The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-11-22
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ADVANCE BULLETIN 1884,
Eor povs Girla and Evervhodv

For Boys. Girls and Everybody.
Starting At the source Of good things. y
whose stories andlpoems and articles are alread
In hand for the coming year:
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Mrs 7 whitney
Mrs. Diaah Muloch-Craik, Edward Everett
I Hale, IN. b." susan Coolidge, Arthur Gilman
} ret Sidney. George Macdonald. Lady Dlnboyns
Mrs. Raymond Blathwayt, AUNT Maggis) Mfs
Louisa +. Craigin, Mrs. Lizzie W Chsmpnsy
Mary z. wilkins, Mrs. Kate Gsnnett Wells
Prof d: a. Sargent. Ernest Inngersoll. Marion
Bates, Elbridge y. Brooks, N. y. W. y. (Mrs
John shsrwood), Miss Amanda D Harris. 30
phie May, Mrs. Kate Epson Clarke, Margaret
Eytinge, Rose Kingsley, Edwin D. Mead. Mrs
Susau Power. Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, Mrs.
Sarah x Bolton, Philip Bourke Marston, Della
ThAxter, No al Perry, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop,
Mrs. A. n. Diaz.
Illustrated Serial Stories for 1884.
/. A Brave GInL. by Elizabeth Stuart
Phelps, author Of Gates Ajar, Doctor Zay The
Story OF Avis etc
ii. A DIsrnIor MESSENGER Boy. BY James
Otis.
| III. PAssY BILLINGS. BY "H. H
~. PAxrLAs PoRTusE. By Lucy G. Lille.
author Of Prudence, eto.
". HIS THREE TRIALS. story for boys. by
Mrs. Kate 0Annet Wells.
vi. AN HIsToRicAL SERIAL. To begin in
December.
VII. IN No. Mans LAND. A wonder story for
little folks. BY Elbridge 8. Brooks.
Among the purely pictorial attractions will be
fne FRoNrIsPiEoEs from the studio Of y. II.
Lnngren, whose A-Adying and Winter Bird In
1882. W. Parker BodfM will contribute pic
turs serial in fifty scenes and twenty. four inter-
hides, entitled THROUGH FRANCE IN SABoTs.
Miss Jessie McDerr,oa has prepared novel sol
" twelve full'paRe pictures under the title. The
PnocEs,roS Or THE ZODIAC. Jsseph Pennea has
sent from Italy some twenty interesting and
beautiful drawings OF CHILD LIFE In VENICE;
Henry Sandman has contr ibuted another series, |
illustrative OF A WISTHR CARNIVAL IN CANADA.
George Foster barnes has just completed an 81. |
phabst OF novel and artistic decorative initials.
Many valuable contributions. very pleasant
reading for the curious, are in hand; among
them two articles about Famous DwARrs, and
one about FAMOUS GIANTS. by Isabel SmiMson,
illustrator by Edmund H. Garrett, from autben. |
tic sources; The TRouBARouRs. BY George Eos
Ter Barnes. illustrated by the author; The GYP.
sIEs. by Mrs. CdLherpood, giving much novel
matter, tho illustrations Including drawings
from life sketches made among the gypsy caves
Of Granada the past winter.
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TO historical literature through
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ANGUS events and scenes connected with its :
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These articles will DO fully illustrated.
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md ne Bears, Three Little Pigs, LiAls Red Rid.
ag Hood, etc. are received as the olsssic and
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