_L'ENFANT TERRIBLE TURK._ By HON. S. S. COX, U. S. Minister to Turkey. _THE PRINCESS POCAHONTAS IN ENGLAND._ By MRS. RAYMOND BLATHWAYTE. Illustrations include portrait from painting never before engraved. _AUTOGRAPHS AND AUTOGRAPH HUNTERS._ By NORA PERRY. Racy and amusing. _A GRAND PEACE-MEET._ By WILL P. HOOPER. An imposing Indian Ceremony; with many pictures by the author. _A SIXTEENTH CENTURY SCHOOLBOY._ By APPLETON MORGAN. The life of a lad in Shakespeare's time. _MY FIRST BUFFALO HUNT._ By GEN. JOHN C. FREMONT. _THROUGH THE HEART OF PARIS._ by FRANK T. MERRILL. A pen and pencil record of a trip down the Seine. _THE DUMB-BETTY LAMP._ By HENRY BACON. Hitherto untold incidents in connection with "Floyd Ireson's Ride." _TWELVE BALLADS._ These are by twelve of the foremost women poets of America. Each ballad will fill five to seven pictorial pages. The first six are: =The Deacon's Little Maid.= A ballad of early New England. By Mrs. A. D. T. WHITNEY. Illustrations by Miss L. B. Humphrey. =The Story of the Chevalier.= A ballad of the wars of Maria Theresa. By MRS. HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD. Illustrations by E. H. Garrett. =The Minute Man.= A ballad of the "Shot heard round the World." By MARGARET SIDNEY. Illustrations by Hy. Sandham. =The Hemlock Tree.= A ballad of a Maine settlement. By LUCY LARCOM. Illustrations by Edmund H. Garrett. =The Children's Cherry Feast.= A ballad of the Hussite War. By NORA PERRY. Illustrations by George Foster Barnes. =Little Alix.= A ballad of the Children's Crusade. By SUSAN COOLIDGE. Illustrations by F. H. Lungren. Many other enjoyments are in readiness; among them a Thanksgiving poem by Helen Jackson (H. H.), the last poem we can ever give our readers from her pen; "A Daughter of the Sea-Folks," a romantic story of Ancient Holland, by Susan Coolidge; "An Entertainment of Mysteries," by Anna Katherine Greene, author of the celebrated "detective novels;" foreign MSS. and drawings by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pennell; "Stoned by a Mountain," by Rose G. Kingsley; a frontier-life story by Mrs. Custer, author of _Boots and Saddles_; a long humorous poem by Christina Rossetti; Arctic Articles by Lieut. Frederick Schwatka; "A Tiny Tale of Travel," a prose story by Celia Thaxter; a "Trotty" story, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; beautiful stories by Grace Denio Litchfield, Mary E. Wilkins and Katherine B. Foote; a lively boys' story by John Preston True; "Pamela's Fortune," by Mrs. Lucy C. Lillie; "'Little Captain' of Buckskin Camp," by F. L. Stealey--in short, the magazine will brim over with good things. _THE C. Y. F. R. U. READINGS_ meet the growing demand for the _helpful_ in literature, history, science, art and practical doing. The Course for 1885-86 includes