D. LOTHROP & COMPANY, Publishers, Franklin and Hawley Sts., Boston.


"WIDE AWAKE may now be fairly regarded as the leading magazine in the country for young people. It has kept apace with the advances which literature for young people has made of late, and is the most attractive, instructive and practical magazine which can be put into the hands of young people."—Cincinnati Times-Star.

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with a thousand quarto pages a year of literature by best authors, and half a thousand pictures by best artists.


A FEW OF THE ATTRACTIONS FOR '86:

A Midshipman at Large and The Cruise of the Casabianca, two yachting (serial) stories by Charles Remington Talbot; A Girl and a Jewel (serial), by Harriet Prescott Spofford; Dilly and the Captain and Peggy (serials), by Margaret Sidney; and a six months' story by Charles Egbert Craddock. Also, Royal Girls and Royal Courts (12) by Mrs. John Sherwood; A Cycle of Children (12 historic holidays), by Elbridge S. Brooks; Stories of American Wars (12), In Peril (12 Adventures), Youth in Twelve Centuries (24 Costume and Race Studies), etc. (Full Prospectus Free.)