The August issues of the beautiful

will be the following:

August 1. “Comrades.” By Edmund H. Garrett. One of the most delightful pictures in the series; a rich old-time interior, a white-bearded, white-ruffed grandpapa teaching a beautiful boy the cup-and-ball play, a big staghound at the right, two King Charles spaniels at the left, a hooded falcon on a perch above.

August 15. “A Manorial Pigeon-Tower.” By Henry Bacon, the well-known American artist-author of Paris. The dovecote is in the background, in the foreground the pretty French maid feeding the pretty pigeons.

Already issued:

The Wide Awake Art Prints are sent postpaid in pasteboard tubes for 50 cents each. Half yearly subscription, $5.50; yearly, $10.00.

The Press says of the beauty and art educational value of the Art Prints:

An admirable Art Enterprise! We can very cordially praise the new Wide Awake Art Prints. They are wholly charming, and the idea of their publication is unique and entitled to frank commendation. We could wish that such charming gems of art could be in every home, for wherever they are they will not only be a source of very great pleasure but they have a very important educational value.—Boston Post.

The Publishers send greetings and congratulations to all the boys, all the girls, all the brothers, all the sisters, all the cousins, uncles, aunts, grandfathers and grandmothers, who have for the last four years been incessantly writing inquiries as to the fate of “John North,” the hero of

“The Silver City” and “Cacique John,”

and they hereby inform them severally and collectively that in the December number of Wide Awake will be begun a splendid serial story by Mr. Ober, entitled

“Montezuma’s Gold Mines,”

of which the same “John North” is the hero.

TEACHERS!

Please read the following UNSOLICITED testimonial as to the value of Babyland and Our Little Men and Women in school work:

“I wish it were possible to send you our little six-year children to read for you from these splendid little journals. Their progress in three months has been remarkable. Our work in reading is the wonder of this city and Portland, and we owe these excellent results to you for furnishing us such bright and entertaining papers.

W. A. Wetzell,
Supt. of City Schools, E. Portland, Ore.”

The July Wide Awake gives to its subscribers a fine photogravure of French’s famous statue of the Minute Man at Concord, Mass. It accompanies the stirring ballad of “The Minute Men” by Margaret Sidney, commemorative of “the Shot Heard Round the World.”

The Southern custom of “Strawberry Day” is celebrated in a poem in the July Wide Awake by Susan Coolidge; the large strawberry-growers of some sections having established the beautiful observance of giving the first day’s pickings to the sick and the poor.

THE HOUSEHOLD LIBRARY.

$5.00 a Year, - - - - 50 cts. a Number.

The Choicest Works of Popular Authors, issued monthly.

The works issued in this library are uniformly of a high standard and may well come under that class of literature styled “home fiction,” a literature, that, while free from the flashy, sensational effect of much of the fiction of to-day, is, nevertheless, brilliant in style, fresh and strong in action, and of absorbing interest. It is a class that all the young folks, as well as the fathers and mothers and older brothers and sisters, may read with profit as well as great pleasure.

1. THE PETTIBONE NAME, by Margaret Sidney, author of The Five Little Peppers, etc. It is a delightful story of New England life and manners, sparkling in style, bright and effective in incident, and of intense interest. There has been no recent figure in American fiction more clearly or skilfully drawn than Miss Judith Pettibone. Most of the characters of the book are such as may be met with in any New England village.

2. MY GIRLS, by Lida A. Churchill. A story of four ambitious girls. Their struggles to realize their ambitions and their trials and successes, make a story of intense interest.

3. WITHIN THE SHADOW, by Dorothy Holroyd. “The most successful book of the year.” “The plot is ingenious, yet not improbable, the character drawing strong and vigorous, the story throughout one of brilliancy and power.” “The book cannot help making a sensation.”—Boston Transcript.

4. FAR FROM HOME. From the German of Johannes Van Derval. Translated by Kathrine Hamilton. A fascinating story of life and travel in foreign lands.

5. GRANDMOTHER NORMANDY, by the author of Silent Tom. The story is fascinatingly told. The character of Grandmother Normandy, stern, relentless and unforgiving, almost to the last, is strongly drawn, and the author has shown much skill in the construction of the story.

6. AROUND THE RANCH, by Belle Kellogg Towne. It is original, fresh, and written with great naturalness and power; its pathos is exquisitely touching. The opening scenes are laid in the Colorado mining regions.

7. A FORTUNATE FAILURE, by Caroline B. LeRow. The author of this charming book is widely known as a successful writer of magazine stories. In this story, the principal character is the sweet, bright and ambitious daughter of a New Hampshire farmer, who has been placed at boarding-school by a rich aunt, where her development is traced under the surrounding influences.

8. BUT HALF A HEART, by Marie Oliver. The author has won an enviable reputation as a writer of the higher and purer class of fiction. This is the story of a girl’s life, and is intense in interest, elevated in tone.

9. MORE WAYS THAN ONE, by Alice Perry, author of “Esther Pennefather.” A story of singular beauty and power.

10. VIOLET DOUGLAS; or, the Problems of Life, by Emma Marshall. It pictures the beauty and nobleness of a life of active and unselfish devotion to the welfare of others.

