Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-11
A MAGAZINE FOR FARMERS.

tOl. OeOTg6 Il. warning, Ol OSuoH iii,
near Newport, R. L., author of g A Farm
works, will soon begin the publication in
Scr6bner's Monthly of a series of papers of
special interest to those living in the coun-
try. Farm Villages will be the title of
the first paper, in which will be consid-
cred the advantages offered to farmers
from concentration of their houses and
farm buildings into villages, especially as
a relief from the dizziness and isolation Of
remote farm-houses, as affording better
education 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-
tiOns'' in the matter of increased neatness
and good keeping of streets, public
grounds, private places, etc., the furnish
ing Of literary club-roGms, the planting Of
trees, and like matters. Still another pa
per will give explicit instruction as to the
means for giving a good sanitary condl-
ton to the village and to the country
house. These papers will be accompanied
by maps and diagrams. The series has
been undertaken by Col. Waring at the
request of the conductors of the Monthly,
and is considered by them one of the most
important and valuable enterprises in
PROSPECTUS OF sCRIBNER's MONTHLY
for 1877, just issued, other papers are an
nounced that will be of especial interest to
farmers. Among these, Mr. Charles Bar
nard's articles on various industries of
Great Britain, including the History of
some Experiments in Cooperation, de-
scription of the British Workman's Home,
and Clarence Cook articles on Household
and Home Decoration. There will be also
a series on American Sports and papers of
| Popular seience,-all profusely and ele-
| gantly illustrated; & department called the
| Worlds Work; another entitled Home and
Society, which will treat of domestic life,
the care of children, etc.
GENERAL M'CLELLAN's TRAVELS,
begun in the January ScrS6ner with GA
| Winter 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 Let
ters,'' arthur Bonnicastle,'' and the
story of "Sevenoaks /" etc.
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 aoonaan'S 0prOn-Strtngs," 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.
HIS INHERITANCE,
~ Miss Traitor, will begin on the COM
pletion of "That Lass o. Lowrie's," by
Mrs. Hodgson Burnett .
SAKE Holm, Tourgueneff, Boyesen, and
Mckay, will contribute short stories to
early numbers of the monthly. SAKE
Holm's new story,
FARMER BAssETTs ROMANCE,
will be printed in two or three monthly
parts. Tourgueneffs new story will ap
pear simultaneously with its publication
in Russia and France, and the magazine
will also publish a critical paper on Tour
gueneff, by Prof. 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
matters from London by Mr.. Wexford.
The department of Bric-a-Brac will be
filled with the choicest bits of American
humor
Scrfbner's Monthly is the only Ameri-
can magazine (beside st. Nicholas for
the Boys and Girls, by the same publish
ers) that has found any considerable num-
Der of readers abroad Scribner is issued
simultaneously in London and in New
York. Wherever the English language is
spoken it is accepted as the brightest and
the best of all the magazines.
The London Literary World says:
If Scribner's Monthly is not taking
root in England, it says little for the taste
of John Bull or his power to appreciate
literary and artistic excellence"
THE IeeLT7f. T,aaoa
1t puts to shame all our monthlies."
Is MONTHS FOR 81.
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opening chapters of ''That Lass o. Low
rie's, we will send Is numbers for 81 90,
beginning with the magnificent Midsum-
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ending with October, 1877. $500 year;
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