The following are brief extracts from hundreds of similar notices receive' from the press and the people. WHAT NEWSPAPERS SAY. From the "Statesman," Austin, Texas. "It is a book that no professional or business man ought to be without. From the "Churchman," San Francisco, Cal. "The work is having the rapid sale which its intrinsic value should inspire." OPINIONS OF PROMINENT MEN. From Hon. Schuyler Colfax, late Vice- MY DEAR SIR: I have examined with interest, and also with surprise, your "Manual of Social and Business Forms," and find it really an encyclopedia of information of all kinds, needed in social or business life, admirably arranged and handsomely illustrated, forming the most comprehensive and satisfactory work of the From the "Women's Exponent," Salt kind I have ever seen. It ought to be in every library and counting-room, and the longer it is examined and used, the more highly it will be "We view it as one of the best books of its appreciated. Yours truly, kind ever brought to our notice." Lake City. From the "Detroit Free Press." "This book disarms criticism by carefully refraining from promising too much, and as carefully performing all that it promises." From the "Daily Times," Denver, Col. "The book is an original, elegant, and wonderfully comprehensive volume, alike indispensable in every home, counting-room and office." From the "Republican," Red Wing, "No one can imagine the amount of information there is in this book from its title. It is clearly the fundamental principles of a Commercial College, collated and bound, so you can carry it home with you to be studied at your leisure." From the "Chicago Tribune." "Prof. Hill has done an excellent service in With it at hand, preparing so splendid a work. one need never be at a loss for the form to do almost any ordinary business correctly, or to prepare a note or an answer to the many and varied calls of social life. We predict for it great popularity and an extensive sale." SCHUYLER COLFAX. This WHAT ACENTS SAY. From J. S. Martin, Gold Hill, Nevada. "I have canvassed for Hill's Manual seven days, and taken 127 orders." From J. W. England, Plain City, Utah. "The book takes well, and the more it is known the better it is liked." From T. F. Graber, Kenosha, Wis. with a will, before I saw yours." "I never saw a book that I could canvass for Wm. H. Shepard, San Francisco, Cal., Writes: "Our canvass in Denver, Colorado bids fair to reach 350 subscribers." This was H. B. Mathews, Aurora, Ill., Says: "This is the best book in existence for ple to save money and make money; hence an agent to sell in hard times, as it enables peothey cannot afford to be without it. From Prof. A. Freese, formerly Sup't the second canvass, six months after the first OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. The newspapers of the country have been of one voice in the praise of HILL'S MANUAL. The following testimonials are a few of the hundreds of similar character. From the Nashua (N. H.) Telegraph. "Hill's Manual' is one of the most beautiful and useful books ever published. It is a book for everybody, man, woman and child. No one can fail to find much in it that is both entertaining and instructive, and that can be applied to practical use. It is an eminently useful book for public or private libraries, and a most valuable book for study and reference by every man in every possible business. No book on this continent was ever gotten up with such exquisite taste in its mechanical execution, and certainly none that will be of greater value to the masses of men and women-old and young. Whoever purchases the book will have in it alone a valu. able library at very small cost." From the Suffolk Co. (Mass.) Journal. "Of its inestimable value one cannot judge fully without examining the work. Many of the most eminent men in our country have given it their unqualified praise, having bought and used it, and the general sentiment among them is, that having once possessed it and become acquainted with its worth, they could hardly be induced to part with it at any price. Among those in this section of country are Gov. Gaston, Gov. Rice, C. G. Atwood of the Boston Board of Trade, G. A. Somerby, Esq., and many others. The leading educational men of our country speak of it in the same terms of praise." From the Fall River (Mass.) Border City Herald. "HILL'S MANUAL OF SOCIAL AND BUSINESS FORMS.'