to read. Blessings on the sunny "Nursery"! Far and near may households
be brightened by its presence!--_Massachusetts Teacher._

A bright, pleasant little pictorial, with which the smallest children
able to read at all may be amused and instructed. Parents looking for
such reading will be interested in it.--_N.Y. Tribune._

"The Nursery" is the very best magazine that we know for children. It is
beautifully illustrated, and the stories are _always clean and pure_,
inculcating kindness to one another and to animals. Its lessons are all
in favor of truth, honor, and honesty. It should be in every family
where there are young children to be entertained and
instructed.--_Woman's Journal._

"The Nursery" is 'a magazine for youngest readers,' and, as we know by
its use in our own family, most admirably adapted for the purpose for
which it is intended.--_Charleston (S.C.) Carolinian._

Those who wish to furnish their little ones, just learning to read, with
something fresh,--something written with great care, and illustrated
with skill, to which the ordinary 'primers' cannot and do not
attain,--should provide themselves with "The Nursery."--_Detroit Post._

To those of our readers who have young children of their own, or who are
called on to suggest quiet amusement for little patients, we can
conscientiously commend "The Nursery," a monthly juvenile magazine
published in Boston, as the only periodical we have been able to find
suited to the comprehension of children under ten or twelve years of
age.--_N.Y. Medical Gazette._

We wish we could express in fitting words our gratitude to the editor,
publisher, and contributors of this exquisite little magazine. It is
intended for the small boys and girls who do not read very long words;
but, if we mistake not, 'children of a larger growth' will be fascinated
by its charming pictures and its dainty execution.--_N.Y. Liberal
Christian._

Few better services can be done than to banish namby-pamby trash from
juvenile literature, and to substitute for it what is healthy and jolly
and interesting. This is the work that "The Nursery" performs for little
children, and we therefore take pleasure in its deserved success.--_N.Y.
Independent._

[Illustration: THAT MERRY CHRISTMAS.]

THAT MERRY CHRISTMAS.

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What a glad noise there was that Christmas morning! The children had got
up early to look in their stockings. John's were not quite large enough
to h