The Alden Catalogue of Choice Books, May 30, 1889
TekstA Good $10.00 Atlas – $2.25!
Alden’s Home Atlas of the World. In one large quarto vol. 11 x 14 inches in size, containing 112 pages of handsomely engraved and colored maps. Also an index of over 5,000 cities, rivers, mountains, etc., throughout the world, showing exact location. Cloth, $2.25 (80c); Agents Wanted.
“The maps are not only very complete, but are brought up to the latest development of the various countries of the world in railroads, adjustment of territorial lines and discovery.” —Presbyterian Quarterly, Chester, S. C.
“It is one of the marvels of cheapness for which American readers are already much indebted to this publisher.” —Christian Cynosure, Chicago.
History of French Literature
– A History of French Literature. By Prof. Chas. Woodward Hutson, of the University of Mississippi. 12mo, cloth, $1.10 (40c).
“It is clear, well arranged, and comprehensive, abounding in personalities of the writers, which gives the reader a good idea of their qualities. For a great multitude of readers the volume is just such a book as they need.” —Inter-Ocean, Chicago, Ill.
“Evidently Prof. Hutson is an accomplished scholar and a thorough master of the subject of which he writes. His book is as fresh and bright and interesting as a novel.” —News, Charleston, S. C.
“A short history of French literature, clear, comprehensive, well arranged, extending from its beginnings to the present time; the interest is enhanced by the personality with which the author invests the individual writers, and by the well-chosen quotations (translated) with which he sustains his own opinions.” —Christian Leader, Cincinnati, Ohio.
“A handsome manual by Professor C. W. Hutson, author of ‘The Beginnings of Civilization.’ It is marked by the same scholarly spirit as was there shown. It covers the last 900 years in its view. The troubadours, the fables and the chronicles, the Renaissance ages, the great satirists, dramatists, essayists, encyclopedists, the scientific writers, the philosophers, the critics and the poets, men and women, from Moliere to de Stael, and even the translated French literature of Louisiana – all are generously though compactly treated.” —Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, N. Y.
“The work is exceedingly interesting, and gives a very faithful illustration of French thought as set forth in the general literature of the people. One cannot read the work without securing a fair and most pleasant acquaintance with the eminent men and women who have given to France a literature second to none, in many respects, of any nation. The author shows himself both an admirer of French thought and thoroughly conversant with it.” —Herald of Gospel Liberty, Dayton, Ohio.
THE BEGINNINGS OF CIVILIZATION
– The Beginnings of Civilization. By Prof. Chas. Woodward Hutson. Ideal Ed., cl., 60c. (20c)
“Beginnings of Civilization will be of great interest to Bible students, especially in those portions which treat of countries in immediate connection with Hebrew history.” —Christian World, Dayton, O.
THE STORY OF BERYL
Hutson. The Story of Beryl. By Prof. Hutson. Ideal Ed. Paper, 15c., cl., 35c. (10c)
“The ‘Story of Beryl’ is written in the author’s usual graceful style. The characters are true to nature, the incidents told in pure English, and one can not help being interested in the story.” —Morning Star, Boston.
OUT OF A BESIEGED CITY
– Out of a Besieged City. By Prof. Hutson. Paper, 10c., cloth, 25c. (6c)
“Out of a Besieged City affords one the most excellent idea of the events of the stirring times of the Revolution.” —Central Baptist, St. Louis.
Alden’s “New” Ideal Book Case
Alden’s Ideal Revolving Book-Case, No. 3. Has four shelves, adjustable, giving 136 inches of shelf room; size of case, 19 inches wide, 12 inches deep, 40 inches high, or four feet, including the base, Is made of perfectly kiln-dried cherry birch, with birds-eye maple panels; hand carved; built on ingenious but simple interlocking principles, doing away, mainly, with screws, nails or glue; may be knocked down and set up again in five minutes; price $10.00 at store.
No. 4, similar to No. 3, but without the birds-eye panels, and “solid” instead of “knock down;” price $8.00 at store.
