WIDE AWAKE, 
} The cfreat PictoTial Magazine. 
All tlie WorUVs a Stage:” 
I. PANTomNBS, Novelties, etc. By G. B. Bart¬ 
lett. 
n. Little Plays for Little Actors. By Uliana 
Lovell, (laughter of the well-known English play- 
witor. 
More than ono hundred now books by xiopular 
Ameiican authors, and nearly two thousand original 
illusti'ations by American artists, are included In D. 
Lothrop & Co.’s holiday announcements. 
Rev. Edward Everett Hale and Miss Susan 
I PARTIAL PROSPECTUS FOR 1883: 
! ' (WIDE AWAKE is only $2.50 a year.) 
' A Regular llroadside of Serial Stories ; 
l. Buttered Crusts. By Mi'S. A. D. T. Whitney, 
> author of “Faith Gavtuey’s Girlhood,*’ etc. A 
^ short serial. 
I II. The Silver City. By Fred, A. Ober. A re¬ 
alistic romance of a New England boy’s exciting 
search for the famous lost city in Yucatan. 
Nearly one hundred illustrations by W. Parker 
BodHsli. 
m. A Double Masquerade. By Charles R. Tal¬ 
bot. An American liistorical novelette. 
IV. Old Caravan Days. By Mrs. Hartwell-Cath- 
erwood. Thp adventures of Bodaday and little 
aunt Coiannc in a white-tented wagon on the 
great western “ijikes.” Thirty-six illustrations 
by El. P. Share. 
V. More Than They Bargained For. A Comedy, 
vr. Through Spain on Donkey-Back. A de¬ 
cided novelty: no text, live pages of drawings 
monthly instead. 
Odd Stadic.s of “Green Things Growing:” 
A Winter Garden. By Amanda B. Harris. Il¬ 
lustrated fi’om microscopic studies by E. H. Gar¬ 
rett. (3 papei’S.) * 
Wlien I Was a Boy.” 
Old School-days. By Margaret Lake. Amusing 
reminiscences. Four papers, with many illustra¬ 
tions. 
Of Wild Places and "Wild Creatures: 
I. True Stories. By David Ker, the famous 
ti-aveler. 
II. Days and Nights in the Tropics. By Dr. Os¬ 
wald. 
III. Wild Horses, and Bears. Bj' Ernest In- 
gereolK 
For Art Amateurs: 
Decorative Plaques. By George F. Barnes. 
The Chautauqua Reading Union Course: 
Eight series, twelve papers each, for the training 
of the brains and hands of young folks. 
Full Prospectus in Nov. WIDE AWAKE. 
Music, under the editorship of Louis C. Elson, 
with songs from Prof. J. K. Paine, George L. Os¬ 
good, and others | 
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beautiful pictures, as heretofore, and -svill 
be prhited in the same lai'ge type, and on 
the same heavy cream-tint paper. A beau¬ 
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serial tluough the year. 
Specimens free. 
Our Little Folks 
Indian Yesterdays and To-Days: 
T. Indl\n Folk-lore Tales. By Bright Eyes. 
H. Indian Trails and Camp-fires. By Alice C. 
Fletcher. Her remarkable recent experiences, 
HI. Stories and Legends of the Aztecs. By 
Mrs, Susan Dunning Power. From unpublished 
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I. Cookery for Beginners. By Marion Har- 
laud. lilonthly lessons for practice, and poi'sonal I 
letters to the young cooks. (Good, too, for boys , 
who camp out.) j 
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Especially for the Whole Family: ' 
I. To-Day. By Edward Everett Hale. Vivid,' 
vigorous, topics-of-the-tlnie papers. 
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THE PANSY, 
A Pictorial Weekly Paper for Boys and 
Girls. ■ 
Only 75 cents a year. 
It is edited by Mrs. G. R. Alden, author 
of the Pansy Books. 
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each. 
John G. Whittier gives us the beautiful poem, 
“ The Poetand the Children.” The volume tak¬ 
ing its title from this Initial poem, is the largest, 
most exquisitely illustrated and finely printed 
volume of poems for. young people ever issued. 
Full gilt, $5.00. 
“A superb hook,” so say all whose good fortune it 
has been to see the elegant quarto issued by D. 
Lothrop & Co., under the editorship of that ac¬ 
complished scholar, Arthur Gilman, entitled, 
” The Kingdom of Home.” It is put within the 
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which the publishers, anticipating the gi'eat de¬ 
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antique, gilt edges, $10.00. 
A great favorite of both old and young, Ahby Mor¬ 
ton Diaz, presents her new illustrated qimrto, 
“ Chronicles of the Stimpeett Family.” 
Mrs. G. 11. Alden (Pansy) has a larger audience 
than any other w-oman in America. More than 
a himdred thousand volumes of her works are 
sold each year. Her now story, “Mrs. Solo¬ 
mon Smith Looking On,” 12mo, $1.50, is ready, 
and two new holiday books, entitled respectively, 
“ Young People Abroad ” and “ Y oung People at 
Home,” $1.00 each, are in press for early publi¬ 
cation. 
Margaret Sidney, author of “ Five Little Peppers,” 
“The Pettibono Name,” etc, who, although one 
of the younger writers, has rapidly worked her 
way into public favor, is represented in one of 
the most finely illustrated, elegantly printed 
quartos of the season, “ What the Seven Did,!’ as 
charaiing a stoiy as was ever written for young 
people, whe will be delighted with the doings of 
the “ Wordsworth Club.” Cover designed by J. 
Wells Champney. Boards, $1.73; cloth, very ele¬ 
gant die, $2.25. 
Bahyland contains in elegant binding the numbers 
for 1882 of this popular magazine for the babies. 
So lovely and charming a volume for the little 
ones has never before been issued. 
Of the AVlde Awake for 1882, we learp that more 
than thii-ty thousand dollars have been expended 
upon it in securing the best work of artist and 
author. And the present volume is superior and 
more charming in every particular than any of 
its predecessors. 
A choice gift book on their list merits special atten¬ 
tion. It is “ Pastoral Songs,” from Alfred Ten¬ 
nyson, beautifully illustrated, elegantly printed 
on the finest plate paper, and sumptuously bound. 
It will be an octavo, in extra cloth, gilt edges, at 
$2.60; tiu-key morocco, antique, gilt edges, $6.00. 
George MacDonald has written a new book, 
“Weighed and Wanting,’ of which the original 
manuscript was furnished D. Lothrop & Co. by 
the authol' in advance of publication in England. 
Admirers of Mr. MacDonald pronounce It bis 
host work. 12rao. cloth, $1.60. 
