We and our neighbors, or, The records of an unfashionable street ::

“Mrs. Barr's strong and cultivated
pen has secured for her writings a public
welcome and graceful appreciation. She
unites the solidity of scholarly study
with the graces of a style fitted both to
instruct and please her readers.”

—Christian
at Work.

Catharine E. Beecher.

Principles of Domestic Science as Applied to the Duties
and Pleasures of Home. 1 vol. 12mo. Profusely Illustrated.
Cloth, $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
nature of body and of spirit, will find her most engrossing occupation.
It is full of interest for all intelligent girls and young women.

Educational Reminiscences and Suggestions. The
fruit of more than half a century of unremitting and successful
labor for the education of women, this is of great interest to educators.
16mo. $1 00.

“The book is of course forcibly written, and is full of interest.”

—Hartford
Courant.

Edward Beecher, D.D.

History of Opinions of the Scriptural Doctrine of
Retribution. In Preparation.

The appearance of this book is awaited with very great and manifest
interest. An eminent authority speaks of it as “A series which
opens up the thought of the early Church on the subject of universal
salvation with great clearness, and gives the result of life-long research,
on a subject of great interest to every believer.”

Henry Ward Beecher.

Sermons, from Phonographic Reports by T. J. Ellinwood, for
fifteen years Mr. Beecher's Special Reporter. Uniformly bound
in dark brown English cloth. Each volume contains twenty-six
Sermons, and the Prayers before the Sermons. Ten vols. 8vo.
Cloth, $2 50 each. The Set, $22 50.

Each volume contains six months' sermons (from 450 to 500 pp.),
issued in uniform style. The First Series has an excellent steel portrait
of Mr. Beecher; the Second Series, a fine interior view of
Plymouth Church. The other volumes are not illustrated.

“These corrected sermons of perhaps
the greatest of living preachers—a man
whose heart is as warm and catholic as
his abilities are great, and whose sermons
combine fidelity and scriptural
truth, great power, glorious imagination,
fervid rhetoric, and vigorous reasoning,
with intense human sympathy and robust
common-sense.”

— British Quarterly
Review.

“There is not a discourse in all this
large collection that does not hold passages
of great suggestiveness and power
for the most ordinary, unsympathizing
reader—illustrations of great beauty and
point, eloquent invitations to better life,
touching appeals to nobler purposes and
more generous action.”

— Springfield
Republican.

Yale Lectures on Preaching. Delivered before the classes
of theology and the faculty of the Divinity School of Yale College.
Uniform edition of the Author's Works.

First Series, Winter of 1872—The Personal Elements which bear
an important relation to Preaching. 1 vol. 12mo. Cloth, $1 25.

Second Series, Winter of 1873—Social and Religious Machinery
of the Church as related to preaching. 1 vol. 12mo. Cloth, $1 50.

Third Series, Winter of 1874—Methods of Using Christian Doctrines,
in their relations to individual dispositions and the wants
of the community. 1 vol. 12mo. Cloth, $1 50.

The three volumes in neat box, $4 00.

“Full of common-sense and a knowledge
of human nature, and admirably
adapted to meet wants in preachers
which no other writer can so well supply.”

—Watchman and Reflector.

“Marvelous exhibitions of deep piety,
sound sense, quick wit, and fervid address;
interesting to all Christian readers
—invaluable to the beginning preacher.”

—Prof. H. N. Day, College Courant.

Star Papers: or, Experiences of Art and Nature. New
Edition, with many additional Papers. Uniform Edition of the
Author's Works. 1 vol. 12mo. Cloth, $1 75.

“We have nothing in the way of descriptive
writing, not even the best
sketches of Washington Irving, that
exceeds in richness of imagery and perspicuity
of statement these `Star Papers.'”

—Methodist Home Journal.

“A book to be read and re-read, and
always with a fresh sense of enjoyment.”

—Portland Press.

“So full of rural life, so sparkling with
cheerfulness, so holy in their tenderness,
and so brave in nobility of thought.”

—
Liberal Christian.

Lectures to Young Men on Various Important Subjects.
New Edition, with additional Lectures. Uniform Edition of
the Author's Works. 1 vol. 12mo. Cloth, $1 50.