-This is a valuable new work of real excellence, and forms a manual comprehending instructions and examples to guide the scholar, the man of business, the teacher, and the general pliblic in every branch of enterprise over the wide domain of human effort. The work is of the most varied character, and supplies alike the wants of the old and the demands of the young in every phase of human life. We assure all who pur; chase this work that a more elegant, useful, and comprehensive volume of instructions and examples, suiting all ages and conditions in life in both sexes, has never been laid upon our tables." From the Cambridge (Mass.) Chronicle. "HILL'S MANUAL OF SOCIAL AND BUSINESS FORMS' is one of the most useful volumes ever placed upon the desk of a business or professional man, or upon the table of a drawing-room. It is a perfect treasure of valuable and practical information on social and business topics, which are of immense importance to every one. The items confined within the limits of the book embrace instructions and guides for the city officer, student, politician, clergyman, physician, clerk. In fact, every person who is in business or engaged in any calling whatever, will find information as to the proper manner in which to write any document entering into the various social and business relations of life." IN THE MIDDLE STATES. IN THE WEST AND SOUTH From the Phrenological (N. Y.) Journal. "This work is exceedingly comprehensive. The author has evidently aimed to cover all the departments of practical life in which the pen is an essential instrumentality, and his endeavor has not failed of eminent success in producing a most useful book. We have been informed that upward of 50,000 copies have been sold in a short time; and no wonder, as it is such a work as an agent can talk about, if talk be at all necessary besides its examination." From the Akron (Ohio) Beacon. "Let it be placed where young people may have access to it; and in the hands of every family, where children can, as it were, GROW UP with it, so that its principles may become a kind of second nature to them, and many a stream will be bridged which would otherwise separate them from positions in both social and business life, which by nature they are fitted to fill. The work certainly belongs to the list of articles which should be considered a NECESSITY in every household, and a timely, helping hand to those of mature years." " From the Syracuse (N. Y.) Daily Journal. "It has often been remarked of individuals that they have forgotten more in a minute' than others have learned in a lifetime. Whether the remark is to be taken as a compliment to the former or a reflection upon the latter, matters not particularly, since it is a well-known fact, and one most frequently and sincerely regretted by everybody, that thousands of little things that knowledge are absolutely forgotten and beyond contribute to daily pleasure, convenience or recall at the very moment when most they are needed. What heart burning, what vexation of spirit would be averted, what incalculable material benefits, even, would often accrue were there at our elbow some monitor, visible or invisible, embodying in its inexhaustible resources the multum in parvo which forgetful mortals crave. fallible, has been provided in Hill's Manual of "Such a mentor, nearly if not altogether in Social and Business Forms and Guide to Correct the examination of which suggests the fitness Writing,' a copy of which lies before us, and of the above title. Its external appearance and internal composition fit it, in all respects, to be the guide of young and old, male and female, business man of whatever trade, calling or profession, and man of leisure, dunce and scholar. Hill's Manual' best speaks for itself, for its compactness, brevity and comprehensiveness brings within its covers thousands upon thou sands of items of information in daily practical use, the topical enumeration of which, in the general index, occupies seven pages. "The book is a marvel of patience and painstaking care. It is the work of years, and a triumph at last. No more useful book can be found in existence." "The people of Aurora, Ill., yesterday elected Thomas E. Hill mayor of their city, without opposition. The press and the people unanimously declared him to be so eminently fitted for the place, by wealth, public spirit and enterprise, that all classes united in choosing him for the place, irrespective of party or political feeling. Though formerly, for several years, engaged in teaching, Mr. Hill has latterly made journalism his profession. He is best known to the world, however, as the author of 'Hill's Manual of Social and Business Forms,' a book which, though a very large volume, has had the remarkable sale of over 50,000 copies in a very brief time." From the Chicago Evening Post. "One of the most useful volumes that was ever laid upon the counting-room desk or the drawing-room table, is Hill's Manual of Business Forms.' It is a perfect treasury of knowledge; a complete encyclopædia of practical information. Scanning the table of contents, it is puzzling to conceive how so much can have been crowded into the confines of a single book -impossible to believe that the half which is there promised can be fulfilled. But turning over the pages, one by one, observing the freight they bear, the method of its arrangement, its variety and completeness, incredulity is succeeded by astonishment and admiration. The work is a marvel of ingenuity and industry, a prodigy of patient and skillful labor." The Preston (Minn.) Republican says: "Hill's Manual, as a whole, is the outgrowth of many years of preparation, the object of the author being to give in a concise form, and in one compendium, much that has been heretofore inaccessible, and also much that could be obtained elsewhere only at great cost, thus placing this important information in convenient form for ready reference, within