Wide Awake was once said by a practical literary and business man, who is at home in both England and America, to have "more ideas to the square inch" than any other publication he knew. However this may be, the Management of the magazine can promise that Wide Awake for 1886 will certainly be full of New Departures.
Scenes and situations wholly fresh in stories for young folks will render fascinating its
SIX ILLUSTRATED SERIALS:
- I. A MIDSHIPMAN AT LARGE.
- II. THE CRUISE OF THE CASABIANCA.
Every boy who sailed in fancy the late exciting races of the Puritan and the Genesta, and all lovers of sea stories, will enjoy these two stories of Newport and Ocean Yachting, by Rev. Charles R. Talbot, author of Honor Bright, A Double Masquerade, etc.
- III. A GIRL AND A JEWEL.
Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford, author of The Amber Gods, etc., in this delicious White Mountain Romance, contributes her first serial to a young folks' magazine.
- IV. DILLY AND THE CAPTAIN.
- V. PEGGY, AND HER FAMILY.
Margaret Sidney, author of the famous Five Little Peppers, and the funny parrot story of Polly, writes these two amusing Adventure Serials for Little Folks. Thirty-six illustrations each.
- VI. A Six Months Story (title to be announced),