11. THE TALBURY GIRLS. A very sweet story, with great fulness of incident and insight into different spheres of life.

12. A WHITE HAND, by Ella Farman. A story of American society, by the editor of Wide Awake.

LOTHROP’S YOUNG PEOPLE’S LIBRARY.

Nothing so good and cheap is anywhere to be found. Each volume has 300 to 500 pages, illustrated. Price 25 cts. Postpaid

• 1. TIP LEWIS AND HIS LAMP, by Pansy.
• 2. MARGIE’S MISSION, by Marie Oliver.
• 3. KITTY KENT’S TROUBLES, by Julia A. Eastman.
• 4. MRS. HURD’S NIECE, by Ella Farman Pratt, Editor of Wide Awake.
• 5. EVENING REST, by J. L. Pratt.
• 6. THE TRIPLE “E,” by the author of Yensie Walton.
• 7. SHINING HOURS, by a brilliant author.
• 8. THE OLD STONE HOUSE, by Anne March (Constance Fenimore Woolson).
• 9. BATTLES LOST AND WON, by George E. Merrill. A story of schoolboy life.
• 10. THE JUDGE’S SONS, by Mrs. E. D. Kendall.
• 11. SHELL COVE, by Rev. Z. A. Mudge.
• 12. LUTE FALCONER, by the author of Andy Luttrell. A story of rare interest.

These twelve volumes constitute the first year’s series.

The twelve volumes announced below constitute the second year’s series.

• 13. FABRICS, by the author of Finished, or Not.
• 14. THE PRINCE AND THE PAGE, by Miss C. M. Yonge. A story of the last Crusade.
• 15. MYRA SHERWOOD’S CROSS, AND HOW SHE BORE IT.
• 16. THIS ONE THING I DO, by Mrs. A. E. Porter.
• 17. SO AS BY FIRE, by Margaret Sidney.
• 18. OLD SCHOOLFELLOWS, AND WHAT BECAME OF THEM.
• 19. ROSE AND MILLIE, by the author of Hester’s Happy Summer.
• 20. VEIL ON THE HEART (The), by Miss L. L. Phelps.
• 21. THE NEIGHBOR’S HOUSE, by the author of The New Commandment.
• 22. FROM NIGHT TO LIGHT, by E. E. Brown.
• 23. SURE; or, IT PAYS.
• 24. SISTER ELEANOR’S BROOD, by Mrs. S. B. Phelps.

AN UNSURPASSED PREMIUM OFFER.

TAMMEN’S ROCKY MOUNTAIN JUVENILE CABINET.

This beautiful and instructive set of minerals will be sent to any subscriber to one of our magazines who will send us one new subscriber to The Pansy, or Our Little Men and Women, or for two new subscribers to Babyland. We will send three of the Cabinets to any subscriber who will send us one new subscriber to Wide Awake.

Young people are born naturalists. Their first inquiries are in regard to the attractive objects of nature around them; and their future mental activity—or stupidity—depends largely upon the answers they receive. Parents and teachers should, therefore, be able to encourage and satisfy the first cravings of their inquiring minds. To aid in this, and to afford abundant entertainment more pleasing than toys, far cheaper and more instructive than mere amusement, we have secured a large quantity of the Rocky Mountain Cabinets expressly for our special premium use. Each Juvenile Cabinet contains 4 specimens of gold, 3 of silver, 1 zinc, 1 lead, 3 iron, 2 copper ores—each a different variety—1 agate (surface polished), opalized wood, rock crystal, silicified wood, molydenum, Iceland spar, topaz, 2 jaspers, dendrite, tourmaline, opal agate, arragonite, milky quartz, sulphur, selenite, Amazon stone, feldspar, fluorspar, variscite, chalcedony, petrified wood, alabaster, mica, wavellite, etc. The specimens in this cabinet are in a strong pasteboard box, divided into 40 sections. A descriptive manual is sent with each cabinet. Price 85 cents postpaid.

Address all orders to D. Lothrop & Co., Boston.

FIELD BOTANY.

Given to any subscriber sending one new subscriber to Babyland and 10 cents cash additional, before Sept. 15th.

A Handbook for the Collector, containing Instructions for gathering and preserving Plants and the formation of Herbarium. Also complete Instructions in leaf Photography, Plant Printing and the Skeletonizing of Leaves. By Walter P. Manton. Illustrated. Price, 50 cents.

From the first page to the last it is practical, and tells the young botanist exactly what it is most desirable to know.

TAXIDERMY WITHOUT A TEACHER.

Given to any subscriber sending one new subscriber to Babyland and 10 cents cash additional, before Sept. 15th.

Comprising a complete Manual of Instruction for preparing and preserving Birds, Animals and Fishes; with a chapter on Hunting and Hygiene; together with Instructions for preserving Eggs and making Skeletons, and a number of valuable recipes. By Walter P. Manton. Illustrated. Price, 50 cents.

INSECTS.

Given to any subscriber sending one new subscriber to Babyland and 10 cts. cash additional before Sept. 15th.

