Litchfield enquirer., 1877-01-04
S. Nicholas.


 "The King of all publications issued for the vounp either side of the Atlantic. ."-So,thapp pton (no- ldnd) 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 it's splendid serials it's shorter stories poems and sketches etc. most spien gft-book for boys and girls issued from the press. Price $4; Tn full gilt, s. ''st Nicholas is full of the choicest things. The publication is in all respects the best of it's kind We have never yet number that was not surprising ly good. .'-The chufehn,an, HartfOrd. Conn.
 St. Nicholas for 1877, Which opens with November, 1876. begins French, The Kingdom of the Greedy, story adapt ed to the Thanksgiving Another serial ab- sorbing interest to boys,
 'His own Mastcr.''
 By J T Trowbridge, author of the "Jack Hazard Stories" begins in the Christmas Holiday Number. Besides serial stories Christmas stories, lively sketches, poems and pictures for the holidays, and some astonishing illustrations of Oriental sports Eith drawings by Siamese artists the Christmas Holiday Number of St. Nicholas superby illustrated contains very interesting paper
 ''The Boys of My BoyhOOd,''
 By William Cullen Bryant; .The Horse Hote." lively article, by Charles A. Bar nard splendidly illustrated; 'Fhe Clock in the Sky" by Richard 4: Proctor; "A Christmas Play for Homes kns' Christmas Tree, by Iucreta P. Hale: ..Poetry and Carols of Winter by Lucy Larcom, with pictures Do NotFaiI 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 G Whittier Thomas Hughes, William Hewitt, Dr. Holland (3eoroe MacDonaid, Sanford B. Hunt. Frank R. Stockton and others.
 There will be stories sketches and poers of sna cial interest to girls by Harriett Prescott soorS Susan Coolidge, Sarah Winter Kellogg Flizabeth Stuart Phelps, Louisa Alcott, Lucreta Hale Celia Tnaxter, Mary Mapes Dodge, and many others. There will be also
 'sTwelve Sky Pictures,',
 By Prof. Proctor, the Astronomer with maps, showing sThe Stars of Each Month v which will be likely surpass in inteies any seres AMUsEMENT and INSTRUCTION, with FUN and FRdIrc and WIT and WISDOM, will be mingled heretofore and St. Nicholas will continue to delight the young and give pleasure to the old.
 THE LONDON LITERARY WORLD says: '.There is no magazine for the young that can be press. All the articles. whether in prose or rhvme are throbbing with vitality. The Iit erature and artistic ilustratsons both snperbn The London Daily News says: "We wish we could point out its equal in our own periodical tera.uren
 GOOD NEWS for BOYS and GIRLS. To meet the demand for a cheap-r St. Nicho,as Gift Book of volumess and II has been reduced to s each. The three volumes, in elegant hrary case, sold for $lO n full gt $I5 so that a nay give their children complete set. These yolumes eontain more attractive material than fifty dollais worth of the ordinary chiliren's books
 Subscription price, B year. The three ,.,,.,,,. nmes and subscription for this year. oniy 419 s,h scribe with the nearest newsdealer or send u,ae, m check, or money order, in registered letter t ss scRIBNER O.. T4s Broadway.N N