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Books fire the most sensible holiday presents. The stumlftrd hooks of the " Literary Revolution,” 
costing hut a fraction of what the same books formerly cost, will be in such enormous he Miami at holiday 
time that thousands who will wuUt them will probably be disappointed, because the demand will be 
greater than tlic supply. VVl* are movable to manufacture about H.tKiQ volumes a tiny, tun we cannot 
promise to nil all orders in December. You will do wisely to make your selections and order what you 
want, immediately, directly from us or from tlm agent lor our publication* In your town. If no agent 
there, raUe a club. 
In .Tannurv tST!< •• flic Literary Devolution" was Inaugurated i.y tie 1 publication of one small volume. 
L t present It's list, published and In preparation, comprises nearly lie volumes of standard hooka. It 
Ives employment to about 51XI hands, atul now has file nines for delivering to purchasers over live Ions 
ar demand for theoom Ing twelve mouths a l least s.om.miu and probably 
of books a day- To meet Urn popular demand ft , , , ,, „ , 
8,000,000 volumes will be required. The almost wondertul success which the hevoliition has achieved 
Is doubtless to be aHrlbUted to Us lending principles, which arc : 
I. Publish only books of real merit. 
II. What Is worth rending is worth preserving all books are neatly uml strongly bound. 
III. Work on the basis of | tie presold cost of making books, which is very much less than It was a few 
yearn atro. 
IV. Ttooks’lmve commonly been considered luxuries; In a tree republic they ought to be considered 
necessities, anil tlm masses will buy gooil books by the million If prices are plueed within reach. 
V. To make $1.ami a friend Is better than to make $.1 only, ami lorn books sold at a profit of .SI eaeh 
give a profit of only $10*)0, while 1,1)110,(Ml books sold at a prollI of one cent each give a prollt of $10,000; 
nnd it Is more pleasure as well as more profit to sell the million. 
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Is it A Grand Swindle? 
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A correspondent writes: ” t read your advertisement In the last two numbers of the Cincinnati 
’Weekly Enquirer, and immediately set you down as a ijr'Und swindle. It does look as though it were 
impossible to sell books so cheaply, " 
Verdict of the Jury, 
Hassonm rich relative left you a colossal fortune which you are spending In publishing books tor the 
people at nominal prices? If so, I admire your taste. But won't the old line publishers be glad When II 
Is gone?—B, I’. CosciPoy, Randolph, N. Y. ,, „ r „ , „ . 
I saw an article in one or the magazines calling yon '*( heap .lohn Publishers,' Pirates, Ace., nnd 
calling for an International copyright, tint you can be consoled with the fact that t hose who are tor you 
arc more than those who are against, you.- (I. \. Dm . Spencer, X. V. ... 
K isa mystery which we will not attempt to explain, how the American Book Exctiaxuk con afford 
to publish si,ell ri t'enmrkablv cheap series of books ns they are now gelling oul. Ollier publishers may 
b "Tiiellueil lien.I id them, but long in the KVeiiASe.r. publishes a hook at. ..lie tenth the eosl at which 
it is offered elsewhere, sneer; cannot hurt them.—' imeier-Journal, I .mils llie, Ky. 
We were surprised Into lin'i'eiliillty by the auuouaccnmut thnt Golklr’* Life of Christ had been pub¬ 
lished b\ rim .VMKitnrAS Book Ext■ it tv.i: for Ilfty emus, well printed ami sirongly hound In elnlh Hut we 
have proemed the volilim atul llml it own so. We confess ourselves greatly interested In what the pub 
Ushers call the " Literary Revolution.' 1 To see standard works of the highest value furnished In readable 
and pleasant form at so'elnup a r ue. ■ * a eonsunimfliloti we rejoiec In having lived to witness. IlKV. J. 
A. Bkoapus In Ht’/1'jioun Herald, Richmond. , , . , , „ 
Nothing so interesting to book-filers and book buyers has occurred ot late as the revolution in 
prices In which the AMEHICVJt Book Kxetl AM*K leads. Uhvn-v. Chicago, 111 
The books ire received. I am well pleased wll.li them. \ our eon (pan.v is worth more to the common 
people than'the Peabody Fll'ld. It niak-M me feel good to look al your eutalogite. Yon deserve the 
praises of all classes of the people. Considering Die part prices ot books i.ii.I l In* prim ,i v. hie It you 
now are publishing them, there mini Imre been something “rotten In la ntimrk." /,. H. W'ai:.*kh, Yadkin 
College, North Carolina. 
