Connecticut western news., 1877-01-12
A MAGAZINE FOR FARMERS.

Colonel George E. Waring, of Ogden Farm, near Newport, R. l., will soon begin the publi- cation in ScRIBNER's MONTHLY of 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 relief from the dulness and isola- ton of remote farmhouses, 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 of giving good sanitary condition to the village and to the country house. In the PROSPECTUS of SCRIBNEIl'S MONTHLY for 1877 other papers are announced that will be of especial interest to farmers. Among these. MT. Charles Barnard's articles on various in dustries of Great Britain, including the History of some experiments in Cooperation g descrp- ton of the British Wcrkman'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 IcCLELLAN's TRAVELS, begun in the January ScR1BNER, with "A Win ter on the Nile, will run on through the year. There will be three serial stories:
 "NICHOLAS HIINTURN,"
 by that popular author, DR. HOLLAND (the editor) author of z Bitter Sweet" |" Kathrina," "Timothy Titcombs Letters," Arthur Bonni- castle," and the story of c Sevenoaks."
 The scene of this latest novel is laid on the banks of the Hudson. The hero is young man who has been always "tied 10 q aconlaraS apron strings" but who, by the death of his mother, is left alone in the world-to drift on the current of life with fortune, but without a purpose. Another serial "HIS 1NHERI- TANCE," by Mss TAXATION, will begin on the completion of That Lass O Lowrie's, i" by MRS. HoDGsoN BURNETT.
 SAKE HOLM, ToURGUENEFF, BoYEsEN and MCKAY will continue short stories. Sake Holms new story,
 FARMER BASSETT'S ROMANCE, will be printed in two or three monthly parts. Tourgueneffs s story will appear simulta- neously with its publication in Russia and France, and the magazine will also publish crital 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 ters from London by MIR. MILFORD.
 The Department of Bric-a-Brac will be filled with the choicest bits of American humor.
 SCRIBNER's MONTHLY is the only American magazine Cbesides ST. NICHOLAS for the Boys and Girls, by the same publi5hers) that has found any considerable number of readers abroad. ScR1BNER is issued simultaneously in London and in New York.
 The Weekly Times (English) says It puts to shame all our nlonthlies."
 15 Months for $4.
 To new subscribers who wish to get the open ing chapters of "That Lass O Lowrie's," we will send 15 numbers for $4.00, beginning with the magnificent Midsummer Holiday Number August, 1876N, and ending with October, 1877. $4 % year ; 35 cents a number. Postage pre- paid. GaE Send % cents for a specimen number.
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