University of Virginia Library

PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO.'S PUBLICATIONS.

PRESCOTT'S
HISTORICAL WORKS.

ATTRACTIVE AS ROMANCES!

In all the qualities that distinguish the great historian, Mr. Prescott
stands preëminent. His materials have been collected with great labor and
research, and his style of narration is clear, flowing, and elegant. The
reader has never to wander, perplexed, through accumulations of ill-arranged
matter; perfect order is evident in all these works. The interest
never flags; for the author has the happy faculty of seizing upon salient
points, and grouping even minute details with picturesque effect.

HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF PHILIP II. OF SPAIN.

By William H. Prescott. With Portraits, Maps, Plates, &c.

8vo. vols. 1 and 2.

HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO.

With the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortez, and a View of the
Ancient Mexican Civilization. By William H. Prescott. With Portrait
and Maps. Three vols. 8vo.

HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF FERDINAND AND ISABELLA
THE CATHOLIC.

By William H. Prescott. With Portraits. Three vols. 8vo.

HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF PERU.

With a Preliminary View of the Civilization of the Incas. By William
H. Prescott. With Portraits, Maps, &c. Two vols. 8vo.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL MISCELLANIES.

By William H. Prescott. With a finely engraved Portrait. One vol. 8vo.

Mr. Prescott's works are printed upon fine paper, with large, clear type,
and bound in all styles. Price, in muslin, $2 per volume; in sheep,
$2.50; half calf, or half antique, $3; full calf, or antique, $4.

In Press:
ROBERTSON'S
HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF THE EMPEROR CHARLES V.

With a Continuation, treating of the Cloister Life of the Emperor after his
Abdication. By William H. Prescott. Three vols. 8vo.

Uniform with Mr. Prescott's previous works.

SUNNY MEMORIES
OF
FOREIGN LANDS;
A Book of Travels,
BY
MRS. H. BEECHER STOWE,
AUTHOR OF “UNCLE TOM'S CABIN.”

In 2 volumes, duodecimo,
PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED WITH HIGHLY FINISHED WOOD ENGRAVINGS,
FROM DESIGNS BY BILLINGS.

Price $2.00 in muslin.

This work was very warmly received on its first appearance, and it will always remain
a favorite with the admirers of the gifted author. For it is but just to say that these
volumes are written in the author's happiest vein; and that they would have created
a great sensation, and would have met with a very large sale, if published anonymously

The public, who have been wearied with the perusal of countless books of travel taking
the same beaten paths, will be surprised at the freshness and absorbing interest with
which this gifted author has invested the subject. From the voyage to the return the
reader follows her guidance with unquestioning delight.

JUST PUBLISHED:
ENGLISH TRAITS,
BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON.

In one volume, 12mo. Price $1.

This will undoubtedly be the most widely popular of the author's works.
The subject, however hackneyed by other writers, furnishes an admirable field
for a philosophical observer like Emerson. Probably no such critical analysis
of England, her character, institutions, her elements of strength and of weakness,
has ever been made. But the form of the work is not pretentious; it is
a series of sketches, written in the author's clear, pungent and idiomatic style,
in which an occasional felicitous phrase or epithet often expresses as much as
a page of prosaic description.

ALSO,
UNIFORM EDITIONS OF EMERSON'S WORKS,
EMBRACING

       

ESSAYS, First and Second Series,	2 vols.
REPRESENTATIVE MEN,	1 vol.
MISCELLANIES, containing, “Nature,” &c.,	1 vol.
ENGLISH TRAITS,	1 vol.

Price $1 per vol. in Muslin.

These volumes are universally admitted to be among the most valuable contributions
to the world's stock of ideas which our age has furnished. Every
page bears the impress of thought, but it is thought subtilized, and redolent
of poetry.

☞ A Complete Edition of Emerson's Works, on fine paper, and in various
elegant styles of binding, half calf, antique, full calf, &c., now ready.

MACAULAY'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND; from the Accession of James II.
Volumes I., II., III., and IV., 12mo, with Portrait. Muslin, 40 cents per
volume.

HUME'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND; from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to
the Abdication of James II., 1688. A new edition, with the author's last
corrections and improvements; to which is prefixed a short account of his
life, written by himself. Six volumes, with Portrait. Muslin, 40 cents per
volume.

GIBBON'S DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. With
Notes by Rev. H. H. Milman. A new edition, with a complete Index. Six
volumes, with Portrait. 12mo, muslin, 40 cents per volume.

— Boston Transcript.

— Home Journal.

LINGARD'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. 13 volumes. 75 cents per volume.

MODERN BRITISH ESSAYISTS. 8 vols. 8vo. Price $12. Embracing
the Essays, Reviews, and Miscellanies, of

               

Macaulay,	$1.75.
Carlyle,	2.00.
Jeffrey,	2.00.
Prof. Wilson,	1.25.
Sydney Smith,	$1.25.
Mackintosh,	2.00.
Alison,	1.25.
Talfourd and Stephen,	1.25.

Any volume sold separately.

JAPAN AS IT WAS AND IS. By Richard Hildreth, author of “History
of the United States.” $1.25.

The best, most complete, and most reliable work upon this country extant.