Tliousaiuls of blessings on dm man who Invented printing, thousand'- more for turn who ns, - that 
Invention for the hen lit of liis fellow countrymen • which you are surely doing Iti your cheap and i/ood 
books. Tilt* books will'll I have roue!veil from you arc wonderful volumes for tlm money. I wish that 
volt raav be long In rbe land. D. IS. CoSKI I no. Pastor ('on g regal hm.il ('liuivli, VV hit,-water, \\ is. 
A. W. L., Lewisville. Ark.. “ Tell me something about rile lnoJo.se,I advertisement, of books for sale. 
Pan these books be bon bit for the price for which they tire advertised? Are they good for anything? 
Where does the swindle come In?” There Is no swindle about it. The \MEBJCan Hook Exciiavoe are 
trustworthy, and we believe will send just What they advertise.- H My Sun. X. Y. Pity. 
AVe ean'ohly repeat one hourly eotiiiiieiidaThm td a scheme which places lu (lie utmdtt of the people 
the best literature at a merely nominal price. — Traveller, Boston. 
The duv of cheap and good hooks is once more w Ith us. and rim Ami mew Book K.\, ham k merits the 
praise for H. /Jp/sm/ml fhpiafei’, Philadelphia, I’u. 
At the Si' niti‘s;mv mini m.iy, mid <>v»*i\y m<ni shnuM. uavu n library. 1 he Aintiiicr % riuooKO, ill 
One can but wonller Imw such a book can be pi'ltiP-d for such a price. - rimer, Carrollton, Ha. 
Is doing wonders in book making. A few dollars will purchase a good library. AVe pronounce them 
the host books for the money that ever cam.- I.. notice. The Watchman, Bosom. 
It Isa matter of wonder how such books Jh drrn binding wtili good paper and good type, can be 
offered at such a price. That Is. however, the publishers’ iill'iilr; what eonci tas readers is that . . . 
standard works are placed thus within the reach o* every person, no mutter how short, the cash.”—27u’ 
Standard, Chicago, ill. 
Library of Universal Knowledge* 
Large Type Edition T verbatim reprint of the last (1880! London edition of Chamber*’* Kncyeli 
•lopffidla, 
with copious addition* labolit la,non topics) by American editors; the whole combined under one 
alphabetical arrangement, with such Illustration* ns are necessary to elucidate the text. Printed from 
new electrotype plates, brevier I vpe, on superior paper, and bound In fifteen elegant oct&to ' oluines of 
about !X*> pages ijneh. it will contain, complfire, about lu pereent more thiiu Appleton's, uni .’U per cent 
more tliaa .Iohnson’s t'yt'fopsedlas, and. though lu nil respects Import am to the general reader it Is far 
superior to cither of (bmp, lir, cost is but a 1 1 action of their )>rle, , Volumes I. |o VI, lire now ready, and 
other volumes will follow /it least .two eaeh month, ihr entire work bring completed by April, 1081, 
and probably sooner. Price per volume, lu elolli, rfl.OO ; in bull' Russia, gdt top, $1,511; postage per 
volume, '.’I cents, it has Leon our custom in previous publications to offer -pedal inducements to 
those whose orders ar, soonest ... In inir uanee ol that pulley . ,m or br/arr pcenid'cr si mill/ we 
will receive orders, with cash, for the set of 1.', Volumes complete lor I he nominal pno • of 8*11.1X1 for the 
edition ill cloth, add $18,511 for the edlttrm lu half Bus la, gilt top. The price during December will be 
advanced to $11.50 aud $17.25, and a further advance will be made • aeli month till the work is com- 
pi, ted. Volumes will bo shipped as may be directed, as soon as they are Issued, or when the set , - com 
pinto. _ 
Library of History, 
In our historical library we propose to present the works of those great authors whose writings have 
themselves become a part of history, ami ar© assorlateil in the minds of all well-informed rentiers with 
the nations whose history they narrate. The following are now published : 
The following famous works will be added to the series in uniform "Acme" style as rapidly as the 
demands of the public and our facilities of manufacture will warrant: 
Dickens's David Coppcrilcld. Jean Paul Richter's Titan. 
