The panic of last fall has brought distress and trouble into many families. When business is dull, and expensive luxuries, and even lectures and concerts, must be given up, and time hangs heavily, and the mind broods upon its troubles, one must read, and there is then no more welcome visitor than the monthly magazine, especially if it be bright with illustrations. Not the least of the blessings of the recent financial trouble is that it has made us more considerate of, and helpful to, cach other. If those who feel compelled to stop their magazines will seck out some neighbor poorer than themselves, and divide the subscription price (paying the larger part), they will do a really kind action, and they will be surprised to see how neighborly two families will become, who take the same magazine together, and how it will grow in interest when you talk it all over with your next-door friends. Nothing finds its way into the pages of a high-class magazine unless it have some permanent value; and illustrated magazines, when bound into handsome volumes, make the most useful and attractive family libraries. For instance, there are now eight bound volumes of SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY, constituting a library of more than six thousand pages, embellished with nearly two thousand illustrations. And in the field of children's literature, there can be nothing more beautiful, more interesting or more useful than the first volume of ST. NICHOLAS, just issued. Magnificent in an outer dress of red and gold, and filled from cover to cover with the very best literary and artistic matter for the young, it cannot fail to be a most welcome visitor to every household. What could be better as a Christmas gift than a volume of ST. NICHOLAS? In workmanship it would be impossible to surpass it printing, engraving, paper, binding, being all of the highest order. As to its literary contents we need only quote the opinion of CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER, Author of "MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN,” and other charming books, who writes to us as fol. lows: "The first year of the ST. NICHOLAS more than fulfills the promise of its auspicious birth, and in the bound volume, with its glory of red and gold, we have what may be called a permanent addition to the literature of the young. I have watched the magazine every month of its existence, and have seen its beauties of pen and pencil unfold; but I am surprised now that it becomes a book and as handsome a book as St. Nicholas himself can hope to find on Christmas- by the variety and wealth of its contents. Never before, I think, has so much literary and artistic talent co-operated in the service of children, and I will not resist the hearty impulse to say to you that you have made the best magazine for children of all ages I have ever seen; it is even more entertaining for grown people than Fome of the quarterlies. I know the high ideal Mrs. Dodge had for it, and her desire that it should exert a sweet and ennobling influence in the households of the land. It has been made level with the comprehensions of children, and yet it is a continual educator of their taste, and of their honor and courage. I do not see how it can be made any better, and if the children don't like it, I think it is time to begin to change the kind of children in this country." The subscription Price of ST. NICHOLAS is $3.00 a year, sent, postage paid. The twelve numbers for last year, Vol. I., will be sent for only $2.00. Volume I., elegantly bound in red and gold, $4.00; with gilt sides and gilt edges, $5.00. One year's subscription to ST. NICHOLAS and twelve back numbers, $5.00. One year's subscription and Volume One, Bound, charges paid, for $6.00. Covers for binding sent, charges paid, for 75 cents. The back Nos. may be exchanged for the bound volume on payment of $1.00 and charges both ways. For Sale and Subscriptions received by all NEWSDEALERS and BOOKSELLERS. For Special Terms on the Bound Volumes of SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY, see next page. SCRIBNER & CO, 654 Broadway, N. Y. "The Great National Magazine," Begins a new year (its ninth volume) with the November number, with broader plans and larger enterprise than ever before, and with the ambition it has maintained from the first, w demonstrate itself to be the brightest, the strongest, the most beautiful and in every way The Best Popular Magazine in the World. During the year it will present such marvels of illustrative engraving as no popular magazine has ever been able to publish. Its writers will be, as they have been, the choice and chosen literary men and women of America. Among the attractive features of the year will be By J. G. HOLLAND, author of "Bitter Sweet,” “Kathrina,” “Arthur Bonnicastle," and "The Mistress of the Manse." A Series of Papers, from various pens, "AMERICAN LIFE AND SCENERY," Including descriptive papers on American cities, will open in January with a narrative of WESTERN DISCOVERY AND ADVENTURE, by Major Powell, whose descent of the Colorado is one of the most famous exploits of Western travel. This serics will rival “The Great South” papers in the magnificence of its illustrations, while possessing greater variety and wider interest. ALSO ANOTHER ILLUSTRATED SERIES, "A Farmer's Vacation in Europe," Six articles, recounting the experience of a well-known American farmer and engineer (COLONEL WARING, of Ogden Farm, Newport, R. I.), during a tour through some of the less frequented parts of Western Europe, in the autumn of 1873. "THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND,' Or, "The Modern Robinson Crusoe," JULES VERNE'S !atest story, will be continued, with its illustrations. " French Literature and Parisian Life, By ALBERT RHODES, With Illustrations by French Artists, will appear during the year. "MY TOURMALINE,” A New Story, by SAXE HOLM, Begins in November, and will run for three or four months. There will also be other NOVELETTES and SHORTER STORIES by leading AMERICAN and ENGLISH STORY-WRITERS. The Magazine will continue to hold its pre-eminence in this regard. The ESSAYS, REVIEWS, and EDITORIAL PAPERS will, as heretofore, employ the ablest pens in both Europe and America. HOME AND SOCIETY, which has grown in favor and in excellence from the first, will be made more attractive, useful, and valuable in its influence on the social life and culture of the American people. THE ETCHINGS will be still further improved, and there will be greater variety. 'An Illustrated Library." "SCRIBNER," by the verdict of the ENGLISH and the AMERICAN Press, is " The Best of all the Monthlies." The EIGHT BOUND VOLUMES constitute an Illustrated LIBRARY of MORE A Dozen Splendid Serial Stories, Nearly One Hundred Shorter Stories, More than a Thousand Separate Articles, Essays, Embellished with nearly Two Thousand Illustrations. We have reprinted at great expense the earlier volumes, and now offer a limited number at reduced rates in connection with subscriptions. No other opportunity will probably ever be given to get complete sets of this unrivaled Monthly; the expense of reprinting small editions being so great as to be prohibitory. OUR SPECIAL OFFERS. We offer the eight vols., bound in cloth, sent to any address in the United States, CHARGES PAID, with one year's subscription, for $20; the same, CHARGES NOT PAID, $16. The eight vols., in extra library style, MARBLE SIDES AND MARBLE EDGES, and a subscripLon, for $25; or if sent, CHARGES NOT PAID, $20. The Postage on ali New Subscriptions will be Prepaid by us. The Subscription Price of Scribner's Monthly is $4.00 a year. 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