The new volume of the Youth's Instructor is to commence with the new year. And we have been considering how it can be improved. We have come to the following conclusions:— 1. This sheet is too small. There should be room in the Instructor for some longer articles, and many more short ones. It should also contain Sabbath-school Lessons in every number. We therefore decide to issue it during the year 1872 with eight pages, its present size, instead of four pages. We design to furnish an article for each number, and Mrs. White will try to do the same. 2. It is a fact that Congress enacts some laws which the people do not understand. And the law which decides the rates of postage on periodicals is one. For instance: The postage on a weekly, fifty-two papers, in a year, is only twenty cents a year, while the postage on a semi-monthly, twenty-four papers, is twenty-four cents a year. And we decide that on so small a paper as the Instructor, twenty-four cents for twenty-four numbers is a waste of postage. And, notwithstanding that some of the little folks may at first feel a little disappointed in having to wait so long for their good paper, we decide to publish it during the year 1872 on the first of each month. 3. In order to secure a very large circulation of the Youth's Instructor, we offer it for the year 1872, for thirty-eight cents. The postage will be twelve cents, so that the entire cost to the reader, postage and all, will be only fifty cents a year. And we will send it to new subscribers at the following rates:—
Three copies to one address, $1.00.
Seven “ “ “ 2.00.
Twelve “ “ “ 3.00.
Twenty-five copies to one address, 6.00. We will furnish a single copy of the enlarged Instructor for 1872, to all who wish to order it for their friends, or when furnished by Tract Societies, for the small sum of 25 cents. We design that the Youth's Instructor shall be the very best sheet of the kind in our country, and, with the reduction in the price, we shall expect a very large patronage. The readers of the REVIEW have some less than half a million of nephews and nieces, and other youthful acquaintances, to whom they should send the Instructor as a New Year's gift. Be in season. Let the names, with the quarters, come in by hundreds at every mail. We offer no premiums to canvassers. We recommend, however, firm religious principles, mingled with liberality, and a trifle of enthusiasm for this cold weather, and the many friends of the cause of God, and of the youth, will succeed in gathering up thousands of names for the Instructor. Address REVIEW AND HERALD, Battle Creek, Michigan. JAMES WHITE,
Pres. S. D. A. P. A.