Excerpt from Scribner's Monthly, Vol. 11: An Illustrated Magazine for the People; From Nov., 1875 to April, 1876 The Magazine's New Year - The Political Outlook - Mr. Moody and his Work - American Honesty, 123; American Authorship - Winter Amusements - The Way we Waste, 280; -the Centennial - The Coming Man - The Prices of Books - A Cure for Gossip, 432; The School Question - The Philosoph of Reform, 579; Literary Virility - The Common Schools - Public Halls; 737; Revivals and Evange ists - Keeping at It - The Reconstruction of National Morality, 887. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.