The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-12-02
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rINHE third volume of this Incompatible Magazine
4 is now completed With Its eight hundred royal
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splendid serials, Its shorter stories poems, and
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ST. NICHOLAS FOR 1877,
which opens with November. 1876, begins a Short
and very Entertaining Serial from the French. THE
Kingdom of the Greedy" u Story adapted 10 the
THANKSGIVING Season. Another serial, Of absorbing
interest to boys, His Own Master by ]. 7. Trow'
bridge, author Of the Jack Hazard Stories" begins
in the Christmas Holiday Number
Besides serial Stories, lively sketches poems and
pictures for the holidays and some astonishing Illus
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artists, the Christmas Holiday Number OF ST. NIcHO-
Las supefbly illustrated contains very interesting
paper, The Boys Of My Doyhood," by William Cul'
len Bryant; The Horse Hotel" lively article, BY
Charles A. barnard, splendidly illustrated, "fhe
CLOCK In the SKY by Richard A. Proctor "A Christ
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