IMPORTANT W O B, K , 



KITTO'S POPULAR CYCLOPAEDIA OF BIBLICAL LITERA. 



TURE. Condensed from the larger work. By the Author, J OHN KITTO, D. D., Author 

 of" Pictorial Bible," " History of Palestine," "Scripture Daily Readings," &c. Assisted 

 by JAMES TAYLOR, D. D., of Glasgow. With over jive hundred Illustrations. One vol~ 

 ume octavo, 812 pp., cloth, 3,00. 



THE POPULAR BIBLICAL CYCLOPAEDIA OF LITERATURE is designed to furnish a DICTIONARY 

 OF TUB BIBLE, embodying the products of the best and most recent researches in biblical literature, 

 in which the scholars of Europe and America have been engaged. The work, the result of immensa 

 labor and research, and enriched by the contributions of writers of distinguished eminence in the va- 

 rious departments of sacred literature, has been, by universal consent, pronounced the best work of 



t class extant, and the one best suited to the advanced knowledge of the present day in all the studies 

 Connected with theological science. It is not only intended for ministers and thQolayical students, 

 %ut is also particularly adapted to parents, Sabbath school teachers, and the great body of the religious 

 public. The illustrations, amounting to more than three hundred, are of the very highest order. 



A condensed view of the various branches of Biblical Science comprehended in the work. 



1. BIBLICAL CRITICISM, Embracing the History of the Bible Languages ; Canon of Scripture? 

 Literary History and Peculiarities of the Sacred Books ; Formation and History cf Scripture Texts. 



2. HISTORY, Proper Names of Persons; Biographical Sketches of prominent Characters; Detailed 

 Accounts of important Events recorded in Scripture ; Chronology and Genealogy of Scripture. 



3. GEOGRAPHY, Names of Places ; Description of Scenery ; Boundaries and Mutual Relations of 

 the Countries mentioned in Scripture, so far as necessary to illustrate the Sacred Text. 



4. ARCHAEOLOGY, Manners and Customs of the Jews and other nations mentioned in Scripture; 

 their Sacred Institutions, Military Affairs, Political Arrangements, Literary and Scientific Pursuits. 



5. PHYSICAL SCIENCE, Scripture Cosmogony and Astronomy, Zoology, Mineralogy, Botany, 

 Meteorology. 



In addition to numerous nattering notices and reviews, personal letters from more than fifty of the 

 most distinguished Ministers and Laymen of different religious denominations in the country have been 

 received, highly commending this work as admirably adapted to ministers, Sabbath school teachers^ 

 heads of families, and all Bible students. 



The following extract of a letter is a fair specimen of individual letters received from each of the 

 gentlemen whose names are given below : 



" I have examined it with special and unalloyed satisfaction. It has the rare merit of being all thnt 

 it professes to be, and very few, I am sure, who may consult it will deny that, in richness and fulness 

 of detail, it surpasses their expectation. Many ministers will find it a valuable auxiliary ; but its 

 chief excellence is, that it furnishes just the facilities which are needed by the thousands in families 

 and Sabbath schools, who are engaged in the important business of biblical education. It is in itself a 

 library of reliable information." 



W. B. Sprague, D. D., Pastor of Second Presbyterian Church, Albany, N. T. 



J. J. Carruthers, D. D., Pastor of Second Parish Congregational Church, Portland, Me. 



Joel Havres, D. D., Pastor of First Congregational Church, Hartford, Ct. 



Daniel Sharp, D. D., late Pastor of Third Baptist Church, Boston. 



N. L. Frothingham, D. D.,late Pastor of First Congregational Church, (Unitarian,) Boston. 



Ephraim Peabody, D. D., Pastor of Stone Chapel Congregational Church, (Unitarian,) Bostoa. 



A. L. Stone, Pastor of Park Street Congregational Church, Boston. 



John S. Stone, D. D., Rector of Christ Church, (Episcopal,) Brooklyn, N. Y. 



J. B. Waterbury, D. D., Pastor of Bowdoin Street Church, (Congregational,) Boston. 



Baron Stow, D. D., Pastor of Rowe Street Baptist Church, Boston. 



Thomas H. Skinner, D. D., Pastor of Carmine Presbyterian Church, New York. 



Samuel W. Worcester, D. D., Pastor of the Tabernacle Church, (Congregational,) Salem, 



Horace Bushnell, D. D., Pastor of Third Congregational Church, Hartford, Ct. 



Right Reverend J. M. Wainwright, D. D., Trinity Church, (Episcopal,) New Yu-k. 



Gardner Spring, D. D., Pastor of the Brick Church Chapel Presbyterian Church, New Yorit 



W. T. Dwight, D. D., Pastor of Third Congregational Church, Portland, Me. 



E. N. Kirk, Pastor of Mount Vernon Congregational Church, Boston. 



Prof. George Bush, author of " Notes on the Scriptures," New York. 



Howard Malcom, D. D., author of " Bible Dictionary," and Pres. of Lewisburg University. 



Henry J. Ripley, D. D., author of " Notes on the Scriptures," and Prof, in Newton Theol. In. 



N. Porter, Prof, in Yale College, New Haven, Ct 



Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, Theodore Frelinghuysen, Robert C. Winthrop, John McLean, 



Simon Greenleaf, Thomas S. Williams, and a large number of others of like character and 



tanding of the above, whose names cannot here appear. H 