“Wise and elevating in tone, pervaded
by earnestness, and well fitted for its
mission to improve and benefit the youth
of the land.”

—Boston Commonwealth.

“Written with all the vigor of style
and beauty of language which characterize
everything from the pen of this remarkable
man. They are a series of
fearless dissertations upon every-day
subjects, conveyed with a power of eloquence
and a practical illustration so
unique as to be oftentimes startling.”

—
Philadelphia Enquirer.

Pleasant Talk About Fruits, Flowers, and Farming.
New Edition, with much additional matter. Uniform Edition
of the Author's Works. 1 vol. 12mo. Cloth, $2 00.

A delightful book. The poetry and prose of Beecher's Farm and
Garden experiences.

“Not merely readable and instructive,
but singularly fascinating in its
magnetic style.”

—Philadelphia Press.

Norwood: or, Village Life in New England. A Novel.
Uniform Edition of the Author's Works; also, uniform with
J. B. F. & Co.'s Novel Series. 1 vol. 12mo. Illustrated, $2 00.

“Embodies more of the high art of
fiction than any half dozen of the best
novels of the best authors of the day.
It will bear to be read and re-read as
often as Dickens's `Dombey' or `David
Copperfield.'”

—Albany Evening Journal.

“The book is wholesome and delightful,
to be taken up again and yet again
with fresh pleasure.”

—Chicago Standard.

Lecture Room Talks. A Series of Familiar Discourses, on
Themes of Christian Experience. Phonographically reported
by T. J. Ellinwood. Uniform Edition of the Author's Works.
1 vol. 12mo. With Steel Portrait. Price, $1 75.

“It is easy to see why the old-fashioned
prayer-meeting has been replaced
by that eager and crowded assembly
which throngs the Plymouth Lecture
Room each Friday evening.”

— New
York Evangelist.

The Overture of Angels. A Series of Pictures of the Angelic
Appearances Attending the Nativity of Our Lord. A Chapter
from the “Life of Christ.” Illustrated. 1 vol. 12mo. $2 00.

A beautiful and characteristically interesting treatment of all the
events recorded in the Gospels as occurring about the time of the
Nativity. Full of poetic imagery, beauty of sentiment, and vivid
pictures of the life of the Orient in that day.

“The style, the sentiment, and faithfulness
to the spirit of the Biblical record
with which the narrative is treated are
characteristic of its author.”

—Worcester
(Mass.) Spy.

“A perfect fragment.”

—N.Y. World.

English and American Speeches on Politics, War, and
various miscellaneous topics. Uniform Edition of the Author's
Works. 1 vol. 12mo. In preparation.

This will include all of the more important of Mr. Beecher's
Speeches which have been preserved.

Eyes and Ears: or, Thoughts as They Occur, by One Who
Keeps his Eyes and Ears Open. New Edition. Uniform Edition
of the Author's Works. 1 vol. 12mo. Cloth. In preparation.

Royal Truths. This is a selected gathering of papers, passages,
illustrations, descriptions, from sermons, speeches, prayer-meeting
discourses, writings, etc., which has had a large sale both in
England and America. The New Edition will be enlarged by
the addition of much new matter of interest, Uniform Edition
of the Author's Works. 1 vol. 12mo. In preparation.

Views and Experiences of Religious Matters. Originally
published as a second collection of religious “Star Papers,”
these admirable and helpful articles will be added to by others,
heretofore unpublished. Uniform Edition of the Author's
Works. 1 vol. 12mo. In preparation.

Thomas K. Beecher.

Our Seven Churches. Eight Lectures. 1 vol. 16mo. Paper,
50 cts.; Cloth, $1 00.

A most valuable exponent of the doctrines of the leading religious
denominations, and a striking exhibition of the author's magnanimity
and breadth of loving sympathy.

“The sermons are written in a style
at once brilliant, epigrammatic, and
readable.”

—Utica Herald.

“This little book has created considerable
discussion among the religious
journals, and will be read with interest
by all.”

—Phila. Ledger.

“There is hardly a page which does
not offer a fresh thought, a genial touch
of humor, or a suggestion at which the
reader's heart leaps up with grateful
surprise that a minister belonging to a
sect can think and speak so generously
and nobly.”

—Milwaukee Sentinel.

