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 A Few Expressions of Appreciation of 
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 of the New Publications of the 
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 Either in-doors or out; 
 
 With the grene leaves whisp’ring overhead. 
 Or the strete cryes all about, 
 
 Where 1 may reade all at my ease. 
 
 Both of the new and olde ; 
 
 For a jollie good booke whereon to looke, 
 
 Is better to me than golde. 
 
 — Old 'English Song. 
 
 HIS, Books can do; — nor this alone; they give 
 New views to life, and teach us how to live; 
 They soothe the grieved, the stubborn they 
 chastise. 
 
 Fools they admonish, and confirm the wise ; 
 
 Their aid they yield to all : they never shun 
 The man of sorrow, nor the wretch undone ; 
 
 Unlike the hard, the selfish, and the proud, 
 
 They fly not sullen from the suppliant crowd ; 
 
 Nor tell to various people various things, 
 
 But show to subjects what they show to kings. 
 
 — Crahhe. 
 
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 4j*\0 matter what his rank or position may be, the lover 
 S" of books is the richest and happiest of the children of 
 men. — 'Langford. ^ 
 
 /fp MPLO Y your ti me i n i mpro vi ng y oursel f by other men ’s 
 writings ; so you shall come easily by what others have 
 labored hard for. — Socrates. 
 
 Books are the Glasse of Counsell to dress ourselves by. — 
 Trom an old manuscript. 
 
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 ^%^40NDR0US, indeed, is the virtue of a true book! 
 ^ th° u who art able to write a book, which once 
 in two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to 
 do, envy not him whom they name city-builder, and inex- 
 pressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or city- 
 burner! Thou, too, art a conqueror and victor; but of the 
 true sort, namely, over the Devil. Thou, too, hast built 
 what will outlast all marble and metal, and be a wonder- 
 bringing city of mind, a temple and seminary and prophetic 
 mount, whereto all kindreds of the earth will pilgrim. — 
 
 Cadyk. * * 4 . 
 
 Books, we know. 
 
 Are a substantial world, both pure and good ; 
 
 Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood. 
 Our pastime and our happiness will grow. 
 
 ^ — W ordsworth. 
 
 1 F a truth, he who would deprive me of books, my old 
 friends, would take away all the delight of my life; 
 nay, I will even say, all desire of living. — Corasius . 
 
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 ^VfcJHOEVER acknowledges himself to be a zealous fol- 
 lower of truth, of happiness, of science, or even of 
 the faith, must of necessity make himself a Lover of Books. 
 — Be Bury. . 
 
 ^VfcJORTHY books are not companions, — they are soli- 
 tudes; we lose ourselves in them, and all our cares. 
 — Bailey s Testus . ^ 
 
 GREAT book that comes from a great thinker — 
 it is a ship of thought, deep-freighted with truth, 
 with beauty too. It sails the ocean, driven by the 
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 love, and piety, to bless the world in ages yet to come.— 
 Theodore Parker. . 
 
 He who writes from the heart will write to the heart. 
 Disraeli. 
 
 C HE third volume of the series of “True American 
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 per and Shoemaker, written by his son, the well- 
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 and family. The other two volumes of this little set of 
 homely biographies are John Gilley, by Charles W. 
 Eliot and Augustus Conant, by Robert Collyer. 
 The price of each is 60 cents, or 66 cents by mail. 
 
 Good books are a very great mercy to the world.-Baxter. 
 
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 UT the finest music in the room is that which streams 
 out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain 
 from the hanging shelf of books on the opposite wall. 
 Every volume there is an instrument which some melodist 
 of the mind created and set vibrating with music as a 
 flower shakes out its perfume or a star shakes out its light. 
 Only listen, and they soothe all care, as though the silken- 
 soft leaves of poppies had been made vocal and poured 
 into the ear . — James 'Lane Allen. 
 
 riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, 
 defy torture and outlive calamity. — Lowell . 
 
