The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-11-16
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THE PICTURESQUE SIDE OF AMERICAN
FARM LIFE.-Tnis subject will be treated in q
series of separate papers engaged from writers
who stand in the front rank among Americans
both in qualities of style and in keen insight OF
nature Mr.. X. f. Robinson, author of q de-
lighttnl paper on "Fox-Hunting in New Eng
land'' in the January number, will represent
the same section in this series. John Burroughs,
whose papers on similar topics have been a high
| ly priced and popular feature of SCRIBNER will
write of Farm Life in New York. Maurice
Thompson, the poet-naturalst will describe the
characteristics of Western farming of which
but little has been written. 1t is expected that
the Illustration of this series will be of refined
and typical character, commensurate with the
subject-matter.
"ROXY,"-by EDWARD EGGLEsToN
(author of "The Hoosier Schoolmaster," &c. y
This new novel will doubtless be the most i'm
portant American serial of the year The first
number was published in November
AMERICAN SPORTS-Some of the most
novel aud entertaining of these papers are yet
to appear, the scenes of which will be in the
West, the Middle States, the South, New Eng
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oUT-oF.D0oR PAPERs,-by John Bur-
roughs author of "Wake Robin" &C., will con-
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ARCHITECTURE OF BIRDS.-Dr. Thomas
NJ Brewer will contribute four exquisitely illus.
trated articles on birds nests, which every lover
of nature will delight in.
THE SADDLE-HORSE Col. George E.
Waring, with whose excellent work of various
sorts our readers are familiar, contributes two
Illustrated articles on the horse. He treats
specially of saddle-horses and their use for
pleasure and for sport, including road-rdng,
fox-hunting and racing.
SAKE HOLM.-New stories by this popular
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NER, beginning with ''Joe Hale's Red Stock
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chronicles an episode of the late war for the
Union.
CHS INHERITANCE,"- by Adeline Traf.
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number, will be continued nearly through the
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to the very end.
"a KNIGHT OF Observation-Disclosures
Hjorth Boyesen's new novels-wll be begun in
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