Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-01-05
Announcements fer 1879 :

Among the attractions for tho coming
year are the following:
"HAWORTH'S s. a serial novel, by Mrs
| frances Hodgson Burnet, author of THAI
Lass O. LOWrie's." The scene of Mrs Bur.
netts new novel is laid in Lancashire; the
hero Is young inventor of AmaricRn birth
! "HawOrth 5" 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, serial novel, by III.
! IL. BOyesen author Of "Gunnar," The
! Man who Lost his Name" &c. 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 G. col Louisi-
sna about the years 1803-4-5, the time of the
CessiOn, and period bearing remarkable
likeness to the present Reconstruction pc
Rod.
PORTRAITS OF AMERICAN Poems
This series (begun in August with the
portrait of BryanD will be confined, that
OF LoDgfellow appearing in November.
These protraits are drawn from life by
Wyatt Eastoa and engraved by 7. 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 (nost 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 a ps" 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,
q 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 THE Great
SouthO, preparing for SCRIBNER 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 Tex Confederate soldier, will be
among the raciest contributions TO SCRIB-
NER during the coming. ) ear. They are
written and Illustrated by Mr.. Allen &.
Redwood, Of Baltimore. the first of tho
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. Boycsen, of Cornell (autbor of I
'FslconbeTg," &C., 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 may be M entioned those OF HO 4
SHALL We SELL two papers by Prof. .
Lounsbury), TIE NEW SoUTH, Lawn
Planting for Small Places by Samuel /
Parsons, Of Flushing, Canada Of To-day,
American Art and artists, -fmcrlcan
Archaeology, Modern Inventors; also, Pa
pers of Travel, History. Physical Science,
Studies in Literature, Political and Social
Science, Stories: Poemsi Topics OF the
time" by DR., j. q. Holland; record of
New Inventions and Mechanical I'm
Papers on Education, Deco
ration, &c; Book Reviews; fresh bits Of /
Wit and Humor, &C., &C., &c.
Terms 90 a year Ina advance:
80 cents q number.
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