Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-02-09

The American edition of this periodical
| now
MORE THAN 1000 MONTHLY,
| And it has a larger circulation in England
than any other American magazine. Ever,
| number contains about one hundred ant
| fifty pages, and from fifty to seventy fv
original wood cut illustrations.
Announcements fer 1879:
Among the attractions for the coming
year are the following:
HAWORTHS," serial novel, By Mrs
Frances Hodgson Burnet, author of ''Tha
Lass O. LOwrie's." The scene of Mrs Bur
netts new novel is laid in Lancashire; the
hero is young inventor of Amarican birth
"Haworth's' is the longest story Mrs Bur-
nett has yet written. 1t will run through
twelve numbers of the Monthly, beginning
with November. 1873 and will be profusely
illustrated.
FALCONBERG, a serial novel, by 81
b. Boyesen author of "Gunnar," The
Man who Lost his Name" sc. In this 70.
nance, the author graphically describes the
peculiarities of Morse immigrant life in q
Western settlement.
A STORY OF NEW ORLEANS, by
George w. Gable, to be begun on the con-
clusion of "Falconberg. This story will
exhibit the state of society in c. col Louisi-
ana about the years 1903-4-5, the time of the
CessiOn, and a period bearing 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 Longfellow appearing in Novembe
These protraits are drawn from life by
Wyatt Easton and engraved by T. Cole
They will be printed q 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 naturalist The most graphic
and picturesque and, at the same time, ex-
act and trustworthy studies of THE Cali
forHia 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 compation 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 Tho Great
South, preparing for SCRIBNER series
of papers on the present condition, the
cities, rivers and resources o the great
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 J ear. They are
written and illustrated by Mr.. Allen q.
Red wood, of Baltimore. the first of the
series, johnny Reb at play" appears in
the Novembr number
THE LEADING EUROPEAN UNI
VERSITIES. We are now having pre-
pared for SCRIBNER, articles on the leading
Universities of Europe. They will be
written by an American College Professor
Mr.. II II. Boyesen, of Cornell (author of
"Falconberg," &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 appear may be m entioned those on Ho y
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
Archaeology, Modern Inventors. also, Pa
pers of Travel, History Physical Science
Studies in Literature, Political and Social
Science, Storiess Poems; Topics of the
time by Dr., j. G. Holland; record of
New Inventions and Mechanical I'm
provementsi Papers on Education, Deco
rati n, &c; Book Reviews: fresh bits of
Wit and Humor, &c, g., &c
E~rms 90 81 year sn advan c;
30 cen - IL number.
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