Harper's Weekly.

A Journal of Civilization. This journal aims to give, from week to week, a faithful and comprehensive record of passing events in every part of the world. It treats, with pen and pencil, of all topics of current interest, giving the best illustrations that can be obtained from every available source, original and foreign. Its editorials, serial and short stories, poems and sketches, furnish every week an amount of interesting reading matter unsurpassed by other journals in excellence and variety.

Its editorial articles, written by Mr. George William Curtis, deservedly rank among the most powerful influences on public opinion, and are always high-toned, candid, and brilliant. In Mr. Nast, Harper's Weekly has the exclusive monopoly of a political satirist, equal, if not superior, in genius and technical skill to any that can be named in the history of caricature, and his pictures are a part of the history of the time. Harper's Weekly is a great and influential newspaper in every sense of the word, besides giving the most complete pictorial history of passing events.-Provi

dence Journal.

The Weekly is the ablest and most powerful illustrated periodical published in this country. Its editorials are scholarly and convincing, and carry much weight. Its illustrations of current events are full and fresh, and are prepared by our best designers. With a circulation of 150,000, the Weekly is read by at least half a million persous, and its influence as an organ of opinion is simply tremendous. The ablest description cannot equal the impression given by a striking picture, and while the written or spoken words are soon forgotten, the impression made by the artist is indelible. The Weekly maintains a positive position, and expresses decided views on political and social problems.-Louisville Courier-Journal. The Weekly has done more than could be easily espublic opinion. Its trenchant editorials, its abundant illustrations, and its keen political cartoons have made it a great force in the social life and the politics of the people. Its influence has been always pure, healthful, and stimulating; and it is emphatically and in the highest sense what it claims to be-a Journal of Civilization.-Boston Journal.

The Weekly is emphatically what it purports to be"A Journal of Civilization." It is safe to say that it has done more than any other publication in the country during its twenty years, in moulding public opin-timated in educating the popular taste and directing ion and in advancing general knowledge. Its editor, Mr. George William Curtis, is not only a gentleman of broad culture and a graceful orator, but also a statesman of the purest type and of large experience in political affairs. *** We believe he has served the cause of liberty and the welfare of the people more efficiently as editor of Harper's Weekly than he could have done as a member of any President's Cabinet. Nast's pencil vies with Curtis's pen every week in teaching the people. The artist reaches those whom the editor cannot. Thousands read pictures who cannot or will not read an article. A volume of the Weekly is an illustrated cyclopædia of current events. It is a family library in itself, from which the old and the young can draw entertainment and useful information. Watchman, Boston.

In Harper's Weekly one is sure to find something more than clever cartoons and fine reprints of popular pictures-the leading articles of Mr. George W. Curtis. He is one of our public men whose opinion we can always afford to treat with respect, because we know that he is above the wiles and tricks of politicians. N. Y. Times.

From its opening issue to its latest copy, it has been maintained without a break in its rare and perfect success. Its pictorial attractions are superb, and embrace every variety of subject and of artistic treatment.-Zion's Herald, Boston.

Its general attractions are so numerous that it is a household visitor.-Brooklyn Eagle.

The Weekly remains easily at the head of illustrated papers by its fine literary quality, the beauty of its type and wood-cuts, the editorial work of Curtis, and the unapproached genius of Nast.-Springfield Republican.

Bought and read in every part of the country.— N. Y. Evening Post.

The articles upon public questions which appear in Harper's Weekly from week to week form a remarkable series of brief political essays. They are distinguished by clear and pointed statements, by good They are the expression of mature conviction, high principle, and strong feeling, and take their place among the best newspaper writing of the time.North American Review.

The Weekly is a most welcome visitor at many thousands of firesides, where it is received as an entertaining friend, enlivening the social and family circle, giv-common-sense, by independence and breadth of view. ing instruction and delight to old and young. It is also a potent agency for the dissemination of correct political principles, and a powerful opponent of shams, frauds, trickery, and false pretenses.- Evening Express, Rochester, N. Y.

This paper furnishes the best illustrations. Our future historians will enrich themselves out of Harper's Weekly long after writers and printers and publishers are turned to dust.-Evangelist, N. Y.

The Weekly constitutes a remarkably rich and varied chronicle of literature, travels, fiction, art, science, politics, and current news. It contains much that is valuable for reference, and also much that invites to re-reading.-N. Y. Tribune.

TERMS FOR HARPER'S WEEKLY:

Harper's Weekly, one year...

$4.00.

Harper's Magazine, Weekly, and Bazar, to one address, for one year, $10 00; or, two of these Periodicals, to one address, for one year, $7 00.

An Extra Copy of either the Magazine, Weekly, or Bazar will be supplied gratis for every Club of Five Subscribers at $4 00 each, paid for by one remittance; or, Six Copies one year for $20 00.

