The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-10-20
sT[! NICHOLAS

The King Of all Publications Issued
for tho Young on Either Side Of the
Atlantic. p--Southampton Engandl Observer.
! The Shird volume of this incompatible
Magazine h. now lcOmpleWd. With its
eight hundred royal octave pages, and Its
six hundred illustrations, its splendid seri.
ais, It's shorter stories, poems, and sketches,
ETC., etc., IN Its beautiful binding OF red
and gold, 1t Is the most splendid gift-book
for boys and girls ever Issued from the
press. Price, 81 In full gilt, So. '. .''".'
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things. The publication Is, In all respects,
the best OF its kind. We have never yet
seen number that was not surprisingly
good." -The Churehman. Hartford Conn
st. Nicholas for 1877,
Which opens with November, 1875, begins
A short and very entertaining serial from
the French, "TRe Kingdom OF the Greedy"
b story adapted to the Thanksgiving season.
Another serial, OF absorbing interest to boys.
-a'oI CHS OWN MASTER" ..'' " .
li'l' tByJ.T. Trowbridge, '0
author Of the "Jack Hazard Stories" be.
gins In the Christmas Holiday Number.
Besides serial stories, Christmas stories
lively sketches, poems and pictures for the
holidays, and some astonishing illustrations
ofOrientaisports, with drawings / y Siamese
The Christmas Holiday Number Of
( hio,l,suS ST. NICHOLAS, a.........
uperbly Illustrated, contains q very inter-
sting paper, t'..t ..,tr..., ,',.....
"1HE BOYS OF MY BOYHOoD,"
BY William Cullen BRYANT:
-The Horse Hotel,' a lively article, by
Charles A. Barnard, splendidly illustrated
.The Clock in the sky" by Richard A.
Proctor; "a Christmas Play for Homes or
Sunday-schools," by DIR. Eggleston "The
Peterkins' Christmas Tree,V by Lucreta
P. Hale; "Poetry and Carols OF Winter
by Lucy Laroom, with pictures. JJ... r.'T
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papers for boys, BY William Cullen Bryant,
Hewitt, DIR. Holland, George Macdonald,
Sanford u. Hunt, Frank II. Stockton, and
There will be stories, sketches, and
poems, Of special interest TO girls, by Hsr.
net Prescott Spoford, Susan Coolidge,
Sarah Winter Kellogg, Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps, Louisa Alcott, Lucretia 2. Hale,
Celia Thaxter, Mary Mapes Dodge, and
many others. There will be also ~ '-'7
hH"TWELVE SKY PlCTURES.o
BY Professor Proctor, the Astronomer.
With maps, showing "The Stars Of Each
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AWpsement and Instruction, with Fun
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y TIE LONDON LITERARY wonLD
~ '.IF '" ".', ' sAYB: W "
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