Alden’s “New” Ideal Revolving Book Case, above described, ready May 1, 1889, is a great improvement upon the styles heretofore sold. The new is supported from the top instead of at the base, as formerly, thus standing firmer and revolving more freely; the “knock-down” feature of No. 3 is a triumph of mechanical ingenuity; the workmanship and the material used, in both styles, are a great advance on those formerly sold – this is high praise, indeed, considering the delightful satisfaction the book cases have given in the past, but our patrons will find our estimate just; this, we think, comes very near to being a “perfect” book case!
A Grand Old Roman
Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius. The Thoughts of, translated by George Long, with a sketch of his Life and a view of his Philosophy. Ideal Edition, cloth. 30c. (7c)
“This is a wonderfully interesting book. The ancient stoical philosophy receives, in this great and gentle-minded Roman Emperor, its noblest expression.” —Advance, Chicago.
The Earth for 25 Cents!
Alden’s Handy Atlas of the World. 138 colored maps, diagrams, tables, etc. Price, 30c. (8c);
“I think so much intrinsically valuable information was never before compressed into so small a space. An Atlas and a Gazetteer for 25 cents!” – Benson J. Lossing, LL.D., Dover Plains, N. Y.
Great Oriental Poems
Arnold. Light of Asia, by Edwin Arnold, cloth, 30c. (7c)
– Indian Song of Songs, by Edwin Arnold, cloth, 25c. (6c)
– Pearls of the Faith, by Edwin Arnold, cloth, 25c. (6c)
“No man, since the days of Sir William Jones, has so deeply drunk at the founts of Indian learning, or so well interpreted its meaning to the Occidental mind as has Edwin Arnold. The ‘Pearls of the Faith,’ contains some of the finest poetry, in thought and expression, of recent times.” —Methodist Magazine, Toronto.
Bacon and Locke
Bacon’s Essays. With notes of Devey. Elzevir Ed., cloth, 30c. (10c)
Bacon’s Essays, and Locke on the Understanding, in one vol. half Russia, 45c. (15c)
“‘Bacon’s Essays’ are a part of the mental furniture of nearly all reading people. They can be read now with as much profit as when they were first written.” —Observer, New York.
“If Bacon first discovered the rules by which knowledge is improved, Locke has most contributed to make mankind at large observe them.” – Mackintosh.
A Poem that Ranks with the Iliad
Crawford. The Kalevala. The National Epic Poem of the Finlanders. Translated into English Verse, by Dr. John Martin Crawford. In two volumes, small octavo, Small Pica type, leaded, cloth, gilt top, $2.25 (75c); half Morocco, $2.75 (85c); in one volume cl., gilt top, $1.70 (60c)
This is the estimate put upon the Kalevala by such an eminent authority as Max Müller.
“Certainly the ‘Kalevala’ as it stands, is one of the World’s great poems. * * Of its antiquity there is no doubt. It is thoroughly pagan from beginning to end. * * All the characteristics of a splendid antique civilization are mirrored in this marvelous poem, and Mr. Crawford’s admirable translation should make the wonderful heroes of Suomi song as familiar if not as dear to our people as the heroes of the great Ionian epics.” —Evening Telegraphy, Philadelphia, Pa.
Curious Myths and Legends,
Baring-Gould. Curious Myths of the Middle Ages. By S. Baring-Gould. Elzevir Ed., cloth, 40c. (15c)
– Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets. By S. Baring-Gould. Elzevir Ed., cloth, 50c. (15c)
“‘Curious Myths’ will be found of great assistance to intelligent persons generally who are often puzzled about the Wandering Jew, William Tell, and other distinguished characters who become the more unsubstantial the nearer we get to them.” —Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Carlyle’s Popular Works
Carlyle. Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History. By Thomas Carlyle. Ideal edition Brevier type; cloth, 30c. (11c)
– Popular Works French Revolution, Elzevir Edition. Brevier type, leaded, 2 volumes, cloth $1.00 (30c) Past and Present, 12mo, cloth, 40c. (10c)
“The works of Thomas Carlyle have become classic. A library would be scarcely complete without something from his pen.” —Evangelist, St. Louis.
Miracles Daily Wrought!
Carter. Divine Healing; or, The Atonement for Sin and Sickness. By Capt. R. Kelso Carter. Small quarto. Small Pica type, paper, 25c. (10c), cloth, 60c. (20c)
The best exposition of the “Faith Cure.” The author claims that the atonement of Christ was designed to give health to the body as well as to the soul.
