Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1877-01-17
A Magazine for Farmers.

COlOn6l george ~. warning, OF OSueu
Farm, near Newport, R. L., will soon be-
gin the publication in iStsibner's Monthly Of a
series Of papers Of special interest to those
living in the country, in which will be con-
sidered the advantages offered to farmers
from concentration. of their houses and
farm buildings into villages, especially as a
relief from the dullness and isolation of 70.
mote farm-houses, as affording better edu.
cation 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 Improvement Associa.
TONS" Still another paper will give e1plic.
it instruction as to the means for giving 8
good sanitary condition to the village and to
the country house. In the
PROSPECTUS OF scR1BNER's MONTHLY
for 1877, other papers are announced that
will be of especial 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
ticles on Household and Home Decorations.
All profusely and elegantly illustrated; a
department called the Worlds Work. an
other entitled Home and Society, which
will treat Of domestic life, the care of chill.
dren, etc.
GENERAL Mc'CLELLAN's TRAVELS,
begun in the January Scribner, With GA
Winter on the Nile" will run on through
the year. There will be three serial stories:
NICHOLAS M1NTURN,"
by that popular author DR.. Holland (the
Editor, author of"Bitter Sweet" Kath-
rina, p" Timothy Titcomb's Letters" AR
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 a
young man who has been always tied to a
voman's apro''-strings," but who by the death
OF his mother, is left alone in the world
to dEift on the current of ife,-with for
tune, but without purpose. Another
serial, His Inheritance" by Miss Trafton,
will begin On the completion of I" That Lass
O. Lowrie's," by Mrs. Hodgson Burnett.
SAKE Holm, Tourguenef, Boyesen, and
Mckay, will contribute short stories. SAKE
Holm's new story.
FARMER BAssETT's ROMANCE,
will be printed in two or thres monthly
parts. Tourguenef's new story will appear
simultaneously with its publication in
Russia and France, and the magazine will
also publish critical paper on Tourgue-
netf, by Professor Boyesen, accom- panied by
a portrait 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.. Wexford
The Department of Bric-a-Brac will be
filled with the choicest bits of American
humor.
scR1BNER's MONTHLY is the only American
magazine (besides ST. NICHOLAS for the Bows
and Girls, by the same publishers) that has
found any considerable number of readers
abroad. ecR1BNER is issued simultan eously
in London and in New York.
The Weekly Times, (E'agHsh), says:
1t puts to shame all our monthlies."
Us MONTHS FOR 81.
10 new subscribers who wish to get the
opening chapters of That Lass O. Lowrie's"
we will send Is numbers for $500, begin
ming with the magnificent Midsummer
Holiday number august, 1879, and ending
with October, 1877. $500 year; IS cents q |
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