1882J 



THE AMERICAN GARDEN. 



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Have spared no effort to present an Announcement of new 

 features for 1882, that shall represent the best ability in en- 

 tertaining literature. The names of a few of the writers and a 

 ' selection from the topics are given below. 



Its Serial Stories. 



These are by writers of rare gifts and experience. Several of the Stories 

 will illustrate topics that are engaging public attention. 



Serial Story. Illustrated. . ByW.D. Howells. 



Live Story for Boys. Illustrated. . . . By J. T. Trowbridge. 



An English Story, illustrated By William Black. 



"Witchcraft. at Deacon AViggins'. . . By Mrs. Harriet, Beecher Stowe. 

 Four Nights Among Russian Nihilists. . By a Writer in Russia. 



Talcs of Old New England Taverns. ... By Rose Terry Cooke, 

 .stories of Successful Business Men. . . . By James Parton. 



Its Stories of Adventure. 



Incidents of Frontier Life and Adventure iu the West ; in Africa ; 

 in Australia ; in Greenland; in China, Japan and Corea; in Russia; in New 

 Zealand; on the Ocean. Fully illustrated. 



A Pioneer School Mistress in the Far West: Her experiences— 

 amuHiig, often thrilling— related to her Eastern friends. By Adeline Hall. 



Lost in the Gran Chaco ; or, Six Weeks in a South American 

 Wilderness: A Six Weeks' Flight among the Cannibals. Illustrated. 



Perils of a Linesman's Life: Guarding a Telegraph Wire in Sumatra. 



Illustrated .... By Lieut. Grinnell. 



On Recent Battle Fields. Illustrated . By Archibald Forbes. 

 A Story of South Africa. A Serial Story. By Capt. Mayne Reid. 



Very Valuable Articles. 



The Ministers of the English Government du 

 The Beginning of Great Industries, 

 Life Scenes, as a Clergyman sees them, 

 Success and Failure in Life, 

 Other Recollections of Authors, 



ing the Revolution, By E. P. Whipple. 



By James Parton. 

 By Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. 

 By Canon F. W. Farrar. 

 By tlie late James T. Fields. 



Illustrated Travel. 



China.— Incidents and facts 



people; : 



with ten yt 

 incidents 0 



life in China will be given. 

 By Hon. Chester Holcombe, U. S. Legation, Pekin. 

 Russia.— Life in the out-of-the-way Nooks and Corners of Russia, given in a 

 picturesque and striking series of articles. The author has been sent to 

 Russia by the Companion especially for this purpose. 



By Mrs. A. H. Leonowens. 

 Mexico.— A Naturalist's Adventures on the Mountains of Mexico, by one who 

 is travelling in that country for Scientific Societies. By Fred A. Ober. 



The Editorials, as heretofore, will be prepared by the most qu 

 rent topics will be treated clearly and fundamentlly. 



The Children's Column will be under the same popular mar 

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