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SERIAL STORIES AND SERIES OF ARTICLES:

The Story of Keedon Bluffs. By Charles Egbert Craddock, author of “The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains,” “Down the Ravine,” etc. A dramatic serial of boy life in the Great Smokies, with new scenes and new characters, among the latter a jolly young mountaineer who sings original dialect songs full of wild humor. Illustrations by Edmund H. Garrett.

Romulus and Remus. By Charles Remington Talbot. This story is not a tale of ancient Rome; instead, it is modern high comedy. Full of mirthful surprises. So far as known, the first strictly humorous serial prepared for a young folks’ magazine. Illustrations by Frank T. Merrill.

Montezuma’s Gold Mines. By Fred A. Ober, author of “The Silver City.” This serial of romantic adventure is based on Mr. Ober’s own search for the lost gold mines of Montezuma, which are firmly believed in Mexico to be still in existence, their precise locality a guarded secret among one or two tribes of mountain Indians, who inherit the precious knowledge, handing it down in turn to their children. The hero of the story is “John North,” the hero of “The Silver City,” and the serial opens on the mysterious island of Cozumel. The story has been written to satisfy the incessant demand and unappeasable desire of the readers, old as well as young, of “The Silver City.” Illustrations by Hy. Sandham.

The Secrets at Roseladies. By Mary Hartwell Catherwood, author of “Rocky Fork,” and “Old Caravan Days.” It is enough, perhaps, to reveal here, of Pen Bidgood, and Willie Bidgood, and “Sister” Bidgood, and little Honora Jones, and Aquilla Jones, and beautiful Sarah Roseladies, and Dan Marsh of the house-boat, that one of their secrets concerned the secrets of the Indian Mounds on the Lower Wabash. Illustrations by W. A. Rogers.

Howling Wolf and His Trick-Pony. By Mrs. Lizzie W. Champney. The hair-breadth adventures of a bright little Indian boy in search of the lost “medicine” of the Utes. An enchanting serial for Little Folks, which the big folks will equally enjoy. Illustrations by H. F. Farny, and from photographs.

Bird-Talk. By Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney. For some time Mrs. Whitney has been making a study of our wild birds and their individual song expression; and from that study comes now a delicious group of poems, each descriptive of a bird and its haunts, and each including a metrical rendering of that bird’s song, based on the true vowel sounds in the notes of its melody. This dainty and amusing series will be as follows:

In War-Times at La Rose Blanche. By Mrs. M. E. M. Davis. Twelve stories, written by a prominent New Orleans lady, the wife of a Confederate cavalry officer. They relate the adventures of a great Southern sugar-plantation household, whose men were in the army from the beginning to the end of the Civil War. The author was a little girl at the time—the “Miss Ma’y” of the stories—and was concerned in many little dramas, some humorous and some pathetic, in which both “Blue-coats” and “Gray-coats” were actors. “The Letter from the Front,” describing the Battle of the Wilderness, in which her brother of fifteen was a color-bearer in Hood’s Brigade, is said by both Union and Confederate officers to be one of the best descriptions ever written of what one soldier sees and feels in a battle. Some hundreds of “house and field hands” belonged to La Rose Blanche plantation, and the “dialect” is not one of the least of the charms of these stories. Illustrations by E. W. Kemble.

Ballads about Old-Time Authors. By Harriet Prescott Spofford. In twelve picturesque ballads Mrs. Spofford will relate some tender stories from the lives of the masters of the earlier English literature—that one of “Goldsmith’s Whistle,” and that one of Johnson doing penance in Uttoxeter Market, and of Milton blind, and of Lamb and his sister—and many another beautiful literary story with which young people ought to be made familiar. These ballads will be richly and authentically illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett.

