The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1877-01-11
A MAGAZINE FOR FARMERS

Col. George E. Waring, of Ogden Farm,
near. Newport, r. l., author of A Farm
H's Vacation" and other well-known
works, will soon begin the publication in
Scribner's Monthly of series of papers Of
special interest to those living IN the coun-
try Farm Villages will be the title Of
the first paper, in which will be consid-
cred the advantages offered to farmers
from a concentration of their houses and
farm buildings into villages, especially as
q relief from the dizziness and isolation of
remote farm houses, as affording 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 " Yillage Improvement Associa-
tions'' in the matter Of increased neatness
and good keeping of streets, public
grounds, private places, etc., the furnish
Ing of literary club-rooms, the planting Oh
trees, and like matters. Still another pa
per will give explicit instruction as to the
means for giving good sanitary condi-
ton to the village and to the country
house. These papers will be accompanied
by maps and diagrams. The series has
been undertaken by Col. Wating at the
request of the conductors of the Monthly,
and is considered by them one Of the most
important and valuable enterprises in
which themagazine has yet engaged. In the
PROSPECTUS OF sCRrBNER's MONTHLY
for 1877, just issued, other papers are an
bounced that will be of especial interest to
farmers. Among these, Mr.. Charles Bar
nard's articles on various industries OF
Great Britain, including the History of
some Experiments in Cooperation, de-
scription of the British Workman's Home,
and Clarence Cook articles on Household
and Home Decoration. There will be also
a series on American Sports and papers of
Popular Science,-all profusely and ele-
gantly illustrated; 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 Scrtbner with "a
Winter on the Nile" will run ,on through
the year. There will be three serial stories:
NICHOLAS MINTURN," y
by that popular author, DIR. Holland Ghe
Editor, author of "Bitter Sweet, I"
H Kathrina," "Timothy Titcomb's Let
ters," arthur Bonnicastle," and the
story of Sevenoaks," etc.
The scene of this latest novel is laid on
the banks of the Hudson. The hero is q
young man who has been always tiled to
a p0nGn's dpr0n-strtngs, but who, by the
death of his mother, is left alone in the
world, to drift on the current of Efe,-
with fortune, but without a purpose.
Another serial. sls t1UiI.f
-T7'-7 HIS INHERITANCE, : % ..i-
by Miss Trafton, will begin on the com
pletion of "That Lass o. Lowrie's," b!
Mrs. Hodgson Burnett. 81.
SAKE Holm, Tourgueneff, Boyesen, ant
Mckay, will contribute short stories Il
early numbers of the monthly. Sax
Holm's new story, 3 Tf97fc ts3
FARMER BAssETT's ROMANCE,
will be printed in two or three monthly
parts. Tourgueneff's new story will ap
pear simultaneously with its publication
in Russia and France, and the magazine
will also publish critical paper on Tour
gueneff, by Prof. Boyesen, accompanied
by portrait of the famous Russian patriot
The editorial department will continu,
TO employ the ablest pens both at home anC
abroad. There will be letters on literary
matters from London by Mr.. Wexford.
The department of Bric-a-Brac will b.
filed with the choicest bits of American
humor.
ScrTbner's Monthly Is the only Ameri
can magazine beside st. Nicholas fol
the Boys and Girls, by the same publish
ers) that has found any considerable mum
Der of readers abroad. Scri5ner is ISSUED
simultaneously in London and in New
York. Wherever the English language il
spoken it is accepted as the brightest anC
the best of all the magazines
The London Literary World says:
If Scribner's Monthly is not taking
root in England, it says little for the tastt
of John Bull or his power to appreciate
literary and artistic excellence"
The Weekly Times says: =
at puts to shame all our monthlies."
Is MONTHS FOR 81.
To new subscribers who wish to get thu
opening chapters of ''That Lass o. Low
RES" we viii send Is numbers for 400
beginning with the magnificent Midsum
mer Holiday number august, 1876, an6
ending with October, 1877. $500 year
So cents number. Postage prepaid.
CY Send 25 cents for aspecimen number
ScRBNER & Co., TAB Broadway, NY.
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with alarm that the latest estimate O
the population Of the Celestial empire