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OUR LITERARY MATTER.-We make no idle boast when we FACTS ABOUT MILK.-Cream cannot rise through a great say that the stories of this Magazine are very much better depth of milk. If milk is therefore desired to retain its than those of periodicals ofits class. Such tales as " A New cream for a time, it should be put into a deep, narrow dish; Cinderella," " The Mirror-Room," and " The Locked Cham- and if it be desired to free it most completely of cream, it ber," in our January number, are rare even in the best should be poured into a broad, flat dish, not much exceedEnglish magazines ; and "The Third Night" and othering one inch in depth. The evolution of cream is facilitated stories, in this number, are hardly inferior. The White- by a rise, and retarded by a depression of temperature. In water (Wisconsin) Register, among other papers, calls atten- wet and cold weather the milk is less rich than in dry and tion, particularly, to this fact. It says :-" The January warm; and on that account more cheese is obtained in cold number of Peterson's magnificent Two Dollar Monthly, is than in warm, though not in thunder weather. The season quite equal, in all respects, so far as we can see, to any has its effects- the milk in the spring is supposed to be number of a magazine yet printed in America. It is hand- best for calves, in summer it is best suited for cheese, and somely embellished with engravings on steel, and fine wood in autumn the butter keeping better than that of summer. cuts, and its literary matter is better than that of any illus- Cows less frequently milked than others give rich milk, trated monthly in this country. In this latter respect, we and consequently much better. The morning's milk is place Peterson in advance of all its cotemporaries. C. J. richer than the evening's. The last drawn milk of each Peterson, its editor, commences, in this number, one of his milking, at all times and seasons, is richer than the first characteristic novelets, ' The Murrays of Murray House,' drawn, which is the poorest. and the opening chapters promise a tale of sustained inteWANTED, INQUIRE AT THIS OFFICE.-An intended bride, rest and power. Mrs. Ann S. Stephens also begins a new story, The Jacobite's Daughter,' and those familiar with who is willing to begin housekeeping in the same style in her writings need not be told that this will be a work of which her parents began. Twenty fashionable young ladies, great and thrilling interest. Other well known writers who dare to be seen wielding a dusting brush, or darning will also contribute to ' Peterson,' and fully sustain its their brothers' stockings, if a gentleman should happen to make an early morning call. The same number of indeestablished reputation." pendent young ladies of "good families," who dare to wear A NURSERY THOUGHT.- Do you ever think how much their last winter's bonnet to church on a fine Sunday. The work a little child does in a day ? How, from sunrise to same number of young ladies, " who are anybody," who sunset, the little feet patter round to us so aimlessly? dare to be seen in the street wearing shoes with soles thick Climbing up here, kneeling down there, running to an- enough to keep their feet warm. The same number of other place, but never still. Twisting and turning, and young ladies of sufficient age "to go in company," who dare rolling and reaching, and doubling, as if testing every bone confess they ever made a loaf of bread or a pudding. and muscle for their future uses. It is very curious to A DOLLAR CHEAPER.-Recollect, when getting up clubs, watch it. One who does so may well understand the deep that this Magazine is a dollar cheaper than others of a breathing of the rosy little sleeper, as with one arm tossed similar class. On this subject the Oswego (N. Y.) Times over its curly head, it prepares for the next day's gymnas- says: "The three dollar monthlies will have to be up and tics. Tireless through the day, till that time comes, as the doing, or PETERSON will distance them in the race. Although maternal love which so patiently accommodates itself, hour the Magazine costs but two dollars a year, and still lower after hour, to its thousand wants and caprices, real or fan- to clubs, it is not a whit behind those that cost one-third cied. A busy creature is a little child-to be looked upon more." with awe as well as delight, as its clear eyes look trustingly into faces that to God and man have essayed to wear a mask; as it sits down in its little chair to ponder precoREVIEW OF NEW BOOKS . ciously over the white lie you thought it "funny" to tell Hickory Hall ; or, The Outcast. By Mrs. E. D. E. N. it; as, rising and leaning on your knee, it says, in a tone which should provoke a tear, not a smile, " I don't believe Southworth. 1 vol., 8 vo. Philada : T. B. Peterson & it." A lovely and yet fearful thing is that little child. Brothers.- Since the war began, book-publishers have been comparatively idle. A few firms, however, exhibit enterHOW TO CARRY FLOWERS.-When sent by mail nothing is prise ; and among these are T. B. Peterson & Brothers. better than wrapping them in oiled paper; when carried These publishers, moreover, understand the important otherwise, a piece of wet sponge fastened inside a woolen truth, that, in times like these, people must have cheap box, or layers of wet brown paper, or wet flannel as a lining reading, or they will go without. When a Magazine can when that to the box, or freshly gathered cabbage leaves, with their be had for one dollar and a quarter a year, and under side placed next the flowers, are unobjectionable. If Magazine contains as much as four or five of the novels the box is of tin, well secured at the lid, then a source of usually sold at that price, readers will take the Magazine moisture is less requisite, for the leaves and flowers them- first. The only way for book-publishers to find a market selves will form an atmosphere of sufficient dampness for a is to print books at lower prices. T. B. Peterson & Brothers short time. Another method, which answers extremely are doing this. They have issued Dickens' last novel, "Great well when flowers are gathered in dry weather, is, as soon Expectations," in fifty cent and twenty-five cent editions, "For Better and Worse" in a twenty-five cent edition, and as they are cut, to throw them into a bag, like a carpet-bag, now " Hickory Hall," one of Mrs. Southworth's most abmade of mackintosh. If the snap of such an article closes well, flowers will remain fresh all day long in a broiling sorbing fictions, in a fifty cent edition. "Hickory Hall" sun, as some botanical travelers well know. The reason has never before appeared in book-form, though our old subscribers will remember it, under its second title of "The why such flowers are preserved is still the same-the air around them is damp. Those who hunt after wild flowers, Outcast," as having been published, in this Magazine, in 1858. To those who have not read it, and who desire a or ferns, should provide themselves with a bag of this de- thrilling story, we can recommend it as sure to gratify scription. their wish. The Lady's Almanac for the Year 1862. 1 vol., 32 mo. OUR BERLIN-WORK PATTERN.-We give, in this number, another of our beautiful Berlin patterns in colors. The Boston: J. E. Tilton & Co.-A very pretty little volume, present one is double-sized as well as chaste and beautiful. handsomely embellished.