Famous Pets. By Eleanor Lewis. A series of papers which have been in preparation at home and abroad for several years, comprising among their treasures rich contributions of facts, anecdotes, descriptions, engravings and photographs from many noted people who have owned interesting pets: for instance, the first paper, “Some Scotch Celebrities,” narrates an interesting talk with the old keeper of Grayfriar’s Churchyard, where the famous “Grayfriar’s Bobby” lived and died, and another chat with the sister of Dr. John Brown, author of “Rab and his Friends,” with an engraving from a charming photographed group of Dr. Brown, Dr. Peddie and “Dandie,” and half a dozen pictures from paintings, statues and photographs.

“Fairy Folk All.” By Louise Imogen Guiney. Twelve Papers. Researches in fairy-land, giving the natural history of brownies and bogles, of fays and elves, of necks, nixies and puckwudjies, of kelpies and kobolds—in short, of all the known races of “the little vanishing folk,” with accounts of their dress, haunts, habits, manners, customs and usages. Full of delicious anecdote and legend, and with bewitching pictures.

NEW FEATURES, SPECIALTIES, SINGLE NUMBER ARTICLES:

A New Department, called The Contributors and the Children, is to be the fireside and round-table corner of the magazine. There the famous Wide Awake writers will meet the young folks face to face as it were, and in social chats with them say a thousand bright and important little things which naturally cannot come into their stories and articles. It will be a cosey and notable spot—this Contributors’ Corner. Charming plans for it have already been carried out: at the Christmas (Dec.) gathering the young folks are to meet Mrs. James T. Fields, Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, Margaret Sidney, Susan Coolidge and Sarah Orne Jewett. The New Year’s reception will be no less delightful.

Concord: Its Ways and By-Ways. By Margaret Sidney. A series of papers about this historic and literary Mecca, its picturesque waters, lanes and spots, its famous people and their famous homes and haunts—full of fresh anecdote and reminiscence. Mr. A. W. Hosmer, the accomplished amateur photographer, is now making negatives in and about Concord town, for the liberal illustration of these papers.

Christmas-Tide Stories. A Pretty Scarecrow, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Taffy and Buster Tied to a Christmas Tree, and Taffy and Buster at Niblo’s, two stories by Jessie Benton FrÉmont. A Christmas Masquerade, by Mary E. Wilkins. A Christmas Guest, by Sarah Orne Jewett. A Wee Wedding, by Sophie May. Why the Doll’s Name was never Changed, by Katherine McDowell. These stories will all appear in the Christmas and New Year’s numbers.

Some Educational Extremes. A Yankee Schoolmistress, by Mrs. H. G. Rowe; a Maine village school of 1800, and how Aunt Polly Shedd taught history and civics. “Cap’n Bos’ard’s Wife’s School,” by Mrs. Frances A. Humphrey; an amusing record of an Old Colony dame-school. A New England Summit, by Frona M. Brooks; how the Harvard Annex girls live and study.

The Quest of the Whipping-Boy. By Georgiana Washington. An extravaganza chronicling the suppositious adventures of an American school-girl, who, inspired by the “happy thought” of the early English kings in providing a Whipping-Boy to be punished for the sins of their young princes, set out on a journey to find a victim willing to bear all the consequences of the shortcomings of a seminary-full of modern school-girls.

Longfellow’s Boyhood. Also, Longfellow and the Children. Two articles by Rev. Samuel Longfellow. Reminiscences of the beloved “children’s poet,” as a child himself, and his relations with his own children and with other children through life. This beautiful paper for all children will appear in the Christmas number.

An Old House. By H. L. Bradley. Another Longfellow article, to appear in the New Year’s number. It describes the quaint old Longfellow house in Portland, where the poet wrote his first poems, and to which American boys and girls make pilgrimages. Many illustrations from photographs and drawings.

A “Lend-a-Hand” Group. A Helping Hand, by Mrs. James T. Fields. A Livelihood for Girls, by Margaret Sidney. The Boston Girls’ Friendly Society, by Mrs. Henry Whitman. From the Annals of the S. P. C. C., by Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells. Associated Charities Story: Kitty’s Gingerbread Store, and Jack’s Animals, by Mrs. Margaret Storer Warner.

