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T. A. BURKE, Editor.
MACON, GA., OCT. 15, 1870.
Exchanges.
Lady's Book, like
QBr, Iqip wine, improves with age. For
nearly forty-one years it has
grpp been the lady’s magazine of
x-vp this country,, and the October
number, just received, gives
evidence that the veteran editor is de
termined that it shall continue to be
the best of its class. Terms, $3 a year.
We will send it, with our paper, for
$4 50.
The New Eclectic Magazine for Sep
tember is a capital number. We are
glad to see that this periodical main
tains its high character. We have long
regarded it as tl<e most ably conducted
magazine in this country, and are sur
prised that the Southern people do not
extend to it a hearty support; it richly
deserves it. Term3, $4 a year. Turn
bull & Murdock, publishers, Baltimore.
Ecery Saturday. What shall we say
of our old favorite that we have not
already said? It is not to be compared
with any other American illustrated
periodical that we know of, and it is
quite equal to the best of the English
publications, and costs but little more
than half as much. It is now printed
on heavy cream-laid paper, and is so
rich in illustrations and reading matter
that we wonder how any person of taste
and culture can do without it. Every
Saturday is published in Boston, by
Fields, Osgood & Co-, at $5 a year.
We will send it and Burke’s Weekly
one year for $6.
The Rural Carolinian. We have no
desire to underrate other agricultural
periodicals, but it is our honest convic
tion that there are but few of them to
be compared with the Rural Carolinian
—edited by D. H. Jacques, and pub
lished at Charleston, S.C., by Walker,
Evans & Cogswell. Our old friend
Jacques is a wonderfully “handy” man;
indeed, we know of few men of greater
versatility of talent. Does he recollect
our trip to the Falls and Mountains of
Upper Georgia, in “days lang syne?”
We wish him and the “Rural” all
manner of prosperity and long life, for
they richly deserve it.
Religion is not mere sentiment. It
is a vital experience of the heart —a
resolute exercise of the will—a heroic
service of the life.
BURKE’S WEEKLY FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
A .New Magazine
MONTHLY, an il
lustrated magazine for the peo
'NXU pie, ; s t 0 be published in the
TvCS place of Hours at Home and
Putnam's Magazine. Dr. Hol-
T land, who has recently returned
from Europe, after a period of rest
which his long and unremitting literary
labor rendered necessary, has consented
to embark his time and capital in this
enterprise ; and American readers will
need no assurance from us that one
who has proved his capacity to meet
the wants of the people in so many
walks of literature, and whose name
has no associations but those of success,
will make a magazine that will be wel
comed at all the firesides of the land.
His books are everywhere, and his
friends are with his books.
The subscription price of the maga
zine will be $3 a year, or 25c. a number.
Address, Scribner & Cos., 654 Broad
way, New York.
China and the United States.
(Y/O | NE of the most deservedly popu-
lar publications of the present
V// year is “The Oldest and the
f Newest Empire, China and the
United States,” by the Rev.
William Speer, D.D., formerly
missionary in China and among the
Chinese in California, and now secre
tary of the Presbyterian Board of Edu
cation. He has lived in China, tra
velled there, and made its people,
language, literature, history, politics,
religion, a study. It has been said by
very high authority that there are not
five men in Europe and America so well
qualified to write about China as he is.
The intention of the author is to pre
sent China to the people of the United
States, who are just now more interested
than any other nation in knowing the
truth about it, in a complete view. To
this end he has made use of all the ma
terials accessible, and his own abundant
experience, re arranging and compact
ing the whole into an intelligible account
of China and the Chinese, both past and
present. The book is not, however, a
dry history, or a mass of uninteresting
details. The author writes from the
living point of view of the day, and of
a traveller and scholar interested in the
great movements of the age; and the
history, both political and religious, is
worked in to bear upon a correct judg
ment of the Chinese as they are to-day.
Thus we have descriptions of the Chi
nese people and their country —vivid
and graphic; the races of the empire
and their origin ; a general glance at
the geography and the productions of
the empire, social life, amusements,
festivities, government; the Patriarchal
Age, the Augustan Age, the Middle
Ages, the Mongol, Ming and Manchu
Dynasties, the first Emperors, the great
Kien-lung; the opium war and its re-
sults ; American relations ; ancient con
nections with this continent; immigra
tion, labor, popular government; the
Chinese companies in California; moral
aspect of immigration ; the glory of
America, and the future of the Chinese
race.