Back Numbers sent by mail, postage prepaid, on receipt of 10 cents.

The Volumes of the Weekly commence with the year. When no time is mentioned, it will be understood that the subscriber wishes to commence with the Number next after the receipt of his order.

Single Volumes of Harper's Weekly, in cloth binding, will be sent by mail, postage prepaid, on receipt of $7 00; or, in half-morocco binding, on receipt of $10 50. Complete Sets of Harper's Weekly [now 23 Volumes] will be supplied at a liberal discount, which will be made known upon application to the publishers.

Cloth Cases for each Volume, suitable for binding, will be sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt of $100 each.

Indexes to each volume sent gratis on receipt of stamp.

Harper's Bazar.

A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction. As a combination family newspaper, Harper's Bazar is without a rival. Something will be found in it especially adapted for every member of the home circle. While its useful plates, patterns, and articles on fashion and household economy are worth many times the cost of subscription, its choice stories, poems, essays, juvenile tales, and miscellany, from the most popular American and European writers, form the best of family reading, its exquisite art illustrations furnish materials for many a portfolio, and its humorous cuts and witty anecdotes serve to amuse all, both old and young.

This is one of the best volumes for the domestic circle that we know of. Its teachings and patterns for a great variety of work are almost priceless. Miss Mary L. Booth, who presides over the editorial department, is pre-eminently fitted for the duties. Her literary tastes secure the readers of the Bazar admirable reading matter, and there are few elevated tastes of any kind that may not grow strong and healthy on the rich variety of food furnished in this periodical. The pattern plates are all that the world of fashion desires.-Louisville Courier-Journal.

The editorial management of the Bazar is very able. It is a strong, high-toned journal, largely devoted to fashion, but not frivolously so. Its pictures are beautiful; the stories, essays, poems, and the practical articles on every department of home life evince rare tact and solid sense. It is accompanied by pattern sheets, by the aid of which ladies can cut and make their own garments. Thus it contributes to economy, as well as to tastefulness of attire.-Northern Christian Advocate, Syracuse, N. Y.

As a faithful chronicle of fashion, and a newspaper of domestic and social character, it ranks without a rival. Devoting a large space to fashion news and giving illustrations of designs and styles, it yet finds space for much interesting reading matter, and is possessed of many pleasing features. - Brooklyn Eagle.

Fresh, vigorous, and full of variety, it weekly greets its thousands of fair subscribers with reading especially entertaining to women. As a journal of fashion it is an eminent success, exhibiting exquisite taste and sound sense in all matters relating to dress, and the cultivation of home comforts; but its literary status is also high. Essays, stories, and poems are interspersed with the lovely pictures, and news gathered from all parts of the world enriches it.-Zion's Herald,

Boston.

The Bazar is primarily a ladies' paper. But the men and the children find much in it for them. Its editorial department is a model of excellence. *** In its sphere this journal is the peer of its companions bearing the name of Harper.-Watchman, Boston.

Short stories and numerous illustrations, some of them very handsome reproductions of fine pictures in England, are added for the sake of variation and amusement. The comic department is very full.N. Y. Times.

The Bazar holds a high place in the domestic economy, and is facile princeps of its kind. Its fashion directions, its household hints, its patterns and descriptions of garments, and its suggestions as to matters of cookery, give it a great practical value; while it has also an abundance of good illustrations, pleasant sketches and essays, poems, short stories, and serials.

-Boston Journal.

The Bazar has become authority in respect of the fashions that tyrannize the fairer part of creation, and its artistic and aesthetic notes are marked by a taste and discrimination which denote the high culture and skilled excellence of the writers employed.-Rochester Express.

The Bazar is the organ of the fashionable world, and the expounder of that world's laws; and it is the authority in all matters of manners, etiquette, costume, and social habits. It fills a place that no other publication ever has even sought to fill, and does so because of the amplitude of its range, and from its breadth and extent of view.-Boston Traveller.

The Bazar commends itself to every member of the household-to the children by droll and pretty pictures, to the young ladies by its fashion-plates in endless variety, to the provident matron by its patterns for the children's clothes, to paterfamilias by its tasteful designs for embroidered slippers and luxuricus dressing-gowns. But the reading matter of the Bazar is uniformly of great excellence. The paper has acquired a wide popularity for the fireside enjoyment it affords, and has become an established authority with the ladies of America.-N. Y. Evening Post.

The Bazar is something more than an ordinary fashion paper; for its little essays on the lesser morals, its bright little stories, and its well-selected serials, really occupy as much space as is given to fiction in many a paper professedly intended for family reading.-Boston Globe.

