The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-01-11
A MAGAZINE FOR FARMERS,

Colonel George Z. Waiing, of Ogden Farm.
near Newport, Il. l., will soon begin the publ
cation in sCnIBSER's MONTHLY of a series of
papers Of special interest 10 those living in the
country in which will be considered the advan-
taees offered TO farmers from concentration
Of their houses and farm buildings into villages,
especially relief from the dullness and isola-
ton of remote farmhouses. as affording better
education for children, -and rs making the
farmers life more attractive to the young. An
other paper will treat of the work to be done
by "Nillage 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. III the
pROSpECTUs OF sCRIBNER'~ MONTHLY
for 1877 other papers ere announced that will
be Of especial interest to farmers Among these,
Mr.. Charles Barnards articles on various in
dustrics of Great Britain, including the History
Of some experiments III Cooperation, n dcscrip-
ton Of the British Work1naus Home. and
Clarence Cooks articles on Household and
Home Decoration, all profuscly and elegantly
illustrated q department called the Worlds
Worh smother entitled Home and Society,
which will treat of domestic life. the care of
children etc. -.
GENERAL MctLEILtN'S TRAVELS,
begun i'll the January ScRIBNER with "A Win
icr on the Nile will run on through the year.
! There will be three serial stories:
"NICHOI.As MiNTURN,"
by that popular author, Dr. HOLLAND (the
edtor) author of "Bitter Sws "Kathrina,'
D. a " L n
castle, and the story of "Seyonoaks."
The scene of this latest noyei is laid ON the
banks Of the Hudson. The hero is young
man who has been always "Hed TO a ,coman'S
apron ,stringS" but who, by the death of his
mother, is left alone in the word-to drift on
thc current Of life-with fortune but without
a purpose. Another serial, "HIS INHERI-
TANCE,' by MISS TRAFToN, viii begin on the
completion Of THAT Lass O LoNrie's, by Mrs.
HoDGsON BURNETT.
SAKE HOLM, ToURGUENEFF, BoYEsEN and
MCKAY will contribute short stories. SAKE
Hom's new story,
FARMER BAS~ET'r'S ROMANCE,
will be printed in two or three monthly parts.
Tourguenef's new story will appear smulta-
( neously with its publication in Russia and
France, and the magazine will also publish a
critical paper on Tomguenef, by Professor
BoEsEN, accompanied by portrait of the
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.
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 English) says
+" 1t puts to shame all our monthlies."
Ia Months for 81.
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