Thackeray’* Mewcome's. Madame tie Spiel's ,',triune, 
VI,'tor Hugo's t es Miserable:,. Tnrstenelff’s Fathers and Sous. 
Kingsley's Hypatia. George Macdonald’s Alee Forbes. 
Goethe'« Wilhelm Meister. Airs. Mulock t raik's John Halifax, Gentleman. 
Le IS age's Gil Idas, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. 
Washington Irving’s Knickerbocker. Charles Rcade' i Love Me Little. Love Me Long. 
J. FeulmOM' Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans. 
Religious Literati! ire* 
Concordance to the Bible. 
Young's Analytical Concordance to tin Bible, with to- rv word alphabetically arranged, showing the 
Hebrew or Greek original, Its meaning and pronunciation ; with 311,tiuu references, 113,000 beyond 
Cruden; marking 30,000 various readings in the Greek Sew Testament; with the latest information on 
Biblical geography aud antiquities Of the Palestine Exploration Society . Designed for the simplest 
reader of the English Bible. In one quarto volume, about 1100 three column pages, nonpareil typo. 
1 Price: 
Popular edition, strongly bound In doth. $2.1X1; In half Russia, sprinkled edges, .82.,71. Now read;/. 
Scholars' edition, on extra line nnd heavy paper, with very wide margins, allowing the opportunity 
for making marginal note*. Hindu Dercmln v ir>. 
Life and Works of Christ. 
By OuniilMgham Gelfcle, D.D. Comptetc. with full ||p|ox. Brevier type. Price: Acme edition, 
cloth, 50cents; postage, 11 cents. Aldus edition, half Russia, gilt top, $1; postage, 13cents. 
Kitto’s Cyciopssdia of Sibiical Literature. 
In two largo oetuvo volume*, brevier type. Illustrated by many hundred engravings on wood. Price, 
1 cr set, cloth, $3 ; half Russia, gill top, .$3 ; post; : * . 30 edits, 
Smith’s Bible Dictionary. 
A new etlition, a verbatim reprint of the lest English eilitloll of Smith'.* smaller Dictionary of tbo 
Bible, comprising its antiquities, biography, geography, and natural history. This edition has not here¬ 
tofore been published lu tills country for less than if."-. Price Acme edition, cloth, 5n cents; half Russia 
sprinkled edges, 75 cents • postage, lucent*. 
Works of Flavius Josephus. 
Comprising the antiquities of the Jews, a history of Hie Jewish wars, and a Life of Josephus, written 
by himself, translated by William AYldstou, together with numerous explanatory notes, etc. In one 
quarto volume, 1112 double-column pages, pit a type. Price, cloth, $1.50; half Russia, sprinkled edges, 
$2( postage, 3d cents. 
The Koran of Mohammed. 
Translated into English from the Arabic by i leorge Sale. Brevier type. Price: Acme edition, 30 cents; 
postage, 5 cents. Aldus edition, half Russia, gtli top, ou cent*; postage, s cents. 
Library of Biography. 
In our Library of Biography we present the stories of famous lives as told by authors almost equally 
famous. 
There is properly no history, only biography.— Emerson. 
Biography Is the most universally pleasant, universally profitable of all reading. Carlyle. 
The following have thus far been published, and of some of them we have already sold nearly a 
i hundred thousand copies; 
Acme Biography First Series. 
Twelve books lu one volume for less than half the 
Brevier i y pe, l‘i lee. Acme edition, cloth, black and gold, 
Russia, gilt lop, SI ; post a . e, 13 cents: 
!. Frederick the Great Macaulay. 
II. Robert Burns Carlyle. 
111. Mahomet - Glbhoii. 
IN . Martin Luther -Bunsen 
A'. Wary, Queen of Scot* -Lamartine. 
