KITTO'S POPULAR CYCLOPÆDIA OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE.

Condensed from the larger work. By the Author, Joux Krrro, D.D., author of Putorial Bille; History of Palestine ; Scripture Daily Readings, etc. Assisted by JAMES TAYLOR, D.D., of Glasgow. With over five hundred Illustrations One volume, octavo, 812 pp., cloth, $3.

This CYCLOPÆDIA is designed to furnish a DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE, while at the same time it answers the place of a COMMENTARY, embodying the products of the best and most recent researches in biblical literature, in which the scholars of Europe and America have been engaged. The work, the result of immense labor and research, k, by universal consent, pronounced the best work of its class extant. It is not only intended for ministers and tandkid students, but is also particularly adapted to parents, Sabbath-school teachers, and the great body of the religious pisdic.

A condensed view of the various branches of Biblical Science comprehended in the work.

1. BIBLICAL CRITICISM.-Embracing the History of the Bible Languages; Canon of Scripture; Literary History and Peculiarities of the Sacred Books; Formation and History of Scripture Texts.

2. HISTORY.-Proper Names of Persons; Biographical Sketches of prominent Characters; Detailed Accounts of important events recorded in Scripture; Chronology and Genealogy of Scripture.

3. GEOGRAPHY.-Names of Places; Description of Scenery; Boundaries and Mutual Relations of the Countries mentioned in Scripture, so far as necessary to illustrate the Sacred Text.

4. ARCILECLOGY.-Manners and Customs of the Jews and other nations mentioned in Scripture; their Sacred Institutions, Military Affairs, Political Arrangements, Literary, and Scientific Pursuits.

5. PHYSICAL SCIENCE.-Scripture Cosmogony and Astronomy, Zoology, Mineralogy, Botany, Meteorology.

In addition to numerous flattering notices and reviews, personal letters from more than fifty of the must ditinguished Ministers and Laymen of different religious denominations in the country have been received, highly emmending this work as admirably adapted to ministers, Sabbath-school teachers, heads of families, and all Bible students.

The following extract of a letter is a fair specimen of individual letters received from each of the gentlemen whose names are given below :

"I have examined it with special and unalloyed satisfaction. It has the rare merit of being all that it professes to be; and very few, I am sure, who may consult it, will deny that, in richness and fulness of detail, it surpasse their expectation. Many ministers will find it a valuable auxiliary; but its chief excellence is, that it furni-bes just the facilities which are needed by the thousands in families and Sabbath-schools who are engaged in the inportant business of biblical education. It is, in itself, a library of reliable information."

W. B. Sprague, D.D., Pastor of Second Presbyterian Church, Albany, N. Y.-J. J. Carruthers, D.D., Pastor of Second Parish Congregational Church, Portland, Me.-Joel Hawes, D.D., Pastor of First Congregational Church, Hartford, Ct.-Daniel Sharp, D.D., laté Pastor of Third Baptist Church, Boston.-N. L. Frothingham, D.D., Eze Pastor of First Congregational Church (Unitarian), Boston.-Ephraim Peabody, D.D., Pastor of Stone Chapel Ciagregational Church (Unitarian), Boston.-A. L. Stone, Pastor of Park Street Congregational Church, Boston— John S. Stone, D.D., Rector of Christ Church (Episcopal), Brooklyn, N. Y.-J. B. Waterbury, D.D., Pastor of Bowdoin Street Church (Congregational), Boston.-Baron Stow, D.D., Pastor of Rowe Street Baptist Church, Boston. -Thomas II. Skinner, D.D., Pastor of Carmine Street Presbyterian Church, N. Y.-Samuel M. Worcester, P.D., PasteT of the Tabernacle Church (Congregational), Salem.-Horace Bushnell, D.D., Pastor of Third Congregational Church, Hartford, Ct.-Right Reverend J. M. Wainwright, D.D., Trinity Church (Episcopal), N. Y.-Garduer Spring, D.D., Pastor of the Brick Church Chapel, Presbyterian Church, N. Y.-W. T. Dwight, D.D., Pastor of Third Congregational Church, Portland, Me.-E. N. Kirk, Pastor of Mount Vernon Congregational Church, Boston.-Prof. George Bush, author of Notes on the Scriptures, N. Y.-Howard Malcom, D.D., author of Bille Dictionary, and President of Lewisburg University.-Henry J. Ripley, D.D., author of Notes on the Scriptures, and Prof. in Newton Theo. Ins.-N. Porter, Prof. in Yale College, New Haven, Ct.-Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, Theodore Frelinghuysen, Robert C. Winthrop, John McLean, Simon Greenleaf, Thomas S. Williams, and a large number of others of like character and standing of the above, whose names can not here appear.

