Connecticut western news., 1879-12-24
SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY.
Lakeville. Dec.

So great has been the demand for recent numbers Of this magazine that the monthly ;lrculatlon has increased more than 2O, 900 cop. >es within the year, and the edition for Novem- Ier, loO,00O, was exhausted within two weeks liter issue. The English edition has recently loubled, and the magazine has everywhere 'aken It's place as the most handsomely illus rated popular periodical pubhshed in the Eng dsh language. Every number contains 16O 1ages ot contributions from the best American tuthors, and from a0 to 100 wood enRrayinRa me publishers call. attention to the following
 ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR 1880.
 FREE EREHGNOF FETEtx TkA E GREAT 'yEuaENE SCHUYLER, will begin in an early Jumper. .i,1 p ana continue through two years. It VIII De work ot great historical six nificance tnd ot rare graphic and dramatic interest Bu- 'eaus or inustratlon have been established in Earns and St. Petersburg, spee1aify for the cx- ecutioh o1 the pictorial part of this enterprise -an enterprise involving greater outla than my previously undertaken by popular mag tzlne. ,-s- .-f - THREE SERIALS IN SCRtRNER,s
 MONTHLY hY AMERICAN WRI.
 TIERS.
 HE GRAND1ssIMEs, a story of New Orleans Gre9ie >.r,a e, life, by George W. Gable, author of elette of American Life, by, Frances Fl. Burnett author of That Lass Q Luwriehs." CoNrI. DENcE, by Henry James, Jr., begun in the Midsummer Holiday (August) number.
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 The growth of art has made 1t nacessarv for tue modern magazine to. devote consid- respect SCRiBNEB's MONTHLY will continue to occupy the leading place, both in the iudicious seiectlon and in the artistic execution of the subjects chosen. .,s..,.-,.. .s:.. ,..tA
 |, POETS AND POETRY.
 Edmund Clarence ,Stsdman will contribute to ocsiBNERs e;.iBsn MONTHLY, during the coming year critical essays on this ,suhjects including the oegmnlngs Of the poetic art in this country. and It's subsequent history. Henry Richard Stoddard will furnish studies of subjects con ing on 'The English Sonnet"
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 This class will include a number of finally i,iu.. trated papers on Small Fruits and xheir Gull ture, by Rev. B, P. Roe, of Cornwall N Y.. one of the most successful of horticulturiste. Papers on "Church and Home Architecturev will be contributed by Russell Sturgis Esq.
 sPOHTSAND ACCUSATIONS. In addition to an illustrated account of the re. cent excursion of the Tile Club In Q canal boat, there will be & number of special papers dur. ing, the year, upon odd personal experiences. such AS Porpoise-ShootinB, Walrus HuhtinR. Lobster-Fishing, Canoeing in the rapids of the ter. ~ ~.
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