Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1883-12-25
WIDE AWAKE
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tributors whose stories and poems ant
articles are already in hand Cor the com
ing year:
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Mrs. A. ID
+. Whitney, Mrs. Dinah Mulock- Cruik
Edward Everett Hale, H H. Sussr
Coolidge, Arthur Gilman, Lucy Larcom
NJ. +. b., Mrs. Catherwood, Rev. Chas
X. Talbot, Mrs. Lucy c. Lille, Marga.
ret Sidney, George Macdonald, Lady
Dunboyne, Mrs. Raymond pathway
! Aunt Maggie Mrs. Louisa I. Craigin
Mrs. Lizzie w. Chsmpney, Mary f.
Wilkins, Mrs.. Kate GAnnett Wells, Prof.
d. A. Sargent, Ernest Ingers1ll, Marion
Harland, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mrs. Clara
Doty Bates, Elbridge 8. Brooks. NJ. +.
w. S Mrs. John Sherwood, Miss
Amanda b Harris, Sophie May, Mrs.
Kate Epson Clarke, Margaret Eytinge,
Rose Kingsley, Edwin d. Mead, Mrs.
Su,an Power, Mrs Jessie Benton
Fremont, Mrs Saiah X. Bolton, Philip
Bourks Marston, Celia Thaxter, Nora
Perry, Rose Hawthorne Ls,hrop, Mrs.
A. W. Diaz Illustrated serial stories
for 1854: |. a Brave Girl" by Eliz-
abeth Stuart Phelps, author Of Gates
"Ajar" doctor Zay," "The Story of
Avis" etc. > "A Distric; Messenger
Boy" by James O,is. 3. "pansy Bill
ings,' by III. H." 4 "Pamela's For
tune" by Mrs. Lucy C. Lille, author Of
Prudence" etc ) His Three Trials, y
, A s'ory for boys, b. Mrs. Kate Ganne;t
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W. Parker Bodiish will contribute a pic
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in Sabots." Miss Jessie McDermott has
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OF the Zodiac" Joseph Pennell has sent
from Italy some twenty interesting and
beautiful drawings OF "Child-Life in Ven
ice :" Henry Sandman has contributed
another series, illustrative of a Winter
Carnival in Canada; and George Foster
Barnes las just completed an alphabet
of novel and artistic decorative initials.
Many valuable contributors, very
pleasant reading for the curious, are in
hand among them are two articles about
famous dwarfs and one about famous
giants, by Isabel Smi,hson, illustrated by
f.. II. Garrett, from Authentic sources !;
The Gypsies, by Mrs. Catherwood, giving
much novel matter, the illustrations in
Guiding drawings from life sketches made
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Edward Everett Hale will make an
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through Wide Awake, in the form of
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events and scenes connected with its
green shades and malls and narrating
many tales and traditions, quaint but
authentic. These articles will be fully
illustrated.
Mrs. Clara Doty Bates, whose versif-
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sery tales, Silverlocks and the Bears,
Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding
Hood, etc, are received as the classic
and standard form Of these old favori.es,
has now put in verse Twelve Of -E'op's
Fables" These fables have a setting dec
oratively novel and richly pictorial.
Twelve of George MacDonalds lyrics
are being set to music BY popular foreign
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