This magazine for youngest readers will be even more entertaining in text and pictures than in the past, and in the stories will be hidden bits of wisdom as well. There will be seventy-five full-page pictures. =Stories of Captain John Smith and Princess Pocahontas=, twelve of them, will be related by Frances A. Humphrey; they will be accompanied with many historical pictures. =Laura’s Holidays=, a serial story in twelve chapters, by Henrietta K. Eliot, will relate what one little girl did in a year of holidays. Full-page pictures by Elizabeth S. Tucker. =Tiny Folks in Armor= is the title of twelve talks about beetles, by Fannie A. Deane. There will be pictures of the beetles. There will be a set of =Twelve Flower Poems= by Clara Doty Bates, whose bird poems have been so popular the past year. =Buffy’s Letters to his Mistress=, six in all, will be published by the kind permission of Elizabeth F. Parker. Buffy is a coon-cat, and his doings will be pictured by L. J. Bridgman. =Little People of the Plaza= will be told about in six Mexican stories by Jennie Stealey. Some Mexican animals also. Adapted from the French there will be =Susanna’s Auction=, in six funny chapters, each chapter with funny pictures. Besides these serials and series, there will be a treasury of short stories and verses, bright and interesting, and full of pictures as a Christmas pudding with plums. The best magazine for home and school reading. $1.00 a year by mail. THE PANSY _Pansy’s Own Magazine. Something about 1888._ =Up Garret= is the title of Pansy’s new serial, and readers of “A Sevenfold Trouble” will be glad to know it is a sequel to that story, and to continue their acquaintance with its people. The Golden Text Stories for 1888 will be given under the title of =We Twelve Girls=, and they will be the actual accounts of how twelve girls tried to live by certain golden texts. The “Little Red Shop” has roused such interest that Margaret Sidney will relate more about Jack, Cornelius, Rosalie, and the baby, in a sequel to be called =The Old Brimmer Place=. =Treasures: Their Hiding and Finding= is the title of a new serial by Rev. C. M. Livingston, full of wise entertainment. [Pointing Hand] The Pansy Society will have a special serial. All departments will be continued, some new features added, and stories, poems and pictures will have ample place. Mailed for $1.00 a year. _Address all orders and inquiries to_ D. LOTHROP COMPANY, BOSTON. =A Midshipman at Large.= By CHARLES R. TALBOT. 12mo, cloth, $1.50. An escapade of a bright young fellow who “shipped” for a yachting cruise in vacation.