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FOR 1878.

Without recalling the excellence of the past, the
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year to come, the following papers:
The Picturesque Side of American Farm
Life-This subject will be treated in a series of
separate papers engaged from writer's who stand
in the front rank among Americans both in quail
ties of style and in keen insight of nature Mr. R.
Z. Robinson, author of a delightful paper Fox
Hunting in New England" in the January number,
will represent the same section In this series. John
Burroughs, whose papers on similar topics have
been highly priced and popular feature of Serb
ner will write of Farm Life in New York Maui
rice Thompson, the poet naturalist will describe
the characteristics of Western farming, of which
but little has been written. 1t is expected that
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''Roxy,"-by Edward Eggleston (author of 1.-THE
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November. Those who have read it in manuscript
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American Sports.-Some of the most novel and
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Cut-of-door Papers,-by John Burroughs
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Architecture of Birds Dr. Thomas NJ Brew
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Guiding road-riding fox-hunting and racing. The
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