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JULY, 1862.

Latest Publications

OF

WALKER, WISE, & CO.,

BOSTON.

The Altar at Home.

SECOND SERIES.

This is not a new edition of the admirable “First Series," but an entirely NEW WORK, containing about one hundred and fifty

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by some thirty of our most esteemed clergymen, with ample and appropriate

SELECTIONS,

introducing the Service of each day.

1 vol. 16mo. 75 cents, or in bevelled boards, $1.00.

The Providence Journal remarks, that "the work, both in thought and expression, as well as in typography, will commend itself to the devout as a valuable help at the family altar."

The Saturday Gazette says: "The present volume seems to meet the requirement of every family where devotional exercises are used, and we cannot doubt but such a book on the parlor table of every house in the city would exercise a beneficial influence. The tone of the volume is healthy, as it inculcates enlarged and encouraging views of the Christian religion."

The Christian Register says: "The selections, whether of prose or verse, are made with taste, and the prayers are brief, simple, chaste, reverential, and tender."

The Monthly Religious Magazine believes" this volume will prove more useful and more successful, if possible, than its predecessor. The Selections add much to the value of the book, the mechanical execution of which is all that could be asked for the purpose."

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"We are pleased with the book, its tone, its method, its detail, while the mechanical execution of the work is faultless."- New Covenant, Chicago.

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The Hebrew Poets.

A NEW TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE.

VOL. III.

Containing the books of Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Canticles, Lamentations, and Ecclesiastes. With COPIOUS AND VALUABLE NOTES on these books.

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The Philadelphia Press remarks: "Here is a new and good novel, breathing poetry and purity, which deserves to be well known and highly regarded."

The Buffalo Express says: "The idea of the work is finely conceived, and it is executed with artistic skill and delicacy of taste."

The Augusta Age pronounces it "a capital story."

The Banner of Light declares, "The Master' is certainly a success, and we congratulate the fair authoress on her achievement."

The Hartford Press says: "The story charms by its simplicity and purity of tone."

The Saturday Gazette speaks of it as "a pleasant, well-written tale, has a good plot, and some well-drawn characters."

The Portland Transcript considers Mrs. Denison "not only a very agreeable writer, but a woman of extraordinary power."

The Chicago New Covenant says: "There is a fascination, a purity and elevation about the whole book, and all its characters, which charm and hold one to the end. The story ends well, and one rises from its perusal with a happy impression."

The Rejected Stone;

OR,

INSURRECTION vs. RESURRECTION IN AMERICA.

BY REV. M. D. CONWAY.

New Edition, price reduced to 50 cents, cloth.

LATELY PUBLISHED.

ESSAYS AND REVIEWS. A new edition of this world-famous book, by DRS. TEMPLE, WILLIAMS, POWELL, JOWETT, and other eminent Churchmen. Just published. $1.25.

TRACTS FOR PRIESTS AND PEOPLE.

A volume of "great power

and learning." By HUGHES (Author of "Tom Brown at Rugby," &c.), PROF. MAURICE, and others; being a Broad-Church response to ESSAYS AND REVIEWS. $1.00. THE TRUE STORY OF THE BARONS OF THE SOUTH; or, The Rationale of the American Conflict. By REV. E. W. REYNOLDS, Author of "Records of Bubbleton Parish." With Introduction by REV. S. J. MAY. 12mo. 75 cents. This able book is not only of immediate interest, but is of permanent value. NO OTHER BOOK so thoroughly and accurately traces the whole history of Secession, from its first inception to its culmination.

PRAYERS. By THEODORE PARKER. 16mo.

With admirable likeness of Mr.

Parker, engraved on steel, by Schoff. Cloth, extra. 75 cents.

WOMAN'S RIGHTS UNDER THE LAW. Three Lectures delivered in Boston, January, 1861. By MRS. C. H. DALL, Author of "Woman's Right to Labor," "Historical Pictures Retouched," &c. 16mo. Cloth. 63 cents.

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA; or, The Slaveholders' Conspiracy. An Address delivered by WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING in England. Price 25 cents.

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NOW READY.

The American Annual Cyclopædia,

AND

REGISTER OF IMPORTANT EVENTS

OF THE YEAR 1861,

Embracing Political, Civil, Military, and Social Affairs; Public Documents, Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry.

THE

HE events and consequences of Civil War, especially in a nation having the greatness and freedom of the United States, possess such a perpetual interest, as to induce us to commence the publication of an annual volume, or Cyclopædia, containing a truthful record of these occurrences, the contemporaneous events in other nations, and the progress made in the various branches of human knowledge. The sources of authority from which the statements and descriptions are drawn will be the actors themselves, or their official reports. These embrace events occurring in the North and South. Prepared in such a manner as to illustrate prin ciples and to unfold motives, it will remain for the reader to deduce his inferences, whilst the work will be confined to precise, sifted, and clearly narrated details. Thus devoid of everything like a partisan character, aiming at candor and impartiality in its representations, a just appreciation of the extent and effects of the present unprecedented political troubles will be within the reach of all intelligent readers.

But while events, whether triumphs or disasters, have so absorbed public attention throughout the year, still commerce has not been idle, science has not tarried in her progress, nor has mechanical industry been entirely paralyzed. The fruits of the former and the discoveries and improvements of the latter have been too valuable and too useful to be overlooked. They form now no less a part of this enterprise than the accounts of the overthrow of states, with their usual scenes of carnage and blood. But if they occupy less space in this first volume, as they do likewise, for the moment, attract less of public attention, it is because the life of the nation, the sacredness of the memories of the past, and the hopeful anticipations of the future all hang upon the political and military events now transpiring.

The form of a Cyclopædia has been selected, as affording room for the greatest variety of details, without becoming too minute and tedious. The work is already in an advanced stage of preparation, and will be issued as early in the year as its proper completion will permit. The volume will be in the style of the New American Cyclopædia, having not less than 750 pages, royal 8vo.

The work will be published exclusively by subscription, and in exterior appearance will be at once elegant and substantial.

In Cloth, $3,

Prices and Styles of Binding.

In Library Style, leather, $3.50,

In Half Morocco, plain, $4,

In Half Russia, extra, $4.50,

Payable on delivery.

And to insure a uniform price and regularity in the delivery of the volume to subscribers in all parts of the country, local agents will be appointed in all the cities and principal towns in the States and Territories.

Orders may be addressed to us, or to any of our agents, for the above or any of our Subscription Works, and will meet prompt attention.

D. APPLETON & CO., Publishers,

443 and 445 Broadway, New York.

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