Scribner's For Christmas

Frank R. Stockton has a Christmas love story, whieh bears a characterigtic The Btaying Power of Sir Kotian. lts ïllustrationsare quaint and exactly suitable. ■Thp Bi,5,ria "K De' ective story by C. E. Carryll, eutitled best Vork? iflastrateá" P RPS equalling Sherlock Holmes' Joel Chandler Harris' character tale of a faithful slave - Ihe (olonel's Nitrger-Dog." Other Christmas stories are " A White Blot," by Heurv t,? 5? .f'ij1110?' and imaginatlve tale of a picture (illugtrated): Heroism of Landers." by A. S. l'ier (illustrated) auü Hopper's Old Man," by K. C. V. Meyers. By. J. M. Barrie. Mi„i i'"1 wlli '"lve „ (an(i lvll lllls uot!)" "The Little Minister" and " A Window in Thruma" oan anticípate what Mr, Barrle's " Sentimental Tommy" wlll be. ning S 1tUeJanuaryCíumbSer'.ial lB SCrÍbner'S fr 1896' begi"" Tvvo Years for $4.50 thn pípRrIBNu? 'S asazine is goiug to be better next year arnnttisfi ,ïfm"? t0 have new iea-r. lts publishers are not batihfied with past suceesses. It propos to more thoronghly deserve the confldence of tlie readfng public f ri F1;6 Y,lst0??; Senal-" Last QuarterCenturviii the United States i "-will be coutinued. Just now it is'approachine a ienod of absorbuig interest to the present geneiation-the first admimstration of President Cleveland ueIauuu lne bcuiBNEit:s Magazine ought to eet parefnl rnnaido Charles Seribner's Son, 153 Fifth Ave., New