National Republican., 1879-10-22
NEW PUBAICATlONS.
NEW TtBhEVAhHVNS
An Agricultural Number" Of
SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY.
EDITION o.oool
EDITION 10000!

In addition to tho usual variety in the con-
tents of SCRIBNER, the November issue (the
first ofa new volume which will be even more
splendid than any which have preceded it)
will contain Il half dozen papers OF the highest
interest to farmers, business men and others
interested in rural life: THE Agricultural
Distress in Great Britain" by p. I. Quinn
personal observation oil the effects Of American
competition Z" Farming in Kansas" by Henry
King-a capital paper on the piCturesq ueness
and industrial prosperity Of Kansas, with re-
suits of negro exodus, etc; Success with
Small Fruits" by T. p. Roe who is probably
better fitted to write on this subject than any
other man in America Rare Lawn-Trees,"
by Samuel Parsons, Jr., the well-known nur.
seryman; The Mississippi Jetties and their
effect on the prices of agricultural products,
with portrait of Eads :" How Animals Get
Home" very interesting paper, full of anec-
dote, by Ernest lngersoll, one of our rising
young naturalists. Then we are introduced
TO the woods and streams Of Northern Mchi-
gan, in an interesting out'of.door paper OH
" The Michigan Grayling."
But Art has not been forgotten. There are
two fine portraits Of Bayard Taylor--one en-
graved by Cole, from the best photograph, and
the other reproduction by Juengling of
O'Donovan's bronze bass-relef These por-
traits accompany discriminating critique of
Taylor, by Stedman. Clarence Cook has q
paper on morris Moore's Old Masters" with a
reproduction by Cole, of Raphaels "Apollo
aud Marsyas" The original of this celebrated
picture has been exceedingly admired in
Rome, and many are now ulging its purchase
for America There are Poems, Stories aud
Sketches; The French Quarter of Now
York !" "Extracts from the Journal of Henry
j. Raymond with interesting "reminiscences
of Daniel Webster; a beautiful story by Boy
escu an ingenious story, "a Sigh !" the fourth
part of Confidence" by Henry James, IT,,
begun in August, aud the first part of
A NEW AMERICAN NOVEL
of Creole life, "THE GRANDIssIMEs," by
George w. Cable of New Orleans, the author
OF "Old Creole Days" which has created such
au excellent impression in tho literary world.
The critic to whom the story was referred in
MS. says: 1T will rank permanently with
the very best fiction that America has pro.
duced, being "a fresh, vivid, artistic and forci.
BILE picture of a lifo which is part of our own,
and yet foreign TO it,"
"The REIGN OF PETER THE GREAT" )"
BY EUGENE SCHUYLER, is noted editorially.
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