SOME GOOD BOOKS
For sale by all Booksellers, or mailed, pre-paid, to any
address, on receipt of the price by the Publisher,
J. B. FORD & CO.,
No. 27 Park Place, New York.
Full Set: Beecher's Sermons. First, Second, Third, and
Fourth Series, uniformly bound. Single volumes, each complete, extra
cloth, $2,50; half morocco, $5.
Of the first volume the Advance, of Chicago, said:
“The volume is a handsome one, and is prefaced with the best portrait of
Mr. Beecher we have ever seen. The sermons are twenty-seven in number,
the regular Sunday morning and Thanksgiving discourses of six months, and
are a wonderful testimony, not only to the real goodness of heart of the
great Plymouth preacher, but to the fertility of resource, industry of
thought and rare ability which can keep his regular ministrations to such a
height of average excellence.”
Each succeeding volume contains also six months' sermons (about 450pp.),
issued in style uniform with the First Series.
Lecture-Room Talks. A series of Familiar Discourses, on
Themes of Christian Experience. By Henry Ward Beecher. Phonographically
reported by J. T. Ellinwood. 12mo, extra cloth. Price $2.
“J. B. Ford & Co., who are now printers and publishers to the Beecher
family, have collected in a handsome volume the Lecture Room Talks of the
Brooklyn preacher, held in the weekly prayer-meeting of the Plymouth
Church.
“There is a great deal of humorous talk mingled with much that is serious;
and the subjects discussed are of the most varied kind. It is a charming
book.”
—Springfield [Mass.] Republican.
Principles of Domestic Science: As Applied to the Duties
and Pleasures of Home. By Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet
Beecher Stowe. A compact 12mo volume of 390 pages; profusely illustrated;
well printed, and bound in neat and substantial style. Price $2.
Prepared with a view to assist in training young women for the distinctive
duties which inevitably come upon them in household life, this volume has
been made with especial reference to the duties, cares, and pleasures of the
family, as being the place where, whatever the political developments of the
future, woman, from her very nature of body and of spirit, will find her
most engrossing occupation, and is full of interest for all intelligent girls
and young women.
☞ The work has been heartily indorsed, and adopted by the directors of
many of the leading colleges and Seminaries for young women as a text-book.
The Children's Week: Seven Stories for Seven Days. By
R. W. Raymond. 16mo. Nine full-page illustrations by H. L. Stephens
and Miss M. L. Hallock. Price, extra cloth, $1.25; cloth, full gilt, $2.
“The book is bright enough to please any people of culture, and yet so
simple that children will welcome it with glee. Mr. Raymond's tales have
won great popularity by their wit, delicate fancy, and, withal, admirable
good sense. The illustrations—all new and made for the book—are particularly
apt and pleasing, showing forth the comical element of the book and
its pure and beautiful sentiment.”
—Buffalo [N. Y.] Commercial Advertiser.
The Overture of Angels. By Henry Ward Beecher. Illustrated
by Harry Fenn. 12mo. tinted paper, extra cloth gilt, Price $2.50.
This exquisite book is a chapter from Mr. Beecher's great work, the
“Life of Jesus the Christ.” It is a series of pictures, in the author's happiest
style, of the Angelic Appearances—giving a beautiful and characteristically
interesting treatment of all the events recorded in the Gospels, as
occurring about the period of the Nativity of our Lord.
“The style, the sentiment, and the faithfulness to the spirit of the
Biblical record with which the narrative is treated, are characteristic of its
author, and will commend it to many readers, to whom its elegance of form
will give it an additional attraction.”
—Worcester (Mass.) Spy.
—N. Y. World.
Christian Heart-Songs. A Collection of Choruses, Quartets,
and Set pieces; together with a Selection of Anthems, Motets, and Tunes
of all Metres. By John Zundel, Author of “Harmony and Modulation,
“Voluntaries for the Organ,” etc. 160 pages. Boards, $1; cloth,
$1.25.
“Mr. Zundel is well known as an admirable composer of church music. A
pupil of the great Rink, he shows his training in the beautiful simplicity of
his themes and the rich variety of his harmonies. Mr. Zundel is Organist at
Plymouth Church, Brooklyn (Rev. H. W. Beecher's).”
—Troy [N. Y.] Times.
Our Seven Churches: Eight Lectures by Thomas K. Beecher.
16mo. Paper, 50 cents; extr cloth, $1; cloth gilt, $1.25.
