Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-11-08
WIDE AWAKE!
(Only $500 a year,
Advance Bulletin, 1884,
OR BOYS, GIRLS g. EVERYBODY,

FOR BOYS, GIRLS g. EVERYBODY,
Starting at the source of good things, we give
here list of some famous contributors whose
stories ard poems and articles already in
hand for the coming year:
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Mrs A. D. 7 Whit
ney, Mrs. Dinah MulOck-Craik Edward Everett
Hale, H. H. Susan Coolidge, Arthur Gilman,
Lucy Larcum, Rev. Charles R. Talbot, Mrs.
Lucy G. Lille, George Macdonald, Mrs. Ray
mond Blathwayt (Aunt Maggie, Mrs. Louisa
T. Craigin, Mrs. Lizzie ". Champney. Mary Z.
Wilkins, Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells, Prof. D. A.
Sargent, Ernest IngersOll, Marion Harland,
Sarah Grin Jewett, Mrs. Clara Doty Bates, Ell
bridge S. Brooks, NJ. E. W. s., (lIrs. John
SherwOod), Miss Amanda B. Harris, Sophia
May, Mrs. Kate UpsOn Clarke, Margaret Ey-
tinge, Rose Kingsley, Mrs. Jessie Benton
Fremont Mrs. Sarah X. Bolton, Celia Thaxter,
Nora Perry, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, Mrs. A
VI. Diaz.
IIIustratrated Serial Stories for 1884.
1. 4 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; story for BOYS; by
Mrs. Kate Gannet Wells.
VI. An Historical Serial; Ito begin Deem
ber).
VII. In No-Man's- Land; "a wonder-story
for little folks;) by Elbridge ). Brooks.
Among the purely pictorial attractions will
be fine trontispieces from the studio OF F. Il.
Lungren, whose A-Maying anu Winter Birds,
in Wide Awake, attracted so much attention in
1862. W. Parker BOdnsh will contribute a
interludes, entitled Through France in SabOts.
Miss Jessie McDermott has prepared a novel
set of full-page pictures under the title, The
Procession of the Zodiac. Joseph oennell has
sent from Italy some twenty interesting and
beautiful drawings of Child-Life in Venice
Henry Sandman has contributed another st ries,
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 III hand; among
them two articles about Famous Dwarfs, and
one about Famous Giants, by Isabel SmithsoI,
illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett, from authen-
tic sources; The Troubadours, by George FOS-
ter Barnes, illustrated by the autho-; lie
Gypsies, by Mrs. CatheruoOd, giving much
novel matter, the illustrations including draw
caves of Granada the past winter.
Edward Everett Hale will make an iteresting
contribution to historical lterrture; through
Wide Awake, in the form of several articles en-
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, SiI-
verlocks and the Bears, Three Little Pigs, Lit
tie Red Riding Hoods, etc., are received as the
classic and standard form OF these old tavoriteS,
has now put in verse Twelve OF EsOp's Fables.
The fables have a setting dorcorativeiy novel
and richly novel.
Twelve of George MScDonald's lyrics are
being set to music by popular foreign composers,
among them, Reinecke, Jadassohn, Rheinber-
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 Hota-
BILE of contributions to music for young folks.
In addition, there have been secured a brill
liant line of short stories, travels, practical
ticles, illustrated poems, etc; and when the
attractions of the c. Y. F. 4. L. Reading
Course, with its seven series of pithy articles,
are taken into account, our readers. young and
old, may feel assured of a year of rich enter
Wide Awake is only $3.50 year. Liberal
terms to agents. -AdreSS
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