BOOKS IN
THE STANDARD LIBRARY.
THEIR STERLING WORTH.
OPINIONS OF CRITICS.
I.
Life of Cromwell.
NEW YORK SUN:
"Mr. Hood's biography is a positive boon to the mass of readers, because it presents a more correct view of the great soldier than any of the shorter lives published, whether we compare it with Southey's, Guizot's, or even Forster's."
PACIFIC CHURCHMAN, San Francisco:
"The fairest and most readable of the numerous biographies of Cromwell."
GOOD LITERATURE, New York:
"If all these books will prove as fresh and readable as Hood's 'Cromwell,' the literary merit of the series will be as high as the price is low."
NEW YORK DAILY GRAPHIC:
"Hood's 'Cromwell' is an excellent account of the great Protector. Cromwell was the heroic servant of a sublime cause. A complete sketch of the man and the period."
CHRISTIAN UNION, New York:
"A valuable biography of Cromwell, told with interest in every part and with such condensation and skill in arrangement that prominent events are made clear to all."
SCHOOL JOURNAL, New York:
"Mr. Hood's style is pleasant, clear, and flowing, and he sets forth and holds his own opinion well."
EPISCOPAL RECORDER, Philadelphia:
"An admirable and able Life of Oliver Cromwell, of which we can unhesitatingly speak words of praise."
NEW YORK TELEGRAM:
"Full of the kind of information with which even the well-read like to refresh themselves."
INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL, Ind.:
"The book is one of deep interest. The style is good, the analysis searching, and will add much to the author's fame as an able biographer."
THE WORKMAN, Pittsburgh, Pa.:
"This book tells the story of Cromwell's life in a captivating way. It reads like a romance. The paper and printing are very attractive."
NEW YORK HERALD:
"The book is one of deep interest. The style is good, the analysis searching."
II.
Science in Short Chapters.
JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, Boston:
"'Science in Short Chapters' supplies a growing want among a large class of busy people, who have not time to consult scientific treatises. Written in clear and simple style. Very interesting and instructive."
ACADEMY, London, England:
"Mr. Williams has presented these scientific subjects to the popular mind with much clearness and force. It may be read with advantage by those without special scientific training."
RELIGIOUS TELESCOPE, Dayton, Ohio:
"It is historic, scientific, and racy. A book of intense practical thought, which one wishes to read carefully and then read again."
NEW YORK SCHOOL JOURNAL:
"A volume of handy science, not only interesting as an abstract subject, but valuable for its clear expositions of every-day science. Of Professor Williams as an authority upon such subjects, it is unnecessary to comment. He already has a fame as a scientific writer which needs no recommendation."
PALL MALL GAZETTE, London, England:
"Original and of scientific value."
GRAPHIC, London:
"Clear, simple, and profitable."
CANADA BAPTIST, Toronto:
"A rich book at a marvellously low price. The style is sprightly and simple. Every chapter contains something we all want to know."
NEWARK DAILY ADVERTISER, N.J.:
"As an educator this book is worth a year's schooling, and it will go where schools of a high grade cannot penetrate. For such a book twenty-five cents seems a ridiculous sum."
J.W. BASHFORD, Auburndale, Mass.:
"A marvellous book, as fascinating as Dickens, to be consulted as an authority along with Britannica, and even fuller of practical hints than the latter's articles. I do not know how you can print its 300 pages for 25 cents."
AMERICAN, Philadelphia:
"Mr. Williams' work is a practical compendium."
III.
The American Humorist.
COMMERCIAL GAZETTE, Cincinnati, Ohio:
"It is finely critical and appreciative; exceedingly crisp and unusually entertaining from first to last."
CHRISTIAN INTELLIGENCER, New York:
"A book of pleasant reading, with enough sparkle in it to cure any one of the blues."
CONGREGATIONALIST, Boston:
"They are based upon considerable study of these authors, are highly appreciative in tone, and show a perceptivity of American humor which is yet a rarity among Englishmen."
SALEM TIMES, Mass.:
"No writer in England was, in all respects, better qualified to write a book on American Humorists than Haweis."
CHRISTIAN JOURNAL, Toronto:
"We have been specially amused with the chapter on poor Artemus Ward, which we read on a railway journey. We fear our fellow-passengers would think something ailed us, for laugh we did, in spite of all attempts to preserve a sedate appearance."
OCCIDENT, San Francisco:
"This book is pleasant reading, with sparkle enough in it—as the writer is himself a wit—to cure one of the 'blues.'"
DANBURY NEWS, Conn.:
"Mr. Haweis gives a brief bibliographical sketch of each writer mentioned in the book, an analysis of his style, and classifies each into a distinct type from the others. He presents copious extracts from their works, making an entertaining book."
