Friend: "This fellow says, 'No art can succeed that is not based on truth, beauty, and proba bility.' Artist: "That was before the poster craze." One Dollar a year. Ten Cents a Copy. The Symposium. An Illustrated Monthly Literary Magazine edited and published by GEORGE W. CABLE. Devoted to every form of knowledge, speculation and experiment designed to make homes better homes and neighbors better neighbors. The systematic conduct of Private and Club Reading Outlines of courses are is a special feature of THE SYMPOSIUM. published every month, with timely hints to readers, suggestions as to lines of reading, etc. A Plan for Lending Books. In regions where library facilities are few, THE SYMPOSIUM proposes to offset, in part at least, the absence of the circulating library. We will treat any subscription to THE SYMPOSIUM as a fee for membership in a library, and mail the books required, the cost to the subscriber being merely the postage one way. CORTICELLI DOILIES AND CENTERPIECES Fully described and practically iilustrated in "Florence Home Needlework" for 1896. A new book giving explicit illustrations for embroidering the most recent and popular art needlework designs. Tells just what shades of silk will give the best results, as well as the quantity required to work each piece. It is the best book published. No needleworker should be without it. 96 pages, over 60 illustrations. Sent by mail for 6 cents in stamps. Ask for "Florence Home Needlework" for 1896. Address NONOTUCK SILK CO. 93 Bridge Street, Florence, Mass. All enterprising merchants sell "Corticelli Silk." Are small fireside clubs, meeting once a week for unlaborious, systematic reading, or for any light pursuit that is at the same time entertaining and profitable. Their purpose is to combine the stimulations and pleasures of mutual improvement with the promotion of a kinder, fuller, and more active neighborliness than ordinarily results from merely drifting with the current of one's social preferences. Any Two or Three Persons may start one of these Home-Culture Clubs. They are without red tape, without machinery, without dues or fees. Books are lent to them by THE SYMPOSIUM with only the expense of postage one way. They have been In Successfui Operation for Mine years, And at the close of the last season numbered seventy-five clubs scattered through thirteen states. Mr. GEORGE W. CABLE is chairman of the movement, and Miss ADELENE MOFFAT, one of the assistant editors of THE SYMPOSIUM, is the general secretary. Letters inquiring for full particulars and addressed to MISS MOFFAT, HOME-CULTURE CLUB HOUSE, NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS, will receive cordial attention. Start a bome-Culture Club THE NORTHAMPTON At the Front for Lightness, WE MAKE IT Durability, Speed, Economy, YOU TAKE IT Durability, Speed, Economy, YOU TAKE Beauty, and Grace. VOL. 1. No. 3. THE SYMPOSIUM. CONTENTS FOR DECEMBER, 1896. JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE. IN THE LAND OF LORNA DOONE, With four illustrations from photographs by the author.- RHODA HOLMES NICHOLLS, With two illustrations from photographs and an original A VISIT FROM BARRIE, With one illustration from a photograph taken for this VERSES FOR A CHILD, GEORGIANA'S MOTHER. A Story, TERMS: $1.00 A YEAR. CURTIS MAY CLIFTON JOHNSON Frontispiece 87 88 SUSAN M. KETCHAM 95 GEORGE W. CABLE 99 J. D. DASKAM 102 A Story, EXTRACTS FROM A PLANTATION SKETCH-BOOK, GEORGE HENRY CLEMENTS HOME AND NEIGHBOR, A Fortunate Experiment.-Its Growth.-Some Features of IN THE READING WORLD, A New Word for an Old Favorite, Viola Roseboro'.—Books as Miss O'Shaughnessy's Change of Luck, Marie Manning.- TERMS.-$1.00 a year, in advance, 10 cents a copy. Subscribers may remit to us in post office order, bank check, or express money order. Currency should be sent by registered letter to secure its safety. LITERARY CONTRIBUTIONS must be accompanied by postage sufficient for their return to the writers. THE SYMPOSIUM will be sent free for one year to any one sending us from among his friends four new paid up subscriptions. Special inducements furnished to desirable canvassers. No one is authorized to solicit subscriptions beyond the circle of his own acquaintance without our printed authorization, duly dated and signed. READERS are cautioned against subscribing to THE SYMPOSIUM through strangers. Our printed authorization should be required. THE SYMPOSIUM, 41 Center Street, Northampton, Mass. |