VI. Jouu (if Are Mli'helet. 
price formerly charged for each separately. 
50 cents; postage, U cents. Aldus edition, half 
VII. Hannibal Arnold. 
VIII. Cfe.suI' Liddell, 
IX. Cromwell—Lamartine. 
X. William Pill Macaulay. 
XI. Columbus Lamartine. 
XII. Vittorla Colonna Trollope. 
Acme Biography Second Series. 
Five books in one volume, neither of which has heretofore been published in this country at less 
price than 75. cent a each. Brevier type. Price: Acme edition, cloth, III cents; postage, 8 cents. Aldus 
edition, hull' Russia, gill lop, so cents ; postage, 12 cents. 
I. C’lmucer -11. A\ . Church. TV. <"owner—'Goldwln. Smith. 
II. Spenser—A. \V. Ward. A. Southey—Edward Dowdcn. 
ill. Milton—Mark PaMiboii. 
Acme Biography Third r eries. 
Five books ill one volume, in It her of which has heretofore been published in this country at less 
price than 75 cents each. Brevier type. Price: Acme edition, cloth, 111 cents; postage S cents. Aldus 
edition, half Russia, gilt top, kii cents ; postage, 12 cents. 
Defoe—wllllttm Junto. Scott.—Richard H- Holton. 
Johnson —Leslie -Stephen. Thackers;—Anthony Troilope. 
Goldsmith -William Black, 
Macaulay’s Life and Letters. 
Life and Letter* of Lord Macaulay. By bis nephew, George Otto Trevelyan, Member of Parlia¬ 
ment. Complete in one volume, 12lno lirov icr ty pe, leaded. Price, cloth, 50 cents . half Russia, gilt top, 
73 cents; pohtage, in cents. 
The following will be rapidly added to our list, at prices equally low with the above : 
Plutarch's Live* of Illustrious Men. A new edition, containing htngruphlr s of twenty-eight men who 
helped to make the world's history, from Lyourgnsnnd Romulus to c.esav nnd Cicero. Complete in one 
volume.brevier typo, over 11X10 page* Acme edition, cloth, Oh cents; postage, II cents. Aldus edition, 
half Ruatsln, gilt nil, $■ In- postage, 15 cents. Heady January It). 
Eminent Auierfeiius. Uriel IM.n/raphles of eminent Americans, with over 1«1 portraits. By Benson 
J. Lessing, LL.D. lairge liln-.o, btevler tyiic, leaded. Cloth, extra, $1,00; half Russia, gilt top, Sl.30; post¬ 
age. 12 cents. Heady m January. 
Brief Biographic . By Samuel Smiles. 
Carlyle's l.lie of Oliver Cromwell. 
Carlyle's Life id' FivdorleU the Great. 
Milman’s Gibbon’s Rome. 
History of the Decline and Fall Of the Roman Empire. By Edward Gibbon. A new edition, with the 
notes of H. It. Milmah, and a verv full Index. In live volume*, hmny.eols type. Price ]ier set : Ai-uie 
edition, cloth, 82.0); postage, 'fl cents. AhBwedlMon, half Russia, gill lop, $4A>; postage, 52 cents. 
Macaulay's History of England. 
History of England from tin- Accession of .lames il. By Thomas Bablngton Atacaulay in three 
volumes, brevier type, with full Index. Price per set Acme edition, cloth, 81.25 ; postage, 21 cents. 
Aldus edition, half Russia, gilt lop, 82.50; postage, Meent-*. 
Rollin’s Ancient History. 
Ancient Hlslor; of tho Egyptians. CarthagluUtns, Assyrtuns, Habyloiilnus, Aindesand Persians, 
Grecians and Macedonians. Ineliimngn history of the art* and selenees of the ancients. By Charles Rol, 
lin. In one quarto volume. 1318 double-column pages, small plea type. Price, cloth, 81.75 ; half Russia, 
sprinkled edges, $2.23. Postage, 42 coats. 
Comic History of the United States. 
By l. Hopkins. Copiously illustrated by i he author from sketches taken at a safe distauce. Long 
primer type, leaded. Print: extra cloth, Illuminated, SOcont* ; postage, li cents. 
