<L72 
AMERICAN AGRICULTUEIST. 
[December, 
INTERESTING TO EVERY L< 
^howiauif how a Three-page piece of Music can be bought for less than Two Cents. 
WHAT IS PETERS DOING? 
The "Season," the New-York Amusement Programme, 
saj's: "Peters, the New- York Music Publisher. 599 Broadway, is doing more to promote 
' tlw divine art of music th;in any other of our American publishers— in fact, he beats the 
world on his cheap Music Publications. His Musical Magazine is fast becoming a 
' household word,' and is really indispensable to every lover of music. No wonder music- 
al people are going wild over it, as each number contains from twelve to fifteen songs and 
pieces of really line music, by snoli well-known authors as J. R. Thomas, Bishop, TIays, 
Kinkel, etc., auy single piece being worth more than Mr. Peters asks for the entire lot. 
Think of it, ye musicians, who have been paying from 30 to 50 cents apiece for music, and 
remember that every number of Peters' Musical Monthly will give you four or five 
beautiful songs, three or four quartets, and lour or five splendid piano pieces for the small 
sum of thirty cents. If this is not revolution, what is it ? Specie payment ia nowhere." 
CAN PETERS DO IT? 
The New- York Weekly says: "What has long been needed has at 
length appeared. A fl?'st-class musical magazine. A magazine not merely so muck print- 
ing and paper, but a work combining quantity with quality. A work for which the public 
can subscribe with as much confidence in its unpublished numbers as they now do in sub- 
scribing for a ' Weekly , or a * Harper." Such a work is ' Peters' Musical Monthly.* 
"The publisher had the prestige of his name in beginning his new enterprise, and 
■ Peters Musical Monthly' well sustains the world-wide reputation of his house." 
A HANDSOME PRESENT. 
How many people are nuzzling their brains over what they shall give some lady friend ! 
There are plenty of articles that can be bought; bnt the trouble is, what will be a proper 
prese7it for a young man to gi\ r e some other body's sister ? A hundred things might be 
selected, and not one as appropriate as a year's subscription to Peters' Musical Monthly. 
Music is always in order. It makes a delicate, a refined present, and something that any 
lady can accept from a gentleman friend. A present of this kind will cause a twelve-fold 
pleasure to the party receiving it, and cause you to be thanked and looked lor as a regular 
monthly visitor. Or, you can let the aiver be unknown. We can keep a secret, if you 
want us to, You can thus make a useful present, and 6njoy the surprise it will create. 
We give the contents of October, November, and December numbera of Peters' 
Musical Monthly, and a glance at the authors will show the superior quality of the 
music we furnish our subscribers. In fact, the names of all the leading Song and In- 
strumental writers will be found as contributors to what may be safely called Vie 
cheapest music ever published. It will also be seen that each number contains from 
twelve to sixteen pieces of music, and that we are really furnishing from one hundred 
and seventy to two hundred pieces of music, to every yearly subscriber — that is, a 
piece of music for every other day in the year ; and while our subscribers are paying 
one-and-a-half cents apiece for all this music, others, less careful of their money, are 
buying the same music in sheet form and printed from the same plates, at from thirty 
cents to sixty cents apiece, 
No. 38 -CONTENTS OF OCTOBER NO.-Price, 30 Cts. 
Truly yours. Song and Chorus. By Will S. Hays.— Papa, come help me across the dark 
Itiver. Song and Chorus. By Persley.— The World is full of Beauty when the Heart is 
full of Love. Song. Donizetti.— Eyes of laughing, loving Blue. Song and Chorus. By 
Philip Phillips.— We won't leave the Farm. Song and Chorus. By Persley.— Cast thy Bur- 
den on the Lord. Quartet. By Juch.— Jesus and the Children. Duet or Chorus. By 
Dressier.— Speak the Truth. Sacred Song. By Dressier.— Halte Militaire. Polka du Bi- 
vouac. By Detta.— Falling Leaves Polka. By Goote.— Christine Nilsson'B favorite Schot- 
tische. By Mack.— Floating Breezes. Yale Sentimentale. By Kinkel. 
No. 39.-CONTENTS OF NOVEMBER NO.-Price, 30 Cts. 
Lord, teach me how to pray ! Sacred Song and Quartet. W. Y. Wallace. — If you've a 
Father's Love for your Child. Temperance Song. By Martin. — Meet me, Nannie, lilue- 
eyed Nannie. Song and Chorus. By Tucker.— Where art thou now? Eng. and G-er.Text. 
By Juch.— I'm sitting by the Window, Love. Song and Chorus. By Will S. Hays.— Sol- 
dier's Farewell. Quartet for male voices. From the German.— Gentle Zephyr. Quartet. 
