Harper 6- Brothers' List of New Books. 



THE STUDENT'S OLD TESTAMENT HIS- 

 TORY. The Old Testament History. From 

 the Creation to the Keturn of the Jews from 

 Captivity. Edited by Wm. Smith, LL.D. 

 With Maps and Woodcuts. Large 12mo, 

 Cloth, %2 00. (Uniform with the Student's 

 New Testament History.) 



The history of the Jews is here told in a better man- 

 ner than in any other work of the same size, and all 

 the results of the deep and accurate inquiries into that 

 history are incorporated with the narrative. It is, in- 

 deed, a popular, though grave and learned commenta- 

 ry on the Old Testament, a commentary taking the 

 form of regular historical writing, and written with 

 force and clearness.— Bostow Traveller. 



In the preparation of the text it is evident that great 

 care has been taken to render the work one that, while 

 reverent and recognizing the sanctity and claims of 

 Revelation, should be suitable for the characteristic 

 criticism and exegesis of the age. It is an excellent 

 condensation of nearly all the valuable matter that 

 criticism, historical, ethnographical, topographical, 

 and chronological investigations have accumulated 

 round the Old Testament Word of God.— Presbyterian 

 (Chicago). 



THE STUDENT'S NEW TESTAMENT 

 HISTORY. The New Testament History. 

 With an Introduction, connecting the History 

 of the Old and New Testaments. Edited by 

 William Sjiith, LL.D., Classical Examiner 

 in the University of London. With Maps and 

 Woodcuts. Large 12mo, 780 pages, Cloth, 

 $2 00. 



A valuable and cheap compendium of accurate in- 

 formation drawn from the most recent results of 

 scholarship.— vidaawce. 



Those who have read the New Testament only in a, 

 desultory fashion, or in the disorderly method in which 

 it is arra'nged in our version, will find a new light cast 

 upon it bv the study of the Book in its chronological 

 order, and with such helps as Dr. Smith has here pre- 

 sented.— ^m^rican Presbyterian (Philadelphia). 



Sabbath-school teacher's, and the more advanced pu- 

 pils of Sabbath-schools, as well as intelligent private 

 students of the Scriptures, will find this a helpful and 

 remunerative volume.— Congregationalist. 



HALPINE'S POEMS. (MILES O'REILLY.) 

 The Poetical Works of Charlfs G. Halpine 

 (Miles O'Reilly). Consisting of Odes, Poems, 

 Sonnets, Epics, and Lyrical Effusions which 

 have not heretofore been collected together. 

 With a Biographical Sketch and Explanatory 

 Notes. Edited by Robert B. Roosevelt. 

 Portrait on Steel. Crown 8vo, Cloth, $2 50. 



His poetry will not be soon neglected or forgotten. 

 There is a charm about his verses which must make 

 them ever welcome. Tenderness, sentiment, aud hu- 

 mor al)onnd in them; the absence of malice or bitter- 

 ness is characteristic of the writer's whole-souled na- 

 ture. • • * Few can read the poems without pleasure- 

 none can read them without interest.— A'. Y. Herald. 



MRS. HALE'S WOMAN'S RECORD; or, 



Biographical Sketches of all Distinguished 

 Women, from the Creation to the Present 

 Time. Arranged in Four Eras, with Selec- 

 tions from Female Writers of each Era. By 

 Mrs. S. J. Hale. Illustrated with more than 

 200 Portraits, engraved by Benson J. Lossing. 

 A New Edition, with Additions. 8vo, Cloth. 

 (Nearly Ready.) 



HAYDN'S DICTIONARY OF DATES, re- 

 lating to all Ages and Nations. For Univers- 

 al Reference. Edited by Benjamin Vincent, 

 Assistant Secretary and Keeper of the Libra- 

 ry of the Royal Institution of Great Britain ; 

 and Revised for the Use of American Readers. 

 8vo, Cloth. {Nearly Ready.) 



HAVEN'S RHETORIC. Rhetoric : a Text- 

 Book, designed for Use in Schools and Col- 

 leges, and for Private Study. By Rev. E. O. 

 Haven, D.D., LL.D., President of the North- 

 western University, Evanston, and late Piesi- 

 dent of Michigan University. 12mo, Cloth, 

 $1 50. 



I welcome the book heartily, and shall adopt it in 

 my classes here. 



Dr. Haveu seems to me to have aimed to produce a 

 useful book rather than a showy one. Too many who 

 deal with the subject are only theoretical rhetoricians: 

 on every page of Dr. Haven's book I find the good ef- 

 fects of his being also a practical rhetorician. Hit- 

 ting the happy mean between the excess and the total 

 rejection of the old technical phraseology, he has giv- 

 en to us a series of just such sensible, suggestive, and 

 helpful talks about writing and speaking the English 

 language as one would expect from a man of his great 

 experience as a speaker, writer, and teacher. Tills, 

 after all, is precisely what American students need. 



Upon the whole, the book has these great merits : 

 it is a growth, and not a manufacture ; it is fresh, sin- 

 cere, lively, clear, practical; finally, instead of being, 

 like so many text-books on this subject, dry and dead- 

 ening, it will prove throughout positively interesting 

 to the student— it will stimulate, cheer, .iiid guide him. 

 — MosKS CoiT Taylor, M.A., }'ri\fesmr of Rhetoricand 

 English Literature, University of Michiijan. 



Concise, direct, lucid, and arranged in a natural or- 

 der of topics.- Advance. 



This book, by President Haven, had its growth in 

 a class-room. This accounts for its character, which 

 is decidedly practical. It is no high-flying treatise or 

 deeply-profound discussion on this subject of rhetoric. 

 It is plain and concise, and every way a good state- 

 ment of those principles and rules which must be ob- 

 served in order to a correct and happy expression of 

 one's thoughts and ieeMn^S:— Watchman and Reflector . 



I have carefully read "Haven's Rhetoric." It is a 

 good elementary book, and has the merit of present- 

 ing many new illustrations instead of the hackneyed 

 quotations usually found in compilations.— Wm. Pkes- 

 TON JoriNSTON, Professor of History and English Liter- 

 ature, Washington College, Va. 



WOOD'S WEDDING DAY IN ALL AGES. 

 The Wedding Day in all Ages and Countries. 

 By Edward J. Wood, Author of " The Cu- 

 riosities of Clocks and Watches from the Ear- 

 liest Times," and "Giants and Dwaifs." 

 12mo, Cloth, $1 25. 



One of the most curious books we have seen for a 

 long time. It is packed full of facts. Beginning with 

 the institution of marriage, the author successively 

 treats of all the strange aud picturesque customs by 

 which different peoples have given character aud in- 

 terest to the marriage ceremony. The past has been 

 ransacked, and the present investigated. History, 

 poetry, philosophy, archaeology, have all been drawn 

 upon, and the result is one of the most entertaining 

 books we have seen for a long time.— lY. Y. Commer- 

 cial A dvertiser. 



A compilation of historical facts relating to the mar- 

 riao-e ceremonv as it has been conducted in ancient 

 anJ modern times among all the peoples of the earth. 

 A great deal of antiquarian research has been expend- 

 ed upon it, and the curious reader will find the topics 

 of the wedding ring, the marriage bells, the bridal 

 cake, flinging the old shoe, etc., etc., fully treated by 

 the author.— jV. Y. Evening Post. 



