Prepared with a view to assist in training young women for the distinctive duties which inevitably come upon them in household life, this volume has been made with especial reference to the duties, cares, and pleasures of the family, as being the place where, whatever the political developments of the future, woman, from her very nature of body and of spirit, will find her most engrossing occupation, and is full of interest for all intelligent girls and young women.
The work has been heartily indorsed, and adopted by the directors of many of the leading colleges and Seminaries for young women as a text-book.
The Children's Week: Seven Stories for Seven Days. By R. W. Raymond. 16mo. Nine full-page illustrations by H. L. Stephens and Miss M. L. Hallock. Price, extra cloth, $1.25; cloth, full gilt, $2.
"The book is bright enough to please any people of culture, and yet so simple that children will welcome it with glee. Mr. Raymond's tales have won great popularity by their wit, delicate fancy, and, withal, admirable good sense. The illustrations—all new and made for the book—are particularly apt and pleasing, showing forth the comical element of the book and its pure and beautiful sentiment."—Buffalo [N. Y.] Commercial Advertiser.
The Overture of Angels. By Henry Ward Beecher. Illustrated by Harry Fenn. 12mo. tinted paper, extra cloth gilt. Price $2.50.
This exquisite book is a chapter from Mr. Beecher's great work, the "Life of Jesus the Christ." It is a series of pictures, in the author's happiest style, of the Angelic Appearances—giving a beautiful and characteristically interesting treatment of all the events recorded in the Gospels, as occurring about the period of the Nativity of our Lord.
"The style, the sentiment, and the faithfulness to the spirit of the Biblical record with which the narrative is treated, are characteristic of its author, and will commend it to many readers, to whom its elegance of form will give it an additional attraction."—Worcester (Mass.) Spy.
"A perfect fragment."—N. Y. World.
Christian Heart-Songs. A Collection of Choruses, Quartets, and Set pieces; together with a Selection of Anthems, Motets, and Tunes of all Metres. By John Zundel, Author of "Harmony and Modulation," "Voluntaries for the Organ," etc. 160 pages. Boards, $1; cloth, $1.25.
"Mr. Zundel is well known as an admirable composer of church music. A pupil of the great Rink, he shows his training in the beautiful simplicity of his themes and the rich variety of his harmonies. Mr. Zundel is Organist at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn (Rev. H. W. Beecher's)."—Troy [N. Y.] Times.