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HARPER & BROTHERS will send any of the following Books by Mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States, on receipt of the price.

For an extended list of valuable books in all departments of literature, see HARPER'S CATALOGUE, with CLASSIFIED INDEX OF CONTENTS, which will be sent by Mail on receipt of Five Cents, or it may be obtained gratuitously on application to the Publishers personally.

WALLACE'S MALAY ARCHIPELAGO. The Malay Archipelago : The Land of the Orang-Utan and the Bird of Paradise. A Narrative of Travel, 1854-1862. With Studies of Man and Nature. By ALFRED RUssel Wallace. With Ten Maps and Fifty-one Elegant Illustrations. Crown 8vo, Cloth, $3 50. WOOD'S WEDDING DAY. The Wedding Day in all Ages and Countries. By EDWARD J. WOOD, Author of "The Curiosities of Clocks and Watches from the Earliest Times," and "Giants and Dwarfs." 12mo.

KATHLEEN. A Novel. By the Author of "Raymond's Heroine." 8vo, Paper, 50 cents.

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BARNES'S NOTES ON THE PSALMS. Notes, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical, on the Book of Psalms. By ALBERT BARNES, Author of "Notes on the New Testament, "Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity," &c., &c. Complete in Three Volumes. Vols. II. and III. just ready. 12mo, Cloth, $150 per volume.

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FLAGG'S EUROPEAN VINEYARDS. Three Seasons in European Vineyards. Treating of Vine-Culture; Vine Disease and its Cure; Wine-Making and Wines, Red and White; Wine-Drinking as affecting Health and Morals. By WILLIAM J. FLAGG. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50.

MILES O'REILLY'S POEMS. The Poetical Works of Charles G. Halpine (Miles O'Reilly). Consisting of Odes, Poems, Sonnets, Epics, and Lyrical Effusions which have not heretofore been collected together. With a Biographical Sketch and Explanatory Notes. Edited by ROBERT B. ROOSEVELT. Portrait on Steel. Crown 8vo, Cloth, $2 50.

NEVIUS'S CHINA. China and the Chinese: a General Description of the Country and its Inhabitants; its Civilization and Form of Government; its Religious and Social Institutions; its Intercourse with other Nations; and its Present Condition and Prospects. By the Rev. JOHN L. NEVIUS, Ten Years a Missionary in China. With a Map and Illustrations. 12m0, Cloth, $1 75.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE'S LAST NOVELS:

Phineas Finn, the Irish Member. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE, Author of "Orley Farm," "Small House at Allington," "Can You Forgive Her?" "Doctor Thorne," &c. Illustrated by Millais. 8vo, Paper, $1 25; Cloth, $1 75.

He Knew He was Right. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE.
Part I. 8vo, Paper, 30 cents.

Beautifully Illustrated.

ABBOTT'S LIFE OF CHRIST. Jesus of Nazareth: his Life and Teachings; Founded on the Four Gospels, and Illustrated by Reference to the Manners, Customs, Religious Beliefs, and Political Institutions of his Times. By LYMAN ABBOTT. With Designs by Doré, De Laroche, Fenn, and others. Crown 8vo, Cloth, Beveled Edges, $3 50.

SCOTT'S FISHING-BOOK. Fishing in American Waters. By GENIO C. SCOTT. With 170 Illustrations. Crown 8vo, Cloth, $3 50.

ROBINSON'S FOR HER SAKE. For Her Sake. By FREDERICK W. ROBINSON, Author of "Carry's Confession," "Mattie: a Stray," "Christie's Faith," "No Man's Friend," "Poor Humanity," &c. With Thirty Illustrations. 8vo, Paper, 75 cents.

BALDWIN'S PRE-HISTORIC NATIONS. Pre-Historic Nations; or, Inquiries concerning some of the Great Peoples and Civilizations of Antiquity, and their Probable Relation to a still Older Civilization of the Ethiopians or Cushites of Arabia. By JOHN D. BALDWIN, Member of the American Oriental Society. 12m0, Cloth, $1 75.

