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“Driven Back to Eden,”

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THE NEW SERIAL STORY

BY E.P.  ROE

Author of “Barriers Burned Away,” “Without a Home,” Etc., Etc.

PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED

NOW APPEARING IN ST. NICHOLAS.

Showing how a city family, inhabitants of a “flat,” were led to move into the freedom of a country home, and how the girls and boys all became farmers on a small scale.  This promises to be one of Mr. Roe’s best stories.  It is only one of the many interesting current features of ST. NICHOLAS, which include: 

  “Recollections of a Boy-Page in the U.S.  Senate,”
    “Historic Girls,” serial papers by E.S.  Brooks,
      “Children of the Cold,” a series by Lieut.  Fred’k Schwatka,
  “Ready for Business; Suggestions to Boys about to Choose an Occupation,”
    “Personally Conducted,” by Frank R. Stockton,
      Short Stories by Louisa M. Alcott and others.  Etc., Etc.

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