"Lessons of Travel." "Why and How Chinese Emigrate." "Nature's Aristocracy." "History of the Great Fire in Boston." "The Life of Gen. U.S. Grant." "Woman and the Law." "The life of Rutherford B. Hayes." "History of the Great Fire in St. Johns." "The Life of Bayard Taylor." "The Life, Speeches, and Public Service of James A. Garfield." "Little Bo." "Joshua Gianavello." "The Life of James G. Blaine." "Acres of Diamonds." "Gleams of Grace." "The Life of Charles H. Spurgeon." "The New Day." The manuscript which he prepared most carefully was the "Life of Daniel Manin," which was destroyed by fire when his home at Newton Centre was burned. He had spent much time and labor collecting data on Italian history for it, and the loss was irreparable. "Joshua Gianavello" is a biographical story of the great Waldensian chieftain who loved religions liberty and feared neither inquisition nor death. It is dedicated to "the many believers in the divine principle that every person should have the right to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience; and to the heroic warriors who are still contending for religious freedom in the yet unfinished battle." The same powerful imagination that pictures so realistically to his lecture and church audiences the scenes and people he is describing, makes them live in his books. His style holds the reader by its vividness of description, its powerful delineation of character and emotion. His latest book, "The New Day," is an amplification of his great lecture, "Acres of Diamonds." It is not only delightful reading but it is full of practical help for the affairs of everyday life. For no matter in what field Dr. Conwell works, this great desire of his life--to help his brother man--shines out. CHAPTER XXXV A HOME COMING Reception Tendered by Citizens of Philadelphia in Acknowledgment of Work as Public Benefactor. One more scene in the life of this man who, from a barefoot country boy with no advantages, has become one of the most widely known of the preachers, lecturers and writers of the day, as well as the founder of a college and hospital holding an honored position among the institutions of the country. In 1894, acting upon the advice of his physician, Dr. Conwell went abroad. It is no unusual thing for pastors to go abroad, nor for members of their church and friends to see them off. But for Grace Baptist Church personally to wish its pastor "Bon voyage" is something of an undertaking. A special train was chartered to take the members to New York. Here a steamer engaged for the purpose awaited them, and twelve hundred strong, they steamed down the harbor alongside the "New York" that Dr. Conwell's last glimpse of America might be of the faces of his own church family.