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To improve as well as to amuse young people is the object of these twenty-one sketches, and they fill this purpose wonderfully well. What boy can fail to be interested in reading an account of an excursion made in a balloon and a race with a thunder-storm? And is there a girl who would not enjoy an afternoon in the Christmas-card factory? It is a curious fact that only one hundred and thirty years ago the first umbrella was carried in London, much to the amusement of the ignorant, and now there are seven millions made every year in this country. And who would believe it possible that there was a large factory full of women who earned their living by making dolls' shoes. A bright girl or boy who insists to know something about the work done in the world, who does it, and how it is done, cannot fail to enjoy these stories. 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Every boy who sailed in fancy the late exciting races of the Puritan and the Genesta, and all lovers of sea stories, will enjoy these two stories of Newport and Ocean Yachting, by Charles Remington Talbot.
Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford, in this delicious White Mountain Romance, writes her first young folks' magazine serial.
Margaret Sidney writes these two amusing Adventure Serials for Little Folks. Thirty-six illustrations each. VI. A Six Months' Story (title to be announced), by Charles Egbert Craddock, author of Down the Ravine. ROYAL GIRLS AND ROYAL COURTS. By Mrs. John Sherwood. This series, brilliant and instructive, will begin in the Christmas number and run through the year. A CYCLE OF CHILDREN. By Elbridge S. Brooks. Illustrations by Howard Pyle. Twelve historical stories celebrating twelve popular holidays.
STORIES OF AMERICAN WARS. Thrilling incidents in our various American warfares. Each story will have a dramatic picture. The first six are:
IN PERIL. A romantic dozen of adventures, but all strictly true. Each story will be illustrated. The first six are:
YOUTH IN TWELVE CENTURIES. A beautiful art feature. Twenty-four superb studies of race-types and national costumes, by F. Childe Hassam, with text by M. E. B. FIRE-PLACE STORIES. This article will be a notable feature of the Christmas number. The rich illustrations include glimpses of Holland, Assyria, Persia, Moorish Spain and New England, with two paintings in clay modelled expressly for Wide Awake, and reproduced in three tones. SOME SPECIAL ARTICLES:
TWELVE BALLADS. These are by twelve of the foremost women poets of America. Each ballad will fill five to seven pictorial pages. The first six are: The Deacon's Little Maid. A ballad of early New England. By Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney. Illustrations by Miss L. B. Humphrey. The Story of the Chevalier. A ballad of the wars of Maria Theresa. By Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford. Illustrations by E. H. Garrett. The Minute Man. A ballad of the "Shot heard round the World." By Margaret Sidney. Illustrations by Hy. Sandham. The Hemlock Tree. A ballad of a Maine settlement. By Lucy Larcom. Illustrations by Edmund H. Garrett. The Children's Cherry Feast. A ballad of the Hussite War. By Nora Perry. Illustrations by George Foster Barnes. Little Alix. A ballad of the Children's Crusade. By Susan Coolidge. Illustrations by F. H. Lungren. Many other enjoyments are in readiness; among them a Thanksgiving poem by Helen Jackson (H. 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READINGS meet the growing demand for the helpful in literature, history, science, art and practical doing. The Course for 1885-86 includes I. Pleasant Authors for Young Folks. (American Series.) By Amanda B. Harris. II. My Garden Pets. By Mary Treat, author of Home Studies in Nature. III. Souvenirs of My Time. (Foreign Series.) By Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont. IV. Some Italian Authors and Their Work. By George E. Vincent (son of Chancellor Vincent). V. Ways to Do Things. By various authors. VI. Strange Teas, Weddings, Dinners and Fetes. By their Guests and Givers. VII. Search-Questions in English Literature. By Oscar Fay Adams. ? A good commission is paid for securing new subscribers, in cash or premiums. Send for Premium List. WIDE AWAKE is only $3.00 a year. D. LOTHROP & CO., Publishers, Franklin and Hawley Sts., Boston, Mass., U. S. A. How we are Governed. By Anna Laurens Dawes. 