A. H. Bogardus.

Field, Cover, and Trap Shooting. By the Champion Wing
Shot of America. Edited by Chas. J. Foster. 1 vol. 12mo.
With Steel Portrait of the Author, and an Engraving of the
Champion Medal. Cloth, $2 00.

A compendium of many years of experience, giving hints for skilled
marksmen and instructions for young sportsmen, describing the
haunts and habits of game birds, flight and resorts of water fowl,
breeding and breaking of dogs, and everything of interest to the
sportsman. The author is “champion wing-shot of America, who
knows a gun as Hiram Woodruff knew a horse. And he has the
same careful and competent editor who put Woodruff's “Trotting
Horse of America into shape—Chas. J. Foster, so many years sporting
editor of Wilkes' Spirit of the Times.

“No sportsman can peruse this book
without profit and instruction; while to
the young beginner with the gun, and to
the amateur who can spend but a few
months in the year in this healthful and
delightful pursuit, it will be invaluable.”

—Wilkes' Spirit.

Henry Churton.

Toinette: A Tale of Transition. 1 vol. 12mo. Extra Cloth,
Fancy Stamped Ink and Gilt Side. $1.50.

Not only a brilliant picture of individual life, full of stirring scenes
and emotional characters, but a graphic delineation of slave-life and
emancipation, by one who lived under the old régime at the South,
and saw it give place to the new. Companion piece to “Uncle
Tom's Cabin,” this powerful novel finishes what that great work
began.

“Clearly conceived and told with
power..... There is not a prosy
chapter in the book. The author grasps
the elements of his story with a firm
hand and combines them into vivid
scenes.”

—Liberal Christian.

“Absolutely thrilling in some of its
situations and delineations.”

—Chicago
Evening Journal.

“A remarkable book. It is fascinating,
thrilling, and its scenes are vivid
as the lightnings.”

—Atlanta (Ga.,)
Methodist Advocate.

Mrs. S. M. Davis.

The Life and Times of Sir Philip Sidney. A New
and Revised Edition, with Index, etc. Three steel plates; Portrait
of Sidney; View of Penshurst Castle; and Fac-simile of
Sidney's manuscript. 12mo. Silk Cloth, Beveled Boards,
Stamped with Sidney's Coat-of-Arms in Ink and Gold, $1 50.

“An elaborate sketch of a most interesting
character.”

—Chicago Evening
Journal.

“Its binding is exquisitely chaste.”

—
N.Y. World.

“Beautifully complete in every detail.”

—New Haven Journal & Courier.

Edward Eggleston.

The Circuit Rider: A Tale of the Heroic Age. Author of
“The Hoosier Schoolmaster,” etc. Illustrated with over thirty
characteristic drawings by G. G. White and Sol Eytinge. 1 vol.
12mo. Extra Cloth, Gilt, and Ink-Stamped Covers, $1 75.

This story is exciting widespread interest, both as a powerful
novel and genuine love-story, and as a graphic picture of the West in
the adventurous days of saddle-bags and circuit-riding preachers.

“The breezy freshness of the Western
prairie blended with the refinements of
literary culture. It is alive with the
sound of rushing streams and the echoes
of the forest, but shows a certain graceful
self-possession which betrays the
presence of the artist's power.”

—N. Y.
Tribune.

“It is his best work; a grand story; a
true picture of the past and of itinerant
life in the old times of simplicity and
hardship.”

—N. Y. Methodist.

“The best American story, and the
most thoroughly American one, that has
appeared for years.”

—Phila. Evening
Bulletin.

Ferdinand Fabbre.

The Abbe Tigrane, Candidate for the Papacy. Translated
from the French by Rev. Leonard Woolsey Bacon. 18mo.
Cloth, $1 50.

One of the most brilliant satires of the day. An entertaining and
exciting tale, giving the mode of French ecclesiastical life and of
Romish political intrigue in Europe.

Rev. T. A. Goodwin, A.M.

The Mode of Man's Immortality: or, The When, Where
and How of the Future Life. Author of “The Perfect Man,”
and late Editor of “The Indiana Christian Advocate.” 1 vol.
12mo. Cloth, $1 25.

