Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1878-12-07
Announcements f.r 1879:

Announcements f.r 1879:
| Among the attractions for the comm
year arc the following:
! "HA WORTH s. serial novel, 10y Mr.
! Frances H0dgson Burnet, author of Tina
! Lass o. Lowrie's." The scene Of Mrs Bur
nete's new novel is laid in Lancashire, tn,
| hero Is u young inv entOr of Amarican birtf
! ''Hnworth ;" is the longest story Mrs Bur.
| NIT has vet written. 1t will run through
| twelve numbers of the Monthly, beginning
! with November, 1873 and will be profusely
| illustrated.
| FALCONBERG a serial novel. by II
/ H. Byvesen author Of "GunnaF,' The
Man who Lest his Name" &c. In this ro,
nance, the author graphical y describes The
peculiarjtios of Morse immigrant life in q
! Western settlement.
A STORY OF NEW ORLEANS, By
George w. Cable, to be begun on the con-
clusiOa Of "FalcDnberg. This story will
exhibit the state of society IN 4. col LOulsi-
ana about the years 1884 5. the time of the
Cession. and period bearing a remarkable
likeness to the present Reconstruction pc
Rod.
PORTRAITS OF AMERICAN Poems.
This series (1egun in August with the
portrait of Bryant will be confined, that
of Longfellow appearing IN NoVempef.
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numbers Illustrated sketches of the lives
of the poets will accompany these por-
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