Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-01-06
A MAGAZINE FOR FARMERS.

Colonel George = Waring, of Ogden Farm
near Newport, n. l., will soon begin the publ
cation in S,RRNERs MONTHLY Of a series of
papers Of special interest to those living in the
country, in which will be considered the advan-
tages offered to farmers from concentration
of their houses and farm buildings into villages
especially as a relief from the dullness and sola-
ton of remote far1nhouses, as affording better
education for children, and as making the
farmers life more attractive to the young. An
other paper will treat of the work to be done
by "Village Improvement Associations" Still
another paper will give explicit instruction as to
the means for giving good sanitary condition
to the village and to the country house. In the
PROSPECTUS of SCRIBNER's MONTHLY
for 1877 other papers are announced that will
be of especial interest to farmers. Among these
Mr.. Charles Barnards articles on various in
dustries of Great Britain, including the History
of some experiments in Cooperation, a descrip-
ton of the British Workman's Home, and
Clarence Cooks articles on Household and
Home Decoration, all profusely and elegantly
Illustrated department called the Worlds
Work; another entitled Home and Society,"
which will treat of domestic life, the care of
children, etc.
GENERAL McCLELLAN's TRAVELS,
begun in the January SoRIBNER with ga Win
ter on the Nile" will run on through the year.
There will be three serial stories;
"NICHOLAS MINTURN,"
by that popular author, DR.. HOLLAND (the
editor) author of "Bitter Sweet" "Kathrina,'
"Timothy Titcombs Letters" Arthur Bonni-
CASTLE" and the story of Sevenoaks."
The scene of this latest novel is laid on the
banks of the Hudson. The hero is a young
man who has been always "hed to a toon,dnS
apron strings" but who, by the death of his
mother, is left alone in the world-to drift on
the current of life-with a fortune, but without
a purpose. Another serial, CHS INHERI-
TANCE," by Miss TRAFToN, will begin on the
completion of "That Lass O. Lowrie's," by Mrs.
HoDGsON BURNETT.
SAKE HOLM, ToURGUENEFF, BoYEsEN and
MCKAY will contribute short stories. Sake
Homs new story,
FARMER BASSETvTvS ROMANCE,
will be printed in two or three monthly parts.
Tourguenefs new story will appear simulta-
neously with its publication in Russia and
France, and the magazine will also publish
critical paper on Tourgueneff by Professor
BoYEsEN. accompanied by 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 mat
tiers from London by Mr.. WEXFORD.
The Department of Bric-a-Brac will be filled
with the choicest bits of American humor.
ScRBNER's MONTHLY is the only American
magazine (beSides ST.. NICHOLAS for the Boys
and Girls by the same publiShers) that has
found any considerable number of readers
abroad. ScRIDNER il issued simultaneously in
London and i'll New York.
THE Weekly Times CEnglish) says
1T puts to shame all our monthEes."
Is Months for S4.
To new subscribers who wish to get the open
ing chapters of "That Lass o Lowries," we
will send Is numbers for $4.00, beginning with
the magnificent Midsummer Holiday Number
| august, 1870, and ending with October, 1877.
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