Litchfield enquirer., 1877-01-18
 g.. Nicholas.

%s~s "The King of all publications issued for the young on either side of the Atlantic. (Ea0- lGnd) Obserrer.
 The third volume of this incomparable Magazine is now completed. With it's eight hundred royal octave pages and it's six hundred Illustrations its sDlendid serla1, it's shorter stories poems and sketches etc. etc., in its beautiful binding of red and god it is the most spen gftbook for boys and girls eyer issued rom the press. Price $4; Tn full gilt, $5. "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 not surprising ly good. Churchnaan, Har1Ord, Conn. 1sf St. Nicholas for 1877, ~ Which opens with November, 1876, begins
 short and very entertaining serial from the French, "The Kingdom of the Greedy" story adapt sorbing interest to boys, H
 "His own Master,"
 By Trowbridge,
 author of the "Jack Hazard Stories," begins in the Christmas Holiday Number.
 sketches, poems and pictures for the holidays and astonishing illustrations of Oriental sports ~ith drawings by iamese artists, the Christmas Holiday Number of St. Nicholas, superbly illustrated contains very interesting paper
 s.The Boys of My Boyhood,.
 By William Cullen Bryant; ''The Horse Hotel lively artcle by Charles A Bar nard spiendidly illustrated; ''The Clock in the Sky" by Richard A. Proctor. "A Christmas Play for Homes or Sunday Schools, by Dr. Eegleston; ssThe Peter kns' Christmas Tree, by Lucretia F. Hale: sPoetry and Carols of Winter" by Lucy Larcom with pictures Do Not Fail to Buy St. Nicholas for
 the Christmas Holidays.
 Price 25 Cents. During the year there will be interesting papers for boys, by William Cullen Bryant, John Whittier, Thomas Hughes, William Hewitt, pr. Holland George MacDonaid. Sanford B. Hunt, Frank R. stockton and others.
 There win be stories, sketches, and poems. of spe- cial interest to girls, by Harriett Prescott Spoord Susan Coolidge, Sarab Winter Kellogg Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Louisa Alcott Lucretia Hale Celia will be also 1
 Twelve Sky PictuFes,0
 By Prof. Proctor, the Astronomer with maps, showing s3The Stars of Each Month. .n which will be likely to surpass in interest any series on popular science recently given to the public
 AMUsEMRNT and INSTRUCTION with Fnr and Eporrn and WIT and WISDOM, will be mingled as heretofore and St. Nicholas will continue to delight the younq and give pleasure to the old.
 THE LONDON LITERARY WORLD savs: t'There is no magazine for the young that can be press. All the articles. whether in prose or rhyme are throbbing with vitality. The Iit. erature and artistic ilustratsons are both snperbn The London Daily News says: aWe wish WE could point out it's equal in our own periodical teratureD
 GOOD NEWS for BOYS and GIRLS. To meet the demand for cheap-r St. Nicholas Gift Book the price of volumess and IT has bsen reduced to $S each The three volumes, in an elegant Ibrary case sold for $l0 n full gift. $15 SO that a may give their children complete set. These volumes contsin more attractive material than ffsy dollars worth of the ordinary children's books. Subscription price, $S year. The three bsund vol umes and subscription for this year, only sl2 Sub scribe with the nearest newsdeaer sand money in check money order, or in registered letter &o 36 SCRIBNER CO.,. 74S Broadway.