Flowers I have Met. By Grant Allen. An interesting record of observations upon plants and flowers along New England and Canadian roadsides and fields, made by the eminent English scientist during his recent visit to America. Also animal papers.

Child Life in London. From Hyde Park to Whitehall. By Mrs. Elizabeth Robins Pennell, with many drawings by Joseph Pennell, the distinguished etcher. Both author and artist are now in London making special studies for this article.

The True Story of William Tell. By Sarah Loring Bailey. An historical and mythological research made at Altorf, Switzerland. Several interesting illustrations from photographs of localities, statues, etc.

Washington and his Playmates. By Wm. F. Carne, author of “Washington as a Burgher.” Interesting new material gathered from Virginia records, letters and recollections. Important illustrations.

The Luck of Edenhall. By Amanda B. Harris. The literary history of that famous fairy glass, so celebrated in ballad and story, together with the authentic family traditions and a correct description, kindly furnished to Wide Awake by the present family owners of this goblet of romance—the Musgraves of Edenhall, Cumberland, England.

A Day with Hans Andersen. By Jessie Benton FrÉmont. A delightful account of a visit in Copenhagen with the dear old Fairy-storyteller of the North. Another beautiful “Souvenir,” as faithful as a photograph.

Pictures of American Pastimes. By F. Childe Hassam. Stirring full-page pictures of American games, each depicting a picturesque crisis in the sport, and of a sort to make the boys toss their caps and shout “hurrah!” (and the girls long to do the same!) These pictures will include Lawn Tennis, Hockey, Bowling, Quoits, Archery, Foot Ball, Croquet, Polo, Lacrosse, and other popular plays that call for healthful exercise.

Little Classics of English Prose, Illustrated. With the purpose of interesting young people in English prose literature which is not all “story,” it is proposed to give occasional selections of brief masterpieces, accompanied by numerous illustrations.

FOR THE C. Y. F. R. U., AND FOR EVERYBODY:

Some Successful American Women. By Sarah K. Bolton. During the publication in the Readings for 1883-4 of Mrs. Bolton’s “little biographies” of successful American men, under the title “How Success is Won,” many parents requested that a series about successful women be prepared for their daughters; in accordance are given now the examples of a dozen bright, strong, and prosperous women who have succeeded in their chosen work. Twelve papers, with portraits.

Wonder-Wings, Mellangongs, Colossii, and Others. By C. F. Holder, of the N. Y. Central Park Museum of Natural History. Twelve marvel-chapters of animal life, as true as strange. Illustrations by J. Carter Beard.

A Young Prince of Commerce. By Selden R. Hopkins, Commercial Counsel. A well-known authority and writer on business practice and commercial usages has written for the young folks a serial story of a boy’s career, from a penniless youth to a young millionaire, as valuable as it is exciting and inspiring, showing that ledgers, stocks and bonds are as romantic and potent weapons in the hands of a young man with a knightly soul as ever were lance and shield in the days of old. The girls too come in for a good share of the young “prince’s” honor, and the story shows how many business ventures are made successful by the tender “power behind the throne.” Twelve chapters, with forms, laws and usages.

Our Asiatic Cousins. By Mrs. A. H. Lenowens, the Eastern traveller. Entertaining and instructive. Studies of our kindred in the far fatherland of the race, tracing the relationships and delineating the great family traits. With many illustrations.

Ways to Do Things. By various authors. Practical handiwork for young folks. The new series of these popular papers will open with a delightful needlework article, “Baby’s Shoe,” by Mrs. Jessie Benton FrÉmont, to be followed by Mrs. Annie Sawyer Downs’ and Amanda B. Harris’ instructions (two articles), “How to Write a Composition.”