“Whatsoever the reader may think of the subject discussed in the work, he will certainly find it the most readable, reasonable, and reliable compend of this interesting topic.” —Friends’ Expositor, Toronto, Ont.
A Literary Gold Mine
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.
Beautiful little volumes which need only to be seen to be admired. Note the extremely low price. At these rates really choice literature is cheaper than the “trash” which in low-priced form is largely circulated.
The Dickens! – New Edition,
$3.00 Post-paid!
Dickens. The Works of Charles Dickens’ “Boz” Edition, in six vols., small 8vo, good type, with numerous illus., well printed on fair paper, cl., $3.00 (75c)
List of the Vols. – Over 130 Illustrations.
1. Dombey and Son. Old Curiosity Shop. Hard Times.
2. Copperfield. Christmas Stories. Tale of Two Cities. Uncommercial Traveler.
3. Nicholas Nickleby. Martin Chuzzlewit. American Notes.
4. Mutual Friend. Little Dorrit. Reprinted. Edwin Drood.
5. Pickwick Papers. Barnaby Rudge. Sketches by Boz.
6. Oliver Twist. Great Expectations. Bleak House. Pictures from Italy.
So many thousands of our book buying patrons seem to want a cheap Dickens that I concluded to produce this, incomparably the cheapest edition ever printed! And quite a respectable edition it is, too – printed from the same plates as Appleton’s “Popular Library Edition,” which is still on their catalogue at $10.00! You may have a sample volume (name at least four, and your order of preference) for 45 cents, postpaid, to be returned if not wanted. Discounts to Club Agents liberal. Order a sample and sell a dozen – or a hundred – sets!
“The set of ‘Boz’ Dickens which I ordered from you came yesterday, and I assure you of my delight at possessing such a literary treasure for such a small expenditure of money.” – Mrs. J. T. Stephenson, Griffin, Ga.
The Immortal —A Great Novel! A Scorching Satire!
Daudet. The Immortal. By Alphonse Daudet. 12mo, cloth, 60c. (20c)
“Daudet is undoubtedly a genius. He knows the power of words, and uses it with skill. The simplest scenes fairly thrill with life. His noble characters move with that charm that is so attractive, and his ignoble characters with that meanness that is so detestable. When he touches with that genuine simplicity any bewitching look of nature, he makes it so powerful that it remains in the memory long afterwards. Whether this last novel of the great Frenchman is aimed or not at the individual members of the Academy, we do not know, but certainly he punctures the big bubble of the Academy itself and lets out a great deal of the gas; not in one place or two, but in a hundred. But we sincerely wish this literary French genius would employ his pen with less objection in some instances, or, in other words, that he would be more chaste and refined. If this is a study of social life, as he claims in his dedication, then evidently what Paris needs is not so much study, but reform.” —Zion’s Herald, Boston.
Delightful Stories for Young Folks
*Church, Alfred J. Stories from the Classics, Each 1 vol., 12mo, cloth, $1.50, reduced to 75c. (25c)
Stories from Homer,
Stories of Virgil,
Stories from the Greek Tragedians,
Roman Life in the Days of Cicero,
Stories from Livy,
Stories of the Persian War from Herodotus,
Two Thousand Years Ago; or the Adventures of a Roman Boy,
Stories from Herodotus,
Here are eight books one can commend most heartily, and with a good conscience. They are not only charming, but they are educating, in the truest sense. They delight the young folks, and parents and teachers are pleased to know the fact. It is a positive pleasure to be able to present these exquisite old tales in such excellent form, at a cost so greatly reduced.
Epictetus, Stoic Philosopher
Epictetus, The Teachings of, translated with notes. Ideal edition. 210 pp., cloth, 30c. (10c)
The Emerson of the Ancients! No philosopher of antiquity, save possibly Plato and Aristotle, is more quoted, or more revered. It is really a good book for every library. This pretty and convenient Ideal edition is just the dress for such a book.
Contains the Encheiridion, selections from the Dissertations and Fragments, an introduction and helpful notes. Deserves wide circulation.
“The book of Epictetus, the noblest of the Stoics.” —St. Augustine.
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.