Life of Ulysses Simpson Grant.
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In this biography the author of the popularLife of Garfieldhas combined insight, painstaking, a nice sense of humor and literary skill in the use of varied and fresh materials, turning to good account, as illustrating the noble and tender nature of our great President and General, the anecdotes and other reminiscences brought to light during the recent memorial occasions at home and abroad.
Concord: Historic, Literary and Picturesque.
By G. B. Bartlett.12mo,CLOTH, ILLUSTRATED, $1.00;PAPER, 50 cents.
This is the third edition of the Concord Guide Book which has been enlarged and improved to comprehend the most recent changes in that historic town of world-wide renown. Besides fresh text and anecdote a number of fine illustrations have been added to enhance its value to the traveller and sight-seer, both as guide and souvenir.
King's Handbook of Boston.
By Moses King.12mo,CLOTH, ILLUSTRATED, $1.00.
This, the sixth edition, has undergone a careful revision, bringing down to date the modifications necessary to a complete manual. It is indispensable to the transient visitor and valuable to the resident and business man of Boston.
Words of Our Hero, U. S. Grant.
By Jeremiah Chaplin.12mo,PAPER, WITH PORTRAIT, 35 cents.
Here the hero tells in simple language his own eventful story. By citations from military dispatches, Presidential messages, private letters, and after-dinner speeches, the reader gets many a vivid picture of life from a master-hand, in terse, narrative English. The whole impression is that of strength, candor, and integrity.
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A collection of rare songs written by the great lyric women of all lands and times. The first hymn of each of these "Miriams" is prefaced by a terse biography. Composers among women are also represented in the music of anthems, chants, and many hymn-tunes. This collection is practically valuable in that it is suited to the needs of temperance, missionary, and other organizations, and will prove serviceable at church and society concerts and at religious anniversaries. 880 large quarto pages.
prospectus——BABYLAND——for 1886.
The Magazine for the Babies, this coming year, in addition to its bright pictures, and gay little jingles, and sweet stories, will have some especial delights for both Mamma and Baby:
THE MAGIC PEAR
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ALL AROUND THE CLOCK
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LITTLE CRIB-CURTAINS
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prospectus—OUR LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN—for 1886.
This magazine, for youngest readers, has earned golden gratitude from teachers and parents this past year. While its short stories and beautiful pictures have made it welcome everywhere as a general Magazine for Little Folks, its series of instructive articles have rendered it of unrivalled value to educators. For 1886 several specialties have been prepared in accordance with the suggestions of teachers who wish to start their "little primaries" in the lines on which older brothers and sisters are being taught. As a beginning in American History, there will be twelve charming chapters about
THE ADVENTURES OF COLUMBUS.
This story of the Great Discoverer, while historically correct and valuable, will be perfectly adapted to young minds and fitted to take hold upon a child's attention and memory; many pictures.
LITTLE TALKS ABOUT INSECT LIFE
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OUR COLORADO PETS
will describe wild creatures little known to children in general. These twelve stories all are true, and are full of life and adventure; each will be illustrated.
"ME AND MY DOLLS"
is a "cunning little serial story," written for American children by the popular English author, Miss L. T. Meade. It will have Twelve Full-page Pictures by Margaret Johnson.
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Seventy-five Full-page Pictures. Only $1.00 a year.
prospectus—THE PANSY—for 1886.
For both week-day and Sunday reading,The Pansy, edited by "Pansy" herself, holds the first place in the hearts of the children, and in the approval of earnest-minded parents. Among the more interesting features for 1886 will be Pansy's serial story,
REACHING OUT,
being a further account of "Little Fishers: and their Nets." The Golden Text Stories, under the title, "Six O'clock in the Evening," will be told by a dear old Grandma, who knows many interesting things about what happened to herself when she was a little girl. Margaret Sidney will furnish a charming story,
ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON,
to run through the year. Rev. C. M. Livingston will tell stories of discoveries, inventions, books, people, places. Faye Huntington will be a regular contributor during the year. Pansy will take the readers with her wherever she goes, in papers under the title of
WHERE I WENT, AND WHAT I SAW.
There will be, in each number, a selection from our best standard poets suitable for recitation in school or circle. From time to time colloquies for Mission Bands, or for general school exercises, will appear. There will be new and interesting books for the members of the Pansy Society, and, as before, a generous space will be devoted to answers to correspondents in the P. S. Corner.
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PROSPECTUS WIDE AWAKE 1886
A mother, whose five children have readWide Awakein her company from its first number to its latest, writes "I like the magazine because it is full of Impulses. Another thing—when I lay it down I feel as if I had been walking on breezy hill-tops."
