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The December Magazines

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
November
Year
1877
Copyright
Public Domain
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llarper's Magazine is f uil of good things - iu iiotion, story, sketcli, and verse. These papers are superbly illustrated : Milton's Hymii on The Nativity ; Elizabethau aiul Later Euglisk Furniture, by tin. Harriet I'rescott Spotford ; The Metropolitan Newspaper, by Wilüam II. ltideing, - full ot information to tho uon-profeBfiiouaJ roader ; and Keramos, a delightful poem by IiOngfelIovr. Back to Back, Halo's capital and tiraely story, is couc'.uded : and De Capo, nevv serial by Miss Thackeray, is comnioiiciïil. Mrs. i'remout'd seeond paper on A Year ot American Travel is full of interest, and there are several readable completed stories and losser poems, while the matter of tlie editorial departmonts is va. ried and entertaining. The number begins a nevv volumo. ?1 a year. llarper & Brothers, Kavt York. With the Aeous, S1.7Ö. The Atlantic iïlonthly closea lts XLth volume with an attractive nuniber. Among tho papors are ; Can Herculaneum be Excavated? by Itobert A. McLeod ; Portugal and the Portugese, by S. U. W. Benjamin ; Modern Shoemaking, by T. A. D. ; What They Said, by Mary A. King ; Crude and Curious Iuventions of tho Centennial Exhibition, viü, by Edward II. Knight,- tlns time Baskets and Basket Work ; Tho San Francisco Vigilance Committee (185G), by Thomas C. Cary,- in which (ion. Sherman is slightly hetcheled ; Three Boston Painters,- Hunt, Fuller, and Browu ; Some Kambling Notes of an Idle excursión (Bermuda), by Mark Twaiu ; How to Change the North American Climate, by N. S. Saaier; Detmold, a Bcmanco, by W. II. Bishop, the opening chapters being promising: Tho Contributors' Club, varied and well ftüed ; and poems by Longfellow (to Tennyson), Edgar Favrcett, Frank Sewall, and otters, with reviews and book notices. The prospectus in anotlier column promises another brüüant ycar. ?4 a ycar. H. G-. Houghton &. Ov, Boston. With the Akgüs, $4.70. Scribner's Monthhj opens with a superbly illustrated paper, The Wooden Age, by Charles D. Kobisou, discussing how and where lumber ia made. Tho other illustrated papers are Tho Tboroughbred Horse, by Geo. E. Waring, Jr.; Ants, by Mrs. S. B. Herrick ; From the Atlantic to the Andes, by Henry Eckford ; and American Oyster Culture, by James Richardsou. Thero are four more chapters of Eggleston's serial, iv-vii, "Itoxy," and three moro of Adalme Traftou's " His Inheritance," xil-xiv. Both stories are suro to bo read. üther paper are : After Many Days,- A Study of Keata in two parts, by R. H. Stoddard ; Some Precepts for Slandering Safely, by Charles II. Truax ; Lost, by Eiiward Bellamy ; Itecallings frcm a Public Life- Western People and Politicians, in llobert Dale Owen's best vein ; and Mars and his Moous, by E. W. Sturdy. Thero are poems by William S. Shurtleff, Edward Fawcett, Sus&n M. Spalding, Emma Lazarus, and Charles deKay. In ïopiM of the Time," Holland writes ot Protection, A Iteform in Civil Service, The Public Charities, aud, The Harvard Exaraination for Women ; and, The üld Cabinet, Home and Society, Culture and I'rogress. Tho World's Work, and Bric-aBrac are uil readable. $4 a yoar. Scribner i'c Co., New York. With the Aequs, 14.75. The Edectic Magazine ha3 a very fine steel portrait of M. Ferdinand de Loaseps, constructor of the Suez Canal, with fourteen selcctions trom leading ioreign periodicals, besides literary, science and art notes. Among tho papers are : A Modern Symposium, - The Soul and Future Life,- by Lord Selborn, Kev. Canon Barry, W. 11. Creg, Itcv. Baldwiu Brown, Dr. Vf.ij. W'iivd, and Frederick Harrison ; The Moons of Mars; The Khedive's Egypt; Hours in a Library - Massinger, by Leslie Stephen ; Round the WorU m a Yaobt, iü, by Thomas Brassey, M. V.; Meteoritos and the üligin o Life, by Walter Flight; Young Mosgrave chaps. xxviii-xxx, by Mrs. üliphant; Germán Society Forty Yeara Sílice, by Lady DnfF Gor don ; Fixperiencos oL au Indian Familie, by ai ludían Official ; and Prof. Tyndall uu I'liysi cal and Moral Necesaity. The mimber cou eludes the eighty-ninth volume, mafcing the present a favorable timo to subscribe. Tu no other inonthly can so muoh of choico foreign literatura be obtained. fó a year. E. H. Pel ton, New York. Tlio Eclcctic and tbo AltQUS 16.60. St. piicholut coimoí freihled witli ioo tilines in picture iind story and sketch aü( verse. The t'rontispieee, " The Holy Family,' trom a painliiig by itteubach, is a tine picture and T fitting acconipnuiment to Longftollow's poem, "Tlie'fhree Kings." The ino3taiotice ablo papers are, perhaps : liowmg .Agaius the Tide, by Theodore Winthrop; The LionKiller, ftom thn Frendi, by Mnry WagW Fisher ; Bi uno's Eevenge, by Lewis Cari-oU. : The Mocklng Iiiril nnd tlio Donkey, by AVilliam Culten liryant ; The l'uterkins' Charuiics, by Lucietia I'. Hale ; Under the Lilaos, chaps i-iii, by Jjouise M. Alcott; A Uhat About Fotiery, by Edwaril C. Taylor; Sweet Mntjoram Day, by Frank B. Stockton (a Fairy Tale); Jack's Christmas, by Kmma K. lJarnsK ; Tower-Mountain, part I, by Harían II. Blillard; fhe Magician and Boe, by I'. F.; aul iscruU? by's Beautiful Tree, by J. C. I'urdy. There aro tiíty-jiglit illustrations, and Jack" in the Pulpit and th3 other departments are oapitaly flllod. Subscribe íor Sí. HinhoUu for the young folks and all the old ones will be sure ;o read it. Vi a yoar. Scribnor i Co., Isew York. With the Arous, ïl.00. Beautiful ín picture and print aud witSi contents to match, whether the story or intcident s in prose or verse. That is just v'hut the December number of The Nursery ín, and what every successive number wilt be focr 1878. .t should be in every house whero thora is a our or six year old. Botter than ajiy te.tt book ïor the little ones to loaru to ieaJ in. 1.G0 a year. J. L. Shorey, üoston. With he Akous, $2.60.

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