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Show UTEKATURE. wood's household MAOiZ:sE. Tbe moat iatelligeut renders have scrap buoka lor preeervirj tbe choicest articles clipped from time to lime from newspapers, magazines and books. These collictiona, although comparatively very Bin all, are often eeueemrd of more value than many books, because they embrace only the most precious gems gathered Irom Urge Gelde of literature. If aeveral ptrsuua of cu'.ture and experience, who are especially adapted for making there Btleciions. should eubmit tbe results o( their labors to a competent editor to classify and arrange into rie parlmentej embracing every variety of desirable bousenold reading, and if this matter, thus arranged and classified, classi-fied, should be prfnted in book form, we bnu d h-ivH something like each number ot Wood's Household Magazine, Maga-zine, which contains 100 large pages. Tbe February number etubudiea a feast of literary gema suited to the tastes ol all readers, and its articles breathe a spirit ol economy, morality and virtue which is highly refreshing in tbia age of fashionable lolly and extravagance. The subscription price is $2 per year. i Address. 8. d. Wood, Tribune build-iug, build-iug, New York. THE WtSTERN. The January-February number of this excellent bi-monthly his come to hand, opening tbe new volume in fioestyie, its 106 page3 beiog rilled with choice literature. The poetry of the number is especially rich, consisting consist-ing of "AnaereoD in the Original Metre," by Wycombe Aby; "Carl Gutherz's 'Ecce Homo,' " and "KLTaelle'a 'Madonna Del Siato,' " by Lyman "Whitney Allen; "The Dawn of the World," by E. F. Morby; besides many gema in ' Otto the Welf, and Philip the Hohenstauflen." Grace 0. BibbopeDS the number with a highly entertainiug sketch of Thackeray. B. P. Druryhas a paper ou Spenser. Perhaps the most readable read-able paper is ' The Renaissance," from Michelet'a Histoire D'France, by Gertrude Garrigues, "The Gaelio Revival," by T. F. Galwey; "To Mexico and Isles of the Pacific," by Eurique Parmer; book reviews, and current notes complete the contents, Tbe Eubacriptiou price of The Western West-ern ia 3 per annum. Address G. J. Jones cfc Co., St. Louis. PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL. Contents of February number: John P. Jones, United State3 senator for Nevada, portrait; Brain and Mind-Quality, Mind-Quality, its Nature and Influence; The unfolding of Mind through Conflict Con-flict and Sin; Strange Piant3; Tbe Marquis o( Lome and the Princess Louise, with Portraits; Single-Blessedness; "Around tbe World" A New Scientific Expedition; Bayard Taylor, with portrait; Dietetic Delusions; Experiments Ex-periments in Magnetism; Tbe Proper Position for Sleep; Tbe Snow Veil a Sonnet; Notes in Science and Agriculture; Agri-culture; Editorial Items; Answers to Correspondents; What they Say; Personal Per-sonal Items Wisdom Mirth; Library. Lib-rary. Address, S. R. Wella &Co., 737 Broadway, New York. |