The following well known standard hooks will be added to our list ns rapidly as the public demand 
nnd our very large fai-ilUie* for mallUfaerurfl wIR permit.; 
Grom’s History of Greece, from tie- earliest times to the death of Alexander. 
Mommsen’s History of Rome, from tho earliest time to the period of its decline. 
Green's larger history of the English People. 
Masson’s Guizot'* History of France. 
Carlyle's History of (lie French Revolution. 
Menzel's History of Germany. 
Schiller's History of the Thirty Years’ War. 
Creasy's Fifteen Decisive Baltics of the World. 
A History of the Halted Stales, by an eminent historian, is in preparation. 
Revolution Pamphlets. 
Only books of the highest ebiss are published by us, and the prli <•* are low beyond comparison with 
the cheapest books ever before issued. To illustrate and demonstrate i hose truths, we send the following 
books, all complete aud unabridged, post-paid, at the prices named : 
Macaulay’s Life of Frederick the Great. Former price, $i.Brevier type, price three cents. 
Carlvlc'8 Life of Robert Rum* Former price, 81.25. I arc brevier t> |>e, pi ke three cents. 
Lighter Asia. Bv Edwin Arnold Former price. $LMi. Beautiful print, brevier typo; price five cents. 
Thos. Hughes'-! Manliness of Christ. Former price, St.OO. Bouutlnil brevier type; price three cents. 
Mary Queen of Scots’Life, bv Lamartine. Former price, $1.25. Brevier type, price three cents. 
Vicar of Wakefield. By Oliver Goldsmith. Brevier type, beautiful print; price live cents. 
Banyan’s Pilgrim's Progress. Bourgeois type, leaded ; beautiful print; price six cents. 
Library of Classic Fiction. 
In this series of volumes wi'propose to present in our handy and heanidul "Acme” style at cost so 
low that even provident schoolboys can well afford to posses* them, a representative and i-hai aoterlstlc 
work of each of the great authors who lm\ e won classic fame in the rcnlm of notion. Nm to know them 
is to be ignorant of much that Is most Important unit most Interesting lu tin- history of nations aud of 
men. Not to possess them 1, to lie deprived of most fruitful and nrotitnblo soutves of enjoyment. Life 
is too short nnd too full at work In permit the reading of all that is In mirIt’uI and valuable in these crea¬ 
tions of tin- Imagination, but even very busy people can And time to rend a nr book by each of the score 
of author* wh .0 rank so high among the world’s great ones, and have w on Immortal ramp aud place lu 
the affections of the people. 
The volume ; will he uniform lu size and style, brevier type, well printed, and neatly and strongly 
bound, In cloth. The following nre ready or in press, and to bo issued at the date affixed : 
Adventures ot Don Quixote. Translated from the Spanish of Cervantes, by Mottoaux, with 16 l ull 
page characteristic, humorous Illustrations, by Hopkins. I’riee. v.l cents ; postage,cents. Now ready. 
UuTda. A Roninnee of Ancient Egypt, tiv George Khor.v Translated from the German by Clam 
Bell. Pi lee, 35 emit, ; post vgn, , cents. Heady Xarnnber'.V). 
Tom Brown at Riivbv By Thomas Hughes. Price, 30 cent-*; postage, 6 cent *, Heady December 2. 
Romolu. Bv ..-if-'Pilot. Price, S3 cents; postage, 7cents. Ready prerniber 8. 
The two following are already issued, not uniform in size aud stylo with the others, but iu large type 
(long primer), and laiuo form : 
Ivan hoe. Bv Sir AValter Scott. Price, 50 cents : postage, 8 cents. Sow ready. 
Last Days of Pompeii. By Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. Price, 50 cents; postage, 8 cents. 
The World’s Great Poets* 
It is of course Impossible to print .'ill the good books in one day, even if our friends are ready to 
j order and pay for them with eon, ninmat, liberality; but In our efforts to nu-et the demands uponus for 
the grand old standards, and tin- few modem wanks which are taking rank with Them, we have taken 
note of the universal want for handy, beautiful, and cheap editions of tin- world's gr. at poets. AA r e give 
in-low some ol’ the titles which we Have Uni* far been able to reproduce in oil: incomparably Cheap 
I editions, 
Shakespeare’s Complete Dramatic Works. 