HISTORY OF PALESTINE, from the Patriarchal Age to the Present Time: with Introductory Chapters on the Geography and Natural History of the Country, and on the Customs and Institutions of the Hebrews. By Jonx KITTо, D.D. With upward of two hundred Illustrations. 12mo. cloth, $1.25.

A very full compendium of the geography and history of Palestine, from the earliest era mentioned in Scripture, to the present day; not merely a dry record of boundaries, and the succession of rulers, but an intelligible are of the agriculture, habits of life, literature, science, and art, with the religions, political, and judicial institutions of the inhabitants of the Holy Land in all ages. The descriptive portions of the work are increased in value by numerous wood-cuts. A more useful and instructive book has rarely been published.-N. Y. Commercial.

Whoever will read this book till he has possessed himself thoroughly of its contents, will, we venture to say,read the Bible with far more intelligence and satisfaction during all the rest of his life.-Puritan Recorder. Beyond all dispute, this is the best historical compendium of the Holy Land, from the days of Abraham to those of the late Pasha of Egypt, Mehemet Ali.--Edinburgh Review.

In the numerous notices and reviews the work has been strongly recommended, as not only admirably adapted to the family, but also as a text book for Sabbath and week-day schools.

A TREATISE ON BIBLICAL CRITICISM; Exhibiting a Systematic View of that Science. By SAMUEL DAVIDSON, D.D., of the University of Halle. Revised and enlarged edition, two elegant octavo volumes, cloth, $5.

These volumes contain a statement of the sources of criticism, such as the MSS. of the Hebrew Bible an1 Greek Testament, the principal versions of both, quotations from them in early writers, parallels,every thing, in short, is discussed, which properly belongs to the criticism of the text, comprehending all that comes under the title of General Introduction, in Introductions to the Old and New Testaments.

GOULD & LINCOLN, Publishers, Boston.

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10 volumes, 16mo. Price, cloth, $7.50; sheep, $10.00.

The design of the MISCELLANY is to supply the increasing demand for useful, instructive, and entertaining reading, and to bring all the aids of literature to bear on the cultivation of the feelings and understandings of the people,-to impress correct views on important moral and social questions, suppress every species of strife and savagery, -cheer the lagging and desponding, by the relation of tales drawn from the imagination of popular writers, rouse the fancy, by descriptions of interesting foreign scenes, - give a zest to every-day occupations, by ballad and lyrical poetry,-in short, to furnish an unobtrusive friend and guide, a lively fireside companion, as far as that object can be attained through the instrumentality of books.

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"During the currency of the work, since its commencement three years ago, the weekly impressions have varied from 80,000 to 100,000; but, including reprints, which are constantly going on, the average impression of each sheet of 32 pages has been 115,000. Of some sheets, which appear to have been peculiarly popular, the impression has been up wards of 200,000. The tract, Life of Louis Philippe,' has been put to press thirteen times, and the various impressions have amounted to 280,470. The total number of sheets of the work printed to the present hour is 18,000,000, forming 38,125 reams. The weight of the entire mass printed has been 387 tons. The cost of the work for paper has been £25,776 ($125,000); for printing, £11,545 ($55,000); and for binding, £16,248 ($80,000). The money paid to authors for writing, has, in most instances, been £10 per sheet, or altogether, £1,450 ($7,000); and for wood-engravings the outlay has been about £500. The price

paid by the public for the work has been £100,000 ($485,000). Of the general sales, the bulk has been chiefly in volumes. The quantity of volumes done up at each issue has usually filled two wagons; total number of volumes done up, 1,300,000. The larger proportion of these have been disposed of in or from London as a centre."

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