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MAGIC LANTERNS, STEREOPTICONS, ETC. 21 We have the largest assortment of slides of every subject, and can fill orders for any number with despatch, at the lowest prices. We make about twelve different styles of lanterns. Good tin japanned single lanterns, like No. 14, are very good for parlor use, and cost $25. We also make wooden lanterns, with achromatic lenses, and rack tube. We have always a large stock of French, English, and German lanterns, which we import direct. They cost, with twelve slides, from $4 to $25 ; this will include a box of twelve slides — some fifty or sixty figures in the twelve slides. We cau furnish exhibitions, Sunday schools, parties, &c, with lanterns and pictures for one evening, at a moderate price ; also our best Double Dissolving Lanterns, with magnesium light, with a person to exhibit, who will take the whole charge of the lantern and pictures, at a reasonable price. We have the largest stock of lantern pictures, of all kinds, in the United States, and can paint any subject that is ordered. We pay particular attention to pictures used in Masonic and other secret societies. American Civil War : The important events, such as Battles, Skirmishes, Encampments, &c, from the beginning up to the close, illustrated by a series of finely colored pictures on glass, for the Magic Lantern, Dissolving Views, or similar exhibitions, three inches clear in diameter, and set in wood complete. Views in the Holy Land. Sacred History, Old Testament. The Women of the Bible, From the Original Pictures. Our Saviour, with Prophets and Apostles. Sacred History, New Testament. Pictures illustrating important events in the History of the United States ; the Battles by Sea and Land during the Revolu- tion ; the War with England, Algiers, Mexico, &c, &c. Portraits of Distinguished Americans. Pictures of the Great Masters. Humorous and Miscellaneous Pictures. Arctic Explorations, in the years 1852, '53, '54, and '55, by Elisha Kent Kane, M. D., U. S. N.