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 Y son,” said Victor Cherbuliez, “we should lay 
 ^j||f 8 up a stock of absurd enthusiasms in our youth or 
 0 e lse we shall reach the end of our journey with an 
 empty heart, for we lose a great many of them by the way.” 
 The message of David Starr Jordan in his new book. 
 Life’s Enthusiasms, is a call to do things because we 
 love them, to love things because we do them, to keep the 
 eyes open, the heart warm, and the pulses swift, as one 
 moves across the field of life. The little volume is full of 
 the high thoughts that give rise to noble and lasting im- 
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 the steadfast purposes which guide maturer age. The fine 
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 and strengthen against the days of sorrow and disappoint- 
 ment — these it is well to know and to cultivate with all 
 diligence. The book is handsomely printed in two colors 
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 There is no past so Jong as books shall live. — Bulwer- 
 Lytton . 
 
 fiX S you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will 
 find what is needful for you in a book. — Macdonald . 
 
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 iJkUT how can 1 Jive here without my books ? ] really 
 seem to myself crippled and only half myself; for if, 
 as the great Orator used to say, arms are a soldier's mem- 
 bers, surely books are the limbs of scholars. — Jtyodiginus. 
 
 Read not the Times, read the Eternities. — Thoreau . 
 
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 '% \ 1|H ETHER death is to end all or is to be but the 
 portal of a larger life is a question that has vexed 
 ***** the mind of man since the dawn of human con- 
 sciousness. Here is a little volume, however, which, in 
 the rhythmic language of the heart and with the prophetic 
 note of the spirit, compels the reader to agree with its 
 author that “ the idea of immortality is not the product of 
 labored reason, for man has not toiled to it up the long 
 stairway of logic," but that “ it is planted as an instinct at 
 the very foundation of his being," as one must realize in 
 following the vision of hope here presented, with its wide 
 sweep of thought and feeling. The title is The Shep- 
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 No iron-stained hand is fit to handle books, 
 
 Nor he whose heart on gold so gladly looks ; 
 
 The same men love not books and money both, 
 
 And books thy herd, Q Epicurus, loathe; 
 
 Misers and bookmen make poor company. 
 
 Nor dwell in oeace beneath the same rooftree. 
 
 ^ — Richard de Bury. 
 
 C HE choice of books, like that of friends, is a serious 
 duty. We are as responsible for what we read as for 
 what we do. The best books elevate us into a religion of 
 disinterested thought where personal objects fade into in- 
 significance, and the troubles and the anxieties of the world 
 are almost forgotten. — Lubbock- 
 
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 ►K love, my friends, is your pass to the greatest, the 
 purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has 
 prepared for his creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures 
 fade. It will support you when all other recreations 
 are gone. It will last you until your death. It will make 
 your hours pleasant to you as long as you live. — Trollope . 
 
 /jfftXCEPT a living man, there is nothing more wonder- 
 ful than a book ! — a message to us from the dead, — 
 from human souls whom we never saw, who lived perhaps 
 thousands of miles away; and yet these, on those little 
 sheets of paper, speak to us, amuse us, vivify us, teach us, 
 comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers. We ought 
 to reverence books, to look at them as useful and mighty 
 things. — Charles Kingsley. 
 
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 f T sounds like exaggeration to say that a little volume 
 of 340 pages is the finest collection of ethical scrip- 
 tures extant. T he Message of Man, however, which 
 has been gathered from many sources and edited by Stan- 
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 world’s greatest thinkers as it is easily possible to imagine 
 can be compressed into a little pocket companion. Ar- 
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 editions, and with footnotes giving the exact source, even 
 to the folio number, of each quotation, the book becomes 
 not merely an inspiration in itself, but a key or guide to 
 the finest things in all literature, ancient or modern. The 
 price is 60 cents net in cloth or 80 cents net in flexible green 
 calf, with postage in either case 5 cents additional. 
 
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 from high intellectual action. They become the or- 
 ganic culture of the time. In the highest civilization the 
 book is still the highest delight. — Emerson. 
 
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 -fjT O read, to think, to Jove, to pray, — these are the things 
 which make men happy. — J^uskin. 
 
