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...SALE.- Scribner's Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 vols. They cost $120.00. Will sell them...
...engraver, and last a magazine with taste and intelligence to reproduce the work on a printed page. The first two of these requisites were found in A. W. Drake, who has perhaps done more for engraving than any other manwho ever lived, and the last was found in "Scribner's Monthly," which later became the "Century." The next improvement in engraving was the half-tone process, invented by Professor Vogel of Berlin, by which it was made possible to reproduce not only drawings in black and white, but also in wash...
Professor N. S. Shaler has prepared four articles on the domesticated animals, which will appear in Scribner's Monthly during the coming year...
...Scribner for June opens with "Life in a Logging Camp" by Arthur Hill. It is a very interesting sketch of camp life in Michigan, describing the finding and filling of the forest giants. The illustrations by Dan Beard are very good. "Under Cover of the Darkness" is a story by Russell Sullivan. It is a weird and withal very interesting story. It is something of a ghost story but finally everything is reasonably explained. "An Artist in Japan" is a good article though the best part of it is the illustrations. It is written and illustrated by Robert Plum. Another...
...necessity for improvement is urgent. - (a) City poor should be supplied with - (1) Parks and open spaces: Octavia HIll. Homes of the London Poor, chap. VII; American Statistical Association's Publications I. 49-61 (1888). (2) Cheap and rapid transit to suburbs; Scribner's XI, 718. - (3) Improved dwellings and lodging houses; A. T. White, Workingmen's Dwellings; Fort. Rev. XLIX. 285. - (4) Reading-rooms and public baths; Scribners XI. 710. - (5) Sanitary inspection and regulation; J. B. Russel, Life in One Room. (b) Good tenements would pay a reasonable money profit: Boston Herald, Jan. 10, 1893; Octavia Hill, Homes...