Part 8

A beautiful art feature. Twenty-four superb studies of race-types and national costumes, by F. Childe Hassam, with text by M. E. B.

_FIRE-PLACE STORIES._

This article will be a notable feature of the Christmas number. The rich illustrations include glimpses of Holland, Assyria, Persia, Moorish Spain and New England, with two paintings in clay modelled expressly for WIDE AWAKE, and reproduced in three tones.

_SOME SPECIAL ARTICLES:_

_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.

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Transcriber's Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors repaired.

Page 110, extraneous word "of" removed from text. Original read (made him run of errands)

Page 111, "wortha" changed to "worth a" (was worth a dollar)

Page 122, "were" changed to "where" (been in places where the)

Page 4, advertisements, "hapyy" changed to "happy" (there is a happy thought)

Page 9, advertisements, "choolboy" changed to "schoolboy" (of schoolboy life)

Page 13, advertisements, "12m" changed to "12mo" (12mo, cloth, $1.50)

Page 17, advertisements, "Pepy's" changed to "Pepys'" (Mr. Pepys' Valentine)

Page 17, advertisements, "Tunrcoat" changed to "Turncoat" (A Revolutionary Turncoat)

Page 17, advertisements, "VI" changed to "IV." (IV. Some Italian Authors)

Page 17, advertisements, "By" changed to "by" (by Anna Katherine Greene)

End of Project Gutenberg's The Pansy Magazine, February 1886, by Various