Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-12-21

A VERY VALUABLE WORK.-The
Illustrated History of the Centennial
Exhibition, with a full description of
the Great Building and all the objects
of Interest Exhibited in them. BY
James D. McCabe, author of 1.-The Cen
tennial History of the United States"
Etc. Embellished with over 300 fine
engraviugs of buildings and scenes in
the Great Exhibition.
There is a universal demand for a
work which shall embody a complete
and carefully written account of the
great Centennial Exhibition, sketching
its wonderful aud varied features, and
presenting to the reader not dry list
Of the articles exhibited, but brilliant
and graphic description of the most
magnificent display of the results of hui
man skill and industry ever gathered
together. Such want The National
Publishing Co. of Philadelphia have
applied in this superb volume. 1t is
from the pen of the well-know aulhor,
James D. McCabe.
The book is complete and vivid
description of the great Exhibition. The
Author has written from his own per-
sonal knowledge, having gone through
every part of the great Worlds Fair,
notebook in hand, recording the vast
and varied information contained in this
work. He has received the constant
apd sympathetic assistance of the Cen
tennial authorities. and has enioyed
peculiar advantages in its preparation.
The Author takes as through the Ex-
hlbition grounds, and makes us familiar
with every object of interest in them.
We'are then taken into the Main Build.
ing, and are carrtedsuccessively through
it, and through..every building, large and
small, in the grounds. We are told
the story of the construction and arran-
gements of each of these edifces, ar d
the Fare, beautiful and wonderful COL
lections which they contained are gra-
phically described.
This work is invaluable to all classes
of our people. There is not another
book in print which gives one-fourth of
the information contained in this W ork.
To those who visited the Exhibition
will be pleasing souvenir of their visit
and will enable them to recall the mag
nificent scenes they have witnessed.
To those who could not make the jour
ney, the book is necessity, for it will
enable them to enjoy the delights Of a
thorough acquaintance with the great
Worlds Fair in the quietude Of their
own homes.
The work is comprised in one large
and handsome octave volume of 874
pages, and is superbly- illustrated. The
price is low, and within the reach of all.
The book is sold by subscription only,
and the publishers want agents in every
county.
Mr.. Lemuel Burner. is acting as
Agent in this county. go.
FASHIONABLE WEDDIN CT h e
Lexington Gazette says that the social
event of last week in Lexington society
was the wedding of Miss Evie Tucker,
daughter of Hon. John . Randolph
Tucker, and Mr.. Wilmer H. Shield, of
Mississippi, distinguished graduate of
Washington and Lee University. The
ceremony took place at the Presbyterian
Church on Thursday morning at II
O'Clock. The church was brilliantly
lighted and the pulpit was tastefully
decorated with vases of beautiful and
exquisite flowers. A large circle Of
friends and acquaintances gathered to
witness the nuptial ceremonies. Rev.
j. L. kirkpatrick, of Washington and
Lee University, with solem and inn
pressive ceremony declared the con-
tracing parties to be man and wife.
Immediately after the ceremony they
left for their Southern homes.