Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1878 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

THE JOURNAL. The Indianapolis Journal Hu now been published for over Half * Oontury, and it U but JfMt to say that it ha* done more to promote general intelligent d end eetebUoh n healthy moral end politioal aentimont in thin elate then any other ineti* tntion, either public or prirate. It ts the unanimous verdict of the leading newspaper men throughout the country that, oonsidoring Its Held, Tn* Journal lies no superior as a newspaper in the government. There bee been literally no adverse ortiloism upon either its general or editorial management in the past thrao years, exoept such ns oomos from adverse politioal or ri* val business interests. Tub Journal's growth in popularity aud in ciroulation bas been steady and continuous trom year to year. The Rates of Subscription. Postage Prepaid by the I’nblUhera. da nr. without wuh Sunil a y Inn*. Sunday letme. One Year, by matt. . 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We will club with the WEEKLY INDIANA STATE JOURNAL on the following terms: For the Journal and Union, one year, $2.00. All communications for THE JOURNAL should be addressed, E. B. MARTINDALE 4 CO,, INDIANAFOLIS, INDIANA, SCRIBNER’S MONTHLY Conducted bv J. O. BOZiLAKD. THE HAIDBOHEST ILLUSTRATED IAQAZUE 11 THE VOBLD. The American edition of this periodical is now More Than YOjOOO Monthly, and it has a larger circulation in England than tnv other American magasine. Every number contains about one hundred and fifty pages, and trom fifty to seventyflve original wood-cut illustrations. Mounts for 1818-9. Among ths attractions for the coming year are the following: "ItAWURTU'B,” a serial novel, by Mrs. Frances Ilodgsoa Burnett, author ol “That Lass o' Lowrie’s.” The scene of Mrs. Burnett’s new novel is laid In Lancashire: the hero isa young inventor of American birth. “Haworth’s” is the longest story Mrs. Barnett has yet written. It will run through twelve numbers of the Monthly, beginning with November, 1879, aud will be profusely illustrated. FA L CONBERO, a serial novel by H. 11. Boy * esen, author of “Gunnar,” “The Man who Lost his Name,” Ac. In this romance, the author graphically describes the peculiarities of Norse immigrant life in a Western settlement. A STORY OF NSW ORLEANS, by George W. Cable, to begin on the conclusion of “Fslconberg.” This story will exhibit the state of society in Creolo Imuisiana about the years 1808-4-5, the time of the Cession, and a period bearing a remarkable likeness to the present Beoonstruction period. PORTRAITS Or AMERICAN POSTS. This series (begun in August with the portrait of llryant.) will be continued, that of Longfellow appearing in November. These portraits are drawn from life by Wvatt Eston and engraved by T. Cole. They will be printed separately on tinted paper, as frontispieces of four different numbors. Illustrated sketches of the lives of the poets will accompany those portraits. STUDIES IN THE SIERRIES. A aeries of papers (mostly illustrated) by. John'Muir, the California naturalist. The most graphic and picturesque and, at the same time, exact and trustworthy studies of “The California Alps” that have vet been made. Tbcsories will sketch the California Passes, Lakes, Wind Storms and Forests. , A NEW VIEW OF BRAZIL. Mr. Herbert H. Smith, of Cornell University, a companion of the late Prof. Hartt, Is now In Brazil, with Mr. J. Wells Champney (the artist who accompanied Mr. Edward King in his tour through ®rhe Great South”), preparing for Scribner a series of papers on the present oondition,—the cities, rivers, and resources of tbs great empire of South America. THE “ JOHNNY REE” PAPERS, by an ex-Confederate” soldier, will be among the raciest contributions to Schibnib during the coming year. They are written and Illustrated by Mr. Allan C. Redwood, of Baltimore. 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