New large type, J veil, edition. A very careful and accurate reprint of the famous Globe edition, with 
n copious glossary. Acme edition, cloth, 81.50; postage, ri) cents. Aldus edition, half Russia, gilt top, 
$3; postage, 12 ecu I*. 
The follow ing <>f Bhake.-ipi-.-iVC'B most popular play* are being issued In separate pamphlets, uniform 
in type and size of pages with tile bound volumes. Price three cents each, post-paid. 
I. The Tempest, 
•?. Much Ado .Tbottt Nothing. 
8. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 
■t. The Merchant of Venlde, 
5. As You Like It. 
6. King John. 
7. King Henry 5'. 
S. King Richard ill. 
a. King Henry till. 
Hi. Ren I, o and Juliet. 
11. Julius Ctesar. 
12. Macbeth. 
13. Hamlet. 
1-1. King Lear. 
15. Othello. 
16 Antony and Cleopatra. 
Milton’s Complete Poetical Works. 
With a skotoli of his life. I.oiitf prluuT type. J 5 :*i• . A(*n»o edition, cloth, 40 cents; postage. ? cents. 
Aldus edition, half Russia, gilt tup, SO cents ; posra#-, I > cent*. 
Works of Dante. 
The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory. mid Parad! • . Translated from the Italian bv H. F. Cnrv, A.M. With 
a chronological view of the age of Dante, end very full i.- tes. Long primer type. Price : Acme edition, 
cloth, So cents ; postage, 6 cents. Aldus edition, half Russia, gilt top, (id cents ; postage, s cents. 
Works of Virgil. 
Translated by John Dryden. Brevier type. Price: Acme edition, cloth, 30 cents; postage, 6 cents 
Aldus edition, half Russia, gilt top, GO cents; postage, *' cents. 
The LigSit of Asia. 
By Edwin Arnold. A new edition. Brevier type. Price, extra cloth, 25 cents; postage,4 cents. 
Homer’s iliaci. 
Translated by Pope. Brevier type. Price, a,- me edition, cloth, 30 cents; postage, 6 cents. Aldus 
edition, hull' Russia, gilt top, llo cents; postage, 3 cents 
Homer’s Odyssey. 
Translated by Pope. Brevier type. Price: Ac.. am, cloth, 30 cents: postage, 6 cents. Aldus edi 
i tiou, half Russia, gilt top, GO cents; postage, 8 eeins. 
M rs. Heman’s Poetical Works. 
Complete la "ii" large octavo voP.nm-. Nonpareil (viit:; with a critical Index. Price, cloth, 60 cents 
half Russia, gilt top, hi cents;postage, 13 coiiW.. 
’■ Aerne” and “ Aldus” Editions. 
These edition,- m our books are printed Irutu electr,itj-p,- plates, * Inches wide by jw inches high. 
For the .jeme cdttlon* we Use light hut good quail-v of p.;p, r. ;.nd print clearly and bind strongly, as 
will please those who bh.V liooks for Ihetr contents, and want tlu- least moin-.V to do the greatest possible 
service. The Aldun editions are printed from the -.'line plates, but more carefully, on heavier and gen- 
ei-idly on ttni;r, more expensive quality of paper, with much w ider margins to the- page, and arc very 
elegantly, a* well ns very strongly, bound in hall Russia, gilt top. Ui this style t hey compare favorably. 
If they do not oveu contrast favorably, with the best editions of the same books which have ever been 
issued. 
Terms In Chd«. In placet* where no bookseller acts as sole agent, terms to clubs are allowed as 
follows . 10 per cent discount on J copies of one book, or on 10 copies selected from the list; 15 per cent 
discount on 10 copies of one book, or on 25 copies selected from the list. 
'Terms of payment, invariably cash with the order-to millionaire and school-boy the same. Remit 
by bank draft, money order, registered letter, or by express. l-’ractloTia of $1 maybe sent in postage 
stamps. 
John B. Alden, Manager. AMERICAN BOOK EXCHANGE, 
i Tribune Building, New York. 
