Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. (www.pgdp.net) _FIVE CENTS._ THE GREAT ROUND WORLD AND WHAT IS GOING ON IN IT SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. MAY 6, 1897 Vol. 1. NO. 26 $2.50 PER YEAR [Entered at Post Office, New York City, as second-class matter] [Illustration] A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER FOR BOYS AND GIRLS WILLIAM BEVERLEY HARISON. PUBLISHER NO. 3 AND 5 WEST 18TH ST. NEW YORK CITY Copyright, 1897, by WILLIAM BEVERLEY HARISON. AS A =SPECIAL INDUCEMENT= for our subscribers to interest others in "The Great Round World," we will give to each subscriber who sends us $2.50 to pay for a year's subscription to a new name, a copy of =Rand, McNally & Co.= =1897 Atlas of the World.= =160 pages of colored maps from new plates, size 11 1/2 x 14 inches, printed on special paper with marginal index, and well worth its regular price - - - - $2.50.= Every one has some sort of an atlas, doubtless, but an old atlas is no better than an old directory; countries do not move away, as do people, but they do change and our knowledge of them increases, and this atlas, made in 1897 from =new= plates, is perfect and up to date and covers every point on =The Great Round World.= Those not subscribers should secure the subscription of a friend and remit $5 to cover it and their own. A copy of the atlas will be sent to either address. * * * * * GREAT ROUND WORLD, _3 and 5 West 18th Street, . . . . . . . .New York City._ * * * * * THE GREAT ROUND WORLD NATURAL HISTORY STORIES. A Series of True Stories BY JULIA TRUITT BISHOP. Attractively Illustrated by Barnes. * * * * * These stories will be issued in parts. Price, 10 cents each. Subscription price (12 numbers), $1.00. Part 1. issued as supplement to GREAT ROUND WORLD. NO. 20. * * * * * =Author's Preface.= The stories published in this little volume have been issued from time to time in the Philadelphia _Times_, and it is at the request of many readers that they now greet the world in more enduring form. They have been written as occasion suggested, during several years; and they commemorate to me many of the friends I have known and loved in the animal world. "Shep" and "Dr. Jim," "Abdallah" and "Brownie," "Little Dryad" and "Peek-a-Boo." I have been fast friends with every one, and have watched them with such loving interest that I knew all their ways and could almost read their thoughts. I send them on to other lovers of dumb animals, hoping that the stories of these friends of mine will carry pleasure to young and old. * * * * * =WILLIAM BEVERLEY HARISON,= =3 & 5 West 18th Street.= * * * * * * * * * *