“The eight lectures comprised in this volume are conceived in a spirit of
broad liberality, as refreshing as it is rare. They evince, in the most gratifying
manner possible, how easy it is to find something good in one's neighbors
or opponents, or even enemies, if one tries faithfully to do so, instead of
making an effort to discover a fault or a weakness. The volume is one which
should have, as it undoubtedly will, a wide circulation.”
—Detroit Free Press.
Maternity. A Popular Treatise for Young Wives and Mothers. By
T. S. Verdi, A.M., M.D., of Washington, D.C. Handsomely printed on
laid paper, bevelled boards. extra English cloth. 12mo. 450 pages. Price
$2.25. Third Edition.
“The author deserves great credit for his labor, and the book merits an
extensive circulation.”
—U. S. Medical and Surgical Journal [Chicago].
“There are few intelligent mothers who will not be benefited by reading
and keeping by them for frequent counsel a volume so rich in valuable suggestions.
With its tables, prescriptions, and indices at the end, this book
ought to do much good.”
—Hearth and Home.
“We hail the appearance of this work with real pleasure. It is dictated
by a pure and liberal spirit, and will be a real boon to many a young mother.”
American Medical Observer [Detroit].
Mines, Mills, and Furnaces Of the Precious Metals of the
United States. Being a complete exposition of the General Methods employed
in the great Mining Industries of America, including a review of
the present condition and prospects of the mines throughout the interior
and Pacific States. By Rossiter W. Raymond, Ph.D., United States
Commissioner of Mining Statistics, Editor of the “Engineering and Mining
Journal,” author of “The Mines of the West,” “Mines and Mining,” etc.,
etc. 1 vol. 8vo. 566 pages. Illustrated with Engravings of Machines and
Processes. Extra cloth, $4.00.
“The author is thorough in his subject; and has already published a work
on our mines which commanded universal approval by its clearness of
statement and breadth of views.”
—Albany (N. Y.) Argus.
“His scientific ability, his practical knowledge of mines and mining, his
unerring judgment, and finally the enthusiasm with which he enters upon
his work, all combine to fit him for his position; and none could bring to it
a greater degree of uprightness and fairness.”
—Denver (Col) News.
The Trotting Horse of America: How to Train and Drive
him. With Reminiscences of the Trotting Turf. By Hiram Woodruff.
Edited by Charles J. Foster, of Wilkes' Spirit of the Times. 12mo, 412 pp.
With steel-plate portrait of Hiram Woodruff. Price, extra cloth, $2.25;
half-calf, $4.
The demand for this book is still unabated, for it is the standard work on
the American horse.
“This is a masterly treatise by the master of his profession—the ripened product
of forty years' experience in handling, training, riding, and driving the
Trotting Horse. There is no book like it in any language on the subject of
which it treats.... Before we read it, we had seen with curious surprise
very hearty commendation of it and eulogy of its author in the leading
Presbyterian, Baptist. and Methodist journals. No wonder, for Hiram
Woodruff's system is based on the law of love.”
—N. Y. Tribune
Robert Bonner, who owns the fastest horses in the world, says: “It is
a book for which every man who owns a horse ought to subscribe. The information
which it contains is worth ten times its cost.”
History of the State of New York. From the Date of the
Discovery and Settlements on Manhattan Island to the Present Time.
A Text-book for High Schools, Academies, and Colleges. By S. S. Randall,
Superintendent of Public Education in New York City. 12mo vol.,
396 pages. Illustrated. Price $1.75.
The author, for many years intimately connected with the management
of our Public Schools, has written with a full knowledge of what was needed,
and the result is a clear, compendious, and admirable digest of all the important
events in the life of New York, down to the year 1870.
“This work contains so much valuable information that it should be
found in every house in the State as a volume of reference. Its value for
use in educational institutions is of a very high character.”
—Northern Budget
(Troy, N. Y.)
☞ Officially adopted by the Boards of Education in the cities of New
York and Brooklyn for use in the Public Schools, and also extensively used
in private schools throughout the State.
IN PREPARATION.
H. W. Beecher's Works. Uniform Edition. This is a set of
books long needed in the trade. It will include “Norwood,” “Lectures
to Young Men,” “Eyes and Ears,” “Summer in the Soul,” the early
“Star Papers,” and other works, embracing some which are now out of
print, and for which there is constant call.
