The Book-Worm and Choice Literature
By Editor
WE have received from Mr. John B. Alden, publisher, 393 Pearl Street, New York City, a unique little pamphlet called "The Book-Worm." It is issued monthly, and besides giving a large list of first-class books at wonderfully low rates, the copy before us gives the famous chapter on the "Spanish Inquisition," from Prescott's "Ferdinand and Isabella." Each number gives an attractive selection from some noted work, making in the course of a year about 300 pages of excellent reading, for only twenty-five cents. In these days when there is so much baleful and destructive literature scattered everywhere, it is especially gratifying to read the list of really standard and valuable works which Mr. Alden announces at rates which bring them within the reach of everybody. Here we read of Hallam's "Middle Ages," for only $1.00; Macaulay's England, five vols., only $2.00; Rawlinson's "Seven Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World," three handsome volumes, only $2.75; "Macaulay's Essays" complete, three volumes, $2.00; and space fails us to tell of the works of Prescott, Rollin, and D'Aubigne, and Kitto, and Guizot, and Gibbon, Bacon, Locke, and Luther, etc. etc., all printed in clear type, on good paper, and well bound. Send a postal card for a catalogue; choose your books, and read yourself full and wise. Bacon says: "Reading maketh a full man; histories make men wise." From the same house, we have also received a copy of "Choice Literature," which aptly designates the selections from the contemporary writers of the present day, with which it is filled.