The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-11-08
Announcements for 1888.

Among the attractions for the coming year are
the following:
HAWORTH'S," a serial novel, by Mrs.
Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of "That Lass
o. Lowries" The scene of Mrs. Burnett's new
novel is laid in Lancashire the hero is young
inventor of American birth. 1t will be profusely
illustrated.
FALCONBERG, serial novel by II. H. Boye.
sen, author of "Gunnar," "The Man who Lost
his Name" &c.
ASToRY OF NEW ORLEANS, by George W
Cable, to be begun on the conclusion of ''Fal.
conberg." This story will exhibit the state OF
society in Creole Louisiana about the years 1903
4-5, the time of the Cesson, and period bearing
a remarkable likeness to the present Reconstruc-
PORTRAITS OF AMERICAN POETS. This
series (begun in August with the portrait OF
Bryant) will be continued that of Longfelow
appearing in November. These portraits are
drawn from life by Wyatt Eaton and engraved
by T. Cole. They will be printed separately on
tinted paper, as fronlispieces of four different
numbers. illustrated sketches of the lives Of
the poets will accompany these portraits.
STUDIES IN THE SIERRAS.-A series OF
papers (mostly iilustruted) by John Muir, the
California naturalist. The most graphic and
picturesque and, at the same time, exact and
trustworthy studies of "The California Alps
that have yet been made. The series will sketch
the California Passes, Lakes, Wind Storms and
Forests.
A NEW VIEW OF BRAZIL. Mr.. Herbert
H. Smith, of Cornell University, q companion
of the late Prof Hartt, is now in Brazil, with
Mr. j. Wells Champney Uhe artist who accom-.
panied Mr.. Edward King in his tour through
1.-THE Great South, W preparing for SCRlBNER
a series of papers on the present condition,-he
Cities rivers and resources of the great empire
of South America
THE "JOHNNY REB" PAPERS, by an TEX.
Confederate" soldier, will be among the raciest
contributions to SCRIBNER during the coming
wear. They are written and illustrated by Mr.
Allen G. Redwood, of Baltimore. The first of the
series, Johnny Rebat Play" appears in the No.
vember number.
TIES. We are now having prepared, for Serb
NER, articles on the leading Universities OF
Europe. They will be written by an American
College Professor, Mr.. Ii. II. Boyesen, of Cornell
(author of "Faconberg," &C., and will include
sketches of the leading men in each of the most
important Universities of Great Britain and the
Continent.
Among the additional series of papers to ap.
pear may be mentioned those on How Shall we
Spell 1.-TWO papers by Prof LoUNsBURY,) The
New South, Lawn-Planting for Small Places (by
SAMUEL PARSONS, of Flushing Canada of To-
day, American Art and Artists, American Ar
cheology, Modern Inventors; also, Papers OF
Travel, History, Physical Science, Studies in
Literature, Political and Social Science, Stories,
Poems; 'Topics of the Time" by DR.. ]. G. Hol-
land record of New Inventions and Mechanical
improvements; Papers on Education, Decora-
ton, &C.; Book Reviews; fresh bits of Wit and
Humor, &C., &C., &c.
Terms $4,000 year in advance; 35 cents n
number.
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