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 When others fail him, the wise man looks 
 T o the sure companionship of books. 
 
 jjj. — Stoddard . 
 
 fiX S good almost kill a man as kill a good book: wha kills 
 ^ a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; he who 
 destroys a good book kills reason itself. — Milton. 
 
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 study of history and biography of great men is 
 an effective way by which to get a proper perspec- 
 tive of present men and events. Such a perspective 
 can be gotten from “ Four American Leaders," by Presi- 
 dent Charles W. Eliot, and these essays on Franklin, 
 Washington, Channing, and Emerson, condensed in 
 expression and broad in suggestiveness, summarize the in- 
 fluence of these great Americans in shaping the political, 
 moral, and intellectual trend of the Republic and by their 
 lives and writings in framing American ideals. The price 
 is 80 cents net, 88 cents by mail. 
 
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 V It does not matter how many, but how good, books you 
 have. — Seneca. 
 
 |C1ENCE, art, literature, philosophy, — all that man 
 has thought, all that man has done, — the experience 
 that has been bought with the sufferings of a hundred gen- 
 erations, — all are garnered up for us in the world of books. 
 In that world, no divinity hedges a king, no accident of rank 
 or fashion ennobles a dunce or shields a knave. We can 
 select our companions from among the most richly gifted 
 of the sons of God; and they are companions who will 
 not desert us in poverty, or sickness, or disgrace. — 'Edwin 
 P. Whipple. 
 
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 tTT HE most mannerly of companions, accessible at all 
 times, in all moods, good books frankly declare the 
 author’s mind, without giving offence. Like living friends, 
 they too have their voice and physiognomies, and their 
 company is prized as old acquaintances. What were days 
 without such fellowship? We were alone in the world 
 without it. — A . 'Bronson Jllcott . 
 
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 3 LOVE my books ! they are companions dear, 
 Sterling in worth, in friendship most sincere; 
 
 Here talk 1 with the wise in ages gone. 
 
 And with the nobly gifted in our own ; 
 
 If love, joy, laughter, sorrow please my mind. 
 
 Love, joy, grief, laughter in my books 1 find. 
 
 4 . * -Bennoch. 
 
 N untutored son of nature, rugged of build, endowed 
 with keen power of wit and repartee, scathing in his 
 rebuke of everything low or mean, a father to his 
 homeless sailor “ boys,” frank, outspoken, fearless, own- 
 ing no man his master in thought or action, lovable al- 
 ways, with an emotional nature generous in all its impulses 
 and set aflame in the cause of those to whom he devoted 
 his life, who made of his Bethel a humble temple in which 
 his audiences, of both the rough and the cultured, were 
 alike moved to tears at will, — such was Father Taylor, the 
 founder of the Seamen’s Bethel in the port of Boston, 
 whose unique story has been briefly told, with a fund of 
 incident and anecdote that well illustrates the peculiar ge- 
 nius and unusual personality of the man, by his old friend 
 Robert Collyer, in a singularly interesting little volume 
 appropriately called Father Taylor, the price of which 
 is 80 cents net, or 88 cents if mailed. 
 
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 iflLOOKS are the legacies that a great genius leaves to 
 ^ mankind. — Addison. 
 
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 ifCtOOKS are our household gods ; and we cannot prize 
 them too highly. They are the only gods in all the 
 mythologies that are beautiful and unchangeable ; for they 
 betray no man, and Jove their lovers. 1 confess myself an 
 idolater of this literary religion, and am grateful for the 
 blessed ministry of books. It is a kind of heathenism which 
 needs no missionary funds, no Bible even, to abolish it; 
 for the Bible itself caps the peak of this new Olympus, and 
 crowns it with sublimity and glory. — Geo . Searle Phillips. 
 
