1848 THE INDEPENDENT. 1884 
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The Largest, the Ablest, and the Freshest 
Religious and Literary Weekly. ' 
As a religious journal, The Independent has no peer in the world. It is undenominational. It is an evan¬ 
gelical 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 df this country and the old 
world. Its payments to contributors 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 are the following: 
Editorial, Biblical Research, Missions, Religious Intelligence, the Sunday-school, Music, Hymn Notes, Ed¬ 
ucation, Science, Sanitary, Fine Arts, Ministerial Register, Personalities, Farm and Garden, .Financial, and 
Commercial. Thirty-two pages in all every week. 
A 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. 
Ezra Abbott, LL.D., 
Thomas Armitage, D.D., 
Prof. Fred M. Bird, 
Prof. Alex.B. Bruce,Glasgow,Scot. 
Rev. A. H. Bradford, 
Austin Bierbower, 
Mary D. Brine, 
W. H. Chad Boscawen, Wrexham, 
Ehg., 
Hon. S. G W. Benjamin, U. S. 
Minister to Persia, 
Rev. Wm. M, Baker, D.D., 
Hjalmar H. Boyesen, 
Leonard W. Bacon, D.D., 
Rev. Joseph Cook, 
Mary Clemmer, 
Rt. Rev. Arthur Cleveland Coxe, 
D.D., LL.Di, 
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. T ike, 
Rebecca Harding Davis, 
Prof. Geo. P. Fisher, D.D., 
Prof. Norman Fox, 
Washington Gladden, D.D., 
Dora Read Goodale, 
Caspar Rene Gregory, Paris, Fr., 
‘“Grace Greenwood,” 
“Barton Grey,” 
Arthur T. Hadley. 
Edward Everett Hale, D.D., 
Ex-Prest. Rutherford B. Hayes, 
George H. Hepworth, D.D., 
Pres. Attieus G. Haygood, D.D., 
William D. Howells, 
“H. H.” 
Sarah Orne Jewett, 
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. Presto®., 
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 
Prof. A. H. Sayce, Oxford, Eng. 
R. H. Stoddard, 
Philip Schatf, D.D., 
Harriet Prescott Spofford, 
Edmund Clarence Stedman, 
Newman Smyth, 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. Wilkinson, 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. Charles A. Young. 
ANNOUNCEMENT. 
During the next few months we shall publish stories by a number of the most talented 
writers, among them the following; W. E. Norris, author of “Matrimony,” “No New 
Thing, etc.; F. Marion Crawford, author of “Mr. Isaacs ” “Dr. Claudius,” etc.; W. D. 
Howells, author of “Our Wedding Journey,” etc.; J. S. Dale, author of “Guerndale;” 
Edward Everett Hale, author of “Ten Times One is Ten,” etc.; Julia Schayer, author of 
“Tiger Lily, and Other Stories;” Rebecca Harding Davis, Sarah Orne Jewett, etc., etc. 
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