Middletown transcript., 1876-12-30
ST. NICHOLAS.

ssThe King OF all Publications Issued
for the Young ON either side OF the At
lantic. ~ Southampton fEnglandJ Obseruer.
The third volume of this Incompatible Mag
azine is now completed. With its eight hun
dred royal octave pages, and its six hundred
illustrations, its splendid serials, its shorter
stories, poems and sketches, etc., in its beau
tiful binding Of red and gold, it is the most
splendid gift-book for boys and girls ever is
sued from the press. Price, 81; in full gilt So
''ST. NICHOLAS is full Of the choicest things.
The publication is, in all respects, the best Of It's
kind. We haze neUer get seen number that scos
not surprisingly good's-The Churchman,
Hartford, Conn.
ST. NICHOLAS for 1877,
Which opeus with November, 1876, begins q
short and very entertaining serial from the
French, s'The Kingdom of the Greedy" a
story adapted to the Thanksgiving season.
Another serial, of absorbing interest to boys,
His Own Master
By J. T. TRowBRIDGE,
author of the "yack Hazard Stories" begins in
the CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY NUMBER
Besides serial stories, Christmas stories,
ETC., the CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY NUMBER
of St. Nicholas. superbly illustrated, contains
a very interesting paper,
The Boys Of My Boyhood,"
BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT;
"The Horse Hotel" lively article, by Chas.
Rarnard spleudidly illustrated: "The
Clock in the Sky" by Richard A. Proctor /;
IA Christmas Play for Homes or Sunday
Schools" by DR.. Eggles'on; "The Peterkins'
Christmas Tree" by Lucretia P. Hale; "Poe-
try and Carols of Winter" by Lucy Larcom,
with pictures.
Do Not Fail to Buy St. Nicholas for
the Christmas Holidays, price 25c.
During the year there will be interesting
papers for boys, by William Cullen Bryant,
John q. 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
Spofford, Susan Coolidge, Sarah Winter Kel-
logg, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Louisa Alcott,
Sucretia P. Hale, Celia Thaxter, Mary Mapes
Dodge, and many others. There will be also
Twelve Sky Pictures"
By PROFESSOR PROCTOR, the Astronomer,
with maps showing "The Stars Of Each
Month"; which will be likely to surpass in
interest any series on popular science recently
given to The public.
| THE LONDON LITERARY WORLD SAYS:
"7here is no magazine for the young that can
be said to equal this choice production Of Serb.
NER's 8 press AU the articles, s0hether in prost
| or rhyme, are Mrobbing Nth vitality.
The literature and artistic illustrations are botl
superb"
The London Daily News says: We wish O'
could point out its equal in our oson periodied
| literature"
GOOD NEWS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
To meet the demand for cheaper ST.
NICHOLAS Gift-Book, the price of vols and II
has been reduced to So each. The three vol
umes, in an elegant library case, are sold fol
$lO lin full gilt, $l5), SO that all may give
their children complete set. These volumes
contain more attractive material than fifty dol.
lars worth of the ordinary children's books
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