_A Monthly Magazine for Family and General Reading._
"The LEISURE HOUR is, if possible, better than it used to be, and
certainly its literary and artistic merits are unsurpassed in the domain
of cheap and good serial publications."--_The Queen._
_A New Volume commenced with the January Part._
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