Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-01-15
Announcements fer 1879 !:

! Among the attractions for the coming
! year are the following:
! "HA WORTHS," serial novel, by Mrs
| Frances Hodgs0n Burnet. author of "Ths
| Lass o L9wries" The scene of Mrs Bur
! nettS new novel is laid in Lancashire. the
! hero is young inventor Of Aparican birth
! ''Hsworth'a" ia the longest story Mrs Bur
| nett has yet written II will run through
! twelve Numbers of The Monthly, beginning
| with November 1873 and will be pruCusel y
| illustrated.
FALCON BERG, n serial novel, by ii
H. Boyesen auther of "Gunnar," ''The
Man who Lost his Name" &c. In this ro.
nance, the author graphically describes the
peculiarities of Morse immigrant life in =
Western settlement.
A STORY OF NEW ORLEANS, by
George w. Cable, to be bcguE on the con
clusiOn of ''FalcOnberg. This story will
exhibit the state of society in T.. col Loulsi-
ana about the years 1864 5. the time ofthe
CessioD, and period bearing n remarkable
likeness to the present Reconstruction pc
Rod.
PORTRAITS OF AMERICAS Poems
This series (begun in August with the
portrait of Bryant will be confined, that
of Longfellow appearing in Novemb Der.
These protraits are drawn from life by
Wyatt Easton and engraved by +. Cole.
paper, as frOntispieces of four different
numbers. Illustrated sketches of the lives
of the poets will accompany these pOr-
traits.
STUDIES IN TEN 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
fornia Alps" that have yet been made. The
series will sketch the California Passes,
Lakes, Wind Storm and Forests.
A NEW VIEW OF BRAZIL MT
Herbert Ii. Smith, of Cornell University,
a conpation of the late Prof Hsrtt, is now
in Brazil, with Mr.. j, Wells Chsmpney
(ths artist who accompanied Mr.. Edward
King in this tour through The Great
South"), preparing for SCRIBNER a series
cities, rivers and resources o. the great
empire of South America
THE JOHNNY REB' PAPERS, by
an rex Confederate soldier. will be
among the rscicst contributions to SCRIB-
NER during the coming year. They are
Redwood. Of Baltimore. the h;st of the
series, johnny Reb a. 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. Boyescn, 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 III entioned those or lin
SHALL We SPELL two papers by Prof
Lounsbury), The NEW SoUTH, Lawn
Planting for Small Places Inv 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 ard Social
Science. Stories: Poems; Topics of the
time" by DIR. J. q. Holland; record of
New Inventions and Mechanical I'm
provements, Papers on Education, Deco
ration, &c; Book Reviews; fresh bits Of
Wit and Humor, &c, &r., DC
Terms 4 90 year In HaVaac;
h censs n number.