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As all our books are sold at Sweeping Reductions our terms must be CASH WITH ORDER. Our fine Illustrated Holiday Catalogue Sent Free to all members of our Club about December 1st, 1898. NOTE- Reading Circle and Text Books are not classed as Miscellaneous Books, and are always sold at NET prices. We will be glad to furnish same, however, to all members at lowest current prices. Address all orders and inquiries to THE EXCELSIOR BOOK CLUB, No. 1 South High St., Columbus, Ohio. LET HIM FIRST BE A MAN. 274 pages. Price, $1.25. [From Boston Home Journal.] It would be difficult to name a modern book upon the subject of Education which is more charming, useful, and original. It does not deal with prosy details, but takes a broad view of the subject, and gathers all into the thought which is expressed by the title-"Let Him First be a Man!" Incidentally, the author treats of WHAT A MAN IS, his physical system, his mental possibilities, and the modes of realizing them. The treatment, however, is never dogmatic, but suggestive and stimulating. He treats also of great instructors and their ideas and methods: of Confucius, Plato, Aristotle, Quintillian, Goethe, and Arnold. He is familiar with the best, and quotes from their works and experience. For the most delightful recreative reading the author's chapter of " Unclassified Trifles" is of unsurpassed interest. What man of middle life will not richly appreciate his faithful portraiture of "The Old-Fashioned Elocutionist"? From Boston Ideas.] The "Paragon of Animals" is one of the most enjoyable essays on man that we have ever read. It is most comprehensive. The writing of the whole volume is that of a man whose life and thoughts are preeminently worthy of delineation for their broad philosophy and their high comprehensiveness of understanding. The essay on "The Utility of the Ideal" is particularly beautiful, and abounds in inspirational power. The closing essay is the memorial address on William Downs Henkle, read at the thirty-third annual meeting of the Ohio Teachers' Association, at Niagara Falls, N. Y., July 7, 1882. The subject is handled tenderly, lovingly, even as all the essays are, though seemingly increasingly so toward the end of their list. The volume altogether is an admirably artistic piece of literature and equally interesting as valuable. BEGINNING OF LITERARY CULTURE IN THE OHIO VALLEY. 519 pages. Price, $3.00. Only a few copies. [From the Ohio State Journal.] It is impossible to peruse any half dozen pages of the noble volume without intense interest. The author has gathered together a thousand facts concerning early literary effort and achievement in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana, most of which will be absolutely new even to the best informed readers, and all of which is of the most unquestionable value. The period covered is from the earliest settlements to the outbreak of the civil war. 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On the High school required list are several books of which we have editions: Third year-Macbeth, in paper (without notes) 15 cents, (with notes) 30 cents, or in a fine cloth edition at 35 cents; Silas Marner, cloth, in preparation; Grote and Segur's Two Great Retreats, cloth, 50 cents; Second Essay on the Earl of Chatham, paper, 15 cents. Fourth year-Hamlet (see above); Burke on Conciliation, cloth, 40 cents. On the High school recommended list: Essays on Milton and Addison, cloth, 50 cents-separately, Milton, 25 cents, Addison, 35 cents; Carlyle on Burns (see above); Paradise Lost, Books I and II, cloth, 40 cents-Sprague's edition. Prices quoted are for single copies, postpaid. GINN AND COMPANY, 378-388 WABASH AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILLS. For the convenience of Ohio teachers, a full stock |