Litchfield enquirer., 1876-12-21
SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY
An UnriyaIed illustrated Magazine.

When scRIBNER issued it's famous Midsummer Hol- iday Number in July friendly critic said of it. We not sure but that ScRIBNER has touched high-wa- ter mark. We do not what worlds left to it to conquor" But the publishers do not consider that they have reached the WtnsG thule of excellence-they teeve "there are other world to conquer, and they propose to conquer them"
 The prospectus for the volume gives the titles of more than fifty papers (nostly ustrated) by wri- ters of the highest merit. Under the head ot
 ssFOREIGN TRAVEi4'' we have "A Winter on the Nile," by GEN. McCLEL- IAN; "Saunterings About Constantinople" by Charles Dudley Warner: 'Out of My Window at Mos cow" by Eugene Schuyler; 'An American in Tuakis- tan, ," etc. Three serial stories are announced:
 NICHOLAS NINTURN,''
 By Dr. HoLLANp, the Editor. whose story of evenoaks" gave the highest satsfac tion to the readers of the Monthly.
 The scene of this latest novel is laid the banks of the Hudson. The hero is young.man who has been always stied c tromans apron strings but who bv the death of his mother is left alone in the word-o drift on the current of lifs,- with fortune, but without purpose
 will begin the compilation nf ssrhat Lass O Low ries, by Mrs Hodgson Burnett. Mrs. Burnett sto- ry begun in August, has pathos and dramatic pow CT which have been surprise to the public
 There is to be series of original and exqusitely illustrated papers of Popu'ar Science" by Mrs. Her rick, each paper complete in itgelf.
 There are to be, from various pens, papers on
 "HONfE LIFE AND TRAVEL,'' Alsc practical suggestions to town and country life, village mproS enents, etc., by we-known spec ialist.
 MT. Barnards articles on various industries of Great Britain include the history of 'Some Experi ments ln Cooperation" "A Scottish Loaf factory in he November number, and s'Toad Lane Rochdale," }" Ill December. Other papers are. ''The British Work ingmans Home" "A Nation of Shopkeepers, " ''Ha- penny Week for the Child" etc.
 richly ilus}rated series will be given on sAmeri- can Sports by Flood and Field" by writer's and each on different theme. The subject of t'HOUSEHOLD AND HOME DECORATIONS ,s' will have prominent place, whilst the latest pro- dnetions of American humorists will appear from month to month. The list of shorter stories, bio- graphical and other skt tches, etc., is long one.
 The editor iai depa tment will continue to employ the ablest pens both at home and abroad. There will be series of letters literary matters, from Lon- don, by MT. Welford
 The pages of the margarine will be open az hereto fore, so far limited space will permit to the dis cusson of Il themes affecting the social and religious life of the world and specially to the freshest of the Christian thinkers and scholars of this coun try.
 We mean to make the magazine sweeter and nnrer higher and nober more genial and generous in all it's utterances and influences, aud more welcome visitor than ever before in homes of refinement and culture
 FIFTEEN MONTHS for S4.
 Scribner for December, now ready, and which con- tains the opening chapters of s'Nicholas Minturn Will be read with eager curiosity and interest. Per haps no more readable number of this magazine has yet been issued. The three numbers of Scribner for August September, and October cont taning the open ing chapters of ''That Lass oLowries" will be given to every subscriber (who requests it and whose subscription begins with the present volume, f c., with the November number.
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