“Certainly shows with great force the
well-nigh insuperable difficulties attending
the common opinions of the resurrection
of the actual body that is placed
in the dust, and develops quite a consistent
and interesting theory in reference
to the nature of the resurrection
life.”

—Zion's Herald.

Robertson Gray.

Brave Hearts. A Novel. By Robertson Gray (R. W. Raymond).
1 vol. 12mo. Illustrated. Cloth. $1 75.

A characteristic American tale, with Illustrations by Darley, Stephens,
Frank Beard, and Kendrick.

“About as pure, breezy, and withal,
readable a story of American life as we
have met with this long time.”

—Congregationalist.

“Its pictures of the strange life of
those early California days are simply
admirable, quite as good as anything
Bret Harte has written.”

—Lit. World.

Grace Greenwood.

New Life in New Lands. Notes of Travel Across the
American Continent, from Chicago to the Pacific and Back.
1 vol. 12mo. $2 00.

This is a gathered series of letters, racy, brilliant, piquant; full of
keen observation and pungent statement of facts, picturesque in delineation
of scenes on the plains, in the mountains, and along the
sea.

“Among the best of the author's productions,
and every way delightful.”

—
Boston Post.

“The late William H. Seward characterized
her account of Mormons and
Mormonism as the most graphic and
trustworthy he had ever read.”

—Methodist
Home Journal.

“Grace always finds lots of things no
one else would see; and she has a happy
knack of picking up the mountains and
cities and big trees and tossing them
across the continent right before the
reader's eyes. It's very convenient.”

—
Buffalo Express.

Heads and Tails: Studies and Stories of Pets. Square 16mo.
Illustrated. Extra Cloth, Beveled Boards, Elaborate Gilt and
Ink-Stamped Sides, Gilt Edges, $2 00.

“It consists of a dozen or more of her
delightfully bright sketches, mostly having
the charm of personal experiences,
in which she pictures in her own inimitable
way, so full of wit, of pathos, of
good sense, of tenderness, and of real
rollicking fun, her own adventures, or
those of other young and old folks who
love animals.... The stories are
told in the author's happiest style.”

—
Christian Union.

“Grace Greenwood is gifted with a
special knack at story-telling for young
folks, and Heads and Tails, with its
stories of pet birds, cats, etc., is a delightful
book.”

—Chicago Advance.

“We don't know where there is pleasanter
reading than in these stories of
poets.”

—Boston Commonwealth.

Rev. S. B. Halliday.

Winning Souls. Sketches and Incidents During Forty Years
of Pastoral Work. 1vol. 12mo. Cloth, $1 00.

The author of this volume for some time past has been, and now
is, engaged as assistant in the pastoral labors of Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn (Rev. H. W. Beecher's), where, in visiting among the sick,
the poor, and the afflicted of that large parish, he is continually encountering
new and interesting phases of heart-life. These simple
records of scenes among his earlier labors possess a peculiar interest.

“Full of valuable suggestions to ministers
in the department of active duty.”

—Methodist Recorder.

“The book is tenderly written, and
many of its pathetic scenes will be read
with moistened eyes. We commend the
book to pastors and people.”

—Boston
Christian Era.

The Little Street-Sweeper: or, Life among the Poor. 1 vol.
12mo. Illustrated. In preparation.

Joseph W. Long.

American Wild - Fowl Shooting. 1 vol. 12mo. Illustrated.
Fancy Stamped Cloth, $2 00.

A book of practical specific instruction as to the different species,
habits, haunts and pursuits of wild-fowl, the building and use of
blinds, boats, decoys, &c., the training of water-retrievers, and many
miscellaneous hints of great value to hunters of wild game-fowl.
Full of admirable descriptions, adventure, &c., &c. The only book
of the kind in the English Language.

“We know of no book that treats so
fully as this of the habits of our inland
wild-fowl and the methods of hunting
them.”

—Phila. Enquirer.

Amelia Perrier.

A Good Match. A Novel. Author of “Mea Culpa.” 1 vol.
12mo. Cloth, $1 50.

A clever and amusing Novel, agreeably written, racy, and lively.

“A very readable love story, tenderly
told.”

—Hearth and Home.

“The characters appear and act with
a real life.”

—Providence Press.

S. S. Randall, A.M.

(Superintendent of Public Education in New York City.)

