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GREAT EUROPEAN CONFLICT.

FRAA^CO-PRUSSIAN WAR. CHASSEPOT-MFLE

vs.

ZUXDA^ADELGEWEHR,

OR THE

KEEDLE

GJJ'E.

EEAL CAUSE OF THE STRUGGLE. NAME, TITLE, AND YEAR OF ACCESSION OF THE EULEES OF THE EUEOPEAN STATES.— KINDS OF GOVEENMENTS.— ARMAMENTS, MILITAEY AND NAVAL.

RHENISH PROVINCES.-STRATEGIC POINTS, COMPILED AND AEEANGED FROM THE LATEST EUEOPEAN OFFICIAL 80TTEOE8

AND

STATISTICS.

A.

NEW YOEK: 432 BROOME STREET.

BIBLE BROTHERS,

1870.

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1870,

By GEO. W. BIBLE, In

tlie office

of the Librarian of Congress, at

Washington.

A' ^^t^'j:e:d

for thk

YOUTH'S ILLUSTRATED

BIBLE HISTORY, Embracing Distiaofuished Characters, Remarkable Events, ners, Customs,

Natural History, Arts, Scieuces,

Institutions,

etc., etc.,

Man-

of

BIBLE LANDS AND TIMES.

By

L).

^Sr,

THOMF^SOlSr, A.M.,

MISSIONARY TO PALESTINE, AND LECTUEEK ON THE HOLY LAND. TO WHICH IS ADDED A Complete Clironological History of Events from the Creation of tlie World to tlie Completion of tlie llauoin of tlie

New

Testament.

By JOHN BLAIR, LL. D. Eleg-antly Embellistied witli nearly Three lor

Young

Hundred Engravings.

Instructive, Entertaining, and Elevating of all People as well as those of more mature years.

Making one of the most

Books

^t-" The object of this work is to Inspire j^outh with a love for the sacred volume, and draw their minds to its perusal and study, not as a stern and solemn duty, but as a delishtful privilege. There is an absorbing Interest attached to Scripture localities and Scripture times. If Trov and Thebes— if Athens and Rome are now visited with classic enthusiasm, how much more worthy of awakening the strongest emotions must be the country whose history as far transcends in interest that of every other, as its literature excels in sublimity all the ethics, and philosophy, and i)oetry, and eloquence of the heathen world. This work places bt^fore the reader in a truthful, plain, but intensely interesting manner, all the important events, scenes, scenery, and incidents of the lands and places of the counti'ies described in the Bible. In producing the Youth's Bible History, it has been the aim to make it a book unidenominations. will not only serve to illustrate, but will have the effect to the imaQination— develop taste, and improve the heart. Their importance as a great engine (if rightly api)lied) on the mind and heart, in aid of religion, government, moral and social order,\T.nd the well-being and happiness of the human versally acceptable to

all

The engravings introduced

cultivate the

mind— chasten

To wean man from vice— win him to virtue, elevate him in the scale of being, or arouse him to deeds of valor, patriotism, or self-devotion, art becomes the proud ally of liistory and poetry, and takes its lofty station nmong the noblest productions of the human intellect: for the good of mankmd, the honor of their cunntr.v. and the glory of (Jod. The Land of Palestine abounds in scenes of the most picturesque beauty. Syria comprehends the snowy heights of Lebanon, and the majestic ruins of i'admor and Baalbec. The gigantic temples of Etrypt, the desolate plains of Babylon and Nineveh, the ancient cities of""Idumea, Moab and^'Ammon, and the rocky solitudes of Mount Sinai, all afford subjects race, is incalculable.

most admirably adapted

to the artist's pencil.

THE CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY

forms a very important and indispensable feature completion of the work, and can not be too highly estiraatod. Although in condensed form, yet it furnishes a complete, comprehensive, and connected history of every important event from the creation of the World to the close of New Testament time.'^. By the study of this Chronology one can soon become familiar with the whole history of the events portrayed in the Holy Bible, the Btiok of Books. The price of the work is offered so low as to place it within the reach of every possessor of the Bible; and it is sincerely hoped that in addition to its claims as a pictorial family publication it may prove in a high degree entertaining and useful, and gladden many a in the

fireside circle.

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