Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-01-30
announcements FIR 1879:


Among the attractions for the COMM
year are the following:
"HAWORTHS,n serial novel by Mrs
Finnces HodgsOn Burnet. author of That
Lass o LOwrie's." The scene of Mrs Bur.
netCs new novel is laid in Lancasbire the
hero is young inventor of Amarican birth
''UawUrth's" Is the longest story Mrs Bur
L tt has set written 1t Will run through
twelve numbers of the Monthly, beginning
with November, 1873 and will be prolusely
iiiutrated
Icon UERG, q serial novel, BY II.
ii. b pyescn author Of "Guunar," The
NJ an who l. st bis Name" &c. In this ro-
nance, the author graphically describes the
pecu'iafitiGs Of Morse immigrant life in a
Western sett ement.
a STORY OF NEW ORLEANS, by
George W. Gable, to be begun on the con-
clusiol Of "Falconberg." This story will
exhibit the state Of society in &. col Louisi-
ana bout the years 1884 5, the time Of the
CesaIon, and period bearing remarkable
likeness 10 the present Reconstruction pc
Rod.
PORTRAITy OF AMERICAN Poems
IuIs series (bogun in August with the
portrait Of BryauD will be confined, that
of Lo1gfsilow appearing in November.
These protraits are drawn from lIfe by
Wyatt E4ston and engraved by 7. Cole.
They viii be printed parately on tinted
paper, as frontispiecCs Of four different
mum bers. Illustrated sketches of the lives
of the poets VIII accompany these por-
traits.
STUDIES IN TEH SIERRAS-A series
of papers (most iilustTateG) by John Muir
the California naturalist. The most graphic
and picturesque and, at the same time, ex-
act and trustworthy studies OF THE Cali
forlia A PSI 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 com pation of the late Prof. Hartt is now
in Brazil, with Mr.. j, Wells Champney
Ohe artist who accompanied Mr.. Edward
Suuih'D, preparing for SCRIBNER a series
of papers on the present condilion,-the
cities, rivers and resources the great
empire of South America.
TIE JOHNNY REB" PAPERS, by
an lex. COnfed soldier will be
among the ra,iest contributions to SCRIB-
NER during the coming ear. They are
written and illustrated by Mr.. Allen G.
Redwood. of Baltimore. the first of the
series, johnny Re5 at play" appears in
the Novembr number.
THE LEADING EUROPEAN UNI
VERSIrlES. We are now having pre-
pared for SCRIBNER, articles on the leading
y hlFcfSiLieS OF EUROPE. lheY Will Dc
written by a American College Professor
Mr.. II II. Boyesen, Of Cornell (author Of
"Falconbers," Sc }, and will include
sketches Of the leading men in each of the
most important Universities of Great
Britain and the Continent.
Am Jng the additional series of papers
to appear mas be mentioned those on lilo '
SHALL WE PELL two papers by Prof
Lounsbury), TIE NEW SoUTH, Lawn
Planting for Small Places Thy Samuel
Parsons, of Flushing), Canada Of Today,
American Art ard Artists, american
rchDDlogy. Modern Inventors also. Pa
pers Of Travel, History. Physical Science,
Studies in Literature, Political ard Social
Science, Stories Poems; Topics OF the
time by DR. }. q. Holland; record Of
New Inventions and Mechanical I'M
Papers on Education, Deco
rati n. Sc: Book Reviews: fresh bits of
Wit and Humor, &c, &c, sc.
FERNS & 90 "a year tn advan q.
b GEMS "a number.
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