The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-11-28

YTyHE unexampled favor accorded by the pub
Il lie TO the conductors of this Magazine has
With the means Of making il more attractive and
valuable to its large and constantly increasing
number OF readers than ever before. The Mag
azine year begins with November
ILLUSTRATED ARTICLES.
THE GREAT SOUTH,
By Edward King. will be commenced in Novem-
Der, and continued through the year. The I'M
mense amount of labor bestowed upon this Sc
ries Of articles has long delayed its appearance
Ii is intended that it shall be the best as II viii
be the most expensive ever given to the Ameri-
can public through the pages OF n magazine
The first two articles will be devoted TO New Or
leans and Louisiana, and will be exceedingly at
tYzctive.
Clarence Cooks promisen papers on ''F urni-
ture and Household Decoration are in rapid
course of preparation, and will soon appear
can Authors will be continued by various skill
full hands. Besides these serials, we have more
than fifty single illustrated articles prepared and
waiting for the chance to be pubtished-articles
which it would absorb too much space to men,
ton
STORIES.
The serial story Of the year, Katherine
Earle" by Adelfne Trafton, author of "An
American Girl Abroad, - is complete, in the
hadds of the publishers, and viii be commenced
in the November number. 1t is a charming love
story by gifted and rapidly rising writer, and
we predict for II a wide popularity.
BRILLIANT NOVELTIES,
By SAKE Holm, Rebecca Harding Davis, Kate
appear during the year. The best short stories
written will be secured in the future, as they
have been in the past, for Scribner's Monthly.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE.
Mr.. Froude's ''Annals of an English Abbey
written expressly for The Monthly-wil open
in the Novemb ber issue, and be completed in that
OF January 1t gives the history for six hun
dred years of the most remarkable of the reli-
oriOIiz houses of ENGLAND and will attract uOi-
versal attention No historical sketch more in
teresting than this has been published in many
EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN's
Critical Essays on the Victorian Poets will be
continued. Those who have read this renlarka-
BILE essay on Landor, will not need the assurance
OLD TIME MUSIC
Mr.. Benjamin F. Taylor, long known for his
brilliant contributions to the Western press, has
prepared a series of very striking poems which
will be quite unique in American literature.
They viii sing to us again the old music of The
Spinning Wheel" ''rhe Stage-coaeh," ''The
Flail," &c, and will be beautifully illustrated
These are some of the attractions which we
promise for the new volume and the new year !;
and of the essays, the poems, the sketches of
travel, the editorial discussions of moral and
social questions, of science, literature art, and
domestic economy, which, after all, will make
up the staple OF every number, we can only say
that they shall be as good as they have been,
and better if they can be made We intend
10 publish Christian Magazine in which there
shall be free thought and free expression and
to make literature and art tributary, not only to
the cultivation of the intellect, but to the puri-
ication of the heart and the advancement of
Christian civilization.
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