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GIRL'S OWN PAPER.

A NEW ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE, Conducted by the EDITOR of the "LEISURE HOUR."

THE

HE want of a pure and elevating Magazine for Girls has long been felt, and in response to many suggestions on the part of those interested in the welfare of the girls of this country, the publishers of the BOY'S OWN PAPER have decided on issuing a companion Magazine, to be called the GIRL'S OWN PAPER. This new Paper will, as far as possible, be to its readers a Counsellor, Playmate, Guardian, Instructor, Companion, and Friend Literary and artistic talent of the highest order will be brought to bear upon the work, and it is therefore hoped that it will receive the hearty support of our British maidens, and of those, also, who desire to further their best interests.

The First Numbers will include:

Zara; or, my Granddaughter's
Money. A Serial Story. Illustrated by
M. E. EDWARDS.

On the Wings of the Wind. A
Serial Story by Mrs. G. LINNAEUS BANKS.
Author of "The Manchester Man," etc.

A Sister's Love. By the Author of
"The White Cross and Dove of Pearls."
The Girlhood of Great Queens. I.
Victoria.

Our Novel Christmas Tree and
Original Charade. By RUTH LAMB.
How the Girls arranged their Sit-
ting-Room. By Madame DE LORRAINE.
Female Heroism. By LAMBTON YOUNG,
and others.

Fashionable Costumes of Long Ago.
By ARDEN HOLT.

Short Stories for the Fireside. By

Mrs. PROSSER; HESBA STRETTON; Mrs. S.
C. HALL; the Rev. T. S. MILLINGTON ;
ISABELLA FYVIE MAYO; J. BERWICK HAR-
WOOD; Mrs. WALTON, Author of "A Peep
Behind the Scenes," etc.; the Author of
"The Dingy House at Kensington;" the
Author of A Trap to Catch a Sunbeam ;"
and other popular Writers.

Home Accomplishments. I. How to
Sing a Song. By Madame MUDIE-BOLIN-

BROKE.

On Earning One's Living. Some New
Employments for Girls.
Excellent Women.
Aldershot.

I. Mrs. Daniel of

Our Cookery Class. I. Roasting. By
PHILLIS BROWNE.

Winter Clothes and How to Make
Them. By DORA DE BLAQUIERE.
Healthy Recreations. I. Skating.
Under the Snow. Song by JOHN FAR-
MER, Professor of Music at Harrow School.
My Work Basket. Pleasant Work for
Clever Fingers.

How we Saved the Poor Birds in
the Winter.

Useful Hints. Containing valuable House-
hold Directions, Receipts, etc.

My Lady's Jewel Case. By C. L.
MATÉAUX,

Varieties. Consisting of Short Anecdotes,

Grave and Gay; the Sayings and Doings of
Great and Good Men and Women; Riddles,
Puzzles, etc.

Answers to Correspondents.

Prize Competitions. Plain Sewing. Embroidery, Water-Colour Drawing, and Essay Writing.

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"And I will bring the blind by a way they know not;

I will lead them in paths they know not:

I will make darkness light before them,

And crooked things straight.

These things will I do unto them,

And I will not forsake them."

NEW YEAR'S EVE, 1862.

"No nearer, and the years creep on unbidden! One life, only one,
yet one, with all its lonely responsibilities, which no one seems quite
to understand. If only an unseen hand would point out the right
way, God knows with what earnestness it should be followed."

And the resolution formed itself to begin the new year by attend-
ing the early communion at a neighbouring church the next morning,
and anew to ask for guidance and an assurance of the right path.

Des-

The servant who promised faithfully to call, still slept, weary with
the entertainment of friends on the previous evening. How strangely
tenacity of purpose impels the mind to wake at a given hour, as if to
tell of its dumb mastery over the body it wields at its bidding.
cending the stairs amid the sleeping household, the front door was
reached, but alas! the mysterious French lock would not respond to
an unpractised hand. To rouse a servant was the first thought, but
that would involve five flights of stairs and lose time. Then a little
wooden door was remembered, which led from the sous-sol into the
garden, by which the coke and other things were deposited. It was