weekly journal, published at his great establishment, Ninth and
Spruce Streets, Philadelphia. In this early part of its tenth volume,
it shows, as every number of the past has done, a steady growth in
vigor. The acorn sprout has gradually to expand and shoot upward in
the air and light before it becomes the majestic oak of the forest;
but all the while it is growing, it is putting forth new beauties and
fastening its roots deeply and strongly in the earth. GOLDEN DAYS is
that young monarch of the "literary wood," and it well deserves the
honor. Year by year it has grown in favor with the young people of the
country. By its distinctive American features, by its efforts to
impart knowledge in an instructive and pleasing way to youth, and all
through pure channels of information, it has to attribute its
popularity. There is not in this or any other country a journal
published for young people so meritorious as GOLDEN DAYS. You might
call every weekly number a golden treasure, and never be amiss. It is
what is needed in every family where there are girls and boys, for in
its columns there is instruction, wisdom and harmless entertainment.

*From the Republican Progress, Bloomington, Ind.*

Elverson's GOLDEN DAYS is a publication that needs but an examination
to recommend it to the public at large. It is handsomely printed on
heavy paper, its illustrations are the best that money will procure,
while the stories are written by authors of established reputation.
GOLDEN DAYS is one of those magazines that cause the reader to be
impatient for the next issue, because each number is a promise of
something still better to come. Every boy or girl who is a patron of
GOLDEN DAYS has a fund of information at hand that to not easily
procured, as to travels and travelers in foreign lands.

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