=Little People of the Plaza= will be told about in six Mexican stories by Jennie Stealey. Some Mexican animals also.
Adapted from the French there will be =Susanna’s Auction=, in six funny chapters, each chapter with funny pictures.
Besides these serials and series, there will be a treasury of short stories and verses, bright and interesting, and full of pictures as a Christmas pudding with plums. The best magazine for home and school reading. $1.00 a year by mail.
THE PANSY _Pansy’s Own Magazine. Something about 1888._
=Up Garret= is the title of Pansy’s new serial, and readers of “A Sevenfold Trouble” will be glad to know it is a sequel to that story, and to continue their acquaintance with its people.
The Golden Text Stories for 1888 will be given under the title of =We Twelve Girls=, and they will be the actual accounts of how twelve girls tried to live by certain golden texts.
The “Little Red Shop” has roused such interest that Margaret Sidney will relate more about Jack, Cornelius, Rosalie, and the baby, in a sequel to be called =The Old Brimmer Place=.
=Treasures: Their Hiding and Finding= is the title of a new serial by Rev. C. M. Livingston, full of wise entertainment.
[Pointing Hand] The Pansy Society will have a special serial. All departments will be continued, some new features added, and stories, poems and pictures will have ample place. Mailed for $1.00 a year.
By CHARLES R. TALBOT. 12mo, cloth, $1.50.
An escapade of a bright young fellow who “shipped” for a yachting cruise in vacation.
The story has nothing to do with the question whether it pays to know one’s work and do it and “be,” as the phrase goes, “a gentleman”; but, if the reader chooses to think of them, he will find plenty of stimulant.
By ELBRIDGE S. BROOKS, author of The American Indian, In Leisler’s Times, In No-Man’s Land, and others. 12mo, cloth, $1.50.
An historic tale connected with a holiday in every month of the year.
There is the snapdragon Christmas quarrel of James I. of England with his sons about the release of Sir Walter Raleigh; a New Year’s meeting of Margery More with Henry VIII; how William Penn got his motto “Be true, be leal, be constant,” on St. Valentine’s Day; how the Earl of Kildare kept St. Patrick’s; the wise men of Gotham fool King John on the first of April; and so on through the months.