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An important series of six brief papers will be contributed by Dr. E. E. Walker, under the title:

These little “emergency talks” will briefly and clearly tell young folk what to do, in case of accident or sudden illness (such as burns, sunstroke, sprains, and fractures, apparent drowning, etc., etc.), in the interval between the sending for the doctor and his arrival—the few simple, safe, and helpful things that can be done, and the mistakes that can be avoided.

Other serials and notable contributions will be announced later, for many are now in hand or engaged, and in great variety—but all sure to interest and please the energetic, quick-minded boys and girls of to-day. While the editor and the publishers are proud of the educational influence of, the first aim of the magazine is to interest and entertain its ardent young readers, and the instruction which it conveys is mainly in the way of rounding out their lives, and by methods not taught in schools. They have a right to enjoy their magazine first of all, but they will find that it makes their lessons more easy, nevertheless, by giving them a fund of information that is in touch with the thoughts and subjects that fill their minds from day to day, or that always attract their attention.

All present readers of the magazine know what the League is; but for the information of new readers we will explain that it is an organization to bind  readers in closer personal sympathy, and to encourage and develop literary and artistic talent by means of monthly competitions, with gold and silver prize badges and cash rewards.

With the November issue the League will have begun its sixth year. During the past five years there have been nearly three hundred competitions, which is to say, nearly three hundred practical lessons to young readers in art and literary composition, with the result that a considerable number of those who began in the early days of the League have graduated from its ranks into those of the adult art and literary workers. The League has never been so strong nor so useful as it is to-day.

The League membership is entirely free. A League badge and certificate, also full instructions, will be sent to any reader, whether a subscriber or not, or to any one desiring to become a reader of the Magazine.

The success of the

department, which, five years ago, was made a regular feature of, has encouraged the editor not only to continue it, but to enlarge its scope. During the coming year it will treat not only of nature study, of plant and animal life, but also, to a greater extent than heretofore, of other discoveries and items of interest in the whole fascinating realm of science and invention.