By Mortimer.— Blessed are the Poor in Spirit. Quartet. By Dressier.— Why do we mourn 
departed Friends? Arranged from Wrighton.— Songs of Praise the Angels sing. Thanks- 
giving Hymn. By Dressier.— Sunbeam waltz. By Harinistoun.— Sweet Sixteen Polka. 
Bv Schilling.— Perle d'Amerique. Valse Brillante. By Kinkel.— King William's Lancers. 
With Figures. By Dressier. 
No. 40.-CONTENTS OF DECEMBER NO.-Price, 30 Cts. 
Fear not ! or, There's Pardon for us all. Sacred Song. By J. Cox.— Sweetest Love, I'll 
not forget thee. Ballad. By Einmet.— Little dimpled Hands. Song and Chorus. By 
Persley.— Meet me again to-morrow, Bessie. Song and Chorus. By Persley.— Sunshine on 
the Sea. Ballad. By Tucker.— He sleeps 'neath the Shade of the Willow. Trio or Chorus. 
By Martin.— The Star of Bethlehem. Christmas Hymn. By Reichardt.— Merry Christmas. 
Sunday-school Hymn. By Dressier.— See the Leaves around us falling Sacred. By La 
Hache.— Through another Year conducted. New-Year's Hymn. By Reis.— Pleasant 
Memories Waltz. By Brown.— Sweet Music. Transcription. By Baurabach.— Driven 
from Home Waltz. By Dressier.— Nobody's Darling Waltz. By Dressier.— Damask Rose. 
By Mack. 
We devote ail our space to music; giving in each month's issue thirty-six full-size 
pages of music, printed on fine white paper, and eight pages of reviews of new music, 
hooks, etc., on tinted paper. The music pages are numbered separately, so that they 
can be detached and bound into a yearly volume of four hundred and thirty-two 
music pages, nearly two inches tluck, (or bettor still, into two half-yearly volumes, 
as a yearly volume is actually so bulky that it is apt to break the rack of the piano.) 
Giving so much valuable matter for such a small sum, wc deem it necessary to explain 
hosv we can do it. It is in this way : We are largely engaged in publishing sheet-music, 
and frequently turn out as many as two hundred new issues In a single month. Among 
these pieces are many valuable compositions which only need to be seen and heard to be- 
come immensely popular. The difficulty of introducing new music to the musical public 
gives our reasons for starting Peters' Musical Monthly, and the chance it gives to 
introduce our new publications, explains how ice can afford to give so much for so little 
money. In a word, we do not expect to make money off of our circulation. "We can not 
do it, if we wanted to, as we give too much to make on it. Wc, however, make ample 
Srofit out of the immediate after sale of the music, which we never could have intro- 
uced in any other way, except by enormous outlays for expensive advertising. 
Some twenty thousand well-to-do families are taking advantage of our magazine 
to lay in a bountiful supply of new music, and we should be pleased to add as many more 
names to our list, at the same rates; once fifty thousand names on our list, and we shall 
begin to think it time to close our books to new-comers at any such prices, as there must be 
.a limit to this almost* free gift of ?n7tsic, or we would in the end defeat our own object, 
namely, the after sale of the music. In the mean time, we will gladly enroll all the names 
we can, and would call your attention to our cash and club rate's, whereby you may mate- 
rially lessen your own subscription. Remember! three copies for nine dollars, and one 
free to the getter.up of the club. 
A Trial Trip. — VYewill eend four numbers of Peters' Musical Monthly, 
(January, February, March, and April, 1S71,) on receipt of §1 ; or January to June, 
sis months, for $1.50; or four back numbers for 1S70, (our own selection, )for 75 cents; 
two back numbers, (our own selection,) for 40 cents ; single numbers, 30 cents. Wo 
say " our own selection," as we are compelled to keep a heavy stock of back numbers 
on hand, and by making our own selection, wc can keep our stock even, and prevent 
running out of single numbers. "We would state that each number is complete in it- 
self, and we would have no hesitation in picking them blindfold, and presenting any 
month's issue as a fair sample of Hie rest. 
Any Music-Teacher, whose orders from us at professional rates amount 
to ten dollars during the year, will be presented with a year's subscription to Peters' 
Musical Monthly for the current year. Teachers whose orders from us will entitle them 
. to this offer must notify us of their ivish to secure a subscription, in order to have their 
names put on our list. 
News-dealers supplied with Peters' Musical Monthly direct, or through the American 
News Company. Large posters are furnished each month, and extra copies for posting 
will be sent on application. 
THE REASON WHY WE TURN OUT SO FtflANY POPULAR 
PIECES. 
