The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-01-11
A Magazine for Farmers.

Colonel George E Waring, Of Ogden
Farm, near Newport, Rhode Island, will
soon begin the publication in Scri1ner's
Monthly Of series of papers of special in.
terest to those living in the country, in
which will be considered the advantages of.
fered to farmers from concentration of
their houses and farm buildings into vii
lagos, especially as q relief from the dull.
ness and isolation Of remote farm.houtes, 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 Improve.
ment Associations" Still another paper will
give explicit instruction as to the means for
giving good sanitary condition to the vii.
lage and to the country house. In the
PROSPECTUS OF sCRIBNER's MONTHLY
for 1877, other papers are announced that
will be OF special interest to farmers
Among these, Mr.. Charles Barnard's 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.
ticlss on Household and Home Decoration,
all profusely and Elegantly illustrated; a
department called the Worlds Work; an.
other entitled Homelpd Society, which will
treat of domestic life, the care of children,
etc.
GENERAL M'CLELLAN's TRAVELS,
begun in the January ScriJner, with "a
Winter on the Nile," will run on through
the year. There will be three serial stories
"NICHOLAs MINTURN,"
by that popular author, DR.. Holland (the
Editor), author of "Bitter Sweet" "Kath.
rina," "Timothy Titcomb's Letters" car.
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 young man who has been always
cited to woman's apron-strings," but who,
by the death of his mother, is left alone in
the world, to drift Oh the current of life,
with a fortune, but without q purpose. An.
other serial, + :, -
by Miss traitor, will begin on the..comple.
ton of "That Lass O. Lowrie's," by Mrs.
Hodgson Burnett.
SAKE Holm, TourgueneA, Boyesen, and
nACINay, Will Couuiuutc puOII btOIieSs OdAc
Holm's new story,
FARMER BAssETT's ROMANCE,
will be printed in two or three monthly
parts. Tourguehefi's new story will appear
simultaneously with its publication in Rus
STA and France, and the magazine will also
publish critical paper on Tourgusneff, by
Professor Boyesen, accompanied by por-
trait 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.. Welfore. The
Department of Bric.a-Brac will be filed
with the choicest bits of American humor.
Scribner's Monthly is the only American
magazine besides ~. Nicholas for the Boys
and Girls, by the same publishers) that has
found any considerable number of readers
abroad. ScriJncr is issued simultaneously
in London and New York.
The Weekly Times, (English), says: at
puts to shame all our monthlies."
Is MONTHS FOR 81.
To new subscribers, who wish to get the
opening chapters OF "Thst Lass o. Lowrie's,"
we will send Is numbers for 81, beginning
with the magnificent Midsummer Holiday
number august, 1870, and ending with
October, 1877. 81 a year; 80 cents mum.
Der. Postage prepaid. Send 25 cents for a
specimen number.
SCRIBNER AZ Co 743 RROADwAy Nv