“So thrillingly and graphically told that the reader’s pulses tingle as his fancy accompanies this wild expedition.” —The Courier, Buffalo, N. Y.

Robert Elsmere. Cheaper! Cheaper!

Ward. Robert Elsmere. By Mrs. Humphry Ward. Large 12 mo, cloth, 40c. (15c)

– Gladstone’s Famous Essay on “Robert Elsmere and the Battle of Belief.” Large type, complete, 3c.

“A remarkable book – a work of true genius.” —New York Tribune.

“It will attract the lovers of the best literature.” —Literary World.

“One of the strongest works of fiction that have appeared in England since George Eliot.” —Critic.

“Nothing, indeed, approaching it has appeared in its particular department since the last work of George Eliot.” —Churchman.

Nature, Picturesque – Nature, Human

Thompson. A Fortnight of Folly. By Maurice Thompson. Cloth. 50c. (20c)

– Sylvan Secrets in Bird-Songs and Books. By Maurice Thompson. Ideal Ed., cloth, 60c. (25c)

“The ‘Fortnight’ has no sleepiness, even for the drowsy-inclined eyes of a summer tourist.” —National Republican, Washington, D. C.

“All lovers of candor and keen air and sunshine must be charmed with Maurice Thompson’s little book of essays, entitled ‘Sylvan Secrets.’ The author is above all things a poet, and his science breaks into poetry at every turn.” —The Critic, N. Y. City.

“Mr. Thompson is a genuine poet. He discloses secrets in woods, sea and skies of which we never dreamed. Songs of birds and whispering winds have new meanings as he listens to them. There are no dull pages in this book.” —Lutheran Observer, Philadelphia, Pa.

Famous Statesmen of the World

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.

A very interesting and important series of biographies of men who have been influential in the social and political history of the world.

A Great Popular Dictionary

*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.

“My own private library and the two churches in my charge are the richer for your praiseworthy attempts to bring good books within the reach of ordinary pocket books.” – Rev. William H. Bulkley, Stepney Depot, Ct.

Wonders 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)

“The package of books was duly received, and must say that we are highly pleased with the same. In fact, it is one of the best investments we ever made.” – The Globe Oil Co., Cleveland, Ohio.

The Popular Wallace Books

Wallace. Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ. By General Lew Wallace. 12 mo, cloth, $1.50. For $1.85 I will send Ben Hur and The Repose in Egypt, or for $1.60 Ben Hur and The Land of the Pueblos, or for $2.60 all three books.

“A real life-like picture of the age in which Jesus lived and died. The design of the author is admirably executed, and the fidelity with which he has personated and illustrated the greatest life-history of earth will win for him more enduring fame than he won on the battle-field of our late civil war.” —Lutheran Observer, Philadelphia, Pa.

An Orient Medley

Wallace. The Repose in Egypt: A Medley. By Susan E. Wallace. Finely illustrated. Large 12mo, cloth, $1.00 (40c)

“Mrs. Wallace has a sense of humor, and her geniality sparkles and plays over pyramid, sphinx, Colossus and Nile scenery in a way that relieves her descriptions of a thousand times told tale of dullness or repetition. Nothing short of a vigorous writer could do that. The reader is carried along in the charming society of the ‘Antiquary,’ the ‘Historian,’ ‘Thalia,’ so that one feels quite of the party. * * * Romance and philosophy enter entertainingly into this ‘medley,’ which is not altogether without continuity, and the interest is sustained to the end.” —Literary Bureau, Washington, D.C.

A Mysterious Land

– The Land of the Pueblos. By Susan E. Wallace. 12mo, cloth, finely illust. Price 75c. (35c)

*The Fair God. A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico, by Gen. Lew Wallace. Large 12mo, cloth, $1.50, reduced to $1.25 (20c)

“Mrs. Wallace fascinates the reader in two ways: The story itself is one of illimitable interest, and it is charmingly told from beginning to end. The style is of the matter. Mrs. Wallace has steeped her mind in the glory of these wonderful lands – the glory of their traditions, the glory of their scenery – and the touch of her imagination, in its delicate appreciations, its dreamy hints, its allusiveness, its pathetic sympathies, imparts a constant glow to her pages, and makes vivid and life-like a narrative of those far western and old-time countries and peoples.” —Apostolic Guide, Cincinnati.

*Ginevra; or, the Tale of the Old Oak Chest. By Susan E. Wallace. 4to. boards, in a fine chromo cover, $1.25, reduced to 85c. (20c)

“Mrs. Wallace is one of the most fluent and fascinating writers in this country. Her descriptive powers are simply marvelous.” —Express, Easton.

A Charming Historical Romance

Ware. Zenobia; or, the Fall of Palmyra. By William Ware. Paper, 10c.; cloth, 30c. (10c)

“It is an historical romance. The scene, the characters, and the historical events are finely selected; for they abound with striking images and associations. It is not a work of an ordinary character. It is the production of a thoughtful, able, imaginative, and, above all, a pure and right-minded author, of clear thought and sound sense.” – Andrews Norton.

“I enclose cheque. You are doing noble work for the lovers of good books, and it is only because everybody does not know you that you do not supply everybody with books.” – S. A. Barnes, President Teacher’s Association, Spring Garden, Fla.

Popular Religious Literature

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)

“Dr. Geikie’s readers will follow him through Palestine, Bible in hand, with eager interest and constant delight.” —Literary World, Boston.

“We congratulate Sunday-school workers that the best manual for practical use on the Holy Land is now placed before them at a wonderfully low price, and yet, print, binding, and illustrations are of the highest order.” —Maine S. S. Reporter.

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