Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-12-20
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Advance Bulletin, 1884,
OR BOYS, GIRLS & EVERYBODY

| ADVANCE Bulletin, 1884,
FOR BOYS, GIRLS & 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 tle 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 E.
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. ". 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 X. Bolton, Celia, Thaxter
Nora Perry, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, Mrs. A
NJ. Diaz.
lIlustrntrnIed Serial stories for 1854.
l. 4 Brave Girl; by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
author of Gates Ajar, Doctor Tag, The Story
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; to begin Decem-
berj.
VII. In NO-Man' LAND; "a wonder-stOry
for little folks;) by Elbridge s. Brooks.
Among the purely pictorial attractions will
be fine frontispieces from the studio of T. II.
Lungren, whose A-Maying and Winter Birds,
in Wide Awake, attracted so much attention in
1862 W. Parker Bodfsh will contribute a
picture serial, in fifty scenes and twenty-fou
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 0ennell has
sent from Italy some twenty interesting and
beautiful drawings of Child-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 H. Garrett, from authen-
tic sources; The Troubadours, by George Fos-
ter Barnes, illustrated by the autho; The
Gypsies, by Mrs. Catherwood, giving much
novel matter, 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 en-;
titled The Story of Boston Common, giving
complete its curious early history. These arti-
cles will be fully illustratvu
Mrs. Clara Doty Bates, whose versifcations
in Wide Awake of various nursery tales, Sill
verlOcks and the Bears, Three Little Pigs, Lit
tie Red Riding Hoods, etc, are received as the
classic and standard form of these old favorites,
has now put in verse Twelve of Esop's Fables.
The fables have a setting dOrcOratively novel
and richly novel.
Twelve of George MacDonald's lyries are
being set to music by popular foreign composers,
among them, Reinecke, Jadassohn, Rheinber-
ger, Lachner. Jangmann, and Cowen. 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. U. Reading
Course, with its seven series of pithy articles,
are taken into account, our readers, young and
old, may feel assured of year of rich enter
tainment.
Wide Awake is only S25O wear. Liberal
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