SIX ILLUSTRATED SERIALS:
Every boy who sailed in fancy the late exciting races of thePuritanand theGenesta, and all lovers of sea stories, will enjoy these two stories of Newport and Ocean Yachting, byCharles Remington Talbot.
Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford, in this delicious White Mountain Romance, writes her first young folks' magazine serial.
Margaret Sidneywrites these two amusing Adventure Serials for Little Folks. Thirty-six illustrations each.
VI. A Six Months' Story(title to be announced), byCharles Egbert Craddock, author ofDown the Ravine.
ROYAL GIRLS AND ROYAL COURTS.
ByMrs. John Sherwood. This series, brilliant and instructive, will begin in the Christmas number and run through the year.
A CYCLE OF CHILDREN.
ByElbridge 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 forWide 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. ByMrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford. Illustrations by E. H. Garrett.
The Minute Man.A ballad of the "Shot heard round the World." ByMargaret Sidney. Illustrations by Hy. Sandham.
The Hemlock Tree.A ballad of a Maine settlement. ByLucy Larcom. Illustrations by Edmund H. Garrett.
The Children's Cherry Feast.A ballad of the Hussite War. ByNora Perry. Illustrations by George Foster Barnes.
Little Alix.A ballad of the Children's Crusade. BySusan Coolidge. Illustrations by F. H. Lungren.
Many other enjoyments are in readiness; among them a Thanksgiving poem by Helen Jackson (H. H.), the last poem we can ever give our readers from her pen; "A Daughter of the Sea-Folks," a romantic story of Ancient Holland, by Susan Coolidge; "An Entertainment of Mysteries," By Anna Katherine Greene, author of the celebrated "detective novels;" foreign MSS. and drawings by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pennell; "Stoned by a Mountain," by Rose G. Kingsley; a frontier-life story by Mrs. Custer, author ofBoots and Saddles; a long humorous poem by Christina Rossetti; Arctic Articles by Lieut. Frederick Schwatka; "A Tiny Tale of Travel," a prose story by Celia Thaxter; a "Trotty" story, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; beautiful stories by Grace Denio Litchfield, Mary E. Wilkins and Katherine B. Foote; a lively boys' story by John Preston True; "Pamela's Fortune," by Mrs. Lucy C. Lillie; "'Little Captain' of Buckskin Camp," by F. L. Stealey—in short, the magazine will brim over with good things.
THE C. Y. F. R. U. READINGS
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I. Pleasant Authors for Young Folks.(American Series.) ByAmanda B. Harris.II. My Garden Pets.ByMary Treat, author ofHome Studies in Nature.III. Souvenirs of My Time.(Foreign Series.) ByMrs. Jessie Benton Fremont.IV. Some Italian Authors and Their Work.ByGeorge 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.ByOscar Fay Adams.
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Transcriber's Notes:Obvious punctuation errors repaired.Page 110, extraneous word "of" removed from text. Original read (made him run of errands)Page 111, "wortha" changed to "worth a" (was worth a dollar)Page 122, "were" changed to "where" (been in places where the)Page 4, advertisements, "hapyy" changed to "happy" (there is a happy thought)Page 9, advertisements, "choolboy" changed to "schoolboy" (of schoolboy life)Page 13, advertisements, "12m" changed to "12mo" (12mo, cloth, $1.50)Page 17, advertisements, "Pepy's" changed to "Pepys'" (Mr. Pepys' Valentine)Page 17, advertisements, "Tunrcoat" changed to "Turncoat" (A Revolutionary Turncoat)Page 17, advertisements, "VI" changed to "IV." (IV. Some Italian Authors)
Transcriber's Notes:
Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
Page 110, extraneous word "of" removed from text. Original read (made him run of errands)
Page 111, "wortha" changed to "worth a" (was worth a dollar)
Page 122, "were" changed to "where" (been in places where the)
Page 4, advertisements, "hapyy" changed to "happy" (there is a happy thought)
Page 9, advertisements, "choolboy" changed to "schoolboy" (of schoolboy life)
Page 13, advertisements, "12m" changed to "12mo" (12mo, cloth, $1.50)
Page 17, advertisements, "Pepy's" changed to "Pepys'" (Mr. Pepys' Valentine)
Page 17, advertisements, "Tunrcoat" changed to "Turncoat" (A Revolutionary Turncoat)
Page 17, advertisements, "VI" changed to "IV." (IV. Some Italian Authors)