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, byThomas Hardy.
The Foundling of Paris, byAlphonse Daudet.
A Boys' Story, byJ.T. Trowbridge.
The Covenanter's Daughter, byMrs. Oliphant.
A Story of Adventure, byC.A. Stephens.
My School at Orange Grove, byMarie B. Williams.

Science and Natural History.

Eccentricities of Insanity, byDr. W.A. Butler.
Common Adulterations of Food, byDr. J.C. Draper.
The Home Life of Oysters, and other Natural History Papers, byArabella B. Buckley.
Wonders in Ourselves; or the Curiosities of the Human Body, byDr. Austin Flint, Jr.
Insect Enemiesof the Garden, the Orchard and the Wheat-Field, byA.S. Packard, Jr.
Demons of the Air and Water.A fascinating Series of Papers on Sanitary Science, byR. Ogden Doremus.
The Youth Of the Brain, "Speech in Man," "Animal Poisons and their Effects," and Other Papers, byDr. W.A. Hammond.
Strange Ways Of Curing People. A Description of Curious Sanitaria,—the Peat, Mud, Sand, Whey, and Grape Cures, byWilliam H. Rideing.