Smyrna times., 1866-10-31
NJ l S CELLAN NEOUS.
N ag aZines.

III dZ1n6S,
Frank Leslie-The number for November.
IN addition to its immense fashion plates, dress
and other patterns, bonnet fashions, &C. (which
are unsurpassed in extent by other ladies mag
azlnes) contains its usual variety of reading
matter[mOre abundant than excellent. Frank
Leslie, New York.
Peterson for NoremJer. = The November
number M OF this popular monthly is on our table.
IL IS brilliant In embellishments, fashion plates,
and reading matter, rendering it altogether a
welcome visitor to every freside The work
department OF this magazine is unexcelled by
any other The proprietor promises much in
1867. Chas. j. Peterson, 306 Chestnut st.
| The Lddy'S Friend philadelphia: Deacon
PeterSonl tor November contains sketches by
Amanda NJ. Douglass, Mrs. Margaret f. Hos
mer Virginia +. Townsend, and other contrib
utors popular with the readers of this monthly.
There are the usual fashion plates and a steel
engraving which, although not in the highest
style OF the art, is of a better grade than those
usually given with this magazine.
! Hours at Home, for November is excellent
as usual. This number has fine steel engra,
/ vlng--"Autumn in the Woodland" Mitchell
TX MARVEL continues his sketches on country
life. Mount Washington, - Memoirs of Mrs.
1emans, Why and How the Federal Capitol
was established on the Potomac" ''The Chris
tlan Statesmen of America" etc, are promi-
nent among other articles. Chas. Scribner &
Co., 654 Broadway, n. Y.
The enterprising publishers who propose to
start juvenile magazines with the new wear. will
nave thelr nands tull If they mean to bring
their mOnthlles into competition with O,r
Young Folks Boston Ticknor & Fields. for
the conductors of that periodical manage to
add new attractions to each issue The num-
Der for November has frontispiece, cbrOmo-
Autograph, Illustrating Grimm tale of 6 Flor
linda and Florinde'
atlantic Monthy for November contains
Khoda; Passages from Hawthornes Note
Books; Fourth Sonnet on Translating the Di-
yna Commedla; Five Hundred Years Ago
Katherine Morne; PrOtoneiron The Progress
OF Prussia; The Song Sparrow: Inyalidism
, Grlthth Gaunt-Conclusion Gurowsk;. The
r President and his Accomplices: Marsball's
PORTRAIT OF Abraham Lincoln: Reviews and
Literary Notices. Tcknor & Fields, Boston
HarPers Monthly for November has beer
:iHHceNeu. IL contains spirited sketch. wei
Illustrated OF the Bellvue IN. W WorLbous,
ana lts inmates; continuation of its pictor;a
sAclches 0l events IN the late war-the subec
Of this month being the FLORIDA Camnoign1 sn,
n. several other illustrated sketches and noems
Also large amount of miscellaneous read;n
without pictures. Monthly Record of Curren
Events, Editor Drawer, &C., making altogeth
= er highly entertaining number. Harner
Brothers, New York. $4 year.
La IHE BENEFIT OF BEING KNOCKED ABor,
IN THE WoRLD.-lt is good thing for youn
man TO be Knocked about in the world, thong
MS s01t-hearted parents may not think so. A
ottLns, ttt or II II not all, certainly nineteen-twer
oeens ol tne sum total, enter life with surplus
age OF selt-cOnceit. The sooner thew are r,
lieved of it the better. If, in measuring tben
T. selves, they discover that it is unwarrantel
and get rid OF IT gracefully, of their own accorC
well and good IT not, it is desirable for the
nd own sakes that 1t be knOcked out Ofthenn.
A boy who is sent to large school soon f;nf
e. his level. His will may have been naramon,
in at home; but school boys are democrat;c
tie their ideas, and if arrogant he is sure to
thrashed into recognition of the golden rul
The world Is great public school, and II so[
teaches new pupil his proper place. If
has the attributes that belong to leader.
will be installed in the position of leader;
not, whatever his own opinion of his abilitie
he will be compelled to fall in with the RAJ
and file. If not destined to greatness, the ne
best thing to which he can aspire is respect
bility: but no man can either be truly great
truly respectable who is vain, pompOus a
- overbearing
Is. BY the time the novice has found his legi
mate position, be the same high or low, t
probability is that the disagreeable traits
rE. his character will be softened down or VIC
away. Most likely the process of abrasion v
De rough, perhaps Uay rough; but when it
/ all over, and he begins to see himself as 9th
= see him, and not as reflected in the mirror
seh-coneeit, he will be thankful that he I
run the gauntlet, and arrived, though by
roqgh road, at acknowledge
LII upon the whole, whatever loving moth
taay on.hk 70 the contrary, it is good thi
Per- =; ;er youths to be knocked about in the wor
4ep- IL makes men Of them.
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