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Announcements for 1891. 
Only a few of the many Remarkable Announcements of Authors and Articles engaged for the Sixty-fourth Volume of 
The Companion can be presented in this advertisement. The Publishers will be pleased to send the Complete Prospectus, 
together with Specimen Copies of The Companion, on application. 
Illustrated Serial Stories. 
The Serial Stories to be published during the year will be of unusual interest and variety. They will be Finely Illustrated. 
Nepigon: Vivid, realistic, fuil of bright Incidents and stirring Adventure; by C. A. Stephens. 
Through Thick and Thin. A stirring story of Boy Friendship; by Molly Elliot Seawell. 
Suleika. How an Arabian Horse was won and saved; by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen. 
Kent Hampden. A Boy’s Effort to clear his Father’s Reputation; by Rebecca Harding Davis. 
The Heygood Tea Service. A Picture of Life in the South; by Elizabeth W. Bellamy. 
Army Life and Adventure. 
By Generals of the United States Army. 
A Phenomenal Scout; Gen. O. O. Howard, Com. Div. of the Atlantic. 
Reading Indian “Sign;” Gen. John Gibbon, Com. Dept, of the Columbia. 
Hunting Large Game; Gen. John R. Brooke, Com. Dept, of the Platte. 
In Big Horn Canon; Gen. James S. Brisbin, Com. First U. S. Cavalry. 
Naval Life and Adventure. 
By Admirals of the United States Navy. 
Adventures of a Middy in San Domingo; Admiral David D. Porter. 
Powder Monkeys and their Peculiarities; Rear-Admiral S. B. Luce. 
A Chat about Samoa; Rear-Admiral L. A. Kimberly. 
Overland in a Man-of-War; Rear-Admiral J. H. Gillis. 
Some of the Eminent Contributors. 
Lord Coleridge, Chief Justice of England. 
Hon. Hannibal Hamlin. 
Gen. Oliver 0. Howard. 
Admiral David D. Porter. 
Carl Lumholtz. 
Pres. Seth Low. 
Jules Verne. 
Marquis of Lome. 
Lady Constance Campbell. 
C. A. Stephens. 
Madame Albani. 
Justin McCarthy. 
“ Jenny June.” 
J. Norman Lockyer. 
Theodore Roosevelt. 
Camille Flammarion. 
Rev. Lyman Abbott. 
Walter Besant. 
Max O'Rell. 
College Athletic Sports. 
By Harvard, Princeton and Vale Captains. 
College Boat-Racing ; by the Capt. of the Harvard crew, R. W. Herrick. 
Foot-Ball at Princeton; by the Captain of’ 89 , Princeton, E. A. Poe. 
Base-Ball: Strange Ways in which Matches have been Lost 
and Won; by the Captain of the Yale Nine, A. A. Stagg. 
How to Choose a College. 
Four Articles of great value to any young man desiring a College Education; 
The President of Columbia University, Pres. Seth Low. 
The former President of Cornell University, Hon. Andrew D. White. 
A former Professor in Oxford University, Prof. Goldwin Smith. 
The President of Amherst College, Pres. Merrill E. Gates. 
The Latest Discoveries in Science. 
This Series ot Papers is designed to explain in as simple a manner as possible the results of the most 
recent researches of the greatest Specialists in Science. They will be fully illustrated. 
THE STARS; by J. NORMAN LOCKYER, F. R. S., of South Kensington Museum. 
THE MOON; by Prof. E. S. HOLDEN, of Lick Observatory, California. 
THE EARTH; by Prof. N. S. SHALER, of Harvard University, Cambridge. 
THE OCEAN; by CAMILLE FLAMMARION, the French Astronomer. 
THE SUN; by Prof. C. A. YOUNG, of Princeton University. 
Trades and Occupations. 
A Series of Papers describing the characters of the leading Trades for 
boys and Occupations for girls. They give information as to the apprentice¬ 
ship required, the wages to be expected, and the qualities needed to ensure 
success in the trade or occupation. * 
Marquis of Lome, Princess Louise. 
The Marquis of Lome has contributed an extremely interesting 
account of Life among the Highland Peasantry of Scotland, illustrated by 
drawings made expressly for The Companion by Her Royal Highness the 
Princess Louise. 
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