THE ADVENTURES OF COLUMBUS. This story of the Great Discoverer, while historically correct and valuable, will be perfectly adapted to young minds and fitted to take hold upon a child's attention and memory; many pictures. LITTLE TALKS ABOUT INSECT LIFE will interest the children in one branch of Natural History; with anecdotes and pictures. OUR COLORADO PETS will describe wild creatures little known to children in general. These twelve stories all are true, and are full of life and adventure; each will be illustrated. "ME AND MY DOLLS" is a "cunning little serial story," written for American children by the popular English author, Miss L. T. Meade. It will have Twelve Full-page Pictures by Margaret Johnson. From time to time fresh "Stories about Favorite Authors" will be given, so that teachers and friends may have material for little literature lessons suited to young children. _Seventy-five Full-page Pictures. Only $1.00 a year._ PROSPECTUS--THE PANSY--FOR 1886. For both week-day and Sunday reading. THE PANSY, edited by "Pansy" herself, holds the first place in the hearts of the children, and in the approval of earnest-minded parents. Among the more interesting features for 1886 will be Pansy's serial story, REACHING OUT, being a further account of "Little Fishers: and their Nets." The Golden Text Stories, under the title, "Six O'clock in the Evening," will be told by a dear old Grandma, who knows many interesting things about what happened to herself when she was a little girl. Margaret Sidney will furnish a charming story, ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON, to run through the year. Rev. C. M. Livingston will tell stories of discoveries, inventions, books, people, places. Faye Huntington will be a regular contributor during the year. Pansy will take the readers with her wherever she goes, in papers under the title of WHERE I WENT, AND WHAT I SAW. There will be, in each number, a selection from our best standard poets suitable for recitation in school or circle. From time to time colloquies for Mission Bands, or for general school exercises, will appear. There will be new and interesting books for the members of the Pansy Society, and, as before, a generous space will be devoted to answers to correspondents in the P. S. Corner. _Fully Illustrated. Only $1.00 a year._ =Address all orders to= =D. LOTHROP & CO., Publishers, Franklin and Hawley Sts., Boston, Mass.= [Illustration: PROSPECTUS WIDE AWAKE 1886] A mother, whose five children have read WIDE AWAKE in her company from its first number to its latest, writes "_I like the magazine because it is full of Impulses. Another thing--when I lay it down I feel as if I had been walking on breezy hill-tops._" _SIX ILLUSTRATED SERIALS:_