“This is a wonderfully interesting book. The ancient stoical philosophy receives, in this great and gentle-minded Roman Emperor, its noblest expression.”—Advance, Chicago.
The Earth for 25 Cents!
Alden’s Handy Atlas of the World. 138 colored maps, diagrams, tables, etc. Price, 30c. (8c);
“I think so much intrinsically valuable information was never before compressed into so small a space. An Atlas and a Gazetteer for 25 cents!”—Benson J. Lossing, LL.D., Dover Plains, N. Y.
Great Oriental Poems.
Arnold. Light of Asia, by Edwin Arnold, cloth, 30c. (7c) —Indian Song of Songs, by Edwin Arnold, cloth, 25c. (6c) —Pearls of the Faith, by Edwin Arnold, cloth, 25c. (6c)
“No man, since the days of Sir William Jones, has so deeply drunk at the founts of Indian learning, or so well interpreted its meaning to the Occidental mind as has Edwin Arnold. The ‘Pearls of the Faith,’ contains some of the finest poetry, in thought and expression, of recent times.”—Methodist Magazine, Toronto.
Bacon and Locke.
Bacon’s Essays. With notes of Devey. Elzevir Ed., cloth, 30c. (10c) Bacon’s Essays, and Locke on the Understanding, in one vol. half Russia, 45c. (15c)
“‘Bacon’s Essays’ are a part of the mental furniture of nearly all reading people. They can be read now with as much profit as when they were first written.”—Observer, New York.