Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-02-08
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The American edition Of this periodical i
now
MORE THAN 1000 MONTHLY,
| And it has a larger circulation in England
| than any other American magazine. Every
number contains about one hundred an(
| fifty pages, and from fifty to seVenty-fvt
original wood cut illustrations.
Announcements fer 1879:
Among the attractions for the comm;
year are the following:
| "HA WORTHS,n a serial novel, by Mrs
| frances Hodgson Burnet, author of ''Ths
Lass O. Lowries." The scene of Mrs Bur.
netts new novel is laid in Lancashire; the
hero is young inventor of Amarican birth
| "HaW0rth's" is the longest story Mrs Bur-
nett has yet written. 1t will run through
| twelve numbers of the Monthly, beginning
with November. 1878 and will be profusely
| illustrated.
FALCONBERG, serial novel, by Fl.
| II. Boyesen author of "Gunnar," 1.-THE
Man who Lost his Name" sc. In this ro-
nance, the author graphically describes the
! peculiarities of Morse immigrant life in a
Western settlement.
A STORY OF NEW ORLEANS, BY
George w. Cable, to be begun on the con-
clusion of "Falconberg." This story will
exhibit the state of society in C4eol Louisi-
ana about the years 1885, the time of the
Cession, and period bearing a remarkable
likeness to the present Reconstruction Pc
Rod.
PORTRAITS OF AMERICAN Poems
This series (begun in August with the
portrait of Bryant will be confined, that
Of L0ngfellow appearing in November.
These protraits are drawn from life by
Wyatt EastOn and engraved by T. Cole
They will be printed s parately on tinted
paper, as frontispieces of four different
numbers. Illustrated sketches of the lives
Of the poets will accompany these por-
traits.
STUDIES IN TEH SIERRAS-A series
of papers (most illustrated) by John Muir
the California ma uralist. The most graphic
and picturesque and, at the same time, ex-
act and trustworthy studies OF The Cali
for1ia Alps that have yet been made. The
series will sketch the California Passes,
Lakes. Wind Storm and Forests.
A NEW VIEW OF BRAZIL Mr.
Herbert II. Smith, of Cornell University,
a comp patton of the late Prof. Hartt, is now
in Brazil. with Mr.. j, Wells Champney
(the artist who accompanied Mr.. Edward
King in this tour through The Great
SouthD, preparing for SCRIBNER series
Of papers on the present condition,-the
empire of South America.
THE JOHNNY REB' PAPERS, by
an "ex- Confederate soldier, will be
among the raciest contributions to SCRIB-
NER during the coming year. They are
written and illustrated By Mr.. Allen q.
Redwood. Of Baltimore. the first of the
series, johnny Reb at play" appears in
the NOvembr number.
THE LEADING EUROPEAN UNI
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most important Universities Of Great
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Am 0ng the additional series of papers
to appear may be NJ entioned those on How
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Planting for Small Places (by Samuel
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Archaeology, Modern Inventors, also, Pa
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New Inventions and Mechanical I'M
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VII and Uumor, Sc, 81, Sc
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