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This magazine for youngest readers will be even more entertaining in text and pictures than in the past, and in the stories will be hidden bits of wisdom as well. There will be seventy-five full-page pictures.
Stories of Captain John Smith and Princess Pocahontas, twelve of them, will be related by Frances A. Humphrey; they will be accompanied with many historical pictures.
Laura’s Holidays, a serial story in twelve chapters, by Henrietta K. Eliot, will relate what one little girl did in a year of holidays. Full-page pictures by Elizabeth S. Tucker.
Tiny Folks in Armor is the title of twelve talks about beetles, by Fannie A. Deane. There will be pictures of the beetles.
There will be a set of Twelve Flower Poems by Clara Doty Bates, whose bird poems have been so popular the past year.
Buffy’s Letters to his Mistress, six in all, will be published by the kind permission of Elizabeth F. Parker. Buffy is a coon-cat, and his doings will be pictured by L. J. Bridgman.
Little People of the Plaza will be told about in six Mexican stories by Jennie Stealey. Some Mexican animals also.
Adapted from the French there will be Susanna’s Auction, in six funny chapters, each chapter with funny pictures.
Besides these serials and series, there will be a treasury of short stories and verses, bright and interesting, and full of pictures as a Christmas pudding with plums. The best magazine for home and school reading. $1.00 a year by mail.