Chapter D: LOTHROP & CO., Publishers,

Franklin and Hawley Streets, Boston.

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"_Ideal American magazines!_"

=It is a fact= acknowledged by the English press that American magazines, by enterprise, able editorship, and liberal expenditure for the finest of current art and literature, have won a rank far in advance of European magazines.

=It is also a fact= that for young people

WIDE AWAKE

_Stands foremost_ } _In pleasure-giving!_
} _In practical helping!_

Each year's numbers contain a thousand quarto pages, covering the widest range of literature of interest and value to young people, from such authors as John G. Whittier, Charles Egbert Craddock, Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney, Susan Coolidge, Edward Everett Hale, Arthur Gilman, Edwin Arnold, Rose Kingsley, Dinah Mulock Craik, Margaret Sidney, Helen Hunt Jackson (H. H.), Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elbridge S. Brooks and hundreds of others; and _half a thousand illustrations_ by F. H. Lungren, W. T. Smedley, Miss L. B. Humphrey, F. S. Church, Mary Hallock Foote, F. Childe Hassam, E. H. Garrett, Hy. Sandham and other leading American artists.

ONLY $3.00 A YEAR. PROSPECTUS FREE.

WIDE AWAKE is the official organ of the C. Y. F. R. U. The Required Readings are also issued simultaneously as the CHAUTAUQUA YOUNG FOLKS' JOURNAL, with additional matter, at 75 cents a year.

=For the younger Boys and Girls and the Babies:=

With its 75 full-page pictures a year, and numberless smaller, and its delightful stories and poems, is most admirable for the youngest readers.

_$1.00 a year._]

Never fails to carry delight to the babies and rest to the mammas, with its large beautiful pictures, its merry stories and jingles, in large type, on heavy paper.

_50 cts. a year._]

Edited by the famous author of the "Pansy Books," is equally charming and suitable for week-day and Sunday reading. Always contains a serial by "Pansy."

_$1.00 a year._]

Send for specimen copies, circulars, etc., to the Publishers,

D. LOTHROP & CO., BOSTON, MASS., U. S. A.

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Little Folks' Every Day Book.

RHYMES AND ILLUSTRATIONS FOR EVERY DAY.

MAY 18th.

A song of a nest:--
There was once a nest in a hollow;
Down in the mosses and knot-grass pressed,
Soft and warm, and full to the brim.

MAY 19th.

"Good night!" said the hen, when her supper was done,
To Fanny who stood in the door,
"Good night," answered she, "come back in the morn,
And you and your chicks shall have more."

MAY 20th.

There's a merry brown thrush sitting up in the tree,
"He's singing to me! He's singing to me!"
And what does he say, little girl, little boy?
"Oh, the world's running over with joy."

Edited by AMANDA B. HARRIS.

TWELVE COLOR DESIGNS EMBLEMATIC OF THE MONTHS

By GEORGE F. BARNES.

Square 18mo, tinted edges, $1.00.