For the little folks who like to laugh, for the papas and mammas who like to hear them and to laugh with them, this is the book to buy. As in the world-famous Eastern tales which give the book its name, the stories, with cats and kittens for heroes and heroines, instead of men and women, lead one to another, and run on and on in a long series of delights--simple and sweet, quaint, strange and pathetic, witty and rollicking, or bubbling over with genial humor and the queerest conceits. [Illustration: THE NICE CAT THAT WAS GOOD TO BIRDS. (_From "The Cats' Arabian Nights."_)] The irresistible stories are accompanied by more beautiful and laughable cat-pictures than were ever before gathered between two covers, and the covers themselves are very quaint, in dainty colors and in silver. No fathers and mothers should themselves miss, or let their little folks miss, the fun of this book. To give this pleasure to little folks everywhere, the Publishers make _A SPECIAL OFFER_: To every subscriber who will send us _new_ subscriptions to any of our magazines amounting to $2.00, we will send "The Cats' Arabian Nights," postpaid. Any one not a subscriber may obtain this delightful book by sending new subscriptions amounting to $3.00. This special offer will be good only to May 1st, 1886. =D. Lothrop & Co., Franklin and Hawley Sts., Boston.= [Illustration: THE THREE KITTENS THAT LOST THEIR MITTENS.] PROSPECTUS--=BABYLAND=--FOR 1886. The Magazine for the Babies, this coming year, in addition to its bright pictures, and gay little jingles, and sweet stories, will have some especial delights for both Mamma and Baby: =THE MAGIC PEAR= will provide Twelve Entertainments of dainty jugglery and funny sleight-of-hand for the nursery pencils. This novelty is by the artist-humorist, M. J. Sweeney ("Boz"). =ALL AROUND THE CLOCK= will give Baby Twelve tiny Lessons in Counting, each with wee verses for little lips to say, and pictures for bright eyes to see, to help the little mind to remember. =LITTLE CRIB-CURTAINS= will give Mamma Twelve Sleepy-time Stories to tell when the Babies go to cribs and cradles. In short, BABYLAND the whole year will be the happiest, sweetest sort of a home kindergarten. _Beautiful and novel New Cover. Only Fifty Cents a year._ PROSPECTUS--=OUR LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN=--FOR 1886.