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.
1 vol. 12mo. Illustrated. Cloth, $1 75.

Officially adopted by the Boards of Education in the cities of New
York, Brooklyn, and Jersey City, for use in the Public Schools; and
in Private Schools throughout the State.

Rossiter W. Raymond, Ph. D.

U. S. Commissioner Mining Statistics; Pres't. Am. Inst. Mining Engineers;
Editor Engineering and Mining Journal; Author of
“Mines, Mills, and Furnaces,” etc., etc.

Silver and Gold: An Account of the Mining and Metallurgical
Industry of the United States, with reference chiefly to the
Precious Metals. 1 vol. 8vo. Cloth, $3 50.

“Valuable and exhaustive work on a
theme of great import to the world of
industry.”

—Philadelphia Inquirer.

“A repository of much valuable current
information.”

—N. Y. Tribune.

Mining Industry of the States and Territories West
of the Rocky Mountains; including Descriptions of Quartz,
Placer, and Hydraulic Mining; Amalgamation, Concentration,
Smelting. etc. Illustrated with nearly one hundred Engravings
and Maps, and a Colored Geological Map of the United States.
1 vol. 8vo. Cloth, $4 50.

“Recognized in this country and in
Europe as professionally authoritative
and interesting to a remarkable degree.”

—Washington Chronicle.

The Man in the Moon and Other People. Square 16mo.,
Illustrated. Extra Cloth, beveled boards, handsome gilt and
ink stamped sides, gilt edges, $2 00.

Twenty of Ros. Raymond's best stories, some published before,
others not. They embrace Fairy Stories, Wonder Stories, Christmas
Stories, Thanksgiving Stories, Stories of Adventure, of War,
of Love, Stories about Dogs, about Birds, about Boys and about
Girls—and all bright, witty, engaging and delightful.

The Brooklyn Eagle says: “His tales
have won great popularity by their
wit, delicate fancy, and admirable good
sense.”

Sarah Bridges Stebbins.

The Poetry of Pets. 1 vol. Square 12mo. Illustrated. In
preparation.

Harriet Beecher Stowe.

My Wife and I: Or, Harry Henderson's History. A Novel.
Illustrated. 1 vol. 12mo. Cloth, $1.75.

This charming novel is, in some respects, Mrs. Stowe's most
thoughtful and complete book. It is eminently a book for the times,
giving the author's individual ideas about the much-vexed Woman
Question, including marriage, divorce, suffrage, legislation, and all
the rights claimed by the clamorous.

“A capital story, in which fashionable
follies are shown up, fast young ladies
weighed in the balance and found wanting,
and the value of true worth exhibited.”

—Portland Argus.

“Always bright, piquant, and entertaining,
with an occasional touch of tenderness,
strong because subtle, keen in
sarcasm, full of womanly logic directed
against unwomanly tendencies.”

—Boston
Journal.

We and Our Neighbors: Or, The Records of an Unfashionable
Street. A Sequel to “My Wife and I.” 1 vol. Illustrated
by Alfred Fredericks. 12mo. Cloth, $1 75.

As fresh, witty and charming in style as all of Mrs. Stowe's
works are.

A Volume of Religious Meditative Articles, very helpful
and spiritual in their tone. In preparation.

T. S. Verdi, A.M., M.D.

Maternity: A Popular Treatise for Wives and Mothers. Fifth
edition. 1 vol. 12mo. $2 25.

This book has arisen from a want felt in the author's own practice,
as a monitor to young wives, a guide to young mothers, and an assistant
to the family physician. It deals skillfully, sensibly and delicately
with the perplexities of married life, giving information which
women must have, either in conversation with physicians or from
such a source as this. Plain and intelligible, but without offence to
the most fastidious taste, the style of this book must commend it to
careful perusal. It treats of the needs, dangers, and alleviations of
the holy duties of maternity, and gives extended, detailed instructions
for the care and medical treatment of infants and children
throughout all the perils of early life.

“The author deserves great credit for
his labor, and the book merits an extensive
circulation.”

—U.S. Medical and
Surgical Journal (Chicago).

“We hail the appearance of this work
with true 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.)

“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 indexes at the end, this book ought
to do much good.”

—Hearth and Home.

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