The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-01-27
LIIER.lt 7 NOTICES,

IHG MIDWLNrEA f'EBNuARY
SCRlBNEK .,itS always been Il slNc;ai
nuub as !icn AS t."r c.,olcrst literary
inilttr, ..,iit' must UeaUtilul y OOA ei!-
kravIn.S can make it. VI |: ST YEARS
mldWint.. ..ullurl L:e l4u.duu LINES
said: Is Il really magnificent triumph
Of AHer'c;ln pictorial aAI A':.i literary
g'hlns." Tue En- !,si, Publisher Ut
ocrlOner has Photographed for II 900 CO.
pl. 5 Ut lire present nuiibsr,-An advance
Ut 1000 upon his orders last year. ;tnd
tile largest edition uf III American mag
*zine ever sent to Englaud;-in fact it
is said to be larger tIan tine monthly
sales VI any English magazine. The a.
sn~rlc;sn edition Ut Scrlbl!er has grown
during 1850 about q, 600, copies.
a deilgntfui feature Of the .nagazine
this year is series of sparkling Eovtl.
cites, or CONDENSED novels. Instead Of Il
serial story. "A Fair Barbarian" tI,e
story Of 4 pjquant American gi,l III
England by Mrs. Francis Ilodxsen
Burnett. begins inthis February num-
btr with twenty-five page INSTALL
lnent. aM.t will run through. three issues.
Since the death IF George Eliot it may
be said that Mrs. Burnett commands !.
larger Englis''-sl~aking audience than
amy other woman. Her novelette, Will
be followed by one l,y George ". Cable,
author of 1.-The G:andissimas.'' etc.,
and afterward Bovpsri's "Q,pen Tlta-
nian will be published. ''P.ter The
Great. "Euge''t Scl1uyler'ss historical
work. b'g"', i" February. 1880. will liz
flushed il October If this year: BY
means Of the recently published spectai
offers 1T Scribner. the whole ut this
great work, with its wealth IF illus.
trations. can Ike had alta very low price.
il connection with u wars snbscrip-'
ti"n. All booksellers Gu, give tie
terms. ..-
In the same ratio that Scr,bner's
Monthly is prospecting, st. Nicholas,
the famous magazine for girls aid
boys, issued by the same publishers,
grows apiece. About 10000 c.l,ips !"!hf
the Christmas (Deceu,ber) number were
sold. while the January number has
''''rn TOR some time. out Of print, IN
February. there is Il full account Of the
Obelisk. richly illustrated from sketch
IS and photographs. showing tie great,
monolith in all stages of moving.
We have received from Messrs, J. c..
Aver l. Co.. If Lowell. Mass. a bound
volume containing specimens OF tile
various issues 1T Ayers Almanac for
1881. We 1linil IL tie book sample IL
manacs complete. including the bright
yellow cover 81 familiar to everybody
in this country. in racl, If the follow
ing languages. viz: English, French.
German. Spanish. Holland. Dutch. Nor.
wpgiAn. Portuguese, Swedish. and !Bolle
mian; alssr page or two .of Chinese.
with specimens of the firms advertise:
tnrnts in Greek. Arabic, Armenian. and
Bulgarian. the whole forming n book of
alx'mt four hundred and fifty mees:
TIC work is really u literary curiosity
in itself. and when We consider the fact
that the various editions If Ayers Al.
nlanac aggregate ter million, copies per
annnm We can Int wonder at the ri.
gantic propOr. ions 1T 4 business which,
employa this Almanac, graf uitonsly dis.
trih,.ted in si,ch. vast rumhers. an one.
only. 1T the many methods It bringing
to- public no:ice the merits 81 tile lnrti.
cines compounded. by this firm. q r.
|. :: Answer This.-Did Won ever know
any: person to be il; without .:inaction
Of the: Stomach, Liyet or Kidneys, or