How our Cheap Book Plan is Received. 



Do not fail to read [see advertising pages] what is said about this plan by 

 such men as Drs. EZRA ABBOTT, MARK HOPKINS, CHARLES H. HALL, ARMITAGR, 

 SCOVKL, N T KWMAN, E VERTS, WILLIAM M. TAVLOK, PECK, and others of our fore- 

 most clergymen. 



Just as we go to press the following letters have come to hand, all indicat- 

 ing the great interest taken in this subject by the public: 



U. M. Scudder, D.D., of Chicago, says : j Jane* M. Lndlo'w, D.D.. Westminster Pres- 



" I hope your scheme of publishing good j bytenan Church, Brooklyn, sav* 



booksat low prices will be very NuceM&L" u j gincere i y hope your 1|in will j )e M . 

 Hon. Kchuyler Colfax, ex-Vice-Preeident j tended. 1 know personally of great good 

 of the United States, says : you have accomplished through previous 



" I have read with great interest your pro- ! publications." 

 isl to print a series of new and instruct- ! 



Bishop Tattle, of Utah, says : 



" Any plan for widely diffusing good read- 

 ing by making it inexpensive I most heart'.- 

 ly indorse as in the interest of good morale." 



William WilkinR, of the Exchange Bank, 



Worthington, Ind., says : 

 " I am much pleased With your enterprise 

 of bringing before the multitude choice lit- 

 erature at so small cost. I hereby subscribe 

 of the world." I for three sets. 1 wish you hearty success." 



THE HOYT-WARD CYCLOPEDIA OF QUOTATIONS 



ive books in 1883, at cheap fiction prices; 

 and, from the books you have already pub- 

 lished, I am sure the reading public will re- 

 spond, and I hope the undertaking will be 

 a reat success." 

 J. H. Rayliss. D.D., Walnni. Bills M. E. 



Church, Cincinnati, O.. says : 

 "The effort deserves tbj warmest ap- 

 proval and the most earnest co-operation 

 of those who are concerned in the salvation 



30,000 QUOTATIONS, OO,OOO LINES OF CONCORDANCE. 



THE STANDARD~BOOK OF QUOTATIONS. 



"TAe compilations of Allibouc com- which u-e have often (trow irrnthv enough) <ir<d 

 rlett (W/IK/I u tlraintiotte dr/> are quite out, of cowtttto._N. V. Christian I'nfon. 



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ffii* is Oy long odd* the bt book oj quotations in exi*tetn:e."Scw York Herald. 



Hon. JUDGE EDMUNDS, U. S. Senator: "The most complete and best work of 

 the kind." 



OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: "A massive and teeming volume." 

 WENDELL PHILLIPS: "It is of rare value to the scholar." 



Gen. STEWART L. WOJDFORD: "The most complete and accurate book of the 

 kind. 



Ex-Speaker RANDALL: "1 consider it the best book of quotations." 



GEO. WASHINGTON CHILD* : "Any one who dips into it will at once make ft 



place for it among his well-chosen book*." 

 HENRY WARD BEECHER: "Good all the way through." 

 Maj.-Gen. McCLELLAN : "A work that should be in every library/' 

 ABRAM S. HEWITT: "The completeness of its indices is simply astonishing."' 

 GEORGE W. CURTIS: "A most serviceable companion." 



HENRY W. LONGFELLOW: "Can hardly fail to be a very successful and favorite 

 volume." 



Prices: Royal fivo, ov<-r 9OO /*/' ffrart/ Paper and Cloth Binding, $5; 

 Sheep, $V.5O ; Half .Morocco, $8; full Morocco, $1Q. 



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