A third great feature of the Christmas number will be a complete African Serial Story by H. Rider Haggard, author of the famous books, “She,” “King Solomon’s Mines,” etc., etc. The story is called A Tale of Three Lions, and will have thrilling full-page illustrations by Heywood Hardy the English lion painter. The holiday number will be much enlarged to include this serial entire.
Farm-Life for Young People, by Ik Marvel (Donald G. Mitchell), Out-of-Door Papers by John Burroughs, together with Walking, Rowing, and The Training of Dogs, three papers by Louise Imogen Guiney, will form a delightful phase of the coming volume.
My Uncle Florimond is a beautiful and romantic Serial Story for boys by Sidney Luska, author of those popular novels of the day, “As It was Written,” “Mrs. Peixada,” and “The Yoke of the Thorah.” It is the first story which he has written for young folks. My Uncle Florimond is quite a new kind of magazine serial, and handsome Gregory Brace is quite a new kind of boy to be met in a story-book, though fortunately for the world there are some like him in real life. Fathers and mothers will like their young folks to make the acquaintance of this chivalric young fellow, and also of the true girl Rosalind. The illustrations will be by George Wharton Edwards.
A Painter of Child-Life. (First Art Paper.) A beautiful art-paper for children, by the English art-writer, T. Letherbrow, about the English painter, Warwick Brookes, who was once a little “tear-boy” in the Manchester cotton-mills, and afterwards rose to great eminence in art. This remarkable article is to have twenty exquisite illustrations of child-life from photographs of the artist’s paintings and drawings.
A brace of sparkling Serial Stories, Those Cousins of Mabel’s, and Double Roses, will be contributed by Mrs. John Sherwood, author of Harper’s standard etiquette manuals, and of “Royal Girls and Royal Courts.” In these stories she does good service to her young countrywomen by showing them what a pleasant and comfortable thing it is to be acquainted with the usages of refined society and to conform to them. The loveliness and nobility of Mabel will render her the ideal “society girl” of young readers, and everybody will follow the experiences of the brilliant Phyllis and the piquant little Wilhelmina, the two girls from Haffreysberg, with blended amusement and sympathy. The life Mrs. Sherwood describes exists in all large cities, the same embarrassments entangle young strangers to social forms, the same heartlessness, over against the same loftiness of character, is found among people of fashion; and the counsel given to Phyllis and Wilhelmina will be as helpful to thousands of other girls—and certainly this social counsel could come from no higher authority than Mrs. Sherwood. Charming pictures will be drawn by W. L. Taylor.
Daniel Webster in New Hampshire. (First Historical Article.) Reminiscences, anecdotes, and gossip about the great statesman, given to the author, Miss Amanda B. Harris, by Webster’s early friends and neighbors in New Hampshire, or gathered from unpublished letters. With portraits from life-photographs, and many sketches.
