Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-01-11
A MAGAZINE FOR FARMERS.

COl. george II. w arlng, Oh OSuen arm,
near Newport, R. l., author of g A Farm
er's Vacation" and other well-known
works, will soon begin the publication in
special interest to those living in the coun-
try. Farm Villages will be the title of
the first paper, in which will be consid-
cred the advantages offered to farmers
from a concentration of their houses and
farm buildings into villages, especially as
a relief from the dullness and isolation of
remote farm houses, as atfording better
education for children, and as making the
farmers life more attractive to the young.
Another paper will treat of the work to be
done by "Village Improvement Associa-
tions' in the matter Of increased neatness
and good keeping of streets, public
grounds, private places, etc., the furnish
ing of literary club-rooms, the planting OF
trees, and like matters. Still another pa
per will give explicit instruction as to the
means for giving a good sanitary condl>
ton to the village and to the country
house. These papers will be accompanied
by maps and diagrams. The series has
been undertaken by Col. Waring at the
request of the conductors of the Monthly,
and is considered by them one of the most
important and valuable enterprises In
PROSPECTUS OF sCRIBNER's MONTHLY
for 1877, just issued, other papers are an
nounced that will be of especial interest to
farmers. Among these, MIR. Charles Bar:
nard's articles on various industries OF
Great Britain, including the History of
some Experiments in Cooperation, de-
scription of the British Workman's Home,
and Clarence Cooks articles on Household
and Home Decoration. There will be also
a series on American Sports and papers OF
Popular Science,-all profusely and ele-
gantly illustrated; department called the
Worlds Work; another entitled Home and
Society, which will treat of domestic life,
the care of children, etc.
GENERAL M'CLELLAN's TRAVELS,
begun in the January Scribner with "a
Winter on the Nile" will run on through
theyear. There will be three serial stories: {:
NICHOLAS MINTURN,"
by that popular author, DR.. Holland the
Editor, author of "Bitter Sweet"
Kathrina," Timothy Titcomb's Let
ters," arthur Bonnicastle," and the
story of Sevenoaks," etc.
The scene of this latest novel is laid on
the banks of the Hudson. The hero is
young man who has been always "tted to
a acomGn's apron strings" but who, by the
death of his mother, is left alone in the
world to drift on the current of life
with fortune, but without purpose.
Another serial.
HIS INHERITANCE,
by Miss Trafton, will begin on the com.
pletion of "That Lass o. Lowrie's," by
Mrs. Hodgson Burnett.
SAKE Holm, Tourgueneff, Boyesen, and
Mckay, will contribute short stories to
early numbers of the monthly. Sake
Holm's new story,
FARMER BAssETT's ROMANCE,
will be printed in two or three monthly
parts Tourguenef,s new story will ap.
pear simultaneously with its publication
in Russia and France, and the magazine
will also publish critical paper on Tour.
gueneff, by Prof. Boyesen, accompanied
BY portrait of the famous Russian patriot
The editorial department will continue
to employ the ablest pens both at home and
abroad. There will be letters on literary
matters from London by Mr.. Wexford.
The department of Bric-a- Brac will be
filled with the choicest bits of American
humor. =
Scrsbner's Monthly is the only Ameri
can magazine beside st. Nicholas fol
the Boys and Girls, by the same publish
ers) that has found any considerable num-
Der of readers abroad. Scribner is issued
simultaneously in London and in New
York. Wherever the English language is
spoken it is accepted as the brightest and
the best of all the magazines.
The London Literary World says:
eff Scribner's Monthly is not taking
root in England, it says little for the taste
of John Bull or his power to appreciate
literary and artistic excellence"
The Weekly Times says:
cit puts to shame allNour monthlies."
Is MONTHS FOR 81.
To new subscribers who wish to get the
opening chapters of "That Lass o. Low.
rie's," we will send Is numbers for 81 90
beginning with the magnificent Midsum
mer Holiday number august, 1870, and
ending with October, 1877. $4.00 year
35 cents a number. Postage prepaid.
, 10 Send 25 cents for aspecimen number
ScRIBNER & Co., TAB Broadway, NY.