History of the Romans under the Empire.ByCharles Merivale, B. D., late Fellow of St. John’s College. 7 vols., small 8vo. Handsomely printed on tinted paper. Price, in cloth, $2 per vol. Half Morocco extra, $3 50.CONTENTS:Vols. I. and II.—Comprising the History to the Fall of Julius Cæsar.Vol. III.—To the Establishment of the Monarchy by Augustus.Vols. IV. and V.—From Augustus to Claudius,B. C.27 toA. D.54.Vol. VI.—From the Reign of Nero,A. D.54, to the Fall of Jerusalem,A. D.70.Vol. VII.—From the Destruction of Jerusalem,A. D.70, to the Death of M. Aurelius.This valuable work terminates at the point where the narrative of Gibbon commences.... “When we enter on a more searching criticism of the two writers, it must be admitted that Merivale has as firm a grasp of his subject as Gibbon, and that his work is characterized by a greater freedom from prejudice, and a sounder philosophy.... “This history must always stand as a splendid monument of his learning, his candor, and his vigorous grasp of intellect. Though he is in some respects inferior to Macaulay and Grote, he must still be classed with them, as one of the second great triumvirate of English historians.”—North American Review, April, 1863.Practice in the Executive Department of the Government,under the Pension, Bounty, and Prize Laws of the United States, with Forms and Instructions for Collecting Arrears of Pay, Bounty, and Prize Money, and for Obtaining Pensions. ByRobert Sewell, Counsellor at Law. 1 vol., 8vo. Sheep. Price, $3 50.“I offer this little book with confidence to the profession, as certain to save lawyers, in one case, if they never have any more, more time and trouble than its cost. To the public generally, the book is offered as containing a large amount of useful information on a subject now, unfortunately, brought home to half the families in the land. To the officers and soldiers of the Army it will also be found a useful companion; and it is hoped that by it an amount of information of great value to the soldiers, and to their families at home, will be disseminated, and the prevailing ignorance respecting the subject treated of in a great degree removed.”—Extract from Preface.Hints to Riflemen.ByH. W. S. Cleveland. 1 vol., 12mo. Illustrated, with numerous Designs of Rifles and Rifle Practice. Cloth. Price, $1 50.“I offer these hints as the contribution of an old sportsman, and if I succeed in any degree in exciting an interest in the subject, my end will be accomplished, even if the future investigations of those who are thus attracted should prove any of my opinions to be erroneous.”—Extract from Preface.
History of the Romans under the Empire.
ByCharles Merivale, B. D., late Fellow of St. John’s College. 7 vols., small 8vo. Handsomely printed on tinted paper. Price, in cloth, $2 per vol. Half Morocco extra, $3 50.
Vols. I. and II.—Comprising the History to the Fall of Julius Cæsar.
Vol. III.—To the Establishment of the Monarchy by Augustus.
Vols. IV. and V.—From Augustus to Claudius,B. C.27 toA. D.54.
Vol. VI.—From the Reign of Nero,A. D.54, to the Fall of Jerusalem,A. D.70.
Vol. VII.—From the Destruction of Jerusalem,A. D.70, to the Death of M. Aurelius.
This valuable work terminates at the point where the narrative of Gibbon commences.
... “When we enter on a more searching criticism of the two writers, it must be admitted that Merivale has as firm a grasp of his subject as Gibbon, and that his work is characterized by a greater freedom from prejudice, and a sounder philosophy.
... “This history must always stand as a splendid monument of his learning, his candor, and his vigorous grasp of intellect. Though he is in some respects inferior to Macaulay and Grote, he must still be classed with them, as one of the second great triumvirate of English historians.”—North American Review, April, 1863.
Practice in the Executive Department of the Government,
under the Pension, Bounty, and Prize Laws of the United States, with Forms and Instructions for Collecting Arrears of Pay, Bounty, and Prize Money, and for Obtaining Pensions. ByRobert Sewell, Counsellor at Law. 1 vol., 8vo. Sheep. Price, $3 50.
“I offer this little book with confidence to the profession, as certain to save lawyers, in one case, if they never have any more, more time and trouble than its cost. To the public generally, the book is offered as containing a large amount of useful information on a subject now, unfortunately, brought home to half the families in the land. To the officers and soldiers of the Army it will also be found a useful companion; and it is hoped that by it an amount of information of great value to the soldiers, and to their families at home, will be disseminated, and the prevailing ignorance respecting the subject treated of in a great degree removed.”—Extract from Preface.
Hints to Riflemen.
ByH. W. S. Cleveland. 1 vol., 12mo. Illustrated, with numerous Designs of Rifles and Rifle Practice. Cloth. Price, $1 50.
