The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-01-05

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COL. George II. Waring, OF Ogden Farm, near
Newport. X. L, will soon begin the publication
in 6cnBNER's MONTHLY of . series OF papers
OF special interest TO those living In the coun-
try, in which will be- considered the advSn-
ta9es offered to farmers from q concentration
OF their houses and farm-buildings into VIZ
lagos especially a. relief from tho dullness
and isolation OF remote fsrm-houses, a. AFFORD
ing better education for children, and e maxi
ing tho farmers life more attractive to the
young. Another paper will treat Of the work
to bc done BY "villsgs Improvement Assoeia-
lions" Still another paper will give explicit
instruction as to the means for giving q good
sanitary condition TO the village and 10 the
country house. In tho ufU
PROSPECTUS OF sCRBNER's MONTHLY
for 1877, other papers are announced that will
be OF especial interest TO farmers. Among
these, Mr.. Charles Barnard's articles ON vari-
ous industries of Great Britain, including the
History of some Experiments I'm Cooperation,
description OF the British Workmans Home,
and Clarence Cooks articles on Household
and Home Decoration-sll profusely and ele-
Rantly illustrated; a department called the
Worlds Work another entitled Home and
Society, which will treat of domestic life, the
care OF children, etc.
GEN. M'cLELnAN's TRAVELS
begun in the January SCRIBsER, with "A VIM
tor on the Nile" will run on through the year.
There will be three serial stories:
"NICHoIAs MINTUiN,"
by that popular author, DR. HOLLAND (the Ed
itor), author Of Bitter-Sweet," "Kathrins."
Timothy Ttcomlis Letters" arthur Bonni.
castle, and the story Of "Sevenoaks.
The scene OF this latest novel ia laid ON the
banks OF the Hudson. The hero is a young
man who has been always tiled 10 a soomdn's
0pron.strtngs, but who by tho death of ais
mother, is left alone in the world--to drift ON
tho current Of life-with q fortune, but with
0ut purpose. Another serial, His Inherit
ance," by Mas Trafion, will begin on the COM
pletion Of "That Lass o Lowrie's," by Mrs.
Hodgson Burnett.
SAKE Holm. Tourgneneff, Boyeeen, and Nc
Kay will contribute short stories. SAKE Holm's
new story,
rr FARMER BAssETrs ROMANCE,
will be printed in two or three monthly parts.
Tourgueneff's new story will appear simulta-
peously with its publication in Russia and
France, snd the magazine will also publish q
critical paper on Tour2ueneff by Prof. Boye-
sen, accompanied by portrait Of the famous
Russian patriot.
The Editorial Department will continue to
employ the ablest pens both at homo and
abroad. There will be letters on literary mat
ters from London, by Mr.. Wexford.
The Department OF Bric-a-Brac will be filed
with the choicest bits of American humor.
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magazine (besides 50. Nicholas for the Boys
and Girls, by the same publisbers) that has
found any considerable number of readers
abroad. Scribner is issued simultaneously in
London and in New York.
The Weekly Times (English) says:
1T puts to shame ali our monthlies."
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