The boards are rubbed and the front hinge shaky; there is an ownership signature on the front end paper and a gift inscription on the verso of the front plate, plus a four leaf clover. A clean, unmarked copy, and apart from the front hinge, in sound binding. "Francis Nathan Peloubet (1831-March 27, 1920) decided the most strategic thing he could do as a pastor was to train Sunday School teachers how to teach the Bible to their students well. So he travelled and lectured, wrote books and articles about it, and networked inter-denominationally to support the Sunday School movement any way he could. But mostly he published Notes: Peloubet's Select Notes on the International Lessons. Sometime in the 1870s, an international coalition of Protestant churches established a committee to publish a standard lesson schedule that all the churches could follow. These International Standard Sunday School Lessons meant that all over the English-speaking world, Sunday School teachers who were thinking about next week's lesson were all thinking about the same passage of Scripture at the same time, and wondering how to teach it to children of different ages. Many authors and publishers rushed to help this vast new market of Bible students, but it was F. N. Peloubet who established his notes as the most trustworthy and useful notes. Scriptorium's own R. A. Torrey published his own long-running, very successful set of helps as well, but Peloubet stayed perched at the top of the market. Peloubet and his wife kept publishing those notes right up until his death, running to about 45 annual volumes. After he died, they kept going, edited for many years by Wilbur M. Smith of Moody and Fuller Seminary fame." (Fred Sanders - The Scriptorium Daily)