"'Biblical Lights and Side Lights' is a specially useful book.... It ranks next to a concordance.... Mr. Little's work is a great success."--_Rev. C. H. Spurgeon._ "We have never seen a work on Bible reference so thoroughly systematized.... Admirably arranged.... =Topics are taken from the demands of religion, philosophy, science, art, social life, and politics.... Has great value for educated persons in every calling.="--_National Baptist, Phila._ "'Biblical Lights' may be welcomed to a place among the very useful books which few can afford to put aside."--_Presbyterian Review._ "Will unquestionably prove a mine of information and of illustration."--_Observer, N. Y._ "A work of great solidity and merit."--_Lutheran Church Review, Philadelphia._ =FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY,= =NEW YORK and LONDON= [Illustration: ad page 3] _The Outlook (Edited by Lyman Abbott., D.D., successor to Henry Ward Beecher as pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, New York):_ "It is with the aspect of Mr. Beecher as a reformer, rather than as a theologian, author, or preacher, that Mr. Barrows deals.... It gives the story of Mr. Beecher's life in less space and in handier form than any other volume with which we are acquainted." Henry Ward Beecher =THE SHAKESPEARE OF THE PULPIT= =By JOHN HENRY BARROWS.= =12mo, Cloth; 557 pp.; With Portrait. Price, $1.50. Post-free.= The certified points of merits of this work conclusively place it foremost as the standard popular biography of Henry Ward Beecher. "=Altogether it is= a valued contribution to Beecher literature."--=_New York Herald.=_ "=It will give= to many a far better and truer conception of Mr. Beecher than they before possessed."--=_Christian Inquirer,=_ New York. "=All in all= it is the best summing up of the life and character of this great preacher and orator that I have ever read."--=_Hon. Nelson Dingley,=_ Washington, D. C. "=I am especially pleased= with the chapters relating to the famous trial. The subject is handled very delicately, and at the same time thoroughly vindicates the pastor of Plymouth Church from all intentional wrong doing."--_=Francis M. Clark, D.D.,= Pres. Soc. of Christian Endeavor,_ Boston. =FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, Publishers,= =NEW YORK and LONDON= [Illustration: ad page 4] "A well written biography."--_=New York Sun.=_ "Lucid and sympathetic."--_=New York Tribune.=_ =William E. Dodge= THE CHRISTIAN MERCHANT By CARLOS MARTYN =12mo, Cloth; 349 pp.; With Portrait. Price, $1.50. Post-free.= This biography of one of New York's most successful merchants, whose public acts gave him a national reputation, is largely interspersed with the history of events happening in the stirring times of his greatest activity.