Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-29
wide margins, gilt top, rough-cut edges, and
specially designed and novel cover.

specially designed and novel cover.
Llttell's Living Age for ISq2.-This
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| enable it to present with freshness and
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| covery, the best poetry, ana the most val
| liable biographical, historical, scientific and
! political information from the entire body
! of foreign periodical litera ure. and from
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As the only satisfactorily complete COM
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enables its readers to keep abreast with
the literary and scientific progress of the
age and with the work of the foremost
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The subscription price as a year, is low
for the amount of reading furnished, while
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take more than one other periodical in con-
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The delightful autobiography of the Ia
nous French artist Jules Breton appears in
a superb edition de luxe, accompanied by
twenty plates, reproducing BretOn'S most
notable paintings of Ere lch peasant life,
and including 1.-The First Communion" and
the Evening at Fini5terre." The book,
which also contains fac-simile of d poem
by the artist in manuscript, is bound in
white vellum with gold design, and has
broad margins and gilt top. The edition
is limited and numbered.
ALL AROUND THE YEAR, 1892. En-
tirely new design in colors, by j. Pauline
Sumter. Printed on heavy cardboard, gilt
edges, with chain. taSSelS and ring. Size,
4lsx5%z inches. Boxed. Price 80 cents.
This most charming calendar is composed
of heavy, gilt-edge cards. lastly tied with
white silk cord, and g delicate silver chain
attached, by which they may be hung on
the wall or elsewhere, and are so arranged
on rings that they may be turned over as
each month shall be needed for reference.
As fresh in deSign-even outshining its
brilliant host of predecessors, which have
been sent out each year to the calendar
loving wOrld-as it is fresh in the fair
Iyhiteness and the soft delicacy of its work
manship, each card contains not only the
calendar, but a design both charming and
appropriate, and an equally timely senti-
mcnt
It is a study for an artist-in fact twelve
studies in art, of Original and beautiful de-
h toto
Of the printers art. The drawings are III
Mrs. Suffers picturesque style aud exc
cuted in sepia tint and cClor,-sO quaint
and bright and sweet that one is charmed
beyond expression.
On the cover we are introduced to two
quaint little figures, elbows on knees, as
they sit reading in each others eyes all the
secrets of 1892. Our February tot has out
grown St. Valentine it seems, and looks at
Loves winged messenger as scorufully as
tip-tiited nose and chubby cheeks viii let
her.
The popular Science Monthly for Deem
Der has an unusually attractive table of
contents. Edwin Alice Barber contributes
a paper on the Development of American
Industries Since Columbus; Progress and
Perfectioility in the Lower Animals is
written by Professor +. p. Evans; p. d.
Ross tells what he knows about type-cast-
ing machines; Rev. j. w. Quimbiy gives
air; Dress an Adjournment is the subject
chosen FOR treatment by Professor Fred |
erick Stene; Professor George Lincoln !
Goodale concludes his series OF articles on
Some OF the Possibilities of Economic Bot |
any. Other contributions are the Training |
of Dogs, by William Wesley Mills, NJ. D.; |
Silk Dresses and Eight Hours Work, by |
". d. Muny; Dust, by j. G. Mcpherson, |
and the usual complement of features by |
the editorial staff of the Popular Science
Monthly.
The Youths Companion never published |
quite as good a rumber as the double |
Thanksgiving number of last week. 1t has |
twenty-four pages and ten complete stories !
appropriate TO the season. with excellent |
illustrations. Among its interesting con-
tents are: ''The Hotel Kitchen "The |
Belligerent Turkey and ''The Flag That |
the Emigrants Cheered," timely and STIR |
ring poem by Hezekiah Butterworth. The |
double number gives thirty-two pages, in |
GLIDING ten complete stories, illustrated |
with fOrty-tWO eQgraVlnGS