Search-Questions in Greek History. With Monthly Prizes. By Oscar Fay Adams. The value everywhere set upon the past two years’ work with Search-Questions in Literature, and the cordial help afforded to the young “searchers” by librarians, professors, editors, and literarians throughout the country, have led to a broad and careful plan for Historical Search-Questions which shall extend through several years’ Readings, thus giving “searchers” a systematic survey of the great Historical Periods. Each year’s work comprises Answers to twelve sets of questions, of twenty questions each. Standard books are given as prizes, particulars of which will be given in the C. Y. F. R. U. department.

Rare Stories and Poems and beautiful Pictures are on hand, really “too numerous to mention”: “My First Voyage,” a singular story, by Maurice Thompson, author of “The Witchery of Archery”; “How Ned Scaled Mt. Washington,” by Mary Rebecca Hart; “Besieged by Wolves,” by John Willis Hays; “The Shipwreck of the Cologne Bottle,” by Susan Coolidge; “Ph[oe]be Stout, Sculptor,” by M. B. Ryerson; “Jeremicky’s Sacrifice,” by Mrs. Katherine B. Foote; “A Manorial Pigeon Tower,” with a full-page picture by Henry Bacon, the painter-author, of Paris, etc., etc.

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D. Lothrop and Company announce that, leading in the great literary movement toward lower prices, and large sales, they have made, without reducing quantity or quality, an extraordinary reduction in the price of Wide Awake, the best illustrated young folks’ magazine, 1000 quarto pages and 500 original pictures yearly, and will now receive subscriptions at the former wholesale price of only $2.40 a year.

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Babyland will have two enticing new features for the babies and their mammas, in addition to the perennial pleasures of the countless little two-minute stories and verses with which the magazine always has abounded.

Especially calculated to merrily occupy the eyes and ears of the little ones are the monthly pictorial pages called

PUZZLES ABOUT PETER AND PATTY,

text and pictures by Margaret Johnson; and especially calculated to sweetly teach and charm are the home kindergarten delights called

NURSERY FINGER-PLAYS,

by Emilie Poulsson, with dozens and dozens and dozens of bewitching picture-instructions by L. J. Bridgman. Every one who has the care of little nursery toddlers will bless Babyland for these two features.

Big bright pictures, large print, strong paper, and dainty gay cover. 50 cts. a year.

The Serial Story for the year, by that charming writer for children, Mrs. M. F. Butts, will be entitled,

WANDERERS IN BO-PEEP’S WORLD.

It will be accompanied with twelve full-page drawings by Miss E. S. Tucker. The author of “Little Talks about Plants” and “Little Talks about Insects,” has prepared an amusing series about

TINY FOLK IN RED AND BLACK,

in which she tells about ants and their wise and curious ways—how they work, how they harvest their grain, how they milk their cows, etc.

TEN LITTLE INDIANS,

by Mrs. Helen E. Sweet, tells many interesting things about Indian boys and girls, their sports and their strange ways of living, so unlike the life of our little men and women. The History Chapters for the year will consist of

ADVENTURES OF THE EARLY DISCOVERERS,

by Mrs. Frances A. Humphrey, following on from the voyages of Columbus, given last year, and relating the story of Ponce de Leon and his search in America for the Fountain of Youth, the romantic tale of De Soto and his burial in the Mississippi River, the exploits of Capt. John Smith in Virginia, etc., such incidents being chosen from the life of each as shall most interest little readers.

All these will be profusely illustrated, as also will be the verses and short stories by Mrs. Clara Doty Bates, Sara E. Farman, Mrs. Olive Howard, Charles E. Skinner, Bessie Chandler, H. R. Hudson, Anna R. Henderson, Henrietta K. Elliot, Emilie Poulsson, and other favorite writers.

The yearly numbers, as heretofore, will have seventy-five full-page pictures. $1.00 a year.

This illustrated monthly contains thirty-two to forty pages each number, of enjoyable and helpful literature and pictures, equally suited to Sundays and week days. The editor, “Pansy,” will furnish a new serial to run through the year,

MONTEAGLE.

