The Nursery, No. 169, January, 1881, Vol. XXIX | Page 2

WHAT THE PAPERS SAY OF IT.
If you would teach your child to read in the easiest, quickest, and most
practicable way, easiest both to the child and the teacher, put "The

Nursery" in its hands every month. Our word for it, you will be
surprised at the result. "The Nursery" will be found a primer, a
reading-book, drawing-book, story-book, and lesson-book, all in
one.--Boston Transcript.
"The Nursery" is as great a favorite as ever; and all attempts to imitate
it have failed. No other magazine can supply its place. No family where
there are small children can afford to be without it.--Providence Press.
Among American periodicals for the young, there is not one that we
can more confidently commend than "The Nursery." Indeed, there is
not one of the kind in Europe that quite comes up to this.--N.Y.
Tribune.
Every house that has children in it needs "The Nursery" for their profit
and delight; and every childless house needs it for the sweet portraiture
it gives of childhood.--Northampton Journal.
"The Nursery" continues to be without a rival in its own field, and fills
its place so well that none need wish for anything better. The idea that
anything is good enough for the little ones finds no place in the mind of
its editor, and both stories and pictures are of the choicest.--Chicago
Advance.
No better outlay of money can be made for children than in
subscription to such a magazine as "The Nursery," as it affords not only
pleasure, but real benefit.--Richmond (Va.) Religious Herald.
We again repeat our hope that no family in this country, in which there
is a child or children, will be without this beautiful, simple, and natural
little magazine.--Marshall (Mich.) Expounder.
Of the many attempts to imitate it, all have failed. We are proud of such
an American journal for children.--Illinois Schoolmaster.
Teachers who have tried it say that it charms the children into learning
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.
[Illustration: W]
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 hold all of his gifts. It is rather hard to crowd a sword, a gun,
and a rocking-horse all into one stocking.
Mary had a fine new doll. Harry had a box, and, on taking off the cover,
up sprang a wise-looking little man, with a cap on his head. Jessy had a
doll, and a very pretty one it was too. Tommy had a what-do-you-call-it.
Why did he look up the chimney? I think it was to see if there was any
sign of Santa Claus.
John mounted his horse, waved his sword, and