12mo, $1.50. The task undertaken in this work by the accomplished daughter of Senator Dawes, has been to present an explanation of the constitution and government of the United States, both national, State, and local, in so simple and clear a way as to offer to the masses everywhere such an opportunity for their study as is not afforded by the numerous volumes in which such information is chiefly to be sought. She has accomplished her aim with remarkable success, and her book will have a hearty welcome from the thousands who appreciate the need of it. Lilith: the Legend of the First Woman. By Ada Langworthy Collier. 12mo, $1.00. Gilt edges, $1.25. In this book, which is characterized by rare brilliancy of expression, beauty of thought, and tenderness and pathos in sentiment, and which is withal as intensely interesting as any recent work of prose fiction, the accomplished author presents a poem based upon the Rabbinic legends that Eve was not Adam's first wife, but that she had a predecessor in the world's first Eden, who bore the name of "Lilith." The poem, based upon these legends, cannot fail to establish the writer's reputation as an exceptionally able writer of verse, a reputation which she has already gained as a writer of prose. Boy Life in the United States Navy. By H. H. Clark. 12mo, ILLUSTRATED, $1.50. If there is anything in the way of human attire which more than any other commands the admiration and stirs the enthusiasm of the average boy of whatever nation, it is the trim uniform and shining buttons that distinguish the jolly lads of the "Navy." In this graphically written and wonderfully entertaining volume, boy life in the Navy of the United States is described by a navy officer, in a manner which cannot fail to satisfy the boys. Memorial of Rev. Warren H. Cudworth. By His Sister; WITH PORTRAIT, 380 PAGES, $1.50. Simply told and remarkably interesting is this story of the life of one of the most saintly of Christian men. It will be welcomed and read with satisfaction by all who knew him. Those who never saw him, cannot fail to be stimulated by its suggestive thought. Money in Politics. By Hon. J. K. Upton. Late assistant secretary of the united states treasury. Extra cloth, top. 12mo, $1.25. This volume presents a complete history of money, or the circulating medium, in the United States, from the colonial days to the present time. Mr. Edward Atkinson, in his introduction, pronounces it the most valuable work of the kind yet published. Baccalaureate Sermons. By Rev. A. P. Peabody, D. D. LL. D. 12mo, $1.25. These sermons, delivered before the graduating classes of Harvard University, it is safe to say, are not excelled by any production of their kind. They are not only rarely appropriate, as discourses addressed to educated young men upon the threshold of active life, but are models of logical thought and graceful rhetoric worthy the study of all ministers. What's Mine's Mine. By George MacDonald, author of "Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood," "Donal Grant," etc. 12mo, CLOTH, $1.50. From original MSS. It will be published by D. Lothrop & Co., in advance of the publication in England. Boys' Heroes. By Edward Everett Hale. Reading Union Library. 16mo, Illustrated. Price, $1.00. This handsome volume unites the charm of the Arabian Nights with the solid value of an EncyclopÆdia. In its twelve chapters, Dr. Hale gives careful and definite account of a dozen famous characters the boys of all ages have agreed to regard as heroes, but about whom their information is often neither full nor accurate. 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Roget's Thesaurus. A Treasury of English Words and Phrases, classified and arranged so as to facilitate the expression of ideas and assist in literary composition. By Peter Mark Roget, M. A., F. R. S. New edition enlarged and improved, partly from the author's notes, and with a full index by John Lewis Roget. Over 200 pages and 30,000 additions to the original work. Crown 8vo., nearly 800 pages. Price ..00. When I was a Child. By Ernest Warburton Shurtleff. With Illustrations by F. Childe Hassam. Unique binding, design embossed in gold. Price $1.00. Tomtits and Other Bits. By Miss A. M. Starkweather. extra cloth binding, quarto, $1.00. This fresh and delightful book is made up of poems and stories, profusely and beautifully illustrated. Each one has a moral, which by well chosen language is strongly impressed upon the reader. And like the bird whose name it bears, the whole book is bright, glad, and full of life. It is sure to please children, for whom it was written. 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