Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1877 — A MAGAZINE FOR FARMERS. [ARTICLE]

A MAGAZINE FOR FARMERS.

Col. George E. Waring, of Ogden Farm, near Newport, R. 1., author of “ A Farmer’s Vacation” and other well-known works, will soon begin the publication in Scribner's Monthly of a series of papers of special interest to those.living in the country. “ Farm Villages” will be the title of the first paper, in which will be considered the advantages offered to farmers from a concentration of their houses and farm-buildings into villages, as a relief from the dullness and isolation of remote farm-houses, hs affording tetter education for children, and as making the farmer’s life more attractive to the voung. Another paper will treat of the work to be done by “ Village Improvement Associations” in the matter or increased neatness and good keeping of streets, public grounds, private places, etc., the furnishing of literary club-rooms, the planting of trees, and like matters. Still another paper will give eiplicit instruction as to the means for giving a good sanitary condition to the village and to the country house. These papers will be accompanied by maps and diagrams. The series has been undertaken by Col. Waring at the request of the conductors of the Monthly, and is considered byrthem one of the most important and valuable enterprises in which the magazine hasyet engaged. In the PROSPECTUS OP SCRIBNER’S MONTHLY for 1877, just issued, other papers are announced that will be of especial interest to farmers. Among these, Mr. Charles Barnard’s articles on various industries of Great Britain, including the HWtory of some Experiments in Co-operation, a description of the British Workman’s Home, and Clarehce articles on Household and Home Decoration. There will be also a series on American Sports and papers of Popular Science,—all profusely ana ’ elegantly illustrated; a department called the World’s Work;another entitled Home and Society, which Will theaf Of domestic life, the care of children, etc. , „ GENERAL TRAVELS, begun in tjie January Scribner with/* A Winter-on the. Nile,*’ will run on through the year. There will be thfee serial stories: “NICHOLAS MINTURN,’* “Kathrina,” “Timothy Titcymb’s Letters,” “Arthur Bohnlcastle,” and the storyiof “ Sevenoaks,’? Ata ri’llSflM * The scene Qf this latest novel is laid on the banks of the Hudson. The hero is a young man who has been always “ tied to a woman's apron-strings," but who, by the death of his mother, is left alone in the world.—to drift on the current of life,— with a fortune, but without a purpose. Another seriaL HIS DtHERITANCE, • , ■ “? by Miss Trafton, will begin on tire earnpletionof “ That Lass o’ Lowrie’s,” by McKay, will contribute short stones to' FARMIftAUSBETT’SiieOMANCE. will be printed in two or three monthly parts. Tourgueneffs new story will appeae mmu|tanremly w(th. its in Russia and France, and the magazine will also publish a critical paper on Tourgueneff, by Prof. Boyesen, accompanied by a portrait of the famous Russian patriot. The editorial department will coptipua to employ lhe ablest birth at hOrtie find abroad. There will be letters on literary matters from London by Mr. Welford. The department of Bric-a-Brac will be filled with the choicest bite of American humor. i Sqfibnor's Monthly is the only American magazine, (beside Bt> Nicholas for the Boys and Girls, by the same publish*' ers) that has found any considerable number of readers abroad. Scribner is issued simultaneously, in -London in l<e>w York. Wherever the English language ia spoken it 1s Accepted as the brightest and the best of all the magazines. , m roouin England, it says little for the taste of John Bull or his ‘poyw so appreciate literary and artistic excellence. • ’ The IFeatif Twaasaya: ‘lit puts to shame*ll our monthlies.!' MONTHS FOR <4. ■ To new subscribers who wish to get theopening chapters of “That La* e* Lowrfe’s,” we will send 15 numbers for 84.00, beginning with the magnificent Midsummer Holiday number (August, 1876), and ending with October, 1877. $4.00 a year; RS iMintii * number. PofttAiFA wuw * aauuai«9*« a. vaau||v tar Scud 26 casts fora specimen raunbeffi. Scrirneb&Co , 743 Broadway. S- Y-