John B. Alden

“ Others have since followed in his footsteps, but none has ever been able to surpass Bayard Taylor in originality of observation, in perspicacity of style, or variety of experiences. It is Europe brought to our own doors.”—Journal and Messenger, Cincinnati, Ohio.
“A book well worth reprinting in attractive but inexpensive style. More than any other, it laid the foundation of Bayard Taylor’s reputation as a traveller and writer. ”

“ It is a library in itself, a library affording the best specimens from all the leading lady authors of America. To enumerate the writers from whom the selections are taken, would be sufficient to awaken a desire to have the book, but when we add that there is a portrait of each of these famous authors except one, and that there is a biographical sketch of each written in Mrs. Holloway’s attractive style, the merits and value of the work will begin to appear.”—Farm, Field and Stockman, Chicago, Ill. ”

“ The Literary Revolution has never assumed to furnish books at a price below what would permit a fair profit, nor has it ever solicited investments on the basis of expectation of fabulous returns. The facts are simple, and the opportunities offered are based on common sense. If you invest $10.00 you have reasonable expectation of not less than 10 per cent. annual dividend, but as a Stockholder you also have the opportunity of purchasing with your dividend books at a price below what they would cost one NOT a Stockholder—that makes your dividend equal to about 16 per cent. ”

“ In the writings of Florian we are solely interested with the meaning of the tale, with its moral, which is always refined and delicate, and with his ingenuous and even epigrammatic style. Florian loves Horace, Virgil, La Fontaine, is delighted with Montaigne and the poetic tales of the 16th century; he notices the caprices and little irregularities of human nature, without being a biting critic or a profound moralist. ”

“ We welcome everything that will bring intelligent people to see that it is not dogmatic orthodoxy alone or the limited and perhaps narrow interests of sectarian religion which are assailed by this philosophy, but the whole spiritual theory of man, the basis of his esthetic ideas and of art in all its higher relations. This is the value of Professor Parker’s book. It is attractive in style and indicates an abundant familiarity with the subject, both as a naturalist and a student of esthetics. ”

“ The vivacity of its thought, the vigor of insight and charm of expression merit critical appreciation.”—Traveller, Boston.
“The writer has a genuine instinct for the now almost lost art of essay writing. His quiet humor, now and then turned by a clever stroke of wit and well-pointed epigram, and his easy colloquial style, make the reading of his breezy and interesting volume uncommonly entertaining.”—Saturday Evening Gazette, Boston. ”

“ This collection of the best stories by twenty of the foremost American story-tellers is a happy idea, and it seems as if for a few hours of really enjoyable entertainment nothing better could be devised. There is a special charm about a good short tale, and these twenty samples of feminine literature afford a chance for interesting comparison of achievement in the same plane and with nearly similar opportunity. ”

“ The admirable ease and grace of the narrative as well as the pleasing truth with which the principal characters are designed, make the Vicar of Wakefield one of the most delicious morsels of fictitious composition on which the human mind was ever employed. ”

“ His style, at once elegant and easy, has universally recommended him to the teachers of language, and Telemachus is commonly succeeded or supplanted by some work of Florian. In the circulating libraries the Tales of Florian are almost as generally read as those of Voltaire and Marmontel. He possesses indeed very great attractions for the lovers of light reading. His narrative is spirited and interesting. Love, Friendship, and Heroism are his themes, and he commonly descants upon them with that genuine warmth which results from the combination of sensibility with genius. ”

“ The change is one of convenience rather than of increase or of decrease, but on many books there is a substantial reduction in price.
Stockholders or Bondholders of the Alden Publishing Co. are allowed a reduction from Catalogue prices of the amount indicated by the figures in parenthesis; for instance: Alden’s Manifold Cyclopedia, per volume, cloth 60c. (20c.) means 40 cents net to Stockholders. To avoid possible misunderstanding, orders at Stockholders’ prices must invariably be accompanied by remittance, and by Coupon or a Certificate which is supplied to Stockholders for that purpose. ”

“ He gives to his heroes and heroines a life-like reality, so that the reader is carried right on into the turmoil of their existence. Daudet makes his characters perform the most merciless and pitiless actions, and his powers of description are so vivid, that the reader moves on with it all, in spite of himself. ”

“ Rose Terry Cooke.
“The volume is a worthy tribute to our American women of letters, and a fair sample of our best fiction work. It is a book that will commend itself to our patriotism, and to all lovers of our national literature.”—Christian Evangelist, St. Louis, Mo.
“It ought to prove one of the most profitable volumes the publisher has made, for such a collection of admirable short stories seldom is found within the covers of a single book. * * * A galaxy indeed of lustrous stars. The book deserves to be printed with the highest art and to be bound in morocco and gilt ”

“ It is an arrow from within the fort, and its destructive power is all the greater because the bowman himself takes ‘some stock in Darwin’s Origin of Species.’ The fact that the bow has been bent not directly for the purpose of rescuing religion, but for the rescue of beauty and art and morality and civilization from the toils of a false science, will give the book a hearing where the argument from religious grounds would have none. ”

“ The use of the money one year is more than sufficient time to print, bind and market a paying edition of an average book. The investor gets for the use of his money 16 per cent. per annum, payable in books (see coupon) ; he also gets an option of purchase (see coupon) which, if he avails himself of it, will, with the 16 per cent., earn and save him at the rate of about 60 per cent. per annum (see Stockholders’ Prices) , on his $10 investment. These bonds are issued in amounts to suit the purchaser, not less than $10 ”

