Litchfield enquirer., 1877-01-11
Str. Nicholas.

Sf. Nicholas. "The King of all publications issued for the young either side of the Atlantic. Southampton (Eng- tand) ObseFUer.
 The third volume of this incomparable Magazine ia completed. With it's eight hundred royal octave pages and it's six hundred illustrations it's splendid serlas its shorter stories poems, and sketches etc., most splen gft-book for boys and girls issued from the press. Price s4; Tn full gilt, $5. &M .'St Nicholas is full of the choicest things. The publication is in all respects the best of it's kind We have never yet seen number that was not surprising ly good."-The ChGrchnldn, Hartf0rd, Conn. gss
 St. Nicholas for 1877, a4@s-' Which opens with November, 1876, begins
 short and very entertaining serial from the French 1.-The Kingdom of the Greedy" story adapt ed to tn. Thanksgiving season. Another serial of ab sorbing interest to boys, EN8e
 ssI1iS own MaSter,e
 By J T Trowbridge,
 author of the "Jack Hazard Stories" begins in the Christmas Holiday Number. vyx.e.s < Besides serial stories, Christmas stories. lively sketches, poems and pictures for the holidays, and astonishing illustrations of Oriental sports with drawings by Siamese artists, the Christmas Holiday Number of St. Nicholas, superbly illustrated, contains
 s.The Boys of My Boyhood,"
 By William Cullen Bryant;
 The Horse Hotel" lively article by Charles A. Bar nard splenddly illustrated "TheaCiock in the Sky" by Richard A; Proctor; .A Christmas Play for Homes or Sunday Schools, by Dr. Eggleston; .The Peter kins Christmas Tree, by Lucretia P. Hale; "Poetry and Carols of Winter, by Lucy Larcom with pictures Do Not Fail to Buy St. Nicholas for
 the Christmas Holidays.
 Price 25 Gents.
 During the year there will be interesting papers for boys, by William Cullen Bryant, John G Whittier Thomas Hughes, William Hewitt. Dr. Holland, George dacDonald. Sanford B. Hunt. Frank R. stockton. and others.
 There will be stories, sketches, and poems, of sps- cial interest to girls, by Harriett Prescott Spoor Susan Coolidge, Sarab Winter Kellogg, Elizabeth stuart Phelps, Louisa Alcott Lucretia Hale Celia Tnaxter, Mary Mapes Dodge, and many others. There will be also
 ssTwelve Sky Pictufes.0 By Prof. Proctor, the Astronomer, with maps, showing. aThe Stars of Each Month ? which will be likely to surpass in interest any series on popular science recently given to the public. AMUSEMENT and IEsTRUCTIoN, with FUN and FRoLTc and WIT and WISDOM, will be mingled as heretofore and St. Nicholas will continue to delight the young and give pleasure to the old.
 THE LONDON LITERARi KORLD says:
 s.There is no magazine for the young That can be said to equal this choice production of Scribner's press. All the articles whether in prose or rhyme l are throbbing with vitality. e+ The Ht- erature and artistic ilustratsons are both superb The London Daily News says: awe wish we could point out equal in periodical iteraturen GOOD NEWS for BOYS and GIRLS.
 To meet the demand for cheaper St. Nichelas eff Book price of vounaess and II has been reduced case are sold for $I0 Gin full g $I5 so that all mav give their children a complete set. These yoIumer coutan more attractive material than fifty dollars worth of the eordinary children's books. ss | Subscription price, 8 year. The three bound yo,. umes and subscription for this year. only Sl1 snh scribe with the nearest newsdealer or send ir check or money order, in registered letter tc 1 3e SCRIBNER CO.,. T43 Broadway. M N