"...more than twenty thousand topics and subtopics, and one hundred thousand references to the Scriptures, embracing all doctrines of Biblical religion, and all phases of ancient society, history, law, politics, and other secular subjects; archaeology, the arts, sciences, philosophy, ethics, and economics; principles of government, equity, and right personal conduct; biography, personal incident, and illustrative facts; geography, the history of nations, states, and cities, and a multitude of common subjects, illustrative of ancient religions, governments, manners, fashions, customs, and ideas."

First published in 1897.

Includes index.