*REV. RICHARD NEWTON, D.D.,*
_Pastor of the P. E. Church of the Epiphany, Philadelphia, says:_
From what I have seen of GOLDEN DAYS, it strikes me very favorably.
There is a high tone of morality about it which is calculated to exert a very wholesome influence on the young people who read it.
*From the Roman Citizen, Rome, N.Y.*
A MODEL PAPER.--Two years ago, we informed the readers of the Citizen that a long-felt want was to be supplied--viz., a paper was to be printed which would give the young people (boys and girls) plenty of good reading without corrupting their morals or vitiating their tastes--in other words, would furnish them with stories which would gratify their love of adventure without inspiring in them a desire to imitate impossible heroes, and tempting them to desert their homes in search of adventures which never occur outside of blood-and-thunder papers and story books. The paper we allude to--GOLDEN DAYS--promised this, and we have carefully watched it for two years to see how its pledge would be redeemed. We are glad to be able to state it has exceeded our most sanguine expectations. While it has been constantly filled with stories and sketches of the most fascinating character, we have never seen a sentence in it which we could have wished to have omitted.
*From the Episcopal Recorder.*
GOLDEN DAYS.--We commend this as the best of the cla.s.s of publications to which it belongs, and as being essentially different from all that are contemporaneous with it. And if it shall prove to be like Moses" rod when turned into a serpent, and swallow up the serpent-rods of all cunning magicians of evil, and then become a rod of power for working good in the home, in the school, and wherever youth are found, we shall rejoice.
*From the Christian Register, Boston.*
GOLDEN DAYS is well worthy the examination of parents who wish to provide their children with a large amount of carefully-prepared miscellany, at once entertaining, instructive and clean. It is edited with ability, and shows a quick sympathy with the pleasures of the young people, and a clear outlook for their welfare.
*From the Maryland School Journal.*
GOLDEN DAYS (Elverson, Philadelphia) has fulfilled its promise, and is in every respect a suitable weekly paper to put into the hands of young boys and girls. We have carefully watched each number since the start, and have seen in it nothing to censure and much to praise.
*From the Floyd Co. Advocate, Charles City, Iowa.*
GOLDEN DAYS, published by James Elverson, of Philadelphia, is a new first-cla.s.s paper for boys and girls. Provide them with good, entertaining reading, and they will grow up good men and women.
*From Town Talk, Mansfield, Ohio.*
James Elverson, Philadelphia, publishes a handsome ill.u.s.trated and interesting youth"s paper called GOLDEN DAYS. It should find a welcome in every home for the young folks, for the reading is wholesome, and such literature should be encouraged by prompt subscriptions. If the youngsters catch a glimpse of it they will find they need it as a recreation after study hours.
*From The Home and Sunday-School, Dallas, Texas.*
We can heartily recommend GOLDEN DAYS as one of the purest and most charming juvenile magazines we have seen. It is wholly free from corrupting influences--fresh, instructive, and eagerly welcomed by the boys and girls. Having seen nothing in it to censure and much to praise, we hope it may have the wide circulation it merits.
*From the Christian Advocate, Pittsburg, Pa.*
GOLDEN DAYS comes to us in a magazine form, making a beautiful and interesting volume. This journal numbers among its contributors probably more popular writers of serial stories for youth than any juvenile publication in the country.
*From the Presbyterian Banner, Pittsburg, Pa.*
A great advance has been made within the last twelve months in a very important agency for good--the publication of cheap, and, at the same time, unexceptionable and attractive reading matter. For a long time the want has been seriously felt for something more than mere denunciation to overcome the growing evil of the demoralizing literature--cheap and vile--that has been scattered broadcast over the land. That want has been measurably supplied, in part, by the publication of standard English cla.s.sics, at marvelously low prices, and in part by the issue of low-priced but superior periodicals, attractive in appearance and contents, and suitable for both young and old. We invite special attention to the latest enterprise in the latter department--GOLDEN DAYS, for boys and girls, James Elverson, publisher, Philadelphia. It is a handsome juvenile journal, of sixteen pages (over eight hundred a year), filled with stories, sketches, anecdotes, poetry, puzzles, and humorous items, making up a total that will delight and at the same time instruct the boys and girls from eight to eighty. The pictorial embellishments are unsually fine, and far in advance of the coa.r.s.e deformities in the flashy sheets that are displayed on the news-stands to horrify every refined pa.s.ser-by.
*From the Baltimore Gazette.*
The remarkable success attained by GOLDEN DAYS, the boys" and girls"
periodical, published by Mr. James Elverson, Philadelphia, is a most encouraging evidence that pure and healthful literature is not incapable of attracting the eager interest of "Young America." Mr. Elverson, seems, in fact, to have gauged the taste of the average child of our day with wonderful accuracy, as there appears to be but one opinion as to the universal popularity of this excellent periodical. So far as parents are concerned, its success should be a matter for general congratulation, as scrupulous care is evidently observed in excluding from its pages everything that could be considered as in any way tending to vitiate the minds of the young. On the other hand, its contents are far superior in vividness of interest for the little ones to those sensational publications which are the source of so much anxiety to all who have children to educate. GOLDEN DAYS, in fact, appears to have struck the golden mean in juvenile literature, and it affords us sincere pleasure to be able to chronicle its conspicuous popularity.
*From the Methodist, New York.*
James Elverson, Philadelphia, publishes a handsome, ill.u.s.trated and interesting youth"s paper, called GOLDEN DAYS. It should find a welcome in every Christian home for the young folks, for the reading is wholesome, and such literature should be encouraged by prompt subscriptions. If the youngsters catch a glimpse of it, they will find they need it as a recreation after study-hours.
*From the Baptist Record, Jackson, Miss.*
A specimen number of GOLDEN DAYS has fallen into our hands. This is a paper for boys and girls, and, from the cursory examination we have been enabled to give it, we think it deserving of support.