ls, attractive in appearance and
contents, and suitable for both young and old. We invite special
attention to the latest enterprise in the latter department--GOLDEN
DAYS, for boys and girls, James Elverson, publisher, Philadelphia. It is
a handsome juvenile journal, of sixteen pages (over eight hundred a
year), filled with stories, sketches, anecdotes, poetry, puzzles, and
humorous items, making up a total that will delight and at the same time
instruct the boys and girls from eight to eighty. The pictorial
embellishments are unsually fine, and far in advance of the coarse
deformities in the flashy sheets that are displayed on the news-stands
to horrify every refined passer-by.

*From the Baltimore Gazette.*

The remarkable success attained by GOLDEN DAYS, the boys' and girls'
periodical, published by Mr. James Elverson, Philadelphia, is a most
encouraging evidence that pure and healthful literature is not incapable
of attracting the eager interest of "Young America." Mr. Elverson,
seems, in fact, to have gauged the taste of the average child of our day
with wonderful accuracy, as there appears to be but one opinion as to
the universal popularity of this excellent periodical. So far as parents
are concerned, its success should be a matter for general
congratulation, as scrupulous care is evidently observed in excluding
from its pages everything that could be considered as in any way tending
to vitiate the minds of the young. On the other hand, its contents are
far superior in vividness of interest for the little ones to those
sensational publications which are the source of so much anxiety to all
who have children to educate. GOLDEN DAYS, in fact, appears to have
struck the golden mean in juvenile literature, and it affords us sincere
pleasure to be able to chronicle its conspicuous popularity.

*From the Methodist, New York.*

James Elverson, Philadelphia, publishes a handsome, illustrated and
interesting youth's paper, called GOLDEN DAYS. It should find a welcome
in every Christian home for the young folks, for the reading is
wholesome, and such literature should be encouraged by prompt
subscriptions. If the youngsters catch a glimpse of it, they will find
they need it as a recreation after study-hours.

*From the Baptist Record, Jackson, Miss.*

A specimen number of GOLDEN DAYS has fallen into our hands. This is a
paper for boys and girls, and, from the cursory examination we have been
enabled to give i