_Stands foremost_ } _In pleasure-giving!_
} _In practical helping!_
Each year's numbers contain a thousand quarto pages, covering the widest
range of literature of interest and value to young people, from such
authors as John G. Whittier, Charles Egbert Craddock, Mrs. A. D. T.
Whitney, Susan Coolidge, Edward Everett Hale, Arthur Gilman, Edwin
Arnold, Rose Kingsley, Dinah Mulock Craik, Margaret Sidney, Helen Hunt
Jackson (H. H.), Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elbridge S. Brooks and hundreds
of others; and _half a thousand illustrations_ by F. H. Lungren, W. T.
Smedley, Miss L. B. Humphrey, F. S. Church, Mary Hallock Foote, F.
Childe Hassam, E. H. Garrett, Hy. Sandham and other leading American
artists.