Show T of Il logran 1116 cyclopedia cyclopedias dias s of biography n nee are usually matle made up of an all alphabetical list with brief sketches sketch principally of the names of people whom boil you have never heard and to know whom would add greatly neither to your pleasure nor your mental wealth the worlds cyclopedia of biography now publishing pub lisbin i is is upon a different plan it contains con taina on only the stories of the lives of the famous men nica and women who have made the worlds history who nho are really worth knowing and alid who are written about by authors often equally eminent in the field of literature with the sub acts whom they describe each M volume time is ia complete in itself so if do not want or cannot afford all you can take what best pleases or id is of most werth worth to you the five volumes thus far issued narrate the achievements of nearly two hundred of the most inot ino t famous odthe of the worlds heroes volume Vo lumaIN IV recently published a very handsome largo large 12 mo of pages for the price of 70 ct cascon scon bailis a new and excellent lifo of washington to n a reprint of the standa standard f and thrilling weems life of general marion and a new life of oliver cromwell by i the brilliant writer E paxton hood to illustrate the remark able economy in cost compared with previous publications the present importing price of the life of bf cromwell cromwel I is sa here in in equally good type han handsomely diomely printed with two other important works thrown in it costs only 70 cent cents even beyond this as a means of most widely and effectually advertising the biographical bio graphical raph ical series tho the publisher wilt wilf send postpaid post paid a paper bound edition of the hoods life of cromwell to any tiny address on receipt of 15 cents and then if the purchaser desires to secure the I bound volume will credit 15 ce cents lits toward the price of the same it will be strange if euch much books at au such ch prices du do not find their way into almost alm at every home I biography ia is the most universally pleasant universally profitable of all reading well said thomas carlyle how indeed can the heroes of fiction be compared in interest with these heroes of all till time washington and cromwell john B alden publisher 18 vesey street new york |