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THE HORTICULTURAL ADVERTISER. 



1848 — THE INDEPENDENT. — 1884 



THB LARGEST, THE ABLEST, AND THE FRESHEST 

 RELIGLOUS ANL> LLTERARY WEEKLY. 



AH a religious journal, The Independent has no jieer in the world. It is undenominational. It is an evangelical journal, 

 and is free to approve or criticise anything in any denomination which it believes is designed to advance or hinder 

 the progress of the Gospel of Christ. 



AS a literary journal, The Independent does not suffer by comparison with the best. It furnishes its readers with poems, 

 descriptive articles, and stories from the ablest writers of this country and the Old World. Its payments to con- 

 tributors will average double that paid by any other weekly newspaper. 



THE department of literature is especially valuable. Its reviews of new books are exceedingly well done, and its 

 criticisms are able, unbiased, and frank. 



BEING from one-quarter to one-half larger than any of its contemporaries, it is able to give a great deal of space to 

 departments of value to reading, thinking, intelligent, people, among which ore the following : Editorial, Biblical 

 llesearch. Missions, Religious Intelligence, the Sunday-School, Music, Hyinn Notes, Education, Science, Sanitary, Fine 

 Arts. Ministerial Register, Personalities, Farm and Garden, Financial and Commercial. Thirty-two pages in all every 

 week. 



PAPER which has published articles from the following persons, selected from a list of over three hundred writers 

 who have contributed to its columns during the past year, cannot be a very dull paper. 



A 



Ezra Abbott, LL.D^^ 



Thomas Armitage, D.D., 



Prof. Fred. M. Bird, 



Prof. Alex. B. Bruce, Glasgow, Scot., 



Rev. A. H. Bradford, 



Austin Bierbower, 



Maiy D- Brine, 



W. H. Chad Boscawen, Wrexham, Eng., 



Hon. S. G. W. Benjamin, U. S. Minis- 

 ter to Persia, 



Rev. Wm. M. Baker, D.D., 



Hjalmar H. Boyesen, 



Leonard W. Bacon, D.D., 



Rev. Joseph Cook, 



Marv Clemmer, 



Rt. Rev. Arthur Cleveland Coxe, D.D., 

 LL.D., 



Theo. L. Cuyler, D.D., 



Rev. Howard Crosby, D.D., 



Rose Terry Cooke, 



Rt. Rev. Thomas M. Clark, D.D.,LL.D., 



Rev. Samuel W. Dike, 



Rebecca Harding Davis, 



Prof. George P. Fisher, D.D., 



Prof. Norman Fox, 



John Fulton, D.D., LL.D., 



Washington Gladden, D.D., 



Dora Read Goodale, 



Caspar Rene Gregory, Paris, Fr., 



"Grace Greenwood." 



"Barton Grey," 



Arthur T. Hadlev, 



Edward Everett Hale, D.D., 



Ex-Pres. Rutherford B. Hayes, 



George H. Hepworth, D.D., 



Pres. Atticus G. Haygood, D.D., 



William D. Howells, 



"H. H.," 



Sarah Orne Jewett, 



Rev. W. Kirkus, 



Sidney Lanier, 



Dr. Dio Lewis, 



Louise Chandler Moulton, 



Philip Bourke Marston, 



Joaquin Miller, 



Pres. Noah Porter, D.D., LL.D., 



Prof. A. S. Packard, Jr., M.D. 



Prof. John A. Paine, 



Margaret J. Preston, 



Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 



ANNOUNCEMENT. 



Prof. A. H. Savce, Oxford, Eng., 



R. H. Stoddard, 



Philip Schatf, D.D., 



Harriet Prescott Spofford, 



Edmund Clarence Stedman, 



Newman Symth, D.D., 



Egbert C. Smyth, D.D., 



Mrs. Launt Thompson, 



J. T. Trowbridge, 



Celia Thaxter, 



Prof. C. H. Toy, D.D., 



Jos. F. Tuttle, D.D., 



Rev. C. C. Tiffany 



John Greenleaf Whittier, 



Pres. Theo. D. Woolsey, D.D., LL.D. 



Prof. Wm. C. WUkinson, D.D., 



Sarah C. Woolsey, 



Prof. G. F. Wright, 



Susan E. Wallace, 



Wm. C. Ward, London, Eng., 



Geo. Washburn, D.D., 



Mary E. C. Wyeth, 



Pres. D. H. Wheeler, D.D., 



Prof. Chas. A. Young. 



TvURING the next few months we shall publish stories by a_^number of tlie most talented writers, among them the 

 AJ following: " " ' ••— -- ,. . -- , 



'• Dr. Claudius, 

 Edward Evert 

 Rebecca Harding Davis, Sarah Orne Jewett, etc., etc., etc. 



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