Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-01-14
Announcements fer 1879 :

Among the attractions for the comm!
| year are the following:
"HAWORTHS," a 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; tn
! hero is young inv entor of Amarican brit
! ''Haworth's" is the longest story Mrs Bur
nett has yet written 1t will run through
| twelve numbers of the Monthly, beginning
with November, 1878 and will be prOfusel!
illustrated.
FALCONBERG, a serial novel, by II
H. Boyesen author of "Gunnar," "Tht
Man who Lost his Name" &c In this TO
nance, the author graphically describes thu
peculiarities of Morse immigrant life in 1
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.eol Louisi-
ana about the years 18O3-4-5, the time of the
Cession, 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 NOvemb Der.
These protraits are drawn from life by
Wyatt Easton and engraved by I. Cole.
1DeY Will De pTlUL6u separately OH GlHLCNA
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
tho California naturalist. The most graphic
and picturesque and, at the same time, ex-
net and trustworthy studies of The Cali
fornia Alps" that have yet been made. The
I'll cHafah tho Ialifonia pacEaC
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 1.-The Great
South"), 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 Serb
NER during the coming year. They are
written and illustrated by Mr.. Allen &.
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-
pared for SCRIBNER, articles on the leading
Universities of Europe. They will be
written by an American College Professor
Mr.. II H. Boyesen, Of Cornell (suthor 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 '
SHALL WE SPELL two papers by Prof
Lounsbury), The NEW SOUTH, Lawn
Planting for Small Places Thy. 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, Stories: Poemggi 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, &c.
Terms 90 u year I'm adVaHtc;
80 cents a number.
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