The Bazar occupies a commanding position in the world of fashion; its sensible editorial articles offsetting its styles and patterns, while its serial novel is always of good quality.-Springfield Republican.

To dress according to Harper's Bazar will be the aim and ambition of the women of America.-Boston Transcript.

The Bazar is indispensable to a woman's library; and, especially in the matter of fashion, grows more interesting each year.-N. Y. Tribune.

TERMS FOR HARPER'S BAZAR:

Harper's Bazar, one year....................

$4.00.

Harper's Magazine, Weekly, and Bazar, to one address, for one year, $10 00; or, two of these Periodicals, to one address, for one year, $7 00.

An Extra Copy of either the Magazine, Weekly, or Bazar will be supplied gratis for every Club of Five Subscribers at $4 00 each, paid for by one remittance; or, Six Copies one year for $20 00.

Back Numbers sent by mail, postage prepaid, on receipt of 10 cents.

The Volumes of the Bazar commence with the year. When no time is mentioned, it will be understood that the subscriber wishes to commence with the Number next after the receipt of his order.

Single Volumes of Harper's Bazar, in cloth binding, will be sent by mail, postage prepaid, on receipt of $7 00; or, in half-morocco binding, on receipt of $10 50. Complete Sets of Harper's Bazar [now 12 Volumes] will be supplied at a liberal discount, which will be made known upon application to the publishers.

Cloth Cases for each volume, suitable for binding, will be sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt of $1 00 each.

Indexes to each volume sent gratis on receipt of stamp.

Rev. Albert Barnes's Works.

Notes on the New Testament.

Notes on the New Testament. For Bible Classes and Sunday - Schools. By ALBERT BARNES. Maps and Illustrations. 11 vols., 12mo, Cloth, $1 50 per volume. The Vol

umes sold separately.

On the Four Gospels. 2 vols.

On the Acts of the Apostles.

On the Epistle to the Romans.

On the First Epistle to the Corinthians.

On the Second Epistle to the Corinthians, and the Epistle to the Galatians.

On the Epistles to the Ephesians, the Colossians, and the Philippians.

On the Epistles to the Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, and Philemon.
On the Epistle to the Hebrews.

On the General Epistles of James, Peter, John, and Jude.

On the Revelation.

Among the last labors of the late Rev. Albert Barnes, accomplished with very great difficulty, owing to his almost complete loss of sight, was the careful and thorough revision of his popular Notes on the New Testament. It seemed eminently desirable, both to author and publishers, that these Notes should be made more valuable by incorporating in them the vast amount of light which science and discovery have in the last twenty years thrown upon Scripture. In the new edition much has been added in the way of notes, and many valuable and interesting illustrations have been inserted.

I know of no commentary so succinct, full, and impartial. It is fitted to instruct the preacher no less than the Sunday-school teacher. It seems to be his

grand effort to unveil solely what "the Spirit saith to the churches."-Rev. JOHN CUMMING, D.D., London.

Mr. Barnes's style is plain, simple, and direct; and though his pages teem with the material of deep scholarship, yet he is, for the most part, eminently happy in making himself intelligible and interesting to every class; while the rich, practical remarks, every now and then grafted upon the critical details, transfuse the devotional spirit of the writer into the bosom of his reader.-American Biblical Repository.

Mr. Barnes has attained to just celebrity, both in America and England, as a sound and judicious expositor of Holy Scripture. As an interpreter of the Word of God, he is remarkably free from vague hypothesis and hazardous speculations.-London Evangelical Magazine.

Questions on Notes on the New Testament.

As follows: Vol. I. On Matthew; II. On Mark and Luke; III. On John; IV. On Acts; V. On Romans; VI. On First Corinthians; VII. On Hebrews. 18mo, Cloth, 30 cents per volume.

Notes on the Psalms.

Notes, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical, on the Book of Psalms. By ALBERT Barnes. In Three Volumes. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50 per volume. ***There is the same blending of the critical and the practical, with constant expression of devout feelings and sentiments peculiarly congruous with the book which Mr. Barnes is interpreting.-Presbyterian. |

The Evidences of Christianity.

These "Notes on the Psalms" are characterized by the excellences which made Mr. Barnes's earlier expository works so eminently successful.-American Presbyterian.

On the "Ely 12mo, Cloth,

Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity in the Nineteenth Century. Delivered in the
Mercer Street Church, New York, January 21 to February 22, 1867.
Foundation" of the Union Theological Seminary. By ALBERT BARNES.
$175.

The subject is handled with great logical vigor.-
N. Y. Tribune.

He carries on the discussion with his accustomed vigor and sobriety of statement, and with an affluence of learning and knowledge that will make his book a valuable mine for younger clergymen.-S. S. Times.

Tyng's Christian Pastor.