HITCHCOCK'S GEOLOGICAL WORKS:

     

Religion of Geology,	$1.25.
Outline of Geology,	1.25.
Genesis and Geology,	63.

DR. WAYLAND'S INTELLECTUAL PHILOSOPHY. Price $1.25.

DR. WAYLAND'S LIFE OF JUDSON. 2 volumes. Price $2.

THE EARNEST MAN; A NEW Life of JUDSON. By Mrs. H. C. Conant.

In one volume, 492 pp. 12mo. With a steel Portrait. Price $1.

To meet the universally expressed desire for a comprehensive and convenient
biography of this eminent Missionary which should fall within the means of
all, this work has been prepared with the concurrence of President Wayland,
author of the Biography in two volumes, and by the consent of the surviving
family of the subject of the memoir, — the copyright being held exclusively for
their benefit.

THE PUBLISHERS
DESIRE TO CALL ATTENTION
TO THEIR
Editions of the British Poets.

OCTAVOS.

SHAKSPEARE.

BYRON.

SCOTT.

BEN JONSON.

MONTGOMERY.

LANDON.

HEMANS.

COWPER.

MILTON.

MOORE.

BURNS.

ROGERS AND CAMPBELL.

BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, in 2 vols. HOOD.

These are the best editions of the poets above named to be found in single volumes,
and many of them are the only complete editions published in this country. They
are bound in various styles: muslin, half calf, full calf, and antique gilt. Any volume
sold separately.

DUODECIMOS.

(Each complete in one volume.)

BURNS.

BYRON.

BYRON'S DON JUAN.

CRABBE.

COWPER.

COLERIDGE.

CROLY'S SELECT POETS.

CAMPBELL.

COLLINS, GRAY, AND BEATTIE.

DAVIDSON.

GOLDSMITH.

HEMANS.

HOWITT, COOK, AND LANDON.

KIRKE WHITE.

MOORE.

MILTON.

MILTON AND YOUNG.

MONTGOMERY.

OSSIAN.

POPE.

SCOTT.

SHAKSPEARE'S POEMS.

BEAUTIES OF SHAKSPEARE.

SHELLEY.

TUPPER.

THOMSON AND POLLOK.

TALES FROM SHAKSPEARE.

WORDSWORTH.

The above in all styles of binding, and for sale in sets or singly.

THE MOST SUCCESSFUL AND THE BEST!

Now Complete, and For Sale:
SARGENT'S
STANDARD
SERIES OF READERS,
FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS.

The Standard Fifth, or First Class Standard Reader. 12mo, 480 pages.

The Standard Fourth Reader. 12mo, 336 pages.

The Standard Third Reader. 12mo, 216 pages.

The Standard Second Reader. 16mo, 216 pages. With Cuts.

The Standard First Reader. 16mo, 120 pages. With Cuts.

The Standard Primer. 16mo, 72 pages. With Cuts.

Sargent's Smaller Primer. 16mo, 36 pages. With Cuts.

The Standard Speller. 12mo, 168 pages.

Sargent's Smaller Speller. 16mo, 60 pages.

Sargent's Six School Charts. To be hung on the walls of Primary
Schools.

BY EPES SARGENT,
AUTHOR OF THE “STANDARD SPEAKER,” &C.

The first four Readers of Sargent's series form a complete series of Reading
Books for the Primary, Grammar, and District Schools of the country. The
fifth Reader is intended as a first-class book for higher Schools, Colleges, and
Academies. The unbounded success with which these Readers have met since
publication leads the publishers to say, emphatically, that no series of Readers
ever published in this country has had such universal recommendation from all
who have examined them. Their adoption throughout the country by School
Committees and Teachers, who have acquainted themselves with their merits,
has been most general.

Those who would procure for Schools what is pronounced the best series of
Readers yet published will send for Sargent's. Copies for examination will
be furnished gratis to Teachers and Committees, on application to the Publishers.
Or they will be sent by mail pre-paid, where the amount of postage is
sent in stamps. The postage rates are, on the Fifth Reader, 24 cents; the
Fourth, 18 cents; the Third, 15 cents; the Second, 12 cents; on the First, 9
cents; on the Primer, 6 cents; on the Standard Speller, 12 cents; on the
Smaller Speller, 6 cents.

Sargent's Series, though new in the field, has already had unparalleled
success, and is fast being introduced into the best Schools of the Union.

☞ Let facts speak for themselves: of this Series, though but a few months
complete, upwards of ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY THOUSAND COPIES
have already been sold!

[From the Wisconsin Journal of Education.]

Sargent's Standard Readers. — If the evils of book-making, as Lord Bacon said, are
only to be cured by making more books, such as shall cause the bad ones to be forgotten,
then will this Series do good. We do not well see what remains to be done, in order that a
series of readers should embrace more good qualities than these. We think Mr. Sargent
peculiarly happy in treating the principles of elocution. This part of the Fifth Reader
should be in the hands of every teacher. We notice several points in which these Readers
possess very decided merit. Those wishing a series exhibiting a thorough knowledge on
the part of the author of the wants of our schools, fine taste in making selections, and an
unquestionable morality, will do well to send word to the publishers.