Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-01-04
A Magazine for Farmers.

Colonel George D. Waring, of Ogden
Farm, near Newport, r. l., will soon begin the
publication in ScR1BSEE's MONTHLY of a series
Of papers OF special interest to those living i'll
the country, in which will he considered the
advantages offered to farmers by a concentra-
ti0n of their houses and farm-buildings into
villages, especially as a relief from the dull
ness and isolation of remote farm houses, as
afording 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
Associations.' Still another paper will give
explicit instructions as to the means for CIV
ing good sanitary condition to the village
and the country house. In the
PROSPECTUS OF scRlDNER's MONTHLY.
for 1877, other papers are announced that
will he Of especial interest to farmers. Among
these, MIR. Charles Barnard's articles OF va
ious industries Of Great Britain, including the
History Of some Experiments in Cooperation,
a description Of the British Workman's S Home,
and Claranec Cooks articles on Household
and Home Decoration,-all profusely and ell
egantly illustrated;a q 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 VIM
ter on the Nile," will run OH through the
year. There will be three serial stories:
NICHOLAS MlSTURN,''
by that popular author, DR.. Holland (the edi-
tory, author Of "Bitter Sweet" ''Kathrina,' -
s'Timothy Titcomb's Letters" "Arthur Bon
nicastle," and the story of "Sevenoaks." The
scene of this latest novel is laid on the banks
OF the Hudson. The hero is young man
who has been always ''ticd to a womall's
apron-strings," but who, by the death of his
mothers il left alone in the world to drift on
the current of life,-with fortune, but with
out purpose. Another serial, ellis Inheri-
tance," by Miss Tratton, will begin on the
completion Of ''That Lass O. Lowtie's," by
Mrs. Hodgson Burnett.
SAKE Holm, Tourguencff, Boyesen, and Nc
Kay, will contribute short stories. SAKE
Holm's new story,
FAEMER BAssETT's ROMANCE,
will be printed in two or three monthly parts.
Tourguenetf's new story will appear simulta-
neously with its publication in Russia and
France, and the magazine will also publish a
critical paper on Tourgucneff, by Professor
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 he letters on literary
matters from London by Mr.. Welliord.
The Department of Bric-a-brac will he filled
with the choicest bits Of American humor.
Scribner's Monthly is the only American
magazine (besides St. Nicholas for the Boys
and Girls, by the same publishers) that has
found any considerable number of readers
abroad. Scribner's is issued simultaneously
in London and in New York.
The Weekly Times (English) says:
''It puts to shame all our monthlies."
l5 MONTHS EoR "a. -
To new subscribers who wish to get the
opening chapters of s'That Lass O. Lowric's, >
we will send l5 numbers for $500, beginning
with the magnificent Midsummer Holiday
number. august, lS7G), and ending with Oc.
tober, 1877. $500 a year; IS cents a number
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