A nicely preserved example of a classic work on the ongoing necessity of revivals at the local church level, handsomely inscribed on the ffep as A Present from the Author to L. A. Smith. 

Contents discuss definitions of revival, the pastor's personal reviving, the 1857 Fulton Street prayer revival, Samuel Irenaeus Prime, fear of wildfire, revivals in the household, revivals among children and in sabbath schools, revival preaching, methods of Tyng, Cuyler, Paxton, E. D. Griffin, etc., revival singing, women in revival, charges of extravagance and fanaticism answered, etc. 

Newell, William W. Revivals: How and When? New York. A. C. Armstrong and Son. 1882. 332pp.

Good solid example in original Victorian cloth. Some light rubbing and bumping as shown, but attractive. Textually very clean and solid.