The Golden Text Stories will be continued under the title of “A Dozen of Us.” Margaret Sidney will contribute a serial story called

THE LITTLE RED SHOP,

telling how Jack and Cornelius and Rosalie earned money to help mother take care of the baby. There will be more “Great Men” and more “Remarkable Women.” Faye Huntington will write of flowers and plants in

MRS. BROWN’S BOTANY CLASS.

Rev. C. M. Livingston will furnish stories of Great Events, People, Discoveries, Inventions, etc. A novel feature will be a story by eleven different authors. R. M. Alden will direct a new department of Church, Sabbath School and Missionary News. The present departments will continue, and new ones be opened. $1.00 a year.

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SPECIAL HOLIDAY BOOKS.

The special Holiday Book list of Messrs. D. Lothrop & Co. and their general Booklist for the season embrace volumes of fresh beauty, and also sterling works fully abreast with the growing demand for attractive books of some educational value. Their array of costly illustrated volumes includes seven Fine-Art issues. Foremost is the magnificent folio, Idyls and Pastorals, comprising twenty-four poems by Celia Thaxter written expressly for this work, accompanied by twenty-four superb fac-simile photogravures from paintings, water colors and line drawings by eminent American and foreign artists, including Kate Greenaway, Howard Pyle, Wm. T. Smedley, Edmund H. Garrett, F. Childe Hassam, Jessie Curtis Shepherd, Miss L. B. Humphrey, W. L. Taylor, Joseph Pennell, Thomas Hovenden, F. H. Lungren, T. W. Wood, N. A., Charles Volkmar, Hy. Sandham, F. T. Merrill and Henry Bacon. These photogravures are printed by hand, in colors, on the finest imported India paper. The book is bound in vellum cloth with designs in two metals, also in white calf embossed in imitation of antique carved ivory. A Popular Edition, octavo, with a selection, and fine wood engravings is bound both in cloth and embossed leather. Youth in Twelve Centuries is another de luxe folio, holding twenty-four bold picturesque drawings by Hassam of youthful race-types of both sexes, ranging from Egyptian, 1500 B. C., down through Chinese, Greek, Roman, Scandinavian, Gaul, to the Renaissance of the Medici and the American Colonial. These drawings are in hand-printed photogravures in twelve tones, and are accompanied by twenty-four poems by “M. E. B.” The book is in two styles of binding: in rich silk canvas from the New York Associated Artists’ art-fabrics with emerald calf corners and back, and in linen fabric overprinted in photogravure with a rich and mystic design. A Popular Edition of the same, with wood engravings, is bound in fine cloth. The Minute Man, by Margaret Sidney, is a Ballad of “the shot heard round the world;” it has drawings by Sandham printed with the text, also a strong water-color and three historic Concord views in toned photogravures. Beautiful binding. In Bye-o-Baby Ballads, the “color-book” of the House, the little folks have a volume as perfect in taste as the costly adult gift-books; the ballads are by Charles Stuart Pratt (editor of Wide Awake and Babyland), and the pictures, by Hassam, the popular water-color painter, include many strong charming full-pages and hundreds smaller, reproduced in exquisite colors by Buek & Co.; withal, the book is distinctively fresh and American. Sonnets from the Portuguese. The immortal love-sonnets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning are so richly printed and bound as to become a standard presentation volume. New editions of recent favorite gift-books group with these new ones, notably Ideal Poems, Heroines of the Poets and Stabat Mater.

