New revised edition of Bancroft's History of the United States.

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, from the Discovery of the Continent to the Establishment of the Constitution in 1789. By George Bancroft. Complete in 6 vols., 8vo, printed from new type. Cloth (blue or brown), uncut, with gilt top, $15.00; sheep, marble edge, $21.00; half morocco, uncut, gilt top, $27.00; half grained morocco, gilt top, $27.00; half calf, marble edge, $27.00. Vol. VI contains the History of the Formation of the Constitution of the United States, and a Portrait of Mr. Bancroft.

In this edition of his great work the author has made extensive changes in the text, condensing in places, enlarging in others, and carefully revising. It is practically a new work embodying the results of the latest researches, and enjoying the advantage of the author's long and mature experience.

"On comparing this work with the corresponding volume of the 'Centenary' edition of 1876, one is surprised to see how extensive changes the author has found desirable, even after so short an interval. The first thing that strikes one is the increased number of chapters, resulting from subdivision. The first volume contains two volumes of the original, and is divided into thirty-eight chapters instead of eighteen. This is in itself an improvement. But the new arrangement is not the result merely of subdivision; the matter is rearranged in such a manner as vastly to increase the lucidity and continuousness of treatment. In the present edition Mr. Bancroft returns to the principle of division into periods, abandoned in the 'Centenary' edition. His division is, however, a new one. As the permanent shape taken by a great historical work, this new arrangement is certainly an improvement."—The Nation (New York).

"The work as a whole is in better shape, and is of course more authoritative than ever before. This last revision will be without doubt, both from its desirable form and accurate text, the standard one."—Boston Traveller.

"It has not been granted to many historians to devote half a century to the history of a single people, and to live long enough, and, let us add, to be willing and wise enough, to revise and rewrite in an honored old age the work of a whole lifetime."—New York Mail and Express.

"The extent and thoroughness of this revision would hardly be guessed without comparing the editions side by side. The condensation of the text amounts to something over one third of the previous edition. There has also been very considerable recasting of the text. On the whole, our examination of the first volume leads us to believe that the thought of the historian loses nothing by the abbreviation of the text. A closer and later approximation to the best results of scholarship and criticism is reached. The public gains by its more compact brevity and in amount of matter, and in economy of time and money."—The Independent (New York).

"There is nothing to be said at this day of the value of 'Bancroft.' Its authority is no longer in dispute, and as a piece of vivid and realistic historical writing it stands among the best works of its class. It may be taken for granted that this new edition will greatly extend its usefulness."—Philadelphia North American.

BIOGRAPHY.

THE LIFE OF SAMUEL F. B. MORSE, INVENTOR OF THE RECORDING TELEGRAPH. By S. I. Prime. Illustrated with Steel Plates and Wood Engravings. 8vo. Cloth, $5.00; sheep, $6.00; half morocco, $7.50; morocco, $10.00.

LIFE OF EMMA WILLARD. By John Lord, LL. D. With two Portraits on Steel. 12mo. Cloth, $2.00.

RECOLLECTIONS AND OPINIONS OF AN OLD PIONEER. By P. H. Burnett, First Governor of the State of California. 12mo. Cloth, $1.75.

Mr. Burnett's life has been full of varied experience, and the record takes the reader back prior to the discovery of gold in California, and leads him through many adventures and incidents to the time of the beginning of the late war.

"I have been a pioneer most of my life; whenever, since my arrival in California, I have seen a party of immigrants, with their ox-teams and white-sheeted wagons, I have been excited, have felt younger, and was for the moment anxious to make another trip."—The Author.

LIFE OF JOHN RANDOLPH, OF ROANOKE. By Hugh H. Garland. Portraits. Two volumes in one. 8vo. Cloth, $2.00.

ELIHU BURRITT: A MEMORIAL VOLUME, CONTAINING A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE AND LABORS. With Selections from his Writings and Lectures, and Extracts from his Private Journals in Europe and America. Edited by Charles Northend, A. M. 12mo. Cloth, $1.75.

THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF DR. LEWIS F. LINN. FOR TEN YEARS A SENATOR OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE STATE OF MISSOURI. By E. A. Linn and N. Sargent. With Portrait. 8vo. Cloth, $2.00.

OUTLINE OF THE PUBLIC LIFE AND SERVICES OF THOMAS F. BAYARD, SENATOR OF THE UNITED STATES FROM THE STATE OF DELAWARE, 1869-1880. With Extracts from his Speeches and the Debates of Congress. By Edward Spencer. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.00.

THE LAST YEARS OF DANIEL WEBSTER. A MONOGRAPH. By George T. Curtis. 8vo. Paper, 50 cents.

REPRESENTATIVE NAMES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE. By H. H. Morgan. 8vo. Cloth, $1.00.

THE NOVELS AND NOVELISTS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, IN ILLUSTRATION OF THE MANNERS AND MORALS OF THE AGE. By W. Forsyth. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF SALMON PORTLAND CHASE. By J. W. Schuckers. Illustrated. 8vo. Cloth, $5.00; sheep, $6.00; half morocco, $7.50.

MEMOIRS OF GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN. New edition, revised, and with Additions. With numerous Maps and Portraits. 2 vols., 8vo. Cloth, $5.00.

This edition of General Sherman's memoirs has been thoroughly revised, and contains two new chapters and important appendices. Fifteen maps and several portraits, not given in the first edition, enrich the present issue. The portraits consist of engravings on steel of Generals Sherman, Thomas, Schofield, and McPherson, and a phototype group of corps commanders. The new chapter at the end of the work, entitled "After the War," throws light on recent controversies in regard to President Johnson's purpose in wishing to send General Grant to Mexico. The appendices contain numerous letters from army commanders bearing upon events of the war.

THE LIFE OF DAVID GLASGOW FARRAGUT, FIRST ADMIRAL OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY, EMBODYING HIS JOURNAL AND LETTERS. By his Son, Loyall Farragut. With Portraits, Maps, and Illustrations. 8vo. Cloth, $4.00; sheep, $5.00; half morocco, $6.00.

"The book is a stirring one, of course; the story of Farragut's life is a tale of adventure of the most ravishing sort, so that, aside from the value of this work as an authentic biography of the greatest of American naval commanders, the book is one of surpassing interest, considered merely as a narrative of difficult and dangerous enterprises and heroic achievements."—New York Evening Post.

FARTHEST NORTH; Or, THE LIFE AND EXPLORATIONS OF LIEUTENANT JAMES BOOTH LOCKWOOD, OF THE GREELY ARCTIC EXPEDITION. With Portrait, Map, and Illustrations. By Charles Lanman. Small 12mo. Cloth, $1.25.

THE REAR-GUARD OF THE REVOLUTION. By James R. Gilmore (Edmund Kirke). With Portrait of John Sevier, and Map. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

"The Rear-Guard of the Revolution" is a narrative of the adventures of the pioneers that first crossed the Alleghanies and settled in what is now Tennessee, under the leadership of two remarkable men, James Robertson and John Sevier. The title of the book is derived from the fact that a body of hardy volunteers, under the leadership of Sevier, crossed the mountains, and by their timely arrival secured the defeat of the British army at King's Mountain.

JOHN SEVIER AS A COMMONWEALTH-BUILDER. A Sequel to "The Rear-Guard of the Revolution." By James R. Gilmore (Edmund Kirke). 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

John Sevier was among the pioneers who settled the region in Eastern Tennessee. He was the founder of the State of Franklin, which afterward became Tennessee, and was the first Governor of the State. His innumerable battles with the Indians, his remarkable exploits, his address and genius for leadership, render his career one of the most thrilling and interesting on record.

THE ADVANCE-GUARD OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION. By James R. Gilmore (Edmund Kirke). With Map, and Portrait of James Robertson. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.

This work is in a measure a continuation of the thrilling story told by the author in his two preceding volumes, "The Rear-Guard of the Revolution" and "John Sevier as a Commonwealth-Builder." The three volumes together cover, says the author in his preface, "a neglected period of American history, and they disclose facts well worthy the attention of historians—namely, that these Western men turned the tide of the American Revolution, and subsequently saved the newly-formed Union from disruption, and thereby made possible our present great republic."