CENTRAL BAPTIST, St. Louis:
"A perusal of this volume will give the reader a more correct idea of the character discussed than he would probably get from reading their biographies. The lecture is analytical, penetrative, terse, incisive, and candid. The book is worth its price, and will amply repay reading."
SCHOOL JOURNAL, New York:
"Terse and brief as the soul of wit itself."
INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL, Indiana:
"It presents, in fine setting, the wit and wisdom of Washington Irving, Oliver W. Holmes, James R. Lowell, Artemus Ward, Mark Twain, and Bret Harte, and does it con amore."
THE MAIL, Toronto, Ont.:
"Rev. H. R. Haweis is a writer too well-known to need commendation at our hands for, at least, his literary style. The general result is that not a page repels us and not a sentence tires. We find ourselves drawn pleasantly along in just the way we want to go; all our favorite points remembered, all our own pet phrases praised, and the good things of each writer brought forward to refresh one's memory. In fine, the book is a most agreeable companion."
LUTHERAN OBSERVER, Philadelphia:
"The peculiar style, the mental character, and the secret of success, of each of these prominent writers, are presented with great clearness and discrimination."
IV.
Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers.
WESTERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, Cincinnati:
"When we first took up this volume we were surprised that anybody should attempt to make a book with precisely this form and title. But as we read its pages we were far more surprised to find them replete with interest and instruction. It should be sold by the scores of thousands."
PRESBYTERIAN OBSERVER, Baltimore:
"The writer of this book well understands how to write biography—a gift vouchsafed only to a few."
NEW YORK HERALD:
"The sons of St. Crispin have always been noted for independence of thought in politics and in religion; and Mr. Winks has written a very readable account of the lives of the more famous of the craft. The book is quite interesting."
DANBURY NEWS, Conn.:
"The Standard Library has been enriched by this addition."
LITERARY WORLD, London:
"The pages contain a great deal of interesting material—remarkable episodes of experience and history."
BOSTON GLOBE:
"A valuable book, containing much interesting matter and an encouragement to self-help."
CHRISTIAN STANDARD, Cincinnati:
"It will inspire a noble ambition, and may redeem many a life from failure."
CHRISTIAN SECRETARY, Hartford, Conn.:
"Written in a sprightly and popular manner. Full of interest."
EVANGELICAL MESSENGER, Cleveland:
"Everybody can read the book with interest, but the young will be specially profited by its perusal."
LEICESTER CHRONICLE, England:
"A work of the deepest interest and of singular ability."
COMMERCIAL GAZETTE, Cincinnati:
"One of the most popular books published lately."
CENTRAL METHODIST, Kentucky:
"This is a choice work—full of fact and biography. It will be read with interest, more especially by that large class whose awl and hammer provide the human family with soles for their feet."
THE WESTERN MAIL, England:
"Written with taste and tact, in a graceful, easy style. A book most interesting to youth."
CHRISTIAN GUARDIAN, Toronto:
"It is a capital book."
EVANGELICAL CHURCHMAN, Toronto:
"This is a most interesting book, written in a very popular style."
V.
Flotsam and Jetsam.
SATURDAY REVIEW, Eng.:
"Amusing and readable ... Among the successful books of this order must be classed that which Mr. Bowles has recently offered to the public."
NEW YORK WORLD:
"This series of reflections, some philosophic, others practical, and many humorous, make a cheerful and healthful little volume, made the more valuable by its index."
CENTRAL METHODIST, Cattlesburgh, Ky.
"This is a romance of the sea, and is one of the most readable and enjoyable books of the season."
LUTHERAN OBSERVER, Phil.:
"The cargo on this wreck must have been above all estimate in value. How much 'Jetsam' there may be we cannot tell, but what we have seen is all 'Flotsam,' and will float and find its way in enriching influence to a thousand hearts and homes."
NEW YORK HERALD:
"It is a clever book, full of quaint conceits and deep meditation. There is plenty of entertaining and original thought, and 'Flotsam and Jetsam' is indeed worth reading."
CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, Nashville, Tenn.:
"Many of the author's comments are quite acute, and their personal tone will give them an additional flavor."
METHODIST RECORDER, Pittsburgh, Pa.:
"In addition to the charming incidents related, it fairly sparkles with fresh and original thoughts which cannot fail to interest and profit."
GOOD LITERATURE, New York:
"... Never fails to amuse and interest, and it is one of the pleasantest features of the book that one may open it at a venture and be sure of finding something original and readable."
HERALD AND PRESBYTER, Cincinnati, Ohio:
"His manner of telling the story of his varied observations and experiences, with his reflections accompanying, is so easy and familiar, as to lend his pages a fascination which renders it almost impossible to lay down the book until it is read to the end."
NEW YORK LEDGER:
"It is quite out of the usual method of books of travel, and will be relished all the more by those who enjoy bits of quiet humor and piquant sketches of men and things on a yachting journey."
