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I N ENTERING upon its Fifty-third Year, the Youth’s 
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pository of the choicest literature; a library of tales, travels, 
adventure, history and biography; a “Companion” for the 
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Special Stories. 
A Serial Story, bv - - - 
"His Little Mother,” a Serial, by 
A Serial Story for Boys, by - 
A Story of Southern Life, by 
A Tale of Cumberland Mountains, by 
Harriet. Beecher Stowe. 
Dinah ftlulock Crail . 
J. T. Trowbridge. 
Marie B. William- . 
Charles Craddock. 
Stories of Adventure, by 
Capt. E. Frechette, 
Charles Craddock, 
C. A. Stephens, 
Fred. A. Ober, 
Mrs. H. B. King, 
Charles H. Edc 
Stories for Girls, by 
Louise Chandler Monlton, Julia Eastman, 
Mary A. Denison, Sarah Winter Kellogg, 
Harriet Prescott Spofford, “Marion Harland.” 
More than Two Hundred Short Stories. 
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charlotte Mary Youge. J. T. Trowbridge, 
Kose Terry Cooke, Charles Craddock, "Marion Harland.” 
A. H. Leonowens, Georglana M, Cralk, "C. M. Cornwall.” 
Louisa M. Alcott, J. D. Chaplin, Frances M. Heard. 
iTiebecca Harding Davis, Sarah O. Jewett, Ruth Chesterfield. 
“C. M. Cornwall.” 
Frances M. Peard, 
Ruth Chesterfield. 
Valuable Papers, by 
Dr. Henry 1. Bowditch, 
Dr. H. W. Williams, 
Dr. D. F. Lincoln, 
George E. Waring, Jr., - 
On Prevention of Consumption. 
On Near-Sightedness. 
On Hygiene for Scholars. 
On Ventilation. 
Foreign Letters, by 
Edward M. King, 
Louise Chandler Moulton, 
Charles Barnard, 
Mrs. John Lillie. 
Brilliant Sketches, on 
Eminent Orators, by 
The Home Life of Statesmen, by 
Recollections of Kmlueut Men, by 
College Dava of 'I', if. Macaulay, i 
“ “ Daniel Webster,J-by 
" " Charles Suumer,) 
“ “ Nathaniel Hawthorne, 
“ “ Edward Everett, 
James T. Fields. 
James Parton. 
Bay Palmer, D. D. 
Edwin P. Whipple. 
George P. Lathrop. 
W r m. Everett, LL. D. 
Short Religious Articles, by 
Kev. Ray Palmer, D. D., 
Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D. D., 
Rev. A. C. Thompson, D. D., 
Rev. Theron Brown. 
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Out-of-Door Work for Girls. Miss A. B. Harris. 
Advice upon CourseB of Reading, Rev. Edward E. Hale. 
How to Make Cheap Tours to Europe, - Edward M. King. 
History of Great Enterprises, - - James Parton. 
Homesteading in the West, - Ex-Gov. Elder, of Kansas. 
Stock-Raising in the West, ... Frank Wiikesor.. 
Mechanics for Boys, ... Charles Barnard. 
Every-Day Facts in Common Law, by 
Hon. Charles Theodore Bussell.— Showing how to Con¬ 
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tion of Crimes—etc. 
Henry W. Longfellow, 
Edna Dean Proctor, 
James T. Fields, 
Sidney Lanier. 
Poems. 
Edgar Fawcett, 
Lucy Larcom, 
J. T. Trowbridge, 
Nora Perry, 
John G. 'Whittier, 
Mr. and Mrs. Piatt. 
Paul II. Haync. 
Julia C, R. Dorr. 
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