Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1880-11-11

copies week for several months.
Scrlbne1's Monthly celebrates its tenth
birthday with permanent change of
cover, and with a number (for November)
which the conductors have done all in
their power to make one of exceptional
beauty, interest and value, as it is also
the largest number of Scribner ever issued
Scribner's cover has turned from violet to
a warm brown, and in the design the aim
has been distinctness, simplicity, and a
rich decorative effect. Millets most fam
Gus picture, "The S0wer," engraved by
Cole, forms the frontispiece, and among
the principal artistic features of the num-
Der are striking portrait of Gladstone,
printed in tho body of the magazine, but
without type either on the same page or on
the back of the page; new portrait of
Walt Whitman an exquisite engraving
of Russian nun (which will recall former
successes of this kind, such as the portraits
VI lut NOuultcs blOthag anu Vi -hpi M ly
engravings after Vedder's works, notably
1.-THE Lost Mind" accompanying criti-
cism by Charles de Kay and reproduc-
tions Of Others among the best known Of
the works of Millet, the story of whose
life is being told for the first time in ,ScTib-
ner. With this number is begun the sec
ond and concluding part of Eugene Schuy-
ler's profusely illustrated life of Peter the
1 II = ID 4
and Reformer,' also a new short serial by
a new writer, Tiger Lily" by Mrs.
Julia Schayer. TIE liie-.ry interest of
this number of Sc..ibner, whether intcn-
tