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Three New Books, by Dr. Jos. 



Parker, are included in our midsum- 

 mer offer. Bpurgeon speaks most high- 

 ly of these volumes. ee several special 

 offers in March number HOMUJETIC 

 MOK r B L <. Price 25 cents. 



Fev. G. W. Martin, Monta, 

 Utah, says: '! inclose you $60 as 

 r gainst 'Bad Books.' Thank God for 

 such opportunity of labor as the past 

 day and one-half have been! You can- 

 not now estimate results in this West- 

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 more names." 



The Publishers of the Lon- 



don. Chronicle (Dr. Joseph Parkers 

 paper) write us: "We have shown 

 your Henry Ward Beecher book to a 

 number of London publishers. They 

 declare that they do not believe any 

 publisher in London couid have made 

 so good plates." The book is a fine 

 specimen of the printer's art. The 

 price of the Beecher book is un- 

 changeably fixed at $3.00. Our agents 

 are selling hundreds of copies at that 

 price. The Cincinnati Commercial-Cra- 

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 biographical books that has appeared 

 for years. 



Eastern Proverbs and Emblems. 



BY 

 Rev. A. LONG, member of the Bengal Asiatic Society. 



8vo, 280 pp. Price, cloth, $1.00. 



Illustrated Old Truths selected from ovfr 1,000 volumes, some 

 very rare, and to be consulted only in libraries in India, Russia and 

 other parts of the Continent, or in the British Museum. All are 

 classified under subjects, enabling teichers and preachers to fix in 

 the school, the pulpit, or the press, great spiritual truths by means 

 of emblems and illustrations drawn from the depths of the popular 

 mind. This book is the opening of a rich storehouse of emblems 

 and proverbs. 



The object of this book is To group together, under appropriate 

 heads, Oriental proverbs illustrative of familiar truths. 



To select from Holy Writ prominent themos, and compare them 

 with similar Oriental expressions. 



To show thereby the oneness of human experiences under widely 

 different circumstances and beliefs. 



To elucidate the significance of natural phenomena found in 

 Biblical proverbs. 



To explain, in a trite and winsome manner, the meaning and 

 usage of various customs in the Orient. 



Tfds book is Entertaining to tho general reader, and evincing in 

 a forcible manner the superiority ot the Scriptures over uninspired 

 writings. 



'J he ttn.s'on Post says: "A quaint, 

 curious work; very interesting. Shows, 

 in a wonderful manner, how widely 

 scattered nations, under similar circum- 

 stances, evolve, from their own ex- 

 perience, similar conclusions. The 



identity of human nature is the great 

 truth taught." 

 'I he Ciiristian. Ailvorate, New 



York, says: "The proverbs are well 

 chosen wonderful condensations of 

 wisdom. A valuable and useful work." 



. Thf. above works will be sent by mat", postage j>aid t on receipt of the Price. 



