Search-Questions in Greek History. WITH MONTHLY PRIZES. By _Oscar Fay Adams_. The value everywhere set upon the past two years’ work with Search-Questions in Literature, and the cordial help afforded to the young “searchers” by librarians, professors, editors, and literarians throughout the country, have led to a broad and careful plan for Historical Search-Questions which shall extend through several years’ Readings, thus giving “searchers” a systematic survey of the great Historical Periods. Each year’s work comprises Answers to twelve sets of questions, of twenty questions each. Standard books are given as prizes, particulars of which will be given in the C. Y. F. R. U. department. * * * * * _Rare Stories and Poems and beautiful Pictures are on hand, really “too numerous to mention”: “My First Voyage,” a singular story, by Maurice Thompson, author of “The Witchery of Archery”; “How Ned Scaled Mt. Washington,” by Mary Rebecca Hart; “Besieged by Wolves,” by John Willis Hays; “The Shipwreck of the Cologne Bottle,” by Susan Coolidge; “Ph[oe]be Stout, Sculptor,” by M. B. Ryerson; “Jeremicky’s Sacrifice,” by Mrs. Katherine B. Foote; “A Manorial Pigeon Tower,” with a full-page picture by Henry Bacon, the painter-author, of Paris, etc., etc._ * * * * * =!!!A WORD ABOUT SUBSCRIPTIONS.... $2.40 PROM THIS DATE!!!= D. Lothrop and Company announce that, leading in the great literary movement toward lower prices, and large sales, they have made, without reducing quantity or quality, an extraordinary reduction in the price of WIDE AWAKE, the best illustrated young folks’ magazine, 1000 quarto pages and 500 original pictures yearly, and will now receive subscriptions at the former wholesale price of only $2.40 a year. /* =D. LOTHROP AND COMPANY, Publishers, Boston, Mass., U. S. A.= */ BABYLAND PROSPECTUS FOR 1887. BABYLAND will have two enticing _new features_ for the _babies and their mammas_, in addition to the perennial pleasures of the countless little two-minute stories and verses with which the magazine always has abounded. Especially calculated to merrily occupy the eyes and ears of the little ones are the monthly pictorial pages called PUZZLES ABOUT PETER AND PATTY, text and pictures by _Margaret Johnson_; and especially calculated to sweetly teach and charm are the home kindergarten delights called NURSERY FINGER-PLAYS, by _Emilie Poulsson_, with dozens and dozens and dozens of bewitching picture-instructions by L. J. Bridgman. Every one who has the care of little nursery toddlers will bless BABYLAND for these two features. Big bright pictures, large print, strong paper, and dainty gay cover. =50 cts. a year.= =OUR LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN= PROSPECTUS FOR 1887. The Serial Story for the year, by that charming writer for children, _Mrs. M. F. Butts_, will be entitled, WANDERERS IN BO-PEEP’S WORLD.