=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 =I. Pleasant Authors for Young Folks.= (_American Series._) By AMANDA B. HARRIS. =II. My Garden Pets.= By MARY TREAT, author of _Home Studies in Nature_. =III. Souvenirs of My Time.= (_Foreign Series._) By MRS. JESSIE BENTON FREMONT. =IV. Some Italian Authors and Their Work.= By GEORGE E. VINCENT (son of Chancellor Vincent). =V. Ways to Do Things.= By various authors. =VI. Strange Teas, Weddings, Dinners and Fetes.= By their Guests and Givers. =VII. Search-Questions in English Literature.= By OSCAR FAY ADAMS. *** A good commission is paid for securing new subscribers, in cash or premiums. Send for Premium List. _WIDE AWAKE is only $3.00 a year._ =D. LOTHROP & CO., Publishers, Franklin and Hawley Sts., Boston, Mass., U. S. A.= =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.