Excerpt from Scribner's Monthly, Vol. 7: From Nov., 1873, to April, 1874 Topics OF the time. A Greeting to Our English Readers - St. Nicholas - The New York Observer - Old Types, 114 Some Religious Newspapers - Provision for Wives and Children - The American Gentleman of Leisure - How Much Has Been Gained? 236; Why Not - The American Restaurant - Literature for Boys, 368 - Rich and Poor - Organs - What Has Been Done About It P - The Watchman and Reflector, 495 Literary Hinderances - The Delusions of Drink - The Press and the Publishers, 624 Jules Verne's New Story - The Taxation of Church Property - Social Usages, 755. The old cabinet. In the Woods, 117 The House on the Corner - The Commonplace - A Segment of the Circle - Some thing Better than Truth, 240; New Year's - Christmas - The black-heart cherry-tree, 371 The Artist and His Picture - A Deed of Abomination - More Villainous than Vice, 498 Misery, 627 Veracity, 757. 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.