“ Wallace has a sense of humor, and her geniality sparkles and plays over pyramid, sphinx, Colossus and Nile scenery in a way that relieves her descriptions of a thousand times told tale of dullness or repetition. ”

“ The capital stock of the Company is sold at par for cash, in lots of not less than five shares, and is NOT assessible, and there is absolutely no liability to stockholders whose shares are fully paid for, under any circumstances, other than the liability for salaries of employes, which is common to, we believe, all of the States, and is practically no liability, salaries being paid weekly or fortnightly. ”

“ The publisher has done more than the writer for this book. The type and paper are so agreeable that one is tempted to read on, long after the discovery that there is little in the matter worthy of serious consideration. ”

“ One cannot read the work without securing a fair and most pleasant acquaintance with the eminent men and women who have given to France a literature second to none, in many respects, of any nation. The author shows himself both an admirer of French thought and thoroughly conversant with it.”—Herald of Gospel Liberty, Dayton, Ohio. ”

“ In other words, you can buy $16.00 worth of books for about $10.00, thus saving $6.00, which is equal to 60 per cent. on your $10.00 stock, which, added to 16 per cent. dividend, makes practically 76 per cent. per annum on your investment. If you own $100.00 or more Stock you have similar privileges to the larger amount—if you don’t want so many books for your own use you can accommodate your friends or you can sell the books at a profit. ”

“ A Book for Young Men. 12mo, cloth, 40c. (15c)
“We earnestly recommend young men to read what has been to ourselves a truly delightful work.”—Dean Alford.
“When such a man as the wise and gentle Dean Alford recommends a book, all is said, and said as only a few can say it. Every parent, every teacher, every friend of the race, every believer in things of good repute, must echo his convictions, and join with him in bearing witness to the good sense, the exquisite fancy, the pathos, piety, and sound moral reasoning that illuminate every page.”—The Week, Toronto. ”

“ The Alden Publishing Co. was organized June 1888 with a view, on the part of its promoters, to consolidating and strengthening various interests which had previously been allied, but independent, and of introducing to the fullest practicable extent the principle of co-operation for the benefit of buyers of books. The amount of capital paid up Feb. 4, 1889, was $61,167.00. A dividend of five per cent. was paid Dec. 20, 1888. The business is recently growing very rapidly, and the prospects are extremely encouraging. ”

“ The Immortal—A Great Novel! A Scorching Satire! Daudet. The Immortal. By Alphonse Daudet. 12mo, cloth, 60c. (20c)
“Daudet is undoubtedly a genius. He knows the power of words, and uses it with skill. The simplest scenes fairly thrill with life. His noble characters move with that charm that is so attractive, and his ignoble characters with that meanness that is so detestable. When he touches with that genuine simplicity any bewitching look of nature, he makes it so powerful that it remains in the memory long afterwards. ”

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What lover of good books can not afford to take at least ten shares? How many friends might, with advantage, take a hundred, or more shares? A million dollars capital would not suffice to manufacture the books our patrons are urgently calling for: we are doing now an immense business for the amount of our capital, which business will be increased as our resources are enlarged.
76 Per Cent. ”

“ The whole volume is so full of valuable information that no one can afford not to read it.”—The Democrat, Madison, Wis.
“A more romantic and profoundly interesting recital has not come to our notice that involved Russian politics and character and Polish patriotism and devotion. Gogol is entitled by this work to rank with Turgenieff, and while he is not the philosopher that Tolstoi is, nor a man of such learning, he is worthy to be his contemporary and is equally graceful and vigorous in his style.”—Record-Union, Sacramento, Cal. ”

“ An allowance of 8 cents a pound, which is made on bills ordered sent by express or freight, cost of transportation payable on arrival, by the purchaser, is equivalent to a discount of front 15 to 30 per cent. from catalogue prices, varying according to quality, style, copyright, and other considerations, on different books. ”

“ He is deeply learned in ancient and modern lore; he is eminently dramatic and pictorial; alternately speaks poetry to the soul and pictures to the eye. His learning is prodigious; in many of his writings there are reflections, equally just and original, which were never surpassed in the philosophy of history.”—Sir Archibald Allison.
Spain in its Golden Age. Prescott. Ferdinand and Isabella. By Wm. H. Prescott. Illustrated Library Edition. In two vols small octavo, $1.25 (35c) Popular edition, without illustrations, one vol., 85c. (20c) —Prescott’s Biographical and Critical Miscellanies. ”

“ We know of no better book to be placed into the hands of the college student or young doctor or lawyer whose casual reading or not wholly mature thinking has infected him with agnostic or Spencerian views.”—The Lutheran, Philadelphia, Pa. ”

“ Fierce, intolerant, vindictive hatred for mankind; idle subtlety; pride and self conceit amounting to insanity; indelicacy pushed to a grossness that renders what it calls virtue more hateful than the vice of more modest people; all these strung together would give no more just an idea of the Talmud than would the chaplets of its lovelier flowers.”—Edinburgh Review.
[44] A Remarkable Story. Strange Threads. A Novel. By J. Douglas. 12mo, cloth, 60c. ”

“ It is worthy of remark that in this kind of literature, whose object is no less to instruct than to please, Florian has one advantage over La Fontaine, that of being in general better adapted to the unaffected simplicity of childhood.”—Grand Dictionnaire Universel du xixe. Siècle.
“Good of every description prevails in this collection. You find here some fables of touching interest, others of a sweet and playful humor, others of a biting subtilty, and still others in a loftier strain without being above that of the fable. The poet understands how to vary his colors with the subjects ”