Will deservedly attract attention, both from the well-earned fame of their author, and from the peculiar tone which is given to the discussion by the fact that the subject is treated with reference to the special demands of the present time.-Congregationalist, Boston.

The Office and Duty of a Christian Pastor. By STEPHEN H. TYNG, D.D., Rector of St. George's Church in the City of New York. Published at the Request of the Students and Faculty of the School of Theology in the Boston University. 12mo, Cloth, $1 25.

Direct, plain, and practical, and illustrated all through by the wealth of experience and wisdom gained in a busy pastorate extending over fifty years. -Boston Daily Advertiser.

would be an acceptable addition to every minister's library. It treats of pastoral duty rather than pastoral theology-which gives a practical turn-the author dividing his subject into the heads of a pastor's objects, qualifications, instruments, agencies, power, and attainments.-Brooklyn Union.

More than fifty years of active ministry have given this distinguished rector ample opportunity for wide observation and experience in his calling, and what he says here must necessarily be valuable. The volume-Brooklyn Eagle.

It is earnest in thought and unpretending in style.

Wilkie Collins's Novels.

Wilkie Collins has no living superior in the art of constructing a story. Others may equal if not surpass him in the delineation of character, or in the use of a story for the development of social theories, or for the redress of a wrong against humanity and civilization; but in his own domain he stands alone, without a rival. *** He holds that "the main element in the attraction of all stories is the interest of curiosity and the excitement of surprise." Other writers had discovered this before Collins; but recognizing the clumsiness of the contrivances in use by inferior authors, he essays, by artistic and conscientious use of the same materials and similar devices, to captivate his readers.-N. Y. Evening Post.

Of all the living writers of English fiction, no one better understands the art of story-telling than Wilkie Collins. He has a faculty of coloring the mystery of a plot, exciting terror, pity, curiosity, and other passions, such as belongs to few, if any, of his confrères. His style, too, is singularly appropriate-less forced and artificial than the average modern novelists.-Boston Transcript.

We cannot call to mind any novelist or romancer of past times whose constructive powers fairly can be placed above his. He is a literary artist, and a great one too, and he always takes his readers with him.— Boston Traveller.

Mr. Collins is certainly the one master of his school of fiction, and the greatest constructionist living. His plots are marvels of ingenuity, and his incidents reach the height of the dramatic.-N. Y. Evening Mail.

Mr. Collins possesses the art of fixing his reader's attention throughout the whole of a narrative of intrigue, in a higher degree, perhaps, than any other English novelist.-Athenæum, London.

In deep and marvellous plot he is perfect master, and in this respect stands at the head of modern novelists.-Commercial Bulletin, Boston.

That Collins is without an equal in the power of constructing a story whose close it will defy an expert to foretell, which will please by its surprises, its pure, strong diction, and its dramatic power, has long been unquestioned.-Utica Herald.

12mo, Cloth, $1 25 per vol., $18 00 per set; Half Calf, $3 00 per vol.

Harper's School Geography. With Maps and Illustrations, prepared expressly for this Work by eminent American Artists. Half Leather, 4to, $1 20.

*Harper's Introductory Geography.

Harper's Introductory Geography. With Maps and Illustrations, prepared expressly for this Work by eminent American Artists. Half Leather, Small 4to, 60 cents.

DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF HARPER'S GEOGRAPHIES.

I. The language is uniformly clear and concise.

II. The definitions and statements are accurate and terse.

III. The maps and illustrations represent the various countries as they are to-day.

IV. The plan is philosophical, and is worked out in such a manner as to admirably fit them for use In the class-room.

V. The questions for map study and the review lessons are systematic and practical.

VI. In their mechanical execution, including quality of paper, clearness of type, strength of binding, number and beauty of maps and illustrations, these books are unrivalled.

VII. They are the result of the best professional skill and experience, and embody the true spirit of reform in geographical teaching.

VIII. They are the cheapest Geographies yet published, being furnished at a lower price than any other Geographies of the same number of pages.

IX. In order to facilitate the study of local geography, the United States is divided into groups. separate edition of the School Geography is prepared for each group, containing, in addition to the general work, the special geography of that group. This special geography includes a full-page county map of each State in the group, together with a description of the surface drainage, climate, soil, minerals, agriculture, manufactures, commerce, railroads, canals, political organization, chief cities, educational facilities, and history of the State, and is furnished without additional cost.

Harper's Geographies have received the unqualified endorsement of the public press and of many prominent educators, including the following:

E. C. HEWETT, President of Illinois State Univer- | A. P. KELSEY, Principal State Normal School, Plymsity. ALEXANDER WINCHELL, Syracuse University. J. M. GREGORY, Regent of Illinois Industrial University, Champaign, Ill.