D. APPLETON & CO.'S PUBLICATIONS.
APPLETONS' CYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY.
Complete in six volumes, royal 8vo, containing about 800 pages each. With sixty-one fine steel portraits and some two thousand smaller vignette portraits and views of birthplaces, residences, statues, etc.
Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by General James Grant Wilson, President of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, and Professor John Fiske, formerly of Harvard University, assisted by over two hundred special contributors, contains a biographical sketch of every person eminent in American civil and military history, in law and politics, in divinity, in literature and art, in science and in invention. Its plan embraces all the countries of North and South America, and includes distinguished persons born abroad, but related to American history. As events are always connected with persons, it affords a complete compendium of American history in every branch of human achievement. An exhaustive topical and analytical Index enables the reader to follow the history of any subject with great readiness.
"It is the most complete work that exists on the subject. The tone and guiding spirit of the book are certainly very fair, and show a mind bent on a discriminate, just, and proper treatment of its subject."—From the Hon. George Bancroft.
"The portraits are remarkably good. To any one interested in Amercan history or literature, the Cyclopaedia will be indispensable."— From the Hon. James Russell Lowell.
"The selection of names seems to be liberal and just. The portraits, so far as I can judge, are faithful, and the biographies trustworthy."—From Noah Porter, D. D., LL. D., ex-President of Yale College.
"A most valuable and interesting work."—From the Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone.
"I have examined it with great interest and great gratification. It is a noble work, and does enviable credit to its editors and publishers."—From the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop.
"I have carefully examined 'Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography,' and do not hesitate to commend it to favor. It is admirably adapted to use in the family and the schools, and is so cheap as to come within the reach of all classes of readers and students."—From J. B. Foraker, ex-Govenor of Ohio.
"This book of American biography has come to me with a most unusual charm. If sets before us the faces of great Americans, both men and women, and gives us a perspective view of their lives. Where so many noble and great have lived and wrought, one is encouraged to believe the soil from which they sprang, the air they breathed, and the sky over their heads, to be the best this world affords, and one says, 'Thank God, I also am an American!' We have many books of biography, but I have seen none so ample, so clear-cut, and breathing so strongly the best spirit of our native land. No young man or woman can fail to find among these ample pages some model worthy of imitation."—From Frances E. Willard, President N. W. C. T. U.
"I congratulate you on the beauty of the volume, and the thoroughness of the work."—From Bishop Phillips Brooks.
"Every day's use of this admirable work confirms me in regard to its comprehensiveness and accuracy."—From Charles Dudley Warner.
Price, per volume, cloth or buckram, $5.00; sheep, $6.00; half calf or half morocco, $7.00. Sold only by subscription. Descriptive circular, with specimen pages, sent on application. Agents wanted for districts not yet assigned.
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