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 My library, 
 
 Was dukedom large enough. - 
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 PORTRAIT edition of Daughters of the Puri- 
 TANS has been prepared for the holidays. The orig- 
 ^ inals from which the illustrations have been repro- 
 duced are the best obtainable of the seven women whose 
 sketches make up the contents of the volume, — Catharine 
 Maria Sedgwick, Mary Lovell Ware, Lydia Maria Child, 
 Dorothea Lynde Dix, Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, 
 Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Louisa May Alcott. The 
 delightful style of the author, Seth Curtis Beach, 
 makes the perusal of the book a source of pleasure no Jess 
 than of profit, for, as the Outlook has said, “The effect of 
 this volume is that which is produced by the massing of — 
 let us say, roses. These remarkable women have been 
 assembled by an artistic hand in a resplendent galaxy.” The 
 price of the portrait edition is $1.50 net, by mail, $1.60; 
 of the unillustrated edition, $1.10 net, $1.19 if mailed. 
 
 iJfcOOKS are the masters who instruct us without rods 
 ^ and ferules, without hard words and anger, without 
 clothes or money. If you approach them, they are not 
 asleep ; if investigating you interrogate them, they conceal 
 nothing ; if you mistake them, they never grumble ; if you 
 are ignorant, they cannot laugh at you. — J^ichard de Bury. 
 
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 ^IpHERE are three classes of readers: some enjoy with- 
 out judgment, others judge without enjoyment, and 
 some there are who judge while they enjoy and enjoy while 
 they judge. — Goethe. ^ 
 
 fit T least be sure that you go to the author to get at his 
 meaning, not to find yours. If the person who wrote 
 the book is not wiser than you, you need not read it ; if 
 he be, he will think differently from you in many respects. 
 — J{uskin. 
 
 C, These, then, are the new hooks : 
 
 Cap’n Chadwick: by John White Chadwick • See p. \ 
 
 16mo; 94 pp. ; 60 cents net; 66 cents by mail. 
 
 Life's Enthusiasms: by David Starr Jordan . See p . 5 
 
 12mo; 64 pp. ; 80 cents net ; 88 cents by mail. 
 
 The Shepherd’s Question : by Burt Estes Howard. 
 
 12mo; 62 pp. ; 80 cents net; 88 cents by mail. p . 
 
 The Message of Man : by Stanton Coit. See p. 7 
 
 16mo; 340 pp. ; cloth, 60 cts. ; leather, 80 cts. ; postage, 5 cts. 
 
 Four American Leaders : by Charles W. Eliot. See p. 8 
 
 12mo; 120 pp. ; 80 cents net; 88 cents by mail. 
 
 Father Taylor : by Robert Colly er . See p. 9 
 
 12mo; 95 pp. ; 80 cents net; 88 cents by mail. 
 
 Daughters of the Puritans, illustrated: by Seth C. Beach. 
 
 12mo; 280 pp.; $1.50 net; $1.60 by mail. p. ]Q 
 
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 fTHAT is a good book which is opened with expecta- 
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 (J^TOD be thanked for books ! They are the true levellers. ' 
 ^ They give to all who will faithfully use them, the so- 
 ciety, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our 
 race. No matter how poor ] am, no matter though the 
 prosperous of my own time will not enter my obscure 
 dwelling, if the sacred writers will enter and take up their 
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 -SCAR more seemely were it for thee to have thy studie 
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 C Therefore the following are commended for consideration : 
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 The Understanding Heart By Samuel M. Crothers 
 
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 Apples of Gold Compiled by Clara Bancroft Beatley 
 
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 Some Ethical Phases of the Labor Question 
 
 By Carroll D. Wright 
 
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 From Servitude to Service 
 
 The History ofJ\egro educational Institutions 
 
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 Tides of the Spirit Selections from JWartineaus Works 
 
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 John Gilley: Maine Farmer and Fisherman 
 
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 Anchors of the Soul By Brooke Herford 
 
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 Men and Women By Jffinot J. Savage 
 
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 The Smoke and the Flame By Charles T. Dole 
 
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 Pioneers of Religious Liberty in America 
 
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 Immortality and Other Essays By Charles Carroll Everett 
 
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 'XJJAYL have thousands of authors of all sorts, many great 
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