THE TWO SPIES: Nathan Hale and John AndrÉ. By Benson J. Lossing, LL. D. Illustrated with Pen-and-ink Sketches. Containing also Anna Seward's "Monody on Major AndrÉ." Square 8vo. Cloth, gilt top, $2.00.

Illustrated by nearly thirty engravings of portraits, buildings, sketches by AndrÉ, etc. Contains also the full text and original notes of the famous "Monody on Major AndrÉ," written by his friend Anna Seward, with a portrait and biographical sketch of Miss Seward, and letters to her by Major AndrÉ.

HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, from the Revolution to the Civil War. By John Bach McMaster. To be completed in five volumes. Vols. I, II, and III now ready. 8vo, cloth, gilt top, $2.50 each.

In the course of this narrative much is written of wars, conspiracies, and rebellions; of Presidents, of Congresses, of embassies, of treaties, of the ambition of political leaders, and of the rise of great parties in the nation. Yet the history of the people is the chief theme. At every stage of the splendid progress which separates the America of Washington and Adams from the America in which we live, it has been the author's purpose to describe the dress, the occupations, the amusements, the literary canons of the times; to note the changes of manners and morals; to trace the growth of that humane spirit which abolished punishment for debt, and reformed the discipline of prisons and of jails; to recount the manifold improvements which, in a thousand ways, have multiplied the conveniences of life and ministered to the happiness of our race; to describe the rise and progress of that long series of mechanical inventions and discoveries which is now the admiration of the world, and our just pride and boast; to tell how, under the benign influence of liberty and peace, there sprang up, in the course of a single century, a prosperity unparalleled in the annals of human affairs.

"The pledge given by Mr. McMaster, that 'the history of the people shall be the chief theme,' is punctiliously and satisfactorily fulfilled. He carries out his promise in a complete, vivid, and delightful way. We should add that the literary execution of the work is worthy of the indefatigable industry and unceasing vigilance with which the stores of historical material have been accumulated, weighed, and sifted. The cardinal qualities of style, lucidity, animation, and energy, are everywhere present. Seldom indeed has a book in which matter of substantial value has been so happily united to attractiveness of form been offered by an American author to his fellow-citizens."—New York Sun.

"To recount the marvelous progress of the American people, to describe their life, their literature, their occupations, their amusements, is Mr. McMaster's object. His theme is an important one, and we congratulate him on his success. It has rarely been our province to notice a book with so many excellences and so few defects."—New York Herald.

"Mr. McMaster at once shows his grasp of the various themes and his special capacity as a historian of the people. His aim is high, but he hits the mark."—New York Journal of Commerce.

"... The author's pages abound, too, with illustrations of the best kind of historical work, that of unearthing hidden sources of information and employing them, not after the modern style of historical writing, in a mere report, but with the true artistic method, in a well-digested narrative.... If Mr. McMaster finishes his work in the spirit and with the thoroughness and skill with which it has begun, it will take its place among the classics of American literature."—Christian Union.

"This work marks an epoch in the history-writing of this country."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

THE HOUSEHOLD HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES AND ITS PEOPLE. For Young Americans. By Edward Eggleston. Richly illustrated with 350 Drawings, 75 Maps, etc. Square 8vo. Cloth, $2.50.

FROM THE PREFACE.

The present work is meant, in the first instance, for the young—not alone for boys and girls, but for young men and women who have yet to make themselves familiar with the more important features of their country's history. By a book for the young is meant one in which the author studies to make his statements clear and explicit, in which curious and picturesque details are inserted, and in which the writer does not neglect such anecdotes as lend the charm of a human and personal interest to the broader facts of the nation's story. That history is often tiresome to the young is not so much the fault of history as of a false method of writing by which one contrives to relate events without sympathy or imagination, without narrative connection or animation. The attempt to master vague and general records of kiln-dried facts is certain to beget in the ordinary reader a repulsion from the study of history—one of the very most important of all studies for its widening influence on general culture.

"Fills a decided gap which has existed for the past twenty years in American historical literature. The work is admirably planned and executed, and will at once take its place as a standard record of the life, growth, and development of the nation. It is profusely and beautifully illustrated."—Boston Transcript.

"The book in its new dress makes a much finer appearance than before, and will be welcomed by older readers as gladly as its predecessor was greeted by girls and boys. The lavish use the publishers have made of colored plates, woodcuts, and photographic reproductions, gives an unwonted piquancy to the printed page, catching the eye as surely as the text engages the mind."—New York Critic.

"The author writes history as a story. It can never be less than that. The book will enlist the interest of young people, enlighten their understanding, and by the glow of its statements fix the great events of the country firmly in the mind."—San Francisco Bulletin.

APPLETONS' CYCLOPÆDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY. Complete in six volumes, royal 8vo, containing about 800 pages each. With sixty-one fine steel portraits and some two thousand smaller vignette portraits and views of birthplaces, residences, statues, etc.

Appletons' CyclopÆdia of American Biography, edited by General James Grant Wilson, President of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, and Professor John Fiske, formerly of Harvard University, assisted by over two hundred special contributors, contains a biographical sketch of every person eminent in American civil and military history, in law and politics, in divinity, in literature and art, in science and in invention. Its plan embraces all the countries of North and South America, and includes distinguished persons born abroad, but related to American history. As events are always connected with persons, it affords a complete compendium of American history in every branch of human achievement. An exhaustive topical and analytical Index enables the reader to follow the history of any subject with great readiness.

"It is the most complete volume that exists on the subject. The tone and guiding spirit of the book are certainly very fair, and show a mind bent on a discriminate, just, and proper treatment of its subject."—From the Hon. George Bancroft.

"The portraits are remarkably good. To anyone interested in American history or literature, the CyclopÆdia will be indispensable."—From the Hon. James Russell Lowell.

"The selection of names seems to be liberal and just. The portraits, so far as I can judge, are faithful, and the biographies trustworthy."—From Noah Porter, D. D., LL. D., ex-President of Yale College.

"A most valuable and interesting work."—From the Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone.

"I have examined it with great interest and great gratification. It is a noble work, and does enviable credit to its editors and publishers."—From the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop.

"I have carefully examined 'Appletons' CyclopÆdia of American Biography,' and do not hesitate to commend it to favor. It is admirably adapted to use in the family and the schools, and is so cheap as to come within the reach of all classes of readers and students."—From J. B. Foraker, ex-Governor of Ohio.

"This book of American biography has come to me with a most unusual charm. It sets before us the faces of great Americans, both men and women, and gives us a perspective view of their lives. Where so many noble and great have lived and wrought, one is encouraged to believe the soil from which they sprang, the air they breathed, and the sky over their heads, to be the best this world affords, and one says, 'Thank God, I also am an American!' We have many books of biography, but I have seen none so ample, so clear-cut, and breathing so strongly the best spirit of our native land. No young man or woman can fail to find among these ample pages some model worthy of imitation."—From Frances E. Willard, President N. W. C. T. U.

"I congratulate you on the beauty of the volume, and the thoroughness of the work."—From the Rev. Phillips Brooks, D. D.

"Every day's use of this admirable work confirms me in regard to its comprehensiveness and accuracy."—From Charles Dudley Warner.

Price, per volume, cloth or buckram, $5.00; sheep, $6.00; half calf or half morocco, $7.00. Sold only by subscription. Descriptive circular, with specimen pages, sent on application. Agents wanted for districts not yet assigned.

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"A second revised edition of Mr. Louis Heilprin's 'Historical Reference-Book' has just appeared, marking the well-earned success of this admirable work—a dictionary of dates, a dictionary of events (with a special gazetteer for the places mentioned), and a concise biographical dictionary, all in one, and all in the highest degree trustworthy. Mr. Heilprin's revision is as thorough as his original work. Any one can test it by running over the list of persons deceased since this manual first appeared. Corrections, too, have been made, as we can testify in one instance at least."—New York Evening Post.

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