Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-01-10
A Magazine for Farmers.

A magazine Tor Farmers.
Colonel George E. Warning, of Ogden
Farm, near Newport, r. l., will soon be-
gin the publication in Scribner's Monthly of a
series of papers of special interest to those
living in the country, in which will be con-
sidered the advantages offered to farmers
from a concentration of their houses and
farm-buildings into villages, especially as a
relief from the dizziness and isolation of re-
mote farm-houses, as afording better edu-
cation 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-
TONS" Still another paper will give explic-
it instruction as to the means for giving a
good sanitary condition to the village and to
the country house. In the
PROSPECTUS OF scRIBNER's MONTHLY
for 1877, other papers are announced that
will be of especial interest to farmers.
Among these, Mr.. Charles Barnards articles
on various industries of Great Britain; in
Guiding the History of some Experiments
in Cooperation, description of the British
Workman's Home, and Clarence Cooks ar
ticles on Household and Home Decorations.
All profusely and elegantly illustrated; a
department called the Worlds Work; an
other entitled Home and Society, which
will treat of domestic life, the care of chill
dren, etc.
GENERAL NC oLELLANs TRAVELS,
begun in the January Scribner, with A
Winter on the Nile" will run on through
the year. There will be three serial stories:
NICHOLAS M1NTURN,"
by that popular author DR.. Holland (the
Editor, author of Bitter Sweet, +" . Xath-
rina," " Timothy Titcomb's Letters" " Ar
thur Bonnicastle," and the story Of "Seven-
oaks"
The scene of this latest novel is laid on
the banks of the Hudson. The hero is a
young man who has been always "tied to a
a0onaras apron strings" but who by the death
of his mother, is left alone in tbs world -
to drift on the current of life,-with for
tune. but without purpose. Another
serial, His Inheritance" by Miss Traf.on.
will begin Oh the completion of That Lass
O. Lowrie's," by Mrs. Hodgson Burnett.
SAKE Holm, Tourgueneff, Boyesen, and
Mckay, will contribute short stories. SAKE
Holm's new story.
FARMER BAssErrs ROMANCE,
will be printed ia two or three mont hly
parts. Tourgueneffs new story will appe ar
with its publication in
Russia and France, and the magazine will
also publish critical paper on Tourgue-
nef, by Professor Boyesen, accompanied by
4 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
illed with the choicest bits of American
numor
SCRIBNER's MONTHLY is the only American
(besides ST. NICHOLAS for the Boys
and Girls, by the same publishers) that has
found any considerable number of readers
abroad. SCRIBNER is issued simultaneous
IA London and in New York.
The Weekly Times, (E'agHsh), says:
1T pots to shame all our monthlies."
Us MONTHS FOR 81.
To new subscribers who wish to get the
opening chapters of 'That Lass O. Lowrie's,"
we will send Is numbers for $500, begin
1ing with the magnificent Midsummer
Holiday number august, 1876, and ending
with October, 1877. $500 year; IS cents a
aumber. Postage prepaid. ~ Send rs
cents for specimen number. ScRIBNER &
Co., 743 Broadway, N. Y.