The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-11-14
sCRIBNER's MONTHLY for 1884.

TNHE unexanPled favor accorded by the pub
Il lie to the conductors of this Magazine has
enabled them 10 enter upon their fourth year
valuable TO its large and constantly increasing
number of readers than ever before. The Mag
Szine year begins with November.
ILLUSTRATED ARTICLES.
"THE GREAT SOUTH"
By Edward King. will be commenced in Novem-
ber, and continued through the year. The i'm
mense amount Of labor bestowed upon this Sc
ries Of articles has long delayed its appearance:
Ii Is intended that il shall be the best, as il viii
be the most expensive ever given to the Ameri-
The first two articles will be devoted to New Or
leans and Louisiana, and viii be exceedingly at
traetive.
ture and Household Decoration" are in rapid
course Of preparation, and viii seS11 appear
Portraits and biographical sketches OF Amert-
can Authors viii be continued by various skill
full hands. Besides these serials, we have more
than fifty single illustrated articles, prepared and
waiting for the chance to be pubIished-articles
which II would absorb too much space 10 mem
ton
STORIES.
The serial story of the year, Katherine
Earle" by Adeline Trafton, author Of AN
American Girl Abroad is complete, in the
hadds Of the publishers, and viii be commenced
in the November number. 1t is a charming love
story by gifted and rapidly rising writer, and
we predict for il wide popularity.
BRILLIANT NOVELTIES,
By SAKE Holm, Rebeeea Harding Davis, Kate
Putnam Osg0Od, and other clever writers, viii
appear during the year. The best short stories
written viii be secured il the future, as they
have been in the past, for Seribner's Monthly
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE.
Mr.. Froude's "Annals of an English Abbey"
written expressly for The Monthly-will open
il the November issue, and be completed in that
/ of January. II gives the history for six hun
dred years of the most remarkable of the reli-
{ lyfp hDnSGz F.nuland
yersal attention. No historical sketch more in
teresting than this has been published in many
EDMUND CLARENCE sTEDMAN'S
Critical Essays the Victorian Poets wiz be
continued Those who have read this -emarka-
bic essay On Lahdor, will not need the assurance
that no ADLER critical writing will appear during
- OLD TINE MUSIC,
Mr.. BENJAMIN F. TAYLOR, long known for his
brilliant contributions to the " estern press has
prepared series OF very striking poems which
will be quite unique in American literature.
They win sing 70 again the old music of ''The
Spinning Wheel THE Stage-eoach,7 ~ ''The
FlaiI," &c, and viii be beautifully illustrated.
These are some of the attractions which we
promise for the new volume and the new year ::
and of the essays the poems, the sketches Of
travel, the editorial discussions of moral and
social questions, Of science, literature, art, and
domestic economy, which, after all, will make
up the staple of every number, can only say
that they shall be as good as they have been,
and better If they can be made so. We intend
TO publish Christian Magazine in which there
shall be free thought and free expression and
to make literature and art tributary, not only to
the cultivation of the intellect, but to the puri
/ fcation of the heart and the advancement of
| Christian civilization
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