CHARLES READE'S NOVELS:

It is Never too Late to Mend. A Matter-of-Fact Romance. 8vo, Paper, 35 cents.
Griffith Gaunt; or, Jealousy. Fully Illustrated. 8vo, Paper, 25 cents.
Hard Cash. A Matter-of-Fact Romance. Illustrations.
per, 35 cents.

New Edition. 8vo, Pa

Love Me Little, Love Me Long. 8vo, Paper, 35 cents. WHYMPER'S ALASKA. Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska, formerly Russian America-now Ceded to the United States-and in various other parts of the North Pacific. By FREDERICK WHYMPER. With Map and Illustrations. Crown 8vo, Cloth, $2 50.

META'S FAITH. A Novel. By the Author of "St. Olave's," "Jeanie's Quiet Life," &c. 8vo, Paper, 50 cents.

BUFFUM'S NOTES OF TRAVEL. Sights and Sensations in France, Germany, and Switzerland: being Experiences of an American Journalist in Europe. By EDWARD GOULD BUFFUM, Author of "The Parisians,' "Six Months in the Gold Mines," &c. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50.

LEVER'S THAT BOY OF NORCOTT'S. That Boy of Norcott's. By CHARLES LEVER, Author of "The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly," "Barrington," ""Maurice Tiernay," "The Daltons," "Charles O'Malley," &c. With IIlustrations. 8vo, Paper, 25 cents.

THE STUDENT'S OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY.

The Old Tes

tament History. From the Creation to the Return of the Jews from Captivity. Edited by WILLIAM SMITH, LL.D. With Maps and Woodcuts. Large 12mo, Cloth, $2 00. Uniform with The Student's New Testament History, a New Edition of which is just ready.

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BREAKING A BUTTERFLY; or, Blanche Ellerslie's Ending. By the Author of "Guy Livingstone," "Sword and Gown," "Brakespeare,' ," "Maurice Dering," &c. Illustrated. 8vo, Paper, 35 cents.

Merci," BOURNE'S LONDON MERCHANTS. Famous London Merchants. A Book for Boys. By R. H. Fox BOURNE, Author of "English Merchants," "English Seamen under the Tudors,' ," "A Memoir of Sir Philip Sidney," &c. Illustrated. 16mo. (In Press.)

DE MILLE'S DODGE CLUB. The Dodge Club;

or, Italy in 1859.

By JAMES DE MILLE, Author of "Cord and Creese," &c. With One Hundred Illustrations. 8vo, Paper, 75 cents. ROOSEVELT'S FIVE ACRES TOO MUCH. Five Acres too Much. A Truthful Elucidation of the Attractions of the Country, and a Careful Consideration of the Question of Profit and Loss as involved in Amateur Farming, with much Valuable Advice and Instruction to those about purchasing Large or Small Places in the Rural Districts. By ROBERT B. ROOSEVELT, Author of "Game Fish of North America," " 'Superior Fishing," ," "Game Birds," &c. With Characteristic Illustrations. 12mo, Cloth, $1 50.

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THE CURIOSITIES OF CLOCKS AND WATCHES FROM THE EARLIEST
TIMES," AND "GIANTS AND DWARFS.'

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JUN 24 1938

NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

FRANKLIN SQUARE.

1869.

392.5. W87w

71-3370

PREFACE.

IT

T was at one time the custom in Wales for the intended bride and bridegroom to issue bidding-letters, in the form of newspaper advertisements and circulars, inviting all who chose, whether friends or strangers, to come to their marriage, or bidding, as it was called. Each guest was by these letters respectfully asked to contribute something towards the expenses of the wedding; and it usually happened that the visitors were many, and the gifts numerous.

This Preface may, perhaps, bear an analogy to a bidding-letter. All the preparations for our "Wedding Day" have been with some anxiety completed; the banns have been duly published by Mr. Bentley; and the "best-men," Dr. Robert Bigsby, John Bullock, Esq., and T. C. Noble, Esq., have rendered their friendly help. It remains only to invite the public, which we now do most cordially. The amount of their individual money contribution is, for the sake of convenience, limited and fixed; but their gifts of good wishes and hearty friendship may be as large as they please. In the words of an old bidding-letter, we can assure them that whatever sympathy they may give "will be now thankfully received, and gratefully returned in the future."

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