The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-01-17
1.-THE GREAT SOUTH"

BY EDWARD KING.
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Il SeraeS o. IHuSTdteG Idl'eTS IN - Scr10ner
Monthly" for 1874.
BY EDWARD KING.
With Superb Illustrations by Champney.
This series of articles was begun in the
| issue of .Scribner's Monthly for November,
1878, and will be continued from month to
month until December, 1874 The articles
already prepared have occupied more than
Il year OF constant and painstaking study
by practiced journalist, who has thus far
visited nearly every city and town of any
Importance in the Southern States; talked
with men of all classes and conditions;
carefully investigated all manufacturing
enterprises and sites; collated statistics
studied the course of politics in each State
since reconstruction began; explored riy-
ers and penetrated into mountain regions
heretofore rarely visited 10y Northern men.
| He has been accompanied during the
entire journey by a conscientious and
talented artist, the sprightly Cn.mpley,
pupil and friend of that distinguished
Frenchman, Edouard Frere, the prince of
the school of sympathetic art in Europe
and this artist has made several hundred
thorough and flushed studies of Southern
types of men and things. which in due
time will all be presented to the readers of
toCFtONcI 8 -uOHuIy lie lIlelluS vi luc
magazine have already had an earnest of
what they may expect in the line of pict-
ures in the November, December, January,
and February numbers, whose illustrations
are universally pronounced as the best ever
presented in an American magazine. The
varied street life of New Orleans, the wild
panorama of the Mississippi River, the
semi-Spanish costumes and manners of
Western Texas, and the rude scenes of the
Southwestern frontier, have thus far been
presented, and are to be followed by a
series of beautiful sketches, illustrative of
Southern mountain life aud character.
The February lScribner contains the sec
ond of the papers entitled Glimpses of
Texas illustrates the life of Northern
upland and Southern coast. of Dallas and
Galveston, and treats largely Of the COM
mercial and Industrial progress of the
State.
The March number will contain the first
of three articles of "The Great South !"
series, describing life and adventures
Among the Mountains" This introduce
tory article deals with region hitherto
| almost unknown to the general reader and
the ordinary traveer-viz.: Western North
Carolina, where the great Appalachian sys-
tenn of mountains which forms the Allan
region whose wildness and grandeur are
amply testified to by the wealth of ilustra-
ton lavished upon the article describing it.
A Journey of six hundred miles on horse
back was made in order to obtain the illus
trations for the March article of Among
the Mountains.
| In ScriJner for April the Mountain series
will be continued, and will give a careful
description of the Allegheny and Spring
Region of Virginia, one of the most rug
ged and romantic on this Continent. This
article also will be profusely illustrated,
and will deal with the aspects of several of
the prominent cities of Virginia.
In the May number of the magazine the
third article of Among the Mountains "
of the South will be presented, and will
! take the reader into the Cumberland range,
| along the Tennessee river, over noted bat.
le-telds through the beautiful glens, and
by the mighty cascades of Northern Geor-
gia, and will leave him face to face with
some of the most exquisite features of the
natural scenery of Northern South Caro-
| lima.
These three articles alone, with their
illustrations would make a volume larger
than an ordinary novel, and the expense of
their preparation has been greater than
! by monthly magazine. The numbers for
March, April and May, containing these
papers, will certainly be even richer in pic
lures than were the articles already pub
lished.
The June Scribner will contain richly
illustrated paper on Missouri; carefully
describing and discussing its immense ma
terial resources, giving glimpses into the
fonndres, rolling mills and mines, and
showing the picturesque scenery of the
| Missouri river. 1t will also portray and
analyAe the vast growth of that giant city,
st. Louis, and will introduce the readers
to life along the Mississippi from the Mis-
sourian metropolis to Memphis. 1t will
explain the development of the immense
railway system, and of the river transport
tation, which is now opening up the South
west with SUCH startling rapidity, and will
give an idea of the Vari- colored life of the
cosmopolitan populations throughout one
of the most interesting sections of the
| United States.
The vital statistics of the census of 1870
show that are at present nearly five MIL
lions of colored people in the United States,
most of whom are, of course, located in
the South, and that the negro race has in
creased about 100000 persons since the
census of 1860. The character and status
of this great mass of freed men and women
will be amply discussed in the various pa
pers of "The Great South series; and
their songs, their sermons, their ceremon-
ials, their political meetings, and their ira
dtiols and superstitons will no shown by
the labors of both pen and pencil.
This series of illustrated papers on the
southern portion of the United States,
places Seribner foremost in enterprises of
the kind, and strongly recommends the
magazine to the lovers of periodical litera-
ture Of the better class.