We have for years past controlled the mss. of most of the leading musicians of the coun- 
try, and are probably the only American publisher able to keep up a magazine like ours, 
and supply each month such a large selection of really first-class "copy-right music ; and 
it is only by making expensive yearly contracts witli such writers as Ceo. W. Persley, Will 
S. Hays, Kinkel, and others, that we are ourselves enabled to do so. We receive daily, 
MSS. from well-known authors, which other publishers would give hundreds of dollars to 
possess, aud which we control by our contracts, but do not put in Peters 1 Musical 
Monthly, as we have only space for twelve to fifteen pieces a month, and take good care 
to pick out only the very best for our subscribers. Our catalogue is filled with popular 
music, ..early allot' which has first appeared in our Monthly ; for instance, "Driven from 
Home," " Write me a Letter," "Nora O'Neal," "Shamus O'Brien," '-Let the Dead and the 
Beautiful rest," "Little Brown Church," "Little Peet so white and fair," "Papa, come 
help me across the dark River," etc.. etc., etc. And in the instrumental line we could men- 
tion hundreds of pieces by Kinkel, Wyman, Becht, Paclier, etc. In a word, our facilities 
have enabled us to make h its with every Issue, while other musical papers (or rather, 
advertising sheets) have seldom or ever been successful in furnishing music that afterward 
became popular. And whvisit? Because most of these papers are published in out-of- 
the-way places, and by publishers with small capital and business, who are unable to offer 
the best writers a sufficient inducement to warrant them in refusing yearly offers and a 
steady market for all their compositions. The consequence is, they are compelled to pub- 
lish what they can get. Some two or three musicians are engaged to write a piece a month, 
and in it goes, let itce good or bad. They are all published to make money off their circu- 
lation, and the publishers can not afford to make heavy outlays for their music, preferring 
to give quantity rather than quality. The careful reader will be enabled from the forego- 
ing to draw a broad distinction between Peters* Musical Monthly and all other musical 
papers or magazines. The next question is, to get a copy. This can be done by sending 
direct to us, or by giving anv news-dealer thirty cents, and telling him to order it for you. 
Tou will, however, have tune by sending direct, to J. L. Peters, 599 Broadway, New 1 ork. 
Post-Office Box, 5129. 
Peters'* Musical Monthly is issued on the fifteenth of each month, in advance, 
and is exactly the same shape and size as the American Agriculturist or DemoresVs 
Monthly. Terms, $1.50, for a volume of six months, or $3 a year. 
PETERS' MUSQGAL LIBRARY. 
We "would also call attention to the following choice collections of Piano Music, 
■which we are issuing in uniform shape, price, and binding. The Music is selected 
with great care aud embraces some of the most popular Songs and Piano Pieces by 
such authors as Hays, Thomas, Kinkel, Bishop, Wyman, Pachcr, Dauks, Keller, Web- 
ster, Becht, Harmistoun, etc. Price for each Volume, $1.75 in Boards ; $2 in Cloth ; 
$2.50 Gilt. Mailed free of Postage to any part of the country. 
VOCAL COLLECTIONS. 
Shining Lights — A choice collection of Sacred Songs. 
Golden Leaves— Vol. I and II. A collection of Songs and Choruses by the 
"Prince of Song Writers," Will. S. Hays. 
Hearth and Home— A collection of Favorite Songs, by Henry Tucker, Palm- 
er, Bishop, etc. 
Fireside Echoes — A collection of beautiful Home Songs, such as "Papa 
come Help me," " Little feet so white and fair," "Driven from Home," " My Trundle 
Bed," etc. 
Sweet Sounds— A collection of favorite Ballads, by popular authors. 
Priceless Gems— Containing a selection of Songs of a higher order than 
the usual run of popular Ballads. 
INSTRUMENTAL COLLECTIONS. 
Fairy Fingers— EaST Piano Pieces for Small Hands, by Becht. 
MagiC Circle — Easy Piano Pieces for Small Hands, by J. Harmistoun. 
Young Pianist— A collection of favorite Polkas, Waltzes, Schottisches, etc., 
for Young Players. 
Pearl Drops— A choice collection of Dance Music suitable fur Young Players. 
Musical Recreations— Containing selections from Kinkel, Mack, Wyman, 
Pacher, etc. 
Pleasant Memories— Containing pieces of Moderate Difficulty by well- 
known authors. 
Golden Ch imes-A collection of brilliant Parlor Music by Charles Kinkel. 
Brilliant Gems — A splendid collection of Piano pieces by Allard, Yilbre, 
Pacher, etc. 
These works are compiled with great care. They arc printed from full-size Music 
plates, and contain from $12 to $15 worth of Music in each Volume. 
Address J . 
[P. O. Box 542fl.] 
L. PETERS, Music Publisher, 
599 Broadway, Neiv Yorlt, 
Sample copies are SO cents — and we desire every Musician who sees this to send for a copy — for it is only 
toy seeing Peters' Musical Monthly that you can judge of its real merit. Should you think 3© cents too 
much to test its value — send a smaller sum. We want you to see it and would prefer sending you a num- 
ber at your own price, rather than not have it reach you. Take a copy along with you when canvassing 
for the Agriculturist and Hearth and Home. Our Cash and Premium rates are very liberal. 
