The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-12-26
SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY FOR
1S77-'7S.

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THE PICTURESQUE SIDE OF AMERICAN
FARM LIFE This subject viii be treated in a
series of separate papers engaged from writer's who
stand in the front rank among Americans, both in
qualities of style and in keen insight of nature
MIR II. q. Robinson, author Of delightful paper
on g Fox-Hunting in New England in the January
number, viii represent the same section in this
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ture of SCRIBNER, viii write of Farm Life in New
York. Maurice Thompson, the poet-naturalist
viii describe the characteristics of Western farm
ing, of which but little has been written 1t is ex-
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ROXY, by EDWARD EGGLEsroN (author OF
81 The Hoosier schoonaster," - This new novel
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and that of his Eastern progenitor 4he Arabian)
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