Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-02-11
Announcements fer 1879:

announcements ISi lSE =
/ Among the attractions for the comm!
year are the following:
"HA WORTH'S,' serial novel, by Mrs
Frances Hodgson Burnet, author of ''Tha
| Lass o. LoWrie's," The scene of Mrs Bur
| hero is young inventor of Amsrican 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 H
| LEI. Boyesen author Of "Gunnar," THE
| Man who Lost his Name" sc. In this ro-
nance, the author graphically describes the
| peculiarities of Morse immigrant life in q
| 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 Cleol Louisi-
ana about the years 1SO3-4-5, the time of the
Cesslon, 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 LongfellOW appearing in Novem ber
These protraits are drawn from life by
Wyatt Esston and engraved by T. Cole.
They will be printed separately 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 M st 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. Mr..
Herbert Il. Smith, of Cornell University,
a compstion of the late Prof. HART, is now
in Brazil. with Mr.. j, Wells Champney
lthe artist who accompanied Mr.. Edward
King in this tour through THE Great
South"), preparing for SCRIBNER a series
of papers on the present condition,-the
cities, rivers and resources OF the great
empire of South America.
THE JOHNNY REB'' PAPERS, by
an sex Confederate soldier, will be
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
VERsITIES. We are now having pre-
Universities Of Europe. They will be
written by an American College Professor
Mr.. FL 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 mentioned those on Ho v
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
provements; Papers on Education, Deco |
ration, &C.; Book Reviews; fresh bits of
Wit and Humor, &c, &C., sc,
FERNS 90 "a year tm advance;
30 GEMS "a EsEERsGeF.
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