Some Good Books
For sale by all Booksellers, or mailed, pre-paid, to any address, on receipt of the price by the Publishers,
J. B. FORD & CO.,
No. 27 Park Place, New York.
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 450 pp.), issued in style uniform with the First Series.
“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.
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 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.
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.
“A perfect fragment.”—N. Y. World.
“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.
“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.
“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. 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 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.”
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.