e, and also presents at once the evil
and the remedy. If good-natured ridicule of the impostures practised by a
set of self-styled reformers, who have nothing to lose, and to whom change
must be gain--if, in short, a delineation of the mistaken ideas which
prevent, and the means which conduce to happiness, be traits deserving of
commendation,--the reader will find much to enlist his attention and win
his approbation in the pages of this unpretending, but truly meritorious
publication."

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WHAT IS CHURCH HISTORY?

A VINDICATION OF THE IDEA OF HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS,

BY PHILIP SCHAF.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN.

In one volume, 12mo.

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DODD'S LECTURES.

DISCOURSES TO YOUNG MEN.

ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS HIGHLY INTERESTING ANECDOTES.

BY WILLIAM DODD, LL.D.,

CHAPLAIN IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY GEORGE THE THIRD.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, WITH ENGRAVINGS.

One volume, 18mo.

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THE IRIS:

AN ORIGINAL SOUVENIR.

With Contributions from the First Writers in the Country.

EDITED BY PROF. JOHN S. HART.

With Splendid Illuminations and Steel Engravings. Bound in Turkey Morocco
and rich Papier Mache Binding.

IN ONE VOLUME, OCTAVO.

Its contents are entirely original. Among the contributors are names well
known in the republic of letters; such as Mr. Boker, Mr. Stoddard, Prof.
Moffat, Edith May, Mrs. Sigourney, Caroline May, Mrs. Kinney, Mrs. Butler,
Mrs. Pease, Mrs. Swift, Mr. Van Bibber, Rev. Charles T. Brooks, Mrs. Dorr,
Erastus W. Ellsworth, Miss E.W. Barnes, Mrs. Williams, Mary Young, Dr.
Gardette, Alice Carey, Phebe Carey, Augusta Browne, Hamilton Browne,
Caroline Eustis, Margaret Junkin, Maria J.B. Browne, Miss Starr, Mrs.
Brotherson, Kate Campbell, &c.

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GEMS FROM THE SACRED MINE;

OR, HOLY THOUGHTS UPON SACRED SUBJECTS.

BY CLERGYMEN OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

EDITED BY THOMAS WYATT, A.M.

In one volume, 12mo.

WITH SEVEN BEAUTIFUL STEEL ENGRAVINGS.

The contents of this work are chiefly by clergymen of the Episcopal Church.
Among the contributors will be found the names of the Right Rev. Bishop
Potter, Bishop Hopkins, Bishop Smith, Bishop Johns, and Bishop Doane; and
the Rev. Drs. H.V.D. Johns, Coleman, and Butler; Rev. G.T. Bedell, M'Cabe,
Ogilsby, &c. The illustrations are rich and exquisitely wrought engravings
upon t