VALUABLE AND POPULAR

BOOKS OF REFERENCE,

Standard in every well-arranged Library.

FAMILIAR SHORT SAYINGS.

By S. ARTHUR BENT, A. M. New Edition, revised and enlarged.

Indispensable to students, writers, and libraries. It gives a collection of short
sententious sayings of all times, such as are constantly referred to, but are not to be
found in other books of reference. A short sketch of each speaker and the circum-
stances attending each remark, is also given. Containing over three hundred new
sayings, and quoting eighty authors not before included.

THE COURSE OF EMPIRE.

Being Outlines of the Chief Political Changes in the History of the
World. Arranged by Centuries, with variorum illustrations, by C. G.
WHEELER. With 25 maps. New Edition.

A very valuable historical work, which should be kept in every library for refer-
ence and for the vigor of its delineations of the great historic epochs.

FAMILIAR ALLUSIONS.

A Handbook of Miscellaneous Information. By W. A. WHEELER and
C. G. WHEELER.

CONTENTS. Paintings: as Aurora, Last Judgment, the Slave Ship, Marguerite;
Statuary as Psyche, Cleopatra, Niobe; Antiquities; Ruins; Royal Palaces: as
Holyrood, Trianon; Museums; Cathedrals, etc.: as Kazan Cathedral, Old South, West-
minster Abbey; Theatres, etc. as Drury Lane, Guildhall, La Scala ; Palaces: as Pitti,
Farnesina, Sunnyside, Chatsworth; Prisons: as Newgate, Spielberg, Tolbooth;
Taverns as the Tabard, Star and Garter; Ships: as Half Moon, Bounty, May-
flower:
Natural Curiosities as Grotto del Cane, Lorelei; Streets; Districts: as the
Corso, Prado, Appian Way; Parks or Cemeteries: as Campo Santo, Jardin Mabille ;
Clubs as Beefsteak, Athenæum, Jacobin; Miscellaneous: as Bambino, Blarney
Stone, Golden Horn, Bow Bells, etc.

EVENTS AND EPOCHS IN RELIGIOUS HISTORY.
By JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE, D.D. Third Edition, Illustrated.
CONTENTS. The Catacombs; The Buddhist Monks of Central Asia; Christian
Monks: Augustine, Anselm, Bernard, Jeanne d'Arc, Savonarola, Luther, Loyola;
The Mystics: Neo-Platonists, German Pietists, Fénelon, Swedenborg, Emerson;
the Quakers; the Huguenots, Waldenses, Albigenses; John Wesley; the Moravians
and Methodists.

Each in I vol. 12mo. $2.00.

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A HAND-BOOK OF

MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION

INCLUDING

THE NAMES OF CELEBRATED STATUES, PAINTINGS,
PALACES, COUNTRY-SEATS, RUINS, CHURCHES,
SHIPS, STREETS, CLUBS, NATURAL
CURIOSITIES, AND THE LIKE

BEGUN (BUT LEFT UNFINISHED)

BY WILLIAM A. WHEELER

COMPLETED AND EDITED

BY CHARLES G. WHEELER

"He that undertakes to compile a Dictionary undertakes that which, if it
comprehends the full extent of his design, he knows himself unable to perform. Yet
his labors, though deficient, may be useful"

JOHNSON

"Les monuments sont les crampons qui unissent une génération à une autre”

JOUBERT

THIRD EDITION

BOSTON

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ur 1887