How to catch and how to prepare them for the Cabinet, Comprising a Manual of Instruction for the Field Naturalist. By Walter P. Manton. Cloth, illustrated. Price, 50 cents.

The young naturalist will seize this book with avidity and study it with an earnestness proportioned to his delight in bug-catching.

Two of the above books given to any subscriber sending us one new subscription to The Pansy or Our Little Men and Women.

A BOY’S WORKSHOP.

Given to any subscriber sending one new subscriber to The Pansy or Our Little Men and Women before Sept. 15th.

By A Boy and His Friends. With an introduction by Henry Randall Waite. A fascinating little volume full of practical ideas for the benefit of boys who are getting their first training in the use of tools. Price, $1.

Subscriptions to the Magazines given
as Premiums.

These Special Offers are good only to Sept. 15th.

We will send Wide Awake one year, free, for new subscriptions to any of the four magazines (Wide Awake, The Pansy, Our Little Men and Women and Babyland) amounting to $6.00.

We will send The Pansy one year, free, for new subscriptions to any of the four magazines (Wide Awake, The Pansy, Our Little Men and Women and Babyland) amounting to $2.00.

We will send Our Little Men and Women one year, free, for new subscriptions to any of the four magazines (Wide Awake, The Pansy, Our Little Men and Women and Babyland) amounting to $2.00.

We will send Babyland one year, free, for new subscriptions to any of our magazines (Wide Awake, The Pansy, Our Little Men and Women and Babyland) amounting to $1.00.

D. LOTHROP & CO., Publishers, Franklin and Hawley Sts., Boston.

Good Housekeeping

A SEMI-MONTHLY FAMILY JOURNAL

Conducted in the Interests of the

Higher Life of the Household.

READ WHAT THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE SAYS ABOUT GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.

One of the most admirable family journals ever published is that which is brought out in Holyoke, Mass. and New York under the title of Good Housekeeping, by Clark W. Bryan & Co. It is a practical and interesting instructor in all pleasant, refined and healthful modes of living. It is full of good sense, and its lessons, whether in manners, morals, food, needlework and household management, are generally the best of their kind. The number of May 15 opens Good Housekeeping’s second year—a year which it is to be hoped will add to its already established prosperity.—New York Daily Tribune, May 11th, 1886.

READ WHAT THE GOSPEL BANNER (Augusta, Me.) SAYS ABOUT GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.

Good Housekeeping is a fortnightly magazine conducted in the interest of every department of household management. It has rapidly advanced in public favor in its first year, which is due to the excellent articles from its special contributors and the superior mechanical work represented in its successive numbers. All the details of housekeeping from cellar to attic, kitchen to parlor, cookery to adornments, are attended to in the course of the yearly issues, while good contributions on purely literary topics are not lacking. Holyoke, Mass., and N. Y.: Clark W. Bryan & Co. $2.50 a year; $1.50 for six months; $1.00 for four months; 10 cents single copy.

During the first year of its publication Good Housekeeping has won for itself an enviable reputation in the Homes of the World. Its pages have been industriously and faithfully devoted to the improvement and development of the nobler and more desirable features of Home Life.

It is original in design, comprehensive in management and strong in individuality of character and conduct. Its discussions have been practical and had with a view of being elevating, instructive and useful in the highest degree to every one having an ambition or desire to make the Home attractive and those who dwell there to feel that “there’s no place like home.”

It has won the commendations of the press, not only in its own country, but in many others where the English language is spoken, such as has never been accorded to a family publication of such tender years.

It numbers among its list of contributors many of the ablest and most noted writers of the day, on family topics, and these are supplemented by contributions from the pens of many practical and successful housekeepers measurably unknown to fame but none the less valuable workers in the field of Home Literature.

Among these may be mentioned Catherine Owen, Rose Terry Cooke, Marion Harland, Maria Parloa, Hester M. Poole, Christine Terhune Herrick, H. Annette Poole, Margaret Sidney, Mrs. D. H. R. Goodale, Dora Reade Goodale, Helen Campbell, Mrs. H. M. Plunkett, Helen Chase, Mary E. Dewey, Lucretia P. Hale, Margaret Eytinge, Anna L. Dawes, E. C. Gardner, William Paul Gerhard, Dr. F. M. Hexamer, Milton Bradley, etc., etc.

Good Housekeeping is published semi-monthly at $2.50 a year, and is sold on the news stands of the country, also by newsboys on trains and boats, at 10 cents a copy.

CLARK W. BRYAN & CO., Publishers,
New York Office, 239 Broadway. HOLYOKE, MASS.

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To preserve the richness of color or delicacy of tint of your summer dresses, make suds of hot water and Ivory Soap, allow to cool until lukewarm, then wash your dresses in the solution. Ordinary soaps contain too much alkali, which in a short time bleaches the color and destroys its beauty. Prof. Silliman, of Yale College, “The Ivory Soap can not injure the most delicate fabric.”

A WORD OF WARNING.

There are many white soaps, each represented to be “just as good as the ‘Ivory’;” they ARE NOT, but like all counterfeits, lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities of the genuine. Ask for “Ivory” Soap and insist upon getting it.

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