Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-12-22
ST. NICHOLAS!

The king OF all publications issued for the
,nung on both sides o. the ltantic
;S1ash6nipton Eng loIIltl) Observer
The third-1olnme of this Incompatible Mag a
zineis now comp 'eted. With is 50 loyal Octa-
" pages. ano its 100 Illustrations its splendid
seiais ts shorter stories, poems. sketches, etc,
etc in its heauti iul binding of RED and gold II is
the most spenud giit-bOOk for boys and girls ever
i-sued from the press. Price, $500; in full gilt,
500
ST. NICHOLAS is -ull of the choicest things.
The publication Is in all respects the best of its
kind We have never yet seen a number that was
not surprisingly good.
The CtlTcInadH, Hartford, Conn.
ST. NICHOLAS FOR 1877.
Which opens with November, 1876, begins a
=. The Kingdom of the Greedy story adapted
to the Thanksgiving season. Another serial OF
absorbing interest to boys,
"HIS OWN MASTERY
by j. T. Trowbridge. author of the Jack Hazard
S'ories," begins in the Christmas Holiday Num-
Der.
Besides serial stories, Christmas ories lively
sketches, poems and pictures for the Holidays,
md some astonishing Illustrations of Oriental
sports. with drawings by Siamese artists. THE
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY NUMBER OF ST
NICHOLAS, superbly illustrated, contains very
interesting paper,
1.-THE BOYS OF MY BOYHOOD,o
by " lillian Cullen Bryant; The Horse Hotel -
a lively article Charles A Barnard. splenddly il
lustrated - The Clock in the Sky by Richard
A. Proctor; A Christmas Play for Homes or
kin's Christmas Tree" By Lucretia P Hale =,
Poetry and Carols of Winter" 5y Lucy Larcom,
with pictures.
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FOR THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDA vs.
Price 25 cents.
During the year there viii be interesting papers
for boys. by William Cullen Bryant. John G.
Whittier, Thomas Hughes, William Hewitt, DR..
Holland George Macdonald, Sanford B. Hunt,
Frank R. Stockton and others
There will be stories, sketches and poems, of
special interest to girls. by Harriet Prescott Spot
{ rd, Susan Coolidge, Sarah Winter Kellogg.
P. Hale, Celia ThaxIer, Mary Mspes Dodge, and
many others. There will be also
''TWELVE SKY PICTURES,0
by Prof. PROcTOR, the Astronomer. with Maps
showing - The Stars of the MONTH which will be
likely to surpass in interest any series on Dopu-
lar science recently given to the public.
AMUSEMENT AND INSTRUCTION with
FUN AND FROLIC, and WIT and WISDOM.
will be mingled as hefetoforc, and ST. NICHOLAS
will continue to delight the young and give pleas
ure to the old
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literature and artistic Illustrations are both su-
perb.''
The London Daily Ne1CS says, I'VE wish we
could point out its equal in our own periodical
literature"
Good News for Boys and GIrls!
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LAS Gift-bOok, the price of vols and II has been
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that all may give their children a complete set
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