Thomas Chalmers
Lectures on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans · Astronomical and Commercial Discourses
The great Scottish preacher, and the leader of the Free Church of Scotland at the Disruption of 1843. His Astronomical Discourses, which set the Christian faith beside the new astronomy, first made his name. Carter kept him in print for American readers for a quarter of a century.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
The Works of the Late Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne
The young Dundee minister died in 1843 at the age of twenty-nine, and his sermons and letters became devotional classics on both sides of the Atlantic. Carter brought his collected works to America four years after his death.
Horatius Bonar
The Morning of Joy · Family Sermons · God's Way of Peace · The Christ of God
Free Church minister and the writer of hymns still sung today, among them "I heard the voice of Jesus say". Carter published his books for more than twenty years.
J. C. Ryle
Living or Dead · Expository Thoughts on the Gospels
The forthright evangelical writer who became the first Bishop of Liverpool. Carter was issuing his work in New York by the early 1850s.
C. H. Spurgeon
Lectures to My Students
The most famous preacher in Victorian London. His addresses to the students of his Pastors' College, on preaching, study and the work of a minister, remain in print today. Carter published them in the firm's final year.
J. H. Merle d'Aubigné
History of the Great Reformation of the Sixteenth Century
The Genevan historian told the story of Luther, Zwingli and the Reformers with a narrative drive that made his History one of the most popular accounts of the Reformation in the English-speaking world. Carter's edition stayed on the list into the 1870s.
Blaise Pascal, translated by Thomas M'Crie
The Provincial Letters
Pascal's brilliant and witty letters against the moral reasoning of the Jesuits are a landmark of French prose. Carter published them in the English translation of the Scottish church historian Thomas M'Crie.
Sir David Brewster
More Worlds Than One
The Scottish physicist, a pioneer of optics and the inventor of the kaleidoscope, answered William Whewell's doubts about life on other worlds with a scientist's case for an inhabited universe.
A. A. Hodge
Outlines of Theology
Son of the Princeton theologian Charles Hodge, and later a professor at Princeton himself. His Outlines, a clear teaching summary of Reformed doctrine, stayed on the Carter list for nearly twenty years.
James McCosh
The Supernatural in Relation to the Natural · Christianity and Positivism · The Scottish Philosophy
The Scottish philosopher who became president of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, in 1868. Carter published his principal works, including his history of Scottish thought from Hutcheson to Hamilton.
Susan Warner
The Old Helmet · Melbourne House · What She Could · Nobody
The author of The Wide, Wide World, one of the best-selling American novels of the nineteenth century. Carter published more than twenty of her books, novels for adults and stories for children, from 1853 until the year of her death.
A.L.O.E. (Charlotte Maria Tucker)
The Rambles of a Rat · The Giant-Killer · Exiles in Babylon · Hebrew Heroes
"A Lady of England" wrote allegories and tales read across the English-speaking world, and spent the last eighteen years of her life as a missionary in India. Carter's Fireside Library opened with a long run of her books.
Joanna H. Mathews
The Bessie Books: Bessie at the Sea-Side to Bessie on Her Travels
Six stories of a small New York girl, her family and her faith. Bessie at the Sea-Side launched Mathews's career, and she was remembered as the author of the Bessie Books for the rest of her life. Other publishers were still reissuing them in 1900.
