The Youth's Companion
FOR 1884.
THE COMPANION presents below the Announcement of its Fifty-Seventh Volume. Its unusual character, both in the range of its topics, and its remarkably brilliant list of Contributors, will, we trust, be accepted as a grateful recognition of the favor with which the paper has been received by more than 300,000 subscribers.
Illustrated Serial Stories.
| A Story of English Rustic Life, by | Thomas Hardy. |
| The Foundling of Paris, by | Alphonse Daudet. |
| A Boys' Story, by | J.T. Trowbridge. |
| The Covenanter's Daughter, by | Mrs. Oliphant. |
| A Story of Adventure, by | C.A. Stephens. |
| My School at Orange Grove, by | Marie B. Williams. |
Science and Natural History.
| Eccentricities of Insanity, by | Dr. W.A. Butler. |
| Common Adulterations of Food, by | Dr. J.C. Draper. |
| The Home Life of Oysters, and other Natural History Papers, by | Arabella B. Buckley. |
| Wonders in Ourselves; or the Curiosities of the Human Body, by | Dr. Austin Flint, Jr. |
| Insect Enemiesof the Garden, the Orchard and the Wheat-Field, by | A.S. Packard, Jr. |
| Demons of the Air and Water.A fascinating Series of Papers on Sanitary Science, by | R. Ogden Doremus. |
| The Youth Of the Brain, "Speech in Man," "Animal Poisons and their Effects," and Other Papers, by | Dr. W.A. Hammond. |
| Strange Ways Of Curing People. A Description of Curious Sanitaria,—the Peat, Mud, Sand, Whey, and Grape Cures, by | William H. Rideing. |