The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1873-12-05
ILLUSTRATED ARTICLES.
1.-THE GREAT SarTH."


ILLUSTRATED ARTICLES.
THE GREAT SOUTH"
By Edward King. will be commenced in NoTem-
ber, and continued through the year. The inn
mense amount of labor bestowed upon this
ries OF articles has long delay edits appearance.
1t q intended that 1t shall be the best, as 10 viii
be the most xpensive ever given to the ATneri-
can public through the pages Of magazine
The first two articles viii be devoted to New Or
leans and Louisiana, and will be exceedingly at
Clarence Cooks prornisen papers on "F'urni-
ture and Household Decorator are IN rapid
course of preparation, and will soon appear
Portraits and biographical sketches of Amerf-
can Authors viii be continued by various skill
ful hands. Besides these serials, We have more
than fifty single illustrated articles, prepared and
waiting for the chance to be published-articles
which it would absorb too much space to men,
ton
The serial story of the year, Katherine
Earle by Adeline Trafton, author of IAN
American Girl Abroad p is complete, in the
hadds of the publishers, and will be commenced
in the November number. 1t is a charming love
story by gifted and rapidly rising writer, and
we predict for ii wide popularity.
BRILLIANT NOVELTIES,
By SAKE Holm, Rebecca Harding Davis. Kate
Putnam Osgood, and other clever writer's, will
appear during the year: The best short stories
written viii be secured in the future, as they
have been in the past, for Scribner's Monthly.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE.
Mr.. Froude's ''Annals of an English Abbey"
written expressly for The Monthly-wil open
in the November issue, and be completed in that
of January. 1t gives the history for six hun
dred years of the most remarkable of the reli-
gious houses OF England, and will attract uni
versal attention No historical sketch more in
teresting than this has been published in many
EDMUND CLARENCE sTEDMAN's
Critical Essays on the Victorian Poets will be
continued. Those who have read this remarka-
BILE essay LandoF, will not need the assurance
that no ADLER critical writing will appear during
the year.
OLD TINE MUSIC
Mr. Benjamin F. Taylor, long known for his
brilliant contributions 10 the Western press, has
prepared a series of very striking poems which
will be quite unique in American literature.
They Will sing TO US again the old music of The
Spinning Wheel, ''The Stage-coach," ''The
Flail," &c, and will 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
social questions, OF science, literature art, and
domestic economy, which, after ALL will make
up the staple of every number we can only say
that they shall be good 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-
Christian civilization.
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entitled "THE NEW ROUTE TO THE GULF" /" free
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it at the time OF making their subscription.
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