=The Little Captive Chief=, by Miss Owen. =Two Girls—Two Parties=, by Susan Coolidge. =A Piece of News: Aunt Ray’s Cat=, a humorous dialogue, by Margaret Sidney. =Puck and Puppypult=, a singular story, by George Parsons Lathrop. =Cat Isabel=, by M. H. Catherwood, with many funny pictures. =A Stray Shot=, by Hartwell Moore. =A New Birthday=, by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop. =The Squire’s Sixpence=, by Mary E. Wilkins. =A Night in a Beaver Town=, a curious account by Edmund Collins. =Sabot=, by Katharine S. Macquoid. =The “Shut-Ins,”= by Mrs. Peattie. =The Bull and the Leaping Pole=, by Charles G. D. Roberts. =Saved on the Brink=, by J. Macdonald Oxley. Further papers about =Famous Pets= are in preparation; =Tangles= will have new novelties; =The Contributors and the Children=, and other departments, will grow in interest; the artistic features will continue to delight young and old alike. [Pointing Hand] Now is the time to subscribe, and to obtain valuable Premiums by getting your friends to subscribe also. _Wide Awake, in spite of unprecedented attractions, will still be $2.40 a year._ _Address orders and inquiries to_ D. LOTHROP COMPANY, Boston. BABYLAND _What Babies and Mammas may look for during 1888._ The twelve numbers of BABYLAND for 1888 will be like twelve Christmas stockings stuffed full of delights—the choicest nuts, candies and raisins of jingledom and storyland; and there will be three special big delicious bon-bons besides. =Me and Toddlekins= is a story told by “Me,” whose other name is Mew-mew, and written down by Margaret Johnson, with cunning pictures of “Me” and Toddlekins, and their doings, drawn by the same Margaret Johnson. =Six New Finger Plays= will be contributed by Emilie Poulsson. The instant popularity of the first series of Finger Plays, among little children, mothers, and kindergarten teachers, has tempted Miss Poulsson to prepare six more; the verses are delightfully amusing and graceful, and the pictorial instructions showing how to play the Plays, and the pictures themselves, will be by the same artist, Mr. L. J. Bridgman. =Allie and the Crickets= will be the subject of six dear little stories that the crickets told to Baby Allie—some on the hearth as she sat in her mother’s lap at twilight, some when she was at play out in the sunny fields—very cunning little stories all of them (which Clara Doty Bates overheard and has related for other babies). Many pictures. BABYLAND will be full of pictures, too, big and beautiful, little and funny; and it will be printed in large clear black letters, as usual, on strong fine paper, and have pretty pink covers. All sent by mail for 50 cents a year. OUR LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN _A glimpse into 1888._