The record-union., 1894-05-03
A GREAT PUBLISHING FEAT.
Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil
War.
At Cost to Our Subscribers, and
No Coupon Racket
Required.


tory has been sold by Harper Bros, and
will now be placed in every home of the
country almost free of charge. Hereto
fore it has never sold for less than Sic per
set and UP to $50. 1t will be printed on
an elegant heavy, cream-tlnted. super
calendered paper, far surprising the old
and high-priced work. and yet will cost
only 81 06. This is accomplished by the
cooperation of our newspapers taking
the place of the expensive agent, and dis
tributing the work in parts at. cents a
number We have secured the handling
of this work. realizing the high character
of the Harper History and the extraor-
dinary value given III both quantity and
quality. The complete work will be in
twenty-six parts OF thirty-two pages
each, issued weekly. This is twice as
many pages as is usually given in this
way, and the pages are much larger, yet
the price per part is no more; only s
cents each for what can truthlully be
called double ii not treble numbers.
Each part is bound in a handsome cover
with emblematic design.
1t is u complete general history of the
war and of the causes leading to it. 1t is
a history--a lucid dispassionate story of
men and events as they We're; Il narrative
in lacts written i'll the very spirit of
truth for the very truths sake. IN COM
pleteness, impartiality and real historic
spirit it is absolutely unique. It's value
is double, because TO The best written
history is added a collection of contem-
poraneous Illustrations which neither is
nor can be equaled elsewhere. Pictures
of men and places OF battle. by sea and
| land, sieges, camps, forlresses and every
thing connected with the civil and mill
lary life at the time. In word, it con-
tains all the most valuable and interest
ing illustrations from Hdrpe1's Weekly
during and preceding the war. This
feature makes this history Of incompar-
able value. as it contains ZOO Of these
| famous war pictures.
Its editors were Richard Grant White,
| DR.. Alfred H. Guernsey and Henry NJ.
| Alden. Among the contributors were
| President Garfield, General Joseph E..
Johnston, General George II. Thomas,
General Gouverneur X. Warren and
other prominent officers, both National
| and Confederate. With aA the material
accumulated in their hands, the authors
| spent five years i'll writing the work. All
| the National and Confederate official doc
uments were at their disposal, and-as
the notes and references at the foot of the
page testity-were most freely used.
|
ments are given in full
A regiment of artists tell the story
faithfully and with surprising clearness.
| Among them are to be found such dis
tingulshed names as Edwin Forbes.
Thomas Mast, Sol Eytinge, Theodore
Il. Davis, A. r. Waud, Granville Per-
kins, II. Jewett and others OF the Harper
artists who have achieved a national rep
utation.
The design of the authors has been in
no respect modified by the fact that this
| is an illustrated history. They have
written exactly as they should have done
| ii the interest of their readers depended
upon the unadorned recital Of facts. No
pains have been spared, no expense of
| time or of study, in order to make this
the fullest and most complete history of
the civil war; They have depended en-
tirely upon the original materials fur
nished by documents of every descrip-
ton, military and political. no small pro-
portion of which have never been pub
lished, but have been obtained from
prominent actors on both sides of the
contest. In the whole scheme of the work
no less prominence has been given 10 po-
! litical than to military events.
| The pages are the same size as HdT-
! peg'S Weekly, and among the illustrations
are over 300 portraits of distinguished
| soldiers and statesmen, mostly from pho
| tographs taken during the war; nearly 100
maps, plans'and sketches of battle fields;
nearly 600 authentic sketches of places of
note and events OF interest, such as sieges,
battles, charges. hospitals, military pris-
ons, camp life, vessels of war, naval en-
gagements, reviews. receptions, etc.
The size of the pages give this history
great advantage over any other in the
power to fully, clearly and satisfactorily
illustrate this, these subjects demanding
so much detail and perspective. There
are over $50 immense pages. 16x114
inches, equal to 5000 pages of the usual
royal octave volumes. The first and
second parts will be ready in few days.
We furnish them to subscribers of the
RECORD UNION and WEEKLY UNION for
s cents number-just what they cost US
and we employ no coupon-cutting or
other catch-penny scheme.