Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-12-23
ROCKS. STATIONERY, &C.
HOLIDAY PRESENTS.

BOOKS, STATIONERY, &C.
1858. HOLIDAY PRESENTS. 1859
JAS. ENTWISLE & SON, Booksellers and
Stattoners, No. 95 King street, announce that
they have now in store their supply of goods
suitable for presents at the Christmas ard New
Years season. They respectfully invite the at
tention of purchasers to their assortment, feel
ing confident that so general a stock has never
before been offered in this market. They have
large stock of the Standard Poets, OF variou:
sizes, 10 cloth, sheep morocco, blue and gilt, ard
Turkey antique.
A great variety Of the fine Gift Books, for ihe
season, including The Stratford Gallery, and the
Gallery of Famous Poets, elegantly bound In
Morocco Antique.
The finest OF the Octave Annals i'll cloth
gilt morocco, ard Turkey antique. Also, d
great variety of l2mo. Animals, splend dly
bound, including number Of new ones.
Handsome editions OF The Prose Writers, in
Turkey antique, and J cali, including the new
edition of The Waverley Novels.
Albums oil all sizes, and every style OF bl.ding
PRAYER Books, ard Bibles, bouLd in the most
elegant STYLES OF velvet, ard morocco.
Family Bibles, with and without clasps
Gold Pens, Mahogany ard Rosewood Writing
Desks, Leather Desks Fine Port Folios, Pen
Knives, Ink Stands, Chess Men, Backgammon
Boards, Dominoes, &c.
CHILDRENS BOOKS in almost Ell dless vari
ETY., comprisir all new popular works for tins
season, together with the best standard publca
tons Also, large number Of the Holiday
books OF the Sunday School Union, Nelson 4
Sons, and Dana II Co.
A. B. {. Blocks in boxes; new Games; Indies
tluctble Picture, and A. B. {. Books; Pape.
Dolls; Color Boxes, Transparent States, &c, &c
The articles aforementioned are all fresh
having Just been purchased at the North, ard
having been bought at the lowest prices, will be
sold spondingly low. dec 10
COMMENTARIES on THE BIBLE-TH'
~ Gospels, with Moral Reflections on each
Verse by Pasquier Quesnei with an iatTodncto
ry Essay, by Rev. Daniel Wilson, D. D., Bishop
OF Calcutta, in two octave vols, SO 81.
A Plain Commentary on the Far Holy Gospels
intended chiefly for devotional reading, in two
octave volumes 81.
SCOTS Commentary on the Bible i volumes, oc
tavo, SIP; in 5vols. quarto, Sl2. in vols
octave, $3.50. Clarke's Commentary on the
Bible, 4 vols. octave, $40; Comprehensive Com
mentary, in . large octave vols, with Concor
Dance &c, $l2; Barnes Commentary on the
New Testament, in II vols, IS cts. per volume
Barnes on Daniel, Sl25; McGhee on Ephe
slams, 81; Chalvers on Romans, $3.50; Hodge
on Ephesians, s.; Alexander OIL the Acts,
vols, So SO; Payle on the Gospels OF st. Ma
thew and St Mark, 81 each; Kittos Daily BIZ
bic Readings, in s vols, 81 per volume; Jacobus
Notes on the Gospels, 3 vols, IS CTS. per vol
Stevenson's Exposition Of the lO3rd Psalm, u
cts; Guthrie's Gospel in Ezekiel, 81. Also
Cradur's Complete Concordance TO the Bible
Calmets Bible Dictionary, Union Bible DictIon
airy; Biblical Antiquities, and Help to the Read
ing of the Bible. For sale by
dec 10 ROBERT BELL.
NEW BOOKS, MAGAZINES, AND PA
Y PERS, AT GEO. SIGGERS' Book and Pc
riodicai Store, rs Prince street. opposite the Ga=t
Office.
Godey's Lady's Book for January. This is q
charming number-in fact il is one OF the bes
numbers ever issued, and the price is only csc
or So per year.
The Ladies American Magazine-this is the
first number of the above Magazine. Ii Is got
ton up in first rate style, ard contains matter o
interest for the Ladies, price Isl cts. or - pei
year.
The Great Republic Monthly, new Maya
zine, CSC. OF $50 per year.
Peterson's Ladies' National Magazine fol
January, Isl cts.
The Metropolitan Catholic Almanac and
Laity's Directory for 1859, 23c.
Ballous Dollar Monthly for January, lOc.
Pictorial Brother Jonathan for the Holidays
l2 cts.
The Mirror OF Fashion, cts.
New Paper Dolls, little Fred, Minnie Miller
a full supply of the different kinds on hand
All the Weekly Papers on hand, and every
thing else in the cheap Book ard Periodical
Line, dec Is
NEW BOOKS.-Nature and The Superna,u
y raj, as together constituting the one sys
tenn of God, by Horace Bushnell, svo, 81.
The Chronicles OF tue Bastile, illustrated
one royal l2mo. volume, So.
The Ministry of Life, by Maria Louisa Charles
worth, author of Administering Children, &c.
l2mo cloth, 81.
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, "Every
man his own Boswell, limo, cloth, 81.
Sprague's Annals Of the American Episcopal
Pulpit, or commemorative notices OF dlstln
guished Clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, volume, Svo., So 80.
Blonde and Brunette, or the Gothamlte Area
DIV, new novel, l2mo., IS cents.
Miss McIntoshs New Book, Meta Gray, oi
what makes home happy, b. VI. J. Mcintosh
l2mo, IS cents.
Doesticks' New Book, The Witches Of New
York, as encountered by z. h. Philander Doe
sticks, P. B., ST..
The Sociabe, or One thousand and One
home amusements, illustrated with nearly 300
engravings and diagrams, 81.
For sale by JAS ENTWISLE 4 son,
dec No. 95, King street
CHRlSTMAS HOLIDAYS AND NEW
I YEAR.-Well Sir! what have you TO say
about them' mean 10 say what ] have to
say, that is TO say, if you say. you heard any
BODY saw that had 10 nice GOODS for the
aforesaid days, | will merely say, please cal!
this way. Now Sir Just take look at these
Counters and Show Cases loaded with Books
from the smallest Juvenile Pictures, Games, and
Puzzles, to the biggest Poets-also, Port Folios
Writing Desks in great variety, Work Boxes
Cabas, Purses and Porte Monaies, Gard Cases
Pen and Pocket Knives, Scissors, Gold Pens
new STYLE Ink Stands, Tablets, Combs, Brushes
Soaps, Perfumery, Chess Men, Domlnoes, Back
CANNON Boards, India Rubber Balls, Mathemat
zeal Instruments. Paint Boxes with lock and key
&c, &c.
And last though not least. just take look al
these beautiful new Meodeons, just from The
factory of Carhart, Needham Il Co.. which
am selling at factory prices, together wi'n near