The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-01-13
A Magazine for Farmers.

Colonel George E. Warning, Of Ogden
Farm, near Newport, r. l., will soon begin
the publication in Scslbaer's Monthly of a
series of papers of special interest to those
living in the country, in which will be
considered the advantages offered to farmers
from a concentration of their houses and
farm. buildings into villages, especially as a
relief from the dizziness and isolation of re-
mote farm-houses, as affording better educa-
ton for children, and as making the farm
er's 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 instruc-
ton as to the means for giving good sani-
tary condition to the village, and to the
country house. In the
PROSPECTUS OF sCRIBNERs 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. including the History of
some Experiments in Cooperation, a de-
scription 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 MC'CLELLAN's TRAVELS,
begun in the January Scribner, with &c
Winter on the Nile" will run on through
the year. There will be three serial stcries
NICHOLAS MINTURN,"
by that popular author, DR.. Holland Ghe
Editor. author of 6 Bitter Sweet" "Kath
rina, 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 st tied to q
toomsan's apror,-strings," but who, by the death
of his mother, is left alone in the world
to drift on the current of ife,-with for
tune, but without purpose. Another
serial, His Inheritance" 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
Holm's new story.
FARMER BAssEIT's ROMANCE,
will be printed in two or three monthly
parts. Tourguenef's new story will appear
simultaneously with its publication in
Russia and France, and the magazine will
also publish q critical paper on Tourgenef,
by Professor 3oyesen, accompanied by "a
portrait of the famous Russian patriot.
The Editorial Department will continue to
employ the ablest pens both st home and
abroad. There will be letters on literary
matters from London by Mr.. WEXFORD.
The Department of Bric-a-Brac will be
filed with the choicest bits of American
humor.
scRIBNER'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. SCRIBNER is issued simultaneously
in London and in New York
The Weekly Times, (EnghsD says:
lit puts to shame all our monthlies."
Is MONTHS FOR 81.
To new subscribers who wish to get the
opening chapters OF THAT Lass o. Lowrie's, :"
we will send 10 numbers for $500, begin
ming with the magnificent Midsummer
Holiday number august, 1875, and ending
with October, 1877. $500 year; IS cents a
number. Postage prepaid. E~ Send 25
cents for a specimen number. ScRIBNER d
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