48 AUDUBON MAGAZINE ADVERTISER. 



Best Illustrated Magazine in the World for Youth and the Family. 



WIDE AWAKE FOR i887. 



HALF a dozen years ago it seemed impossible for Wide Awake to be more beautiful or more attractive, 

 yei year after year it has gone on, adding new features and developing old ones, until it seems at last 

 excellence can no further go. Its wealth of stories, sketches, poetry and illustrations furnish an inexhaustible 

 reservoir of entertainment and instruction for the members of the family circle, old as well as young, and its 

 monthly visit is like a ray of golden sunshine in a household. Wide Awake fills every demand for a first- 

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 suggestions, and artistic illustrations. 



It has eighty pages a month of the best stories, poems and practical articles, and over 500 beautiful 

 pictures yearly. 



Chas. Egbert Craddock's Great Serial of Boy Life in Tennessee Mountains, THE STORY OF 

 KEEDON BLUFFS. 



TWELVE WAR STORIES, intensely exciting. 



An Exciting Serial of adventure in Me.xico, MONTEZUMA'S GOLD MINES. By Fred A. 

 Ober. Based on Mr. Ober's search for the lost mines of Montezuma. 



Alsoa jolly Serial Story of INDIAN BOY LIFE. 



Delightful Serials for the girls. Wide Awake is eagerly read by all the family from eight-year-old to 

 grandpa. 



Sample copy sent on receipt of 10 cents in stamps. The yearly subscription price has been 

 reduced to $2.40 a year (from $3.00), while the magazine will be made more attractive than ever. 



D. LOTHROP &L CO., Publishers, Boston, Mass. 



^^ The Chautauqua Young Folks' Reading Union Reading Course in Wide Awake is also issued, with 

 some additional matter, as a monthly magazine, especially adapted for reading clubs and schools, under 

 the title of CHAUTAUQUA Young Folks' Journal, at only $1.00 a year. 



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Is the most delightful magazine in the \vorld from which to Toddlers in the Nursery. 



read aloud to Little Boys and Girls age six, eight and ten. It ■'' 



has 24 pages in each number well printed •->"«) with interest- attempts have been made to make magazines like 



.ngp.ctu.es including s.x full pages ea^h month It abounds g ^BYLAND, but D. Lothrop & Co.'s Babvland remains the 



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Her serial for this volume is entitled MONTEAGLE. 



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BOSTON, MASS. BOSTON, MASS. 