the reach of all. In the varied departments of practical, every-day life, it will be found at once the faithful tutor, the reliable guide, and the safe adviser. "For the business man or mechanic, the professional man or farmer, for every lady, the student, the young or old, and pre-eminently for regards real practical utility. the family, the work has never had its equal, as of people, the sale of the work at the present "Meeting an existing want among all classes time, in proportion to the population, has rarely, if ever, been equaled by any other work, even in the most prosperous years of the last decade." From the Louisville Commercial. "HILL'S MANUAL-We learn that this useful book is meeting with the favor it so well deserves. It is a peculiar work, in the respect that no description will give a person a true idea of it, owing to the diversity of subjects treated; hence, only those who examine the work can really appreciate it. We are all, to some extent, specialists, having given more attention to some one line of business or study, leaving other matters of equal importance but partially covered; and just here this work will be found to meet a want which almost every one has felt. It cer tainly belongs to the list of articles which should be considered a necessity in every office and library, and is a helping hand to those of mature years." COMMENDATIONS FROM DISTINGUISHED EDUCATORS AND EMINENT MEN. N° O work of an educational character, of iate years, has met with such universal approval from teachers and learned men as this. While the book is most warmly welcomed by the illiterate, it is equally sought for by the educated. Hundreds of testimonials from distinguished individuals might be given similar to the following: From Samuel Fallows, ex-State Supt. "I am highly delighted with the plan and execution of Hill's Manual.' From Prof. J. G. Cross, Principal of the Northwestern Business College, Naperville, Ill. "It is a most valuable book, which ought to be multiplied as many times as there are families in the United States. I have adopted it as a book of daily reference for our business students." From Theodore B. Boyd, Principal of the Louisville Commercial College. "I have examined 'Hill's Manual of Social and Business Forms.' and am surprised at the amount of useful information contained in one volume. Prof. Hill seems to have studied the wants of every one. It is one of the most useful books that was ever laid upon the countingroom desk or the drawing-room table." From D. S. Burns, Supt. Pub. Schools, Harrisburg, Pa. "I know of no work that contains so great a variety of valuable information on social and business topics as Hill's Manual of Social and Business Forms.' I think it a work of special value to those who have not had opportunities of an extended school course, or becoming familiar by contact with the conventionalities of society." From Wm. Cornell, Supt. Pub. Schools in Fall River, Mass. "I most cheerfully recommend "Hill's Manual of Social and Business Forms' as a very full work on the various Forms' which every per son is likely to have occasion to use in his relations with persons in society. A thorough study of the book' by our young men and women would repay them by their acquiring a large fund of very valuable and practical knowledge from its pages. It should meet with a large circulation.' From M. M. Ballou, Distinguished Au- From D. P. Lindsley, Author of Linds- "Hill's Manual' is really the most compre. From Gov. Gaston, of Massachusetts. "Hill's Manual of Social and Business From President McCollister, of Buch- From Wm. M. Cubery, of Cubery & Co., "Hill's Manual of Social and Business President Grant Subscribes. From Stephen Walkley, Treasurer of The agent of Hill's Manual at Long Branch the Peck, Stow & Wilcox Co., South-writes: "By ten A. M. I was at the president's ington, Conn. cottage, tipped and doffed my hat, announced my business, when the president promptly said he did not want to subscribe. I obtained per mission to show it to him, and did so very hur riedly. At the conclusion, he took my specimen copy, paid me the cash, and added his name to my autograph book." "Hill's Manual is remarkable as containing a From Newton Bateman, ex-State Supt. "KNOX COLLEGE, GALESBURG, ILL. From Major Merwin, Editor "American "After having given Hill's Manual' a very careful and thorough examination, I do not hesi tate to say that it will be found one of the most useful and practical works to put into the school of the country that has ever been published. IT IS A FIT AND ALMOST INDISPENSABLE COMPANION TO WEBSTER'S UNABRIDGED DICTIONARY; con. taining in a compact form just those things every person who transacts any business needs to know. There is scarcely a subject which comes within the purview of any individual, either in public or private life, but what is explained in this elegant volume. If it could be consulted in the drawing up of contracts, nearly all the mistakes which occur might be avoided, and the ill feeling and litigation growing out of misunderstandings would be a thing of the past. I wish every person in the State could be supplied with a copy." |