KITTO'S POPULAR CYCLOPÆDIA OF BIBLICAL LITERA. TURE. Condensed from the larger work. Ey the Author, JOIN KITTO, D. D., Author of "Pictorial Bible," 71 66 History of Palestine," "Scripture Daily Readings," &c. Assisted by JAMES TAYLOR, D. D., of Glasgow. With over five hundred Illustrations. One vol. ume octavo, 812 pp., cloth, 3,00. THE POPULAR BIBLICAL CYCLOPEDIA OF LITERATURE is designed to furnish a DICTIONARY OF THE BIBLE, embodying the products of the best and most recent researches in biblical literature, in which the scholars of Europe and America have been engaged. The work, the result of immense labor and research, and enriched by the contributions of writers of distinguished eminence in the various departments of sacred literature, has been, by universal consent, pronounced the best work of its class extant, and the one best suited to the advanced knowledge of the present day in all the studies connected with theological science. It is not only intended for ministers and theological students, but is also particularly adapted to parents, Sabbath school teachers, and the great body of the religious public. The illustrations, amounting to more than three hundred, are of the very highest order. A condensed view of the various branches of Biblical Science comprehended in the work. 1. BIBLICAL CRITICISM,- Embracing the History of the Bible Languages; Canon of Scripture; Literary History and Peculiarities of the Sacred Books; Formation and History of Scripture Texts. 2. HISTORY, Proper Names of Persons; Biographical Sketches of prominent Characters; Detailed Accounts of important Events recorded in Scripture; Chronology and Genealogy of Scripture. 3. GEOGRAPHY,- Names of Places; Description of Scenery; Boundaries and Mutual Relations of the Countries mentioned in Scripture, so far as necessary to illustrate the Sacred Text. 4. ARCHEOLOGY, Manners and Customs of the Jews and other nations mentioned in Scripture; their Sacred Institutions, Military Affairs, Political Arrangements, Literary and Scientific Pursuits. 5. PHYSICAL SCIENCE, -- Scripture Cosmogony and Astronomy, Zoology, Mineralogy, Botany. Meteorology. In addition to numerous flattering notices and reviews, personal letters from more than fifty of the most distinguished Ministers and Laymen of different religious denominations in the country have been received, highly commending this work as admirably adapted to ministers, Sabbath school teachers neads of families, and all Bible students. The following extract of a letter is a fair specimen of individual letters received from each of the gentlemen whose names are given below: "I have examined it with special and unalloyed satisfaction. It has the rare merit of being all that it professes to be, and very few, I am sure, who may consult it will deny that, in richness and fulness of detail, it surpasses their expectation. Many ministers will find it a valuable auxiliary; but its chief excellence is, that it furnishes just the facilities which are needed by the thousands in families and Sabbath schools, who are engaged in the important business of biblical education. It is in itself a library of reliable information." W. B. Sprague, D. D., Pastor of Second Presbyterian Church, Albany, N. Y. J. J. Carruthers, D. D., Pastor of Second Parish Congregational Church, Portland, Me. Joel Hawes, D. D., Pastor of First Congregational Church, Hartford, Ct. Daniel Sharp, D. D., late Pastor of Third Baptist Church, Boston. N. L. Frothingham, D. D., late Pastor of First Congregational Church, (Unitarian,) Boston. Ephraim Peabody, D. D., Pastor of Stone Chapel Congregational Church, (Unitarian,) Boston. A. L. 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No space is consumed with rehearsals of Scripture history nor biographies which can be better read in the Bible itself, nor tedious discussions on disputed points; nor statements long since superseded by modern research. 2. It quotes more extensively those passages which may be explained by the article; thus making it a brief commentary on the whole Bible. 3. It gives the modern names of places mentioned in the Bible, in all cases where there is any certainty; thus defining and fixing the reader's conceptions. 4. Events and personages prominent in profane history are mentioned in connection with names and events in the Scripture history, so as to form a chronological arrangement in the mind of the reader, and assist his memory by association of ideas. 5. The name of each book in the Bible is given, followed by an article which briefly gives all that is known of writer, date, design, etc., thus often giving a key to the whole. 6. 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