The Portland daily press., 1883-02-22
"Hill's Album. -


that popular work has prepared volume
called 'Hill's Album containing biographies
of noted men and some account of the arts and
| sciences. The agent of the new book ia Mr..
William Bartlett, and his address is 1877 Clark
street. He will call upon the people of Port
land and tell them OF the merits Of the work
for which he is canvassing. If he follows the
directions of the publishers Given below there
is no doubt that he will secure subscriptions
These publishers have framed the following
rules for their agents:
It is not the purpose of this circular to limit
or contine anyone 10 the exact wording of this
description. The design is TO make the agent,
through the aid of this, familiar with the con-
tents of the work. Ii he lacks the power of
indedendent description, he may use this. II
he possesses ready flow of language, and
superior descriptive powers, he may present
the book, possibly, very much better In his
own language The varied character of this
book admits of most brilliant description,
and the agent who will thoroughly study the
work and fsmiliarize himself with each snb-
iect, will not only be wise himself, but in a
ten minutes description of the work will inn
part large amount of important information
TO the custom or, wLich will very likely awaken
an interest that will result in the sale of the
book
The agent should Fecollect that aside from
having worthy book, success depends upon
his own efforts No person at first wants to
buy book. The customer must be educated
to the necessity of purchasing. The agent
must first feel that the customer ought to buy;
that it would be we'll and profitable foi him if
he did buy. Fully impressed with that idea,
the agent should then proceed to convince the
customer of that fact.
In order to create desire in the mind of
customer to buy, the agent can be aided by
yOnf oh npof fo fnl
Lowing:
1.-The agent should feel fresh and vigorous
the result of attention to the laws of health.
2.-He should be cool, collected and self
possessed.
She should seek to show the book when
the customer has time to examine il. If busy.
he may easanty -remark that he will call
again. He will then leave at once and call
atterwaTd.
4-Baving obtained the attention of the
customer, he should select good position for
showing the book, should hold the book him
self and as he turns each page should point
out the merits of that which he is describing,
aided by pencil or any point instrument
which will direct tho eye to the matter being
shown.
1t is not well to dwell too long upon any SUBJ
jeet. A lively, running description, using
clear and explicit language, is better that that
which may weary the patience of the listener.
TAe description should be just such as Will
AS an introduction to the subject the agent
can say:
am introducing new work by Prof. Hill,
the author of Hills Manual"
have new work here that is exciting a
good deal of attention as specimen of the
printers art.
(OD
have something new here as specimen of
topographic art, which is having large sale.
I'LL "a. =.
An Album of Biography, containing the por-
traits and biographical sketches of the most
distinguished people who have lived on earth.
(Furn to the title page and ready Hills Album
OF Biography and Art. Pass on to the con-
tnts page and say Eleven of these large
qusrto pages ara occupied with the table of
contents in fine type, there being. hundreds of
biographies aud over two hundred portraits of
distinguished people, besides hundreds of other
Illustrations
page 49, A peculiar feature of this, as a
work biograp ply, is its classification. Thus,
the great Religious Founders are classed to-
gehsr, and occupy the first chapter in their
ordel of appearance on earth. OF these, first
was Moses, founder Of the Jewi + ligion, au-
thor OF the "Talmud," the Jewish Bible, from
which We take the first five books of the Old
Testament Scriptures. Moses as born in
Egypt. Notice The characteristics of Egypt in
this beautiful heading, surrounding the word
tMoses," The pyramids, the obelisks, the
Sphinx, even the infaut Moses, a he was found
By the princess, are all shown in thIs heading.
(Pa-e l9) Gives extracts from the "Tal-
mud ana the "Old Testament" among them
the Ten Commandments"
page 20) Gives an account of Buddha, and
the founding Of the Bnddhistic beiief-while
u. 21) details the belief Oh the Buddhists, and
gives extracts from the Buddhistic teachings.
page 22) Conf1cius came next in order as
a distinguished teacher of rnorals impressed
his teachings SO thoroughly on the people as
to make them just what they are. The pecul-
iarities of the Chinese are fully described
here, while here %. 23) are EXTRACTS from the
Teachings of Confucius, among them being
the golden rule and other wise and good in
Struction.
page "a The San worshippers Of Persia,
and Zordaster the author of the "Zend
Avesta, = are here described.
page 25) Avery clear and comprehensive
history of the fouading of the Christian relig
ion is given, along with the biography of
Christ. (P. 2G) Here are EXTRACTS from the
New Testament" and this shows Nazareth,
childhood home OF Jesus called today Nazi-
rah having population of 5000 people,
? page ~ Five hundred and seventy years
after Christ, Mobammed was born. be
claimed himself to DO the true prophet Of the
Lord. His history and the founding of the
Mohammedan religion is given here, and
Up. 2S) extracts follow from the Koran"
AS the SWedenborgian teachings and ltera-
ture occupy large space in the religious
world, il is deemed proper to present Sweden
borgs history at this point Up. 29.)
LaIer( D. S0) comes Joseph Smith, and here
is given the account of his finding OF the
brass plates, from which was translated the
book Of Mormon, with the doctrines peculiar
TO Mormonism. On this page o. 81 is shown
the elegant New Mormon Temple, at Salt
Lake. and hera are Extracts from the Nor
mon Bible" which show on what the Nor
mons base their faith.
Whatever we may believe concerning Spirit
ualism, it has occupied large amount of at
tention in the paat quarter of century, while
the books and papers on the subject have been
multiplied very rapidly. AS voluminous
writer on the subject, Andrew jackson Davis
is one of the most distinguished. We have
here (p. 32) his partrait, his biography and the
events fully related concerning the manner in
which he was controlled by spirit influence, as
it is claimed. And here u. 33) is given the
"Belief Of the Spiritualists."
We wish to print further extracts from this
interesting circular, but space forbids.
Enough, however, has been given to show the
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