Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-06-19

have You READ Miss ALcoTr's New
rivals in interest Miss Alcotts tirst great success
Little Women" The scene is laid in fine
Old New England homestead and the neighbor.
ing equity town, and the hslf dozen jolly boys
| and girls who firm tho chief characters are des-
cribGd, an.l their thousand prsnks and scrspes
ce!siIcC--in the authors very best style. Two
chsrscters that will especially delight the read.
els are runaway circus boy and his wonderful
trained deg. Sancho," who, for ways that are
dark and tricks that are vain" almost rivals the
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and will be completed in October, 1873 The
publishers offer the II numbers, from Novem-
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and shorter stories, poems, pictures, rhymes and
jnges almost innumerable for 81 5O, or they
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The Christian Union says 1t is delight
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POTTER's AMERICAN MONTHLY for July
| the first numb Der ofthe Eleventh Volume-comes
to US especially attractive in its richly illustrated
| and we'll filled pageO of choice and entertaining
| reading matter. The excellent TASTE fno talent,
and decided Yigor displayed in this Magazine
render it exceedingly worthy of its increasing
popularity.
Among the number of articles in the present
number, we note as specially worthy of attention,
| Through the Lehgh ard Wyoming Valleys"
| by }. Bonssll; THE Cultivation and Curing of
the Tea Plant" by F. A. Griesemer; The
| Haunted House on Cambridge Common" by
He2ckish Buterworth; "Long fellow's Chestnut
| Chair" poem, by George Bancroft Griffith !;
ard timely and well prepared article by its
| Editor, on VALLEY Forge One Hundred Years
Ago" and which is both handsomely and it,
tingly illustrated. The Serials Herbert Or
| ton, or Justices Courts in the West" and 1.-THE
Three Naomics, and the Yosemite Valley
grow more absorbing and intensely interesting
MS they progress, while the romsining sketches
and contributions are none the less entertaining
| and instructive.
Tho Editorial departments are, as usual, re-.
| plete with thoughts Of practical value and ex-
| hibt rare good taste and the exercise of most
| excellent judgment in their preparation and ar.
i rangements. Altogether the Monthly fills 8
niche in cur periodical literature such IS no
other magazine does and is most unquestion-
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Co., Publishers, Philadelphia.