The Holiday Quartos in black-and-white for popular use are hardly less rich in their handsome bindings. First of course, are the regular Annuals, Wide Awake “U” and “V,” Babyland, Our Little Men and Women and The Pansy. Wide Awake “U” contains complete serials by Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney and Margaret Sidney, “How the Middies Set up Shop” and “A New Departure for Girls;” “V” has the beautiful complete story of “A Girl and a Jewel,” by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford. Our Little Men and Women has the delicious English serial written for it by L. T. Meade. Babyland has that dainty dozen of “Crib-Curtain Stories,” by Mrs. Ella Farman Pratt. Pansy has Margaret Sidney’s “St. George and the Dragon” and “Reaching Out,” by Pansy. A quarto volume of Children’s Ballads is particularly rich in historical stories. The new edition of the great encyclopÆdia of poetry, The Young Folks’ Golden Treasury, has several hundred illustrated original poems. Sights Worth Seeing is gorgeous with spectacles and carnivals, while the small quartos and the tiny books for the Christmas Stocking People are countless in their rainbowy profusions. One choice volume of short stories for adults is included in the Holiday List, Hester, and Other New England Stories, by Margaret Sidney. This is beautifully gotten up, the artistic covers being designed by Mrs. Henry Whitman; one choice historical novel for young folks, In Leisler’s Times, a story of Knickerbocker New York, by E. S. Brooks; and one beautiful Wonder Story for the little folks, The Bubbling Teapot, by Mrs. Lizzie W. Champney.

Among the new issues for popular reading are The Land of the Czar and the Nihilist, by Rev. J. M. Buckley, LL. D., an illustrated octavo of recent travel. All Among the Lighthouses, by Mrs. Crowninshield (the wife of Commander Crowninshield U. S. N.,) finely illustrated and uniform in size, price and importance with the famous Family Flights; and Souvenirs of My Time, by Mrs. Jessie Benton FrÉmont, a large book crowded with personal reminiscences of famous people, at home and abroad, celebrated places and notable scenes and events.

Famous Stories, by those royal story tellers, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, David Ker and Charles R. Talbot, make a strong bid for the favor of boys and girls of from fourteen to sixteen; Bib and Tucker Folks, compiled by Mrs. Humphrey, is crammed full with illustrations, and the two volumes of the Fun for the Family Series is full of jolly stories and pictures. Then for the smaller ones there is Wonder People, which tells interesting stories about some curious folks; Baby’s Story Book; Jack, Jill and Tot; a collection of amusing stories under the title of So Funny; three charming books by Mrs. Humphrey either one of which would be a treasure to the little ones—Kings and Queens at Home, with twenty-four portraits and pictures; Queen Victoria at Home and Stories about Favorite Authors. All these are quartos in handsome cloth or chromo bindings.

Among the new issues in the regular library form are the issues in the Through the Year with the Poets Series, one of the choicest collections of poetry upon special themes ever made in this country: With Reed and Lyre, Clinton Scollard’s charming collection of poems; the enlarged edition of the poems of James Berry Bensel; Willis Boyd Allen’s Silver Rags, the second issue in the Pine Cone Series; Miss Ryder’s Hold up your Heads, Girls! and a very remarkable volume of sermons by the Rev. Reuen Thomas, under the title of Divine Sovereignty.

Besides these there are two new “Wonder Stories” forming additional volumes in the series of that name; the first volume being devoted to stories of history and the second to those of travel. Hosts of young readers will remember Plucky Boys, which had such a popularity a year ago. This year the publishers bring out a companion volume, Brave Girls, which will be every whit as popular. There is announced, too, a new story by Joaquin Miller, called “The Gold Miners of the Sierras;” an entertaining volume called Foreign Facts and Fancies, and a collection of Stories of Danger and Adventure.

The books of permanent and educational value for young folks include, Stories From American History, by Pansy; Real Fairy Folks; My Land and Water Friends, by Mary E. Bamford; Nelly Marlow in Washington, by Laura D. Nichols, chronicling the wonders of Chemistry; The Story Book of Science, by Mrs. Lydia Hoyt Farmer; Stories of Foreign Lands, by Pansy; and Adventures of Columbus, by Mrs. F. A. Humphrey; while for their entertainment there are Pansy’s Sunday Book, The Adventures of Ann (a colonial story), by Mary E. Wilkins; Two Modern Princes in the Tower, by Margaret Sidney; Polly, an illustrated quarto also by Margaret Sidney, and the great Golden Year quarto of short stories. All are beautifully illustrated and attractively and strongly bound.

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