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Atlantic Monthly
FOR 1878.

The manager OF the ATLANTIC, while
keeping this magazine first in American
periodical literature as regards the quality
of its contributions and the distinction of
its writer's, will especially aim during the
coming year TO treat Questions OF Public
Interest, as they arise, in thorough and
impartial manner. 1t is not only their
purpose to make the ALLAN TIC acceptable
to lovers Of bellies lettres, but to make it in
dispensable to all who value the best
thought Of the country on Finance matters
of Government Reform, and all Social Prob
ems. In the highest class Of
American Fiction.
1t will be particularly full, and will con-
Tain serial story ("Detmod; a Romance")
in five parts. by William H. Bishop; anoth-
or (''Tbe Enropeans') in four parts by Hen
ry James, Jr.; and third, in FIVE or six
parts, by W. D. HowelIs
Short Stories
Will be contributed by T. B. Aldrich Rose
Terry Cooke, Constance Fen;more Woolson
b, E. Scudder, j. W. DeForrest, and other
old and new writer's for the Atlantic in
Guiding the author of 1.-The Child Of the
State"
SActCncS Ahu CsSAyBs
By Mark Twain and Charles Dudley War
ner will constantly appear.
Descriptions OF Foreign Life andTrnvel
By w. w. Story ('.Studies of Artistic and
Social Lille in Rome, )T.B:Aldrich ("From
Ponkopog to Pesth y and Charles E. Norton
("Essays on Italian Cathedrals") are prom
ised.
Studies from French, German and
English Books.
Not easily accessible TO the general reader,
and charac' erlzed each by seine peculiar
claim upon his interest, will be useful
and pleasant feature for the Few year. T.
S. Perry II e. Scudder, Henry James, Jr..
Richard Grant White, w D. Howells, Har-
ret W. Preston, and others, VIII contribute
these studies. Interesting contributions
may also be expected from Edmund c..
Stedman, Sarah y. Jewett (author of Deep
haven Sketches and Others including
some curious "Reminiscences Of Brook
Farm" by member of tie Association.
Mattersof Artistic and NJ usical Interest
Will be treated in frequent articles, ard the
literary criticisms will be as ever, full, var
led, and impartial.
The Contributors Club.
To which so many readers already lock the
first thing, will be enlarged and rendered
constantly more attractive, In
POETRY.
The A lrntic will continue to excel The
older contributors. identified for twenty
years with its fame and prosperity-Mr.
Longfellow, DR. O. W. Holmes, Mr.. Whit
tier, Mr.. Lowell, aud others-.will appear as
heretofore, and the Atlantic, which has in
trOduced TO the pub lc the best among our
younger writers, will he the avenue of
whatever is most promising and character
islic in new talent.
To the Atlantic Portraits If Bryant and
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the Publishers have now added new life
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John Greenleaf Whittier. These portraits
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ing poems by Whittier and Longfellow,
and the commencement of Mr.. Bish ops
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