Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-11-15
WIDE AWAKE!
(Only 500 a year.)

ADVANCE bulletin, 1884,
FOR BOYS, GIRLS g. EVERYBODY,
Starting at the source of good things, we give
here list of some famous contributors whose
stories and poems and articles are already in
hand for the coming year:
Elizabeth Stuart PHELPS, Mrs A D. T Whit
ney, Mrs. Dinah Mulock- -Craik, Edward Everett
Hale, H. H. Susan Coolidge, Arthur Gilman.
Lucy Larcum, Rev. Charles r. Talbot, Mrs.
Lucy c. Lille, George Macdonald, Mrs. Ray
mond Blathwayt (Aunt Maggie, Mrs. Louisa
! T. Craigin, Mrs. Lizzie W. Champney. Mary z.
wilkins, Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells, Prof d. A.
Sargent, Ernest IngersOll, Marion Harland,
Sarah Grin Jewett, Mrs. Clara Doty Bates, El-
bridge S. Brooks, NJ. E. ". s., Mrs. John
Sherwood), Miss Amanda B. Harris, Sophia
May, Mrs. Kate Upson Clarke, Margaret Ey-
tinge, Rose Kingsley, Mrs. Jessie Benton
Fremont, Mrs. Sarah h. Bolton, Celia, Thaxter,
Nora Perry, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, Mrs. A.
NJ. Diaz.
Iliustratrated Serial stories for 1884.
I. A Brave Girl; by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,
author of Gates Ajar, Doctor Tag, The Story Of
Avis, etc.
II. A District Messenger Boy; by Jas. Otis.
III. Pansy Billings; by H. H
". Pamela's Fortune; by Mrs. Lucy c. Lit
tie, author of Prudence, etc
V. His Three Trials; a story for boys; by
Mrs. Kate Gannet Wells.
VI. An Historical Serial; Ito begin Deeem-
ber).
VII. In No-Man's-Land; "a wonder-story
for little folks;) by Elbridge S Brooks.
Among the purely pictorial attractions will
be fine frontispieces from the studio of f. II.
Lungren, whose A-Maying and Winter Birds,
in Wide Awake, attracted so much attention in
1862. ". Parker Bodfsh will contribute Il
picture serial, in fifty scenes and twenty-four
intcrlUdes. entitled Through France in SabOts.
Miss Jessie McDermott has prepared a novel
set of fuL-page pictures under the title, The
| Procession OF the Zodiac. Joseph oennell has
sent from Italy some twenty interesting and
beautiful drawings of Chld-Life in Venice;
Henry Sandman has contributed another series,
illustrative of A Winter Carnival in Canada;
and George Foster Barnes has Just completed
an alphabet of novel and artistic decorative
initials
! Many valuable contributions, very pleasant
reading for the curious, are in hand; among
them two articles about Famous DwarfS and
one about Famous Giants, by Isabel Smithson,
illustrated by Edmund II. Garrett, from authen-
tic sources; The Troubadours, by George FOs-
ter Barnes, illustrated by the authQ The
Gypsies, by Mrs Catherwood, giving mush
novel NATTER the illustrations including draw
ings from life sketches made among the gypsy
caves of Granada the past winter.
Edward Everett Hale will make an iteresting
contribution to historical literature, through
Wide Awake, in the form OF several articles eus
titled The Story Of Boston Common. giving
complete its curious early history. These arti-
cles will be fully illustrated.
Mrs Clara Doty Bates, whose versifcatiOns
in Wide Awake of various nursery tales Sill
verlOcks and the Bears, Three Little Pigs, Lit
lie Red Riding Hoods, etc, are received a the
classic and standard form of these old tavOrtes,
has now put in verse Twelve OF -Esop's Fables
The fables have setting dOrcOratively novel
and richly novel.
Twelve of George MacDonald's lyrics are
being set to music by popular foreign composers,
among them, Reinecke, JadassOhn, Rheinbe--
ger, Lachner. Jangmann, and Cowcn. These
musical compositions have been secured for
Wide Awake by Louis c. Elson, the musical
editor; lately in Europe on that commission.
and they will undoubtedly form the most nOta-
BILE of contributions to music for young folks
In addition, there have been secured a bril-
liant line of short stories, travels, practical ar
ticles, Illustrated poems, ETC.; and when the
attractions of the c. Y. F. r. L. Reading
Course, with its series of pithy articles,
are taken into account, our readers, Young and
old, NAV feel assured of a wear of rich enter
tainment
Wide Awake is only $3.50 a year Liberal
terms to agents. Address
D. LOTHROP Il CO.,
| IL S-tf Franklin ST.. Boston