Litchfield enquirer., 1877-02-22
sCRlBNER'S MONTHLY
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 When ScRIBNER issued it's famous Midsummer Hol- iday Number in July, friendly critic said of it: eve are sure but that 6CRIBNER has touched high-a- ter mark We do not see what worlds left to it to conquer" But the publishers do not consider that they have reached the uinG thule of exceence-they Eeieve 'there other world to conquer, and they propose to conquer them" The prospectus for the volume gives the titles of more than fifty papers (mosty nlustrated) by vii ters of the highest merit Under the head of
 ssFOREIGN TRAVEL, we have GA Winter on the Nile" by GEN. McC1E1- IAN; Saunter1ngs About COnstantInople." by Charles Dudley Warner; ':Out of My Window at Mos cow" by Eugene Schuyler; "An American in Tuakis- tan" etc. Three serial stories are announced.
 NICHOLAS MINTURN,"
 By Dr. HOLLAND, the Editor, whose story of sevenoaks gave the highest satsfac- tion to the readers of the Monthly.
 The scene of this latest laid on the banks of tne Hudson. The hero is young man who has been always "tied to sCOnaGs apron strinqs but who bv the death of his mother is left alone ill the world-o drift on the current of hfs,-w with a fortune but Another serial, 'sHis Inheritance, by Miss Traitor will begin on the completion of ''That Lass O. Low res" by Mrs Hodgson Burnett. Mrs. Burnett sto- ". begun in August has pathos and dramatic pow CT which have been surprise to the public. illustrated papers of Popular Science by Mrs. Her rick each paper complete in itgelf.
 There are to be, from various pens, papers on
 "HOME LIFE AN DTRAVEL,' ALSO, practical suggestions as to town and country lie, village improvements, etc., by we-known spec ialist. MT. Barnard's articles various industries of Great Britain include the history of .'Some Exper- ments in Cooperation "A Scottish Loaf Factory" in ne November number, and ''Toad Lane, Rochdale, 1" ingman's Home,"" IA Nation of Shopkeepers' "Ha'- penny Week for the Child" "etc
 richly llluslrated series will be given "Ameri- can Sports by Flood and Field" by various writers, and each on different theme. The subject of "HOUSEHOLD AND HOME DECORATION, $, will have prominent place, whilst the latest pro- onGtions of American humorists will appear from month to month. The list of shorter stories bio. sraphical and other sketches, etc., is a long one
 The editorial department VIII continue to employ the ablest pens both at home and abroad. There win don, by MT. Welford.
 The pages of the magazine will be open as hereto fore, so far as limited space will permit to the dis cusson of a themes affecting the social and rejoious life of the world and specially to the freshest of the Christian thinkers and scholars of ths conn try:
 We mean to make the magazine sweeter and nurer higher and nober more genial and generous in all it's utterances and influences, and welcome visitor than ever before in homes of refinement and culture
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