“I offer these hints as the contribution of an old sportsman, and if I succeed in any degree in exciting an interest in the subject, my end will be accomplished, even if the future investigations of those who are thus attracted should prove any of my opinions to be erroneous.”—Extract from Preface.
Laws and Principles of Whist,Stated and Explained, and its Practice Illustrated on an Original System, by means of hands played completely through. ByCavendish. From the fifth London edition. 1 vol., square 16mo. Gilt edge. $1 25.“An excellent and very clearly written treatise; the rules of the game thoroughly explained; its practice illustrated by means of hands played completely through, and much of the minutiæ and finesse of the game given that we have never seen in any other volume of the kind. Whist players will recognize it as an authority; and that it is a success is proved by its having already gone through five editions. It is got out very neatly, in blue and gold, by the publishers.”—Com. Bulletin.Roba di Roma.ByW. W. Story. 2 vols., 12mo. Cloth, $3.“Till Rome shall fall, the City of the Seven Hills will be inexhaustible as a subject of interest. ‘Roba di Roma’ contains the gatherings of an honest observer and a real artist.... It has permanent value to entitle it to a place of honor on the shelf which contains every lover of Italy’s Rome-books.”—Athenæum.Heat considered as a Mode of Motion.Being a Course of Twelve Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. ByJohn Tyndall, F.R.S. Author of “The Glaciers of the Alps.” 1 vol., 12mo. With 101 illustrations. Cloth. $2.“No one can rend Dr. Tyndall’s book without being impressed with the intensity of the author’s conviction of the truth of the theory which it is his object to illustrate, or with the boldness with which he confronts the difficulties which lie encounters.... Dr. Tyndall’s is the first work in which the undulatory or mechanical theory of heat has been placed in a popular light; but we are sure that no one, however profound his knowledge upon the subject of which it treats, will rise from its perusal without a feeling that he has been both gratified and instructed in a high degree while reading its pages.”—London Reader.Life of Edward Livingston,Mayor of the City of New York; Member of Congress; Senator of the United States; Secretary of State; Minister to France; Author of a System of Penal Law for Louisiana; Member of the Institute of France, etc. ByCharles H. Hunt, with an Introduction byGeorge Bancroft. 1 vol., 8vo. Cloth, $3.50.“One of the purest of statesmen and the most genial of men, was Edward Livingston, whose career is presented in this volume....“The author of this volume has done the country a service. He has given us in a becoming form an appropriate memorial of one whom succeeding generations will be proud to name as an American jurist and statesman.”—Evangelist.
Laws and Principles of Whist,
Stated and Explained, and its Practice Illustrated on an Original System, by means of hands played completely through. ByCavendish. From the fifth London edition. 1 vol., square 16mo. Gilt edge. $1 25.
“An excellent and very clearly written treatise; the rules of the game thoroughly explained; its practice illustrated by means of hands played completely through, and much of the minutiæ and finesse of the game given that we have never seen in any other volume of the kind. Whist players will recognize it as an authority; and that it is a success is proved by its having already gone through five editions. It is got out very neatly, in blue and gold, by the publishers.”—Com. Bulletin.
Roba di Roma.
ByW. W. Story. 2 vols., 12mo. Cloth, $3.
“Till Rome shall fall, the City of the Seven Hills will be inexhaustible as a subject of interest. ‘Roba di Roma’ contains the gatherings of an honest observer and a real artist.... It has permanent value to entitle it to a place of honor on the shelf which contains every lover of Italy’s Rome-books.”—Athenæum.
Heat considered as a Mode of Motion.
Being a Course of Twelve Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. ByJohn Tyndall, F.R.S. Author of “The Glaciers of the Alps.” 1 vol., 12mo. With 101 illustrations. Cloth. $2.
“No one can rend Dr. Tyndall’s book without being impressed with the intensity of the author’s conviction of the truth of the theory which it is his object to illustrate, or with the boldness with which he confronts the difficulties which lie encounters.... Dr. Tyndall’s is the first work in which the undulatory or mechanical theory of heat has been placed in a popular light; but we are sure that no one, however profound his knowledge upon the subject of which it treats, will rise from its perusal without a feeling that he has been both gratified and instructed in a high degree while reading its pages.”—London Reader.
Life of Edward Livingston,
Mayor of the City of New York; Member of Congress; Senator of the United States; Secretary of State; Minister to France; Author of a System of Penal Law for Louisiana; Member of the Institute of France, etc. ByCharles H. Hunt, with an Introduction byGeorge Bancroft. 1 vol., 8vo. Cloth, $3.50.
“One of the purest of statesmen and the most genial of men, was Edward Livingston, whose career is presented in this volume....