The volume is a very handsome one
of about 700 pages. It is illustrated
with forty full-page engravings, illus
trating Chinese domestic life, and labor
and worship, prepared with care from
the best designs, many of them Chinese,
and many of them executed in very ap
propriate and pleasing outline. They
add to the attractiveness as well as the
value of the book.
It is one of the most opportune and
valuable books this firm (National Pub
lishing Company, of Memphis, Tenn.,)
has ever issued.
The Little Soldier Every Week.
H E publishers of the Little
Jr Soldier, have determined, if
sufficient interest is felt in the
f enterprise to warrant it, to
issue that paper in such a form
that it can be supplied to Sun
day-schools every Sunday in the year.
Each weekly number will contain
eight pages, and from three to four il
lustrations, thus making it the most
complete and elegant as well as the
cheapest Sunday-school paper published
in this country. , . 4#
The terms for the Weekly Soldier
will be as follows:
Single copy $1
4or more copies to different names 75e. each
4 “ “ one add-ess ... 50c. “
50 copies to one address 45c.
100 *• “ “ 40c. “
Those who prefer it can have the
Little Soldier sent to them once a
month as heretofore, receiving in lieu
of one number of sixteen pages, two
numbers of eight pages each, on the
following terms:
Single copy 50c.
2or more copies to different names 40c. each
4 “ “ one address ... 25c.
50 copies to one address 22J4c.
100 “ “ “ 20c. “
A piece of Choice Music, suitable for
Sunday Schools, will be given once a
month or oftener ; and it will be the
aim of the editor and publishers to
make the Little Soldier the best Sun
day-school paper published.
Specimen numbers will be sent free,
on application to the publishers, J. W.
Burke & Cos., Macon, Ga.
Little four-year-old Carrie went with
her aunt to church. The preacher w r as
very earnest in his delivery, and she
was much interested. “Mother,” said
she, when she came home, “I have
heard such a smart minister. He stamp
ed and pounded, and made such a noise;
and then he got so mad, he shook his
fist at the folks, and there wasn’t any
body dared go up and fight him.”
ENTERTAINING & INSTRUCTIVE
JUVENILE LIBRARIES
At J. W. BURKE & CO.’S.
Sent Post-paid, on receipt of price.
Little Pet Library, 6 vols., cloth SI 50
Little Wiffie “ 9 " “ 150
Little One’s “ 6 “ “ 175
Daisy Dell “ 6 “ “ 120
Little Keepsake Library, 6 vols., cloth. 1 50
Minnie Myrtle Series, 12 “ “ 240
Good Boy’s Sunday Lib., 6 " 3 00
Aunt Mattie’s Library for Boys, 6 v., cl. 3 00
BUILDINGr BLOCKS
At J. W BURKE & CO.’S.
Crandall’s Building Blocks ... per set S2 50
“ “ “ small size... 1 25
Dissected Alphabets, at 40c. each.
Beautiful & Fancy Musical Balls,
at 35c. and 40c. each.
Rubber Dolls I Rubber Dolls l
At J. W. BURKE & CO.’S.
NEW WORKS BY
HAWS CHRISTIAN" ANDERSEN,
The popular Danish writor,
Only a Fiddler $1 75
In Spain and Portugal 1 75
O. TANARUS., a Danish Romance 1 75
The Two Baronesses 175
Andersen’s Wonder Stories for Children 2 25
Any of the above sent voet-paid, on receipt
of price.
BURKE & CO.,
Macon , Ga.
WYI. KYABI] «& CO.,
Manufacturers of
GRAND, SQUARE and UPRIGHT
PIANO-FORTES,
Warerooms, 360 W. Baltimore st., nr. Eutaw,
BALTIMORE, MD.
THESE Instruments have been before the
public for nearly thirty years, and upon
their excellence alone attained an unpur
chased pre-eminence, which pronounces them
unequalled. Their tone combines great power,
sweetness, and fine_ singing quality, as well
as great purity of intonation, and evenness
throughout the entire scale. Their touch is
pliant and elastic, and entirely free from the
stiffness found in so many pianos. In work
manship they are unexcelled ; using none but
the very best seasoned material, the large
capital employed in our business enabling us
to keep continually an immense stock of lum
ber, etc., on hand.
All our square pianos have our new impro
ved overstrung scale and the Agraffe treble.
We would call special attention to our
late improvements in GRAND PIANOS and
SQUARE GRANDS (patented August 14th,
1866), the piano nearer perfection
than has yet been attained.
Every piano fully warranted for five years.
WM. KNABE A: CO.,
No. 350 West Baltimore Street,
BALTIMORE.
Orders can be sent through the Editor of
Burke’s Weekly. Oct. I—ts.