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 SIGHTS AND SENSATIONS IN EUROPE. By. Travel and Sight-seeing in Europe, Ireland, Spain, Germany, Holland, &c; with an account of persons ana places connected with the Franco-Prussian war. A book of rare and exciting interest. Octavo, 591 Pages. 70 Illustrations.

OVERLAND THROUGH ASIA. By Pictures of Siberian, Chinese and Tartar life. A splendid work, full of interest. Octavo. 608 Pages. 193 Engravings.

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THE HOLY BIBLE, with Apocrypha and Concordance (the authorized edition); to which are added Canne's Marginal References; Index and Table of Texts, and an account of the Lives and Martyrdoms of the Apostles and Evangelists. Illustrated with numerous beautifully executed Steel Plates. The cheapest Bible made. Price $6.00 to $13.00

THE HOLY BIBLE, containing the Old and New Testaments. Translated Literally from the Original Tongues. By Price $3.00.

TO THE PUBLIC.

It has been claimed that books sold by Agents are higher in price than those of equal value sold at book-stores. This belief often prevents persons from buying of an Agent. So far as our books are concerned, there is no foundation for such a claim. Please consider the following statements.

Most of our books are fully illustrated, not only with full page but with text engravings. These illustrations must be printed on something better than ordinary book paper, and to be well executed it requires the whole book to be on fine, heavy paper suitable for the cuts, costing very high. Again, the printing of the text with cuts costs more than twice the price of plain printing. Hence, few books are printed with text engravings. For proof, we ask you to count up all you can remember of them, aside from ours. You will find they are very few. Publishers avoid them universally.

We claim that we sell you books with from two hundred to three hundred engravings, finely printed on extra fine paper, and most firmly bound, as low as you can buy any book equal in weight, size, and popularity, which contain but few if any cuts, at any book-store; while you will be asked there for books illustrated as are our $3.50 ones (if they have any such) at least $5 or $6. We do not ask you to take our word for this, but to test it by enquiry and comparison. We certainly sell books lower than book-stores.

We allow our Agents exactly the discount on our price, that publishers allow the regular trade, and no more; and as through our Agents we sell ten times more of our books than do the trade publishers, we can afford a better book for a given sum. We ask investigation on this subject that all may know whether we speak truly or not. We assert that no books of equal cost of the "," "," "," "," and others of our books have ever been sold in this country at the price we sell them at.

We employ only those Agents who enter into agreements with us, pledging themselves not to put any books into stores; and it is only through unreliable Agents that they are seen there. The great popularity of our works, and their ready sale make it an object for the trade to get them. Having, by some means, obtained them, dealers sometimes sell our books at a reduced price even without profit to themselves. This is done to injure Agents, and the Subscription-Business, and is the sole and only ground for the current belief that the trade sell books lower than the subscription houses.

Our Agents are instructed by us to introduce our books, but never to press them upon those who do not desire them. We publish none but valuable and popular work, and we bespeak for our Agents a kind reception.

The Atlantic Monthly says of us and one of our books:

"If this book can make its way among the Subscription-Book public, it will do a vast service to literature in educating the popular taste to the appreciation of good reading, and the time will yet come when the Book-Agent will be welcomed at all our doors instead of warned from them by every prohibitory device."

Also says the New York Journal of Commerce:

"This is precisely the sort of book which everyone ought to be glad to have thrust in his face and urged on his attention. The purchaser will be grateful to the agent who has induced him to buy it"

Such, commendations from such authority speak volumes for our books.