Litchfield enquirer., 1877-02-01
S.. Nicholas

A "The King of all publications issued for the young on either side of the Atlantic. (Eng- Land} Obseyrer. -<.-H As E8
 Tine third volume of this ncomparabe Magazine is now completed. With it's eight hundred royal octave pages and it's six hundred illustrations, it's splendid seslals, its shorter stores poems and sketches etc. etc., in its beautiful binding of red and gold it is the most splen giftbook for boys and girls ever issued trem the press. Price $4; In 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 yet number that was not surprisne- ly good."-The Churchman, HarttOrd Conn.
 St. Nicholas for 1877, Which opens with November, 1876. begins As Rss short and very entertaining serial from the French, 1.-The Kingdom of the Greedy" story adapt ed to the Thanksgiving season. Another serial of ab sorbing interest to boys, - .~I ..IIis own Master.''5 TIT
 By Trowbridge,
 author of the tJack Hazard stories," begin in the Christmas Holiday Number. . Besides serial stories, Christmas stories, lively sketches, poems and pictures for the holidays and drawings by Siamese artists, the Christmas Holiday Number of St. Nicholas, superbly illustrated, contains a very interesting paper s a3a +@s@3a
 s.The Boys of My BoyhoOd,'s
 By William Cullen Bryant; @4 vzs s~ "The Horse Hotel" lively article by Charles Bar nard splendidly iustrated s'The Clock in the skyp by Richard A, Proctor; "A Christmas Play for Homes or Sunday Schools, . by Dr: Esgeston; aThe Peter- F. and Carols of Winte," by Lucy Larcom with pictures Do Not Fail to Buy St. Nicholas for
 the Christmas Holidays.
 Price B Cents.. 3 X. @.zS .zS During the year there will be interesting papers for boys, by William Cnllen Bryant, John eWhittier Thomas Hughes, William Howitt, Dr. Holland George dacDonad, Sanford B. Hunt, Frank R. Stockton, and others. There will be stories sketches, and poems, of spe eial interest to girls by Harrett Prescott spoord, Susan Coolidge Ssrab Winter Kellogg Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Louisa Alcott, Lucretia Hale Celia Tnaxter, Mary Mapes Dodge, and many others. There will be also r<,f ea9a "
 'sTweive Sky PictuFes.''
 By Prof. Proctor, the Astronomer,
 with maps, showing ssThe Stars of Each Month :. which will be likely to surpass in interest any series on popular science recently given to the public
 AMUSEMENT and INSTRUCTION, with FUN and FRoITc and WIT and WISDOM, will be mingled as heretofDre and St. Nicholas will continue to delight the young and give pleasure to the old.
 THE LONDON LITERARY WORLD savs:
 '.There is no magazine for the young that can be said to equal this choice production of Scribners press. All the articles, whether in prose or rhvme throbbing with vitality. = The lit. erature and artistic ilustratsons both snperbD
 The London Daily News says: swe wish we con,d point out its equal in our periodical hteraureO
 GOOD NEWS for BOYS and GIRLS,
 To meet the demand for cheaper St. Nicholas Gift Book the price of volumess and II has been reduced to 8 each The three volumes in an elegant Ebrarv case sold for $IO n full git S15 so that all may give their children complete set. These volumes contain attractive material than fifty dollare, worth of the ordinary children's books - Subscription price, s year. The three bound vo,s and subscription for this year, only Si2 S,,bs scribe with the nearest newsdealer send money i check, or money order or in registered letter to SC 'sCRIBNRR CO. f4S Bruadwayl lN W. v