NEW YORK STAR:
"Not too profound for entertainment, and yet pleasantly suggestive. A volume of clever sayings."
CHRISTIAN SECRETARY, Hartford, Conn.:
"It is a book well worth reading,... full of thought."
PRESBYTERIAN JOURNAL, Philadelphia:
"A racy, original, thoughtful book. On the slight thread of sea-voyaging it hangs the terse thoughts of an original mind on many subjects. The style is so spicy that one reads with interest even when not approving."
CHRISTIAN INTELLIGENCER, New York:
"No one can spend an hour or two in Mr. Bowles' gallery of graphic pen-pictures without being so deeply impressed with their originality of conception and lively, spicy expression, as to talk about them to others."
VI.
The Highways of Literature.
NATIONAL BAPTIST, Phila.:
"A book full of wisdom; exceedingly bright and practical."
PACIFIC CHURCHMAN, San Francisco:
"The best answer we have seen to the common and most puzzling question, 'What shall I read?' Scholarly and beautiful."
DANBURY NEWS:
"Its hints, rules, and directions for reading are, just now, what thousands of people are needing."
CHRISTIAN WITNESS, Newmarket, N.H.:
"Clear, terse, elegant in style. A boon to young students, a pleasure for scholars."
NEW YORK HERALD:
"Mr. David Pryde, the author of 'Highways of Literature; or, What to Read, and How to Read,' is an erudite Scotchman who has taught with much success in Edinburgh. His hints on the best books and the best method of mastering them are valuable, and likely to prove of great practical use."
NEW YORK TABLET:
"This is a most useful and interesting work. It consists of papers in which the author offers rules by which the reader may discover the best books, and be enabled to study them properly."
VII.
Colin Clout's Calendar.
LEEDS MERCURY, England:
"The best specimens of popular scientific expositions that we have ever had the good fortune to fall in with."
NEW YORK NATION:
"The charm of such books is not a little heightened when, as in this case, a few touches of local history, of customs, words, and places are added."
AMERICAN REFORMER, New York:
"There certainly is no deterioration in the quality of the books of the Standard Library. This book consists of short chapters upon natural history, written in an easy, fascinating style, giving rare and valuable information concerning trees, plants, flowers, and animals. Such books should have a wide circulation beyond the list of regular subscribers. Some will criticise the author's inclination to attribute the marvellous things which are found in these plants, animals, etc., to a long process of development rather than to Divine agency. But the information is none the less valuable, whatever may be the process of these developments."
A GREAT SACRIFICE.
Young's Analytical Concordance
REDUCED TO $2.50,
FOR A LIMITED TIME.
Dr. Young cannot endure to have this, the great work of his life, judged by the unauthorized editions with which the American market is flooded. These editions, he feels, do his work and the American public great injustice.
That Americans may be able to see the work as printed under his eye and from his own plates, he will sell some thousands of copies at
A Great Pecuniary Sacrifice.
The sale at the reduced prices will begin March 1, 1883, and will continue until the thousands of copies set apart for this sale are exhausted. This is the authorized, latest revised and unabridged edition—in every respect the same type, paper, binding, etc., as we have sold at the higher prices.
It is a burning shame that the great life-work of one of the most eminent scholars, a work pronounced in both Europe and America as one of the most laborious and important that this century has produced, embracing nearly 1100 large quarto pages, each larger and containing more matter than Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, should prove a great financial loss to its author!
This great work is selling in England at $9, and is now imported and sold in America at $2.50!!
Orders will be filled in the order received up to the time of the exhaustion of the stock.
Young's Great Concordance.
DO NOT BE DECEIVED.
There is but one authorized and correct edition of Young's Concordance sold in America. Every copy of this edition has on the title-page the words "Authorized Edition," and at the bottom of the page the imprint
New York: Funk & Wagnalls. Edinburgh: George Adam Young & Company.
All copies, no matter by whom sold, that have not these words printed on the title-page are printed on the bungling plates made by the late American Book Exchange.
Dr. Young says: "This unauthorized American edition is an outrage on the American public, and on me, containing gross errors."
Rev. Dr. John Hall says:
"Dr. Robert Young's Analytical Concordance is worthy of the lifetime of labor he has spent upon it. I deeply regret that his natural and just expectation of some return from its sale on this side of the ocean is not realized; and I hope the sense of justice to a most painstaking author will lead to the choice by many purchasers of the edition which Dr. Young approves—that of Messrs. Funk & Wagnalls, with whom Dr. Young cooperates in bringing out here the best edition.
"New York.
JOHN HALL."
Do not be deceived by misrepresentations. Insist that your bookseller furnish you the Authorized edition.
REDUCED PRICES:
| 1100 quarto pages (each larger than a page in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary), Cloth, | $2 | 50 |
| Sheep | 4 | 00 |
| French im. morocco | 4 | 50 |