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From the Clifton and Lansdowne Times.

GOLDEN DAYS.—­We would like to be able to place this weekly journal in the hands of every girl and boy in the county who cannot afford to subscribe for or buy it from news agents.  But the girls and boys of that kind, we fear, are “too many for us.”  A sad fact, too, by-the-way, when we reflect that a little thought and a bit of economy on the part of themselves or their parents would do what it is not in our power to accomplish.  Nevertheless, they ought to know what GOLDEN DAYS is, namely, a sixteen-page weekly journal, with finely-illustrated articles on various subjects of interest to young people, embracing natural history, philosophy and other branches of education, together with pleasing, instructive and moral stories by the best authors.  It is just what is wanted for the youthful mind seeking for useful information, and ready at the same time to enjoy what is entertaining and healthful.  If all girls and boys could peruse and profit by its columns every week, they in time would grow up to be women and men, intelligent, patriotic and influential in their lives; and lest any who may read these words are ignorant—­which is hardly possible—­of the whereabouts of GOLDEN DAYS, we gladly give the address, James Elverson, Ninth and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia.

From the Commercial List and Price Current, Philada.

GOLDEN DAYS.—­That was a happy title chosen by Mr. James Elverson for his weekly journal, published at his great establishment, Ninth and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia.  In this early part of its tenth volume, it shows, as every number of the past has done, a steady growth in vigor.  The acorn sprout has gradually to expand and shoot upward in the air and light before it becomes the majestic oak of the forest; but all the while it is growing, it is putting forth new beauties and fastening its roots deeply and strongly in the earth.  GOLDEN DAYS is that young monarch of the “literary wood,” and it well deserves the honor.  Year by year it has grown in favor with the young people of the country.  By its distinctive American features, by its efforts to impart knowledge in an instructive and pleasing way to youth, and all through pure channels of information, it has to attribute its popularity.  There is not in this or any other country a journal published for young people so meritorious as GOLDEN DAYS.  You might call every weekly number a golden treasure, and never be amiss.  It is what is needed in every family where there are girls and boys, for in its columns there is instruction, wisdom and harmless entertainment.

From the Republican Progress, Bloomington, Ind.

Elverson’s GOLDEN DAYS is a publication that needs but an examination to recommend it to the public at large.  It is handsomely printed on heavy paper, its illustrations are the best that money will procure, while the stories are written by authors of established reputation.  GOLDEN DAYS is one of those magazines that cause the reader to be impatient for the next issue, because each number is a promise of something still better to come.  Every boy or girl who is a patron of GOLDEN DAYS has a fund of information at hand that to not easily procured, as to travels and travelers in foreign lands.