# Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania

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* JOSEPH AND HIS FRIEND:
* A Story of Pennsylvania.
* BY
* BAYARD TAYLOR.
* The better angel is a man right fair;
* The worser spirit a woman coloured ill.
* Shakespeare: Sonnets.
* NEW YORK:
* G. P. PUTNAM & SONS,
* FOURTH AVENUE AND TWENTY-THIRD STREET.
* LONDON:
* S. Low, Son & Marston.
* 1870.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by BAYARD TAYLOR, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
The New York Printing Company, 81, 83, and 85 Centre St., New York.
​⁂ To those who prefer quiet pictures of life to startling incidents, the attempt to illustrate the development of character to the mysteries of an elaborate plot, and the presentation of men and women in their mixed strength and weakness to the painting of wholly virtuous ideals and wholly evil examples: who are as interested in seeing moral and intellectual forces at work in a simple country community as on a more conspicuous plane of human action: who believe in the truth and tenderness of man's love for man, as of man's love for woman: who recognize the trouble which confused ideas of life and the lack of high and intelligent culture bring upon a great portion of our country population,—to all such, no explanation of this volume is necessary. Others will not read it.
CONTENTS.
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[Advertisements]
THE NEW "HOUSEHOLD EDITION"
OF
Bayard Taylor's Writings:
To be issued in MONTHLY VOLUMES for subscribers to the set, at the low price of $1.50 per volume, neatly bound in cloth.
The first two volumes will be:
VIEWS AFOOT; or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff. 12mo. 506 pp. March 2Oth.
⁂ Of this volume about 40,000 copies have been sold.
CENTRAL AFRICA; or, Life and Landscape from Egypt to the Negro Kingdoms of the White Nile. 12mo. pp. 521.
The other volumes will follow in due course, viz.:
| EL DORADO; or, Adventures in the Path of Empire. THE LANDS OF THE SARACEN. GREECE AND RUSSIA. HOME AND ABROAD. | INDIA, CHINA, AND JAPAN. NORTHERN TRAVEL. BY-WAYS OF EUROPE. HANNAH THURSTON. JOHN GODFREY'S FORTUNES. |
THE STORY OF KENNETT.
⁂ In announcing a new impression of the WORKS OF BAYARD TAYLOR in a popular and cheaper form, the publishers do not think it needful to quote the opinions of the critics as to their interest and literary character. They would merely refer to what may be called the "business standing" of these works which is indicated by the fact that though the earliest volume, "Views Afoot," was published twenty-four years ago, and most of the others are now fifteen years old, they are still called for, both separately and in sets, as among the indispensables in American libraries and on the bookshelves of the family. Very few books, either of Travel or Fiction, thus retain their place and continue so long in demand, amidst all the active competition of modern book-publishing, and the inference is not unreasonable that these volumes of Adventure in almost every corner of the earth, possess some lasting interest and vitality which makes them worthy of a permanent place in our literature. Mr. Taylor's Novels were welcomed even more largely than the Travels, and we need only quote the competent and impartial estimate of the best English critics in regard to them, viz.:
"We have now to welcome 'Hannah Thurston,' as an excellent addition to the list of such American tales as Hawthorne's, Longfellow's, and Mrs. Stowe's."—London Review.
"If Bayard Taylor has not placed himself, as we are half inclined to suspect, in the front rank of novelists, he has produced a very remarkable book a really original story admirably told, crowded with life-like characters, full of delicate and subtle sympathies, with ideas the most opposite to his own, and lighted up throughout with that playful humor which suggests always wisdom rather than mere fun."—London Spectator.
"'The Story of Kennett' is delightful and refreshing reading, and a great rest after the crowded artistic effects and the conventional interests of even the better kinds of English novels."—London Spectator.
N. B. — All our Agents for the Knickerbocker Edition of Irving's Works, will receive subscriptions for the "HOUSEHOLD EDITION" of Bayard Taylor's Complete Prose Works, at the low price of $1.50 per volume.
The Regular Library Edition of Bayard Taylor's Works may still be had. Price $2.25 per ol.; or in 13 vols. 121110., $29; or in half-calf, $48.
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​AVÉ. THE CAVÉ METHOD OF LEARNING TO DRAW FROM MEMORY. By Madame E. Cavé. From 4th Parisian edition. 12mo, cloth, $1.
⁂ This is the only method of drawing which really teaches anything. In publishing the remarkable treatise, in which she unfolds, with surpassing interest, the results of her observations upon the teaching of drawing, and the ingenious methods she applies, Madame Cave … renders invaluable service to all who have marked out for themselves a career of Art."—Extract from a long review in the Revue des Deux Mondes, written by Delacroix.
"It is interesting and valuable."—D. Huntington, Prest. Nat. Acad.
"Should be used by every teacher of Drawing in America."—City Item, Phila.
"We wish that Madame Cave had published this work half a century ago, that we might have been instructed in this enviable accomplishment."—Harper's Mag.
CAVÉ. THE CAVÉ METHOD OF TEACHING COLOR. 12mo, cloth, $1.
⁂ This work was referred, by the French Minister of Public Instruction, to a commission of ten eminent artists and officials, whose report, written by M. Delacroix, was unanimously adopted, endorsing and approving the work. The Minister, thereupon, by a decree, authorized the use of it in the French Normal schools.
G. P. Putnam & Sson have also just received from Paris specimens of the materials used in this method, which they can supply to order. I. The Gauzes (framed) are now ready. Price $1 each. With discount to teachers. II. The Stand for the gauze. Price $1.50. III. Méthode Cavé, pour apprendre a dessiner juste et de memoire d'apres les principes d' Albert Durer et de Leonardo da Vinci. Approved by the Minister of Public Instruction, and by Messrs. Delacroix, H. Vernet, etc. In 8 series, folio, paper covers. Price $2.25 each.
N.B.—The Crayons, Paper, and other articles mentioned in the Cavé Method may be obtained of any dealer in Artist's Materials. Samples of the French Articles may be seen at 561 Broadway.
HADBOURNE. NATURAL THEOLOGY; or, Nature and the Bible from the same Author. Lectures delivered before the Lowell Institute, Boston. By P. A. Chadbourne, A.M., M.D., President of University of Wisconsin. 12mo, cloth, $2. Student's edition, $1.75.
"This is a valuable contribution to current literature, and will be found adapted to the use of the classroom in college, and to the investigations of private students."—Richmond Christian Adv.
"The warm, fresh breath of pure and fervent religion pervades these eloquent pages."—Am. Baptist.
"Prof. Chadbourne's book is among the few metaphysical ones now published, which, once taken up, cannot be laid aside unread. It is written in a perspicuous, animated style, combining depth of thought and grace of diction, with a total absence of ambitious display."—Washington National Republic.
"In diction, method, and spirit, the volume is attractive and distinctive to are degree."—Boston Traveller.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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