“The author of this volume has done the country a service. He has given us in a becoming form an appropriate memorial of one whom succeeding generations will be proud to name as an American jurist and statesman.”—Evangelist.
Round the Block.An American Novel. With Illustrations. 1 vol., 12mo. Cloth. Price, $1 50.“The story is remarkably clever. It presents the most vivid and various pictures of men and manners in the great Metropolis. Unlike most novels that now appear, it has no ‘mission,’ the author being neither a politician nor a reformer, but a story teller, according to the old pattern, and a capital story he has produced, written in the happiest style, and full of wit and action. He evidently knows his ground, and moves over it with the foot of a master. It is a work that will be read and admired, unless all love for good novels has departed from us; and we know that such is not the case.”—Boston Traveler.The History of Civilization in England.ByHenry Thomas Buckle. 2 vols., 8vo. Cloth. $6.“Whoever misses reading this book, will miss reading what is, in various respects, to the best of our judgment and experience, the most remarkable book of the day—one, indeed, that no thoughtful, inquiring mind would miss reading for a good deal. Let the reader be as averse as he may to the writer’s philosophy, let him be as devoted to the obstructive as Mr. Buckle is to the progress party, let him be as orthodox in church creed as the other is heterodox, as dogmatic as his author is skeptical—let him, in short, find his prejudices shocked at every turn of the argument, and all his prepossessions whistled down the wind—still there is so much in this extraordinary volume to stimulate reflection, and excite to inquiry, and provoke to earnest investigation, perhaps (to this or that reader) on a track hitherto untrodden, and across the virgin soil of untilled fields, fresh woods and pastures new—that we may fairly defy the most hostile spirit, the most mistrustful and least sympathetic, to read it through without being glad of having done so, or having begun it, or even glanced at almost any one of its pages, to pass it away unread.”—New Monthly (London) Magazine.Illustrations of Universal Progress.A Series of Essays. ByHerbert Spencer, Author of “The Principles of Psychology;” “Social Statics;” “Education.” 1 vol., 12mo. Cloth, $1 75.“The readers who have made the acquaintance of Mr. Herbert Spencer through his work on Education, and are interested in his views upon a larger range of subjects, will welcome this new volume of ‘Essays.’ Passing by the more scientific and philosophical speculations, we may call attention to a group of articles upon moral and political subjects, which are very pertinent to the present condition of affairs.”—Tribune.Thirty Poems.By Wm. Cullen Bryant.1 vol., 12mo. Cloth, $1.25; cloth gilt, $1.75; mor., $3.50.“No English poet surpasses him in knowledge of nature, and but few are his equals. He is better than Cowper and Thomson in their special walks of poetry, and the equal of Wordsworth, that great high priest of nature.”—The World.
Round the Block.
An American Novel. With Illustrations. 1 vol., 12mo. Cloth. Price, $1 50.
“The story is remarkably clever. It presents the most vivid and various pictures of men and manners in the great Metropolis. Unlike most novels that now appear, it has no ‘mission,’ the author being neither a politician nor a reformer, but a story teller, according to the old pattern, and a capital story he has produced, written in the happiest style, and full of wit and action. He evidently knows his ground, and moves over it with the foot of a master. It is a work that will be read and admired, unless all love for good novels has departed from us; and we know that such is not the case.”—Boston Traveler.
The History of Civilization in England.
ByHenry Thomas Buckle. 2 vols., 8vo. Cloth. $6.
“Whoever misses reading this book, will miss reading what is, in various respects, to the best of our judgment and experience, the most remarkable book of the day—one, indeed, that no thoughtful, inquiring mind would miss reading for a good deal. Let the reader be as averse as he may to the writer’s philosophy, let him be as devoted to the obstructive as Mr. Buckle is to the progress party, let him be as orthodox in church creed as the other is heterodox, as dogmatic as his author is skeptical—let him, in short, find his prejudices shocked at every turn of the argument, and all his prepossessions whistled down the wind—still there is so much in this extraordinary volume to stimulate reflection, and excite to inquiry, and provoke to earnest investigation, perhaps (to this or that reader) on a track hitherto untrodden, and across the virgin soil of untilled fields, fresh woods and pastures new—that we may fairly defy the most hostile spirit, the most mistrustful and least sympathetic, to read it through without being glad of having done so, or having begun it, or even glanced at almost any one of its pages, to pass it away unread.”—New Monthly (London) Magazine.
Illustrations of Universal Progress.
A Series of Essays. ByHerbert Spencer, Author of “The Principles of Psychology;” “Social Statics;” “Education.” 1 vol., 12mo. Cloth, $1 75.
“The readers who have made the acquaintance of Mr. Herbert Spencer through his work on Education, and are interested in his views upon a larger range of subjects, will welcome this new volume of ‘Essays.’ Passing by the more scientific and philosophical speculations, we may call attention to a group of articles upon moral and political subjects, which are very pertinent to the present condition of affairs.”—Tribune.
Thirty Poems.
By Wm. Cullen Bryant.1 vol., 12mo. Cloth, $1.25; cloth gilt, $1.75; mor., $3.50.
“No English poet surpasses him in knowledge of nature, and but few are his equals. He is better than Cowper and Thomson in their special walks of poetry, and the equal of Wordsworth, that great high priest of nature.”—The World.
An Introduction to Municipal Law,designed for General Readers, and for Students in Colleges and High Schools. ByJohn Norton Pomeroy. 1 vol., 8vo. 544 pages. Cloth, $3.“I have spent nearly four days in reading your book, and am willing to say, in reference to it, that, when considered in reference to its scope and the design had in view in entering upon it, it is a work of great merit. The topics are presented clearly, discussed with ability, and in the main satisfactory results arrived at. Parts I. and II., I think, may prove very useful to students at law and young lawyers, as there is a great deal in the history of the law, and especially in its sources, both common and civil, that is very clearly, briefly, and logically stated, and more available in the manner presented in your work than in any other that I am acquainted with.”—FromAmos Dean,Esq., Albany Law School.Thackeray;The Humorist and Man of Letters, the Story of his Life, with particulars of his early career never before made public. ByTheodore Taylor, Esq. Illustrated with a Portrait, one of the latest taken from life; View of Thackeray’s House; Facsimile of his Handwriting; Humorous Illustrations by George Cruikshank; and other Pictures and Sketches. One vol., 12mo. Cloth. Price, $1 25.“The author, Mr. T. Taylor, long resident in Paris, has been collecting information for many years, and has much to say of Mr. Thackeray’s artist life in that city. The book is illustrated with a portrait and some curious original sketches.”—From the Guardian.The Iron Manufacture of Great Britain.Theoretically and Practically considered: Including Descriptive Details of the Ores, Fuels, and Fluxes employed; the Preliminary Operation of Calcination; the Blast, Refining, and Puddling Furnaces; Engines and Machinery; and the Various Processes in Union, etc., etc. ByW. Truran, C. E., formerly Engineer at the Dowlais Iron Works, under the late Sir John Guest, Bart. Second Edition, revised from the manuscripts of the late Mr. Truran, byJ. Arthur Phillips, Author of “A Manual of Metallurgy,” “Records of Mining,” etc., andWm. H. Dorman. One vol., imperial 8vo. Containing 84 Plates. Price, $10.
An Introduction to Municipal Law,
designed for General Readers, and for Students in Colleges and High Schools. ByJohn Norton Pomeroy. 1 vol., 8vo. 544 pages. Cloth, $3.
“I have spent nearly four days in reading your book, and am willing to say, in reference to it, that, when considered in reference to its scope and the design had in view in entering upon it, it is a work of great merit. The topics are presented clearly, discussed with ability, and in the main satisfactory results arrived at. Parts I. and II., I think, may prove very useful to students at law and young lawyers, as there is a great deal in the history of the law, and especially in its sources, both common and civil, that is very clearly, briefly, and logically stated, and more available in the manner presented in your work than in any other that I am acquainted with.”—FromAmos Dean,Esq., Albany Law School.
Thackeray;
The Humorist and Man of Letters, the Story of his Life, with particulars of his early career never before made public. ByTheodore Taylor, Esq. Illustrated with a Portrait, one of the latest taken from life; View of Thackeray’s House; Facsimile of his Handwriting; Humorous Illustrations by George Cruikshank; and other Pictures and Sketches. One vol., 12mo. Cloth. Price, $1 25.
“The author, Mr. T. Taylor, long resident in Paris, has been collecting information for many years, and has much to say of Mr. Thackeray’s artist life in that city. The book is illustrated with a portrait and some curious original sketches.”—From the Guardian.
The Iron Manufacture of Great Britain.
Theoretically and Practically considered: Including Descriptive Details of the Ores, Fuels, and Fluxes employed; the Preliminary Operation of Calcination; the Blast, Refining, and Puddling Furnaces; Engines and Machinery; and the Various Processes in Union, etc., etc. ByW. Truran, C. E., formerly Engineer at the Dowlais Iron Works, under the late Sir John Guest, Bart. Second Edition, revised from the manuscripts of the late Mr. Truran, byJ. Arthur Phillips, Author of “A Manual of Metallurgy,” “Records of Mining,” etc., andWm. H. Dorman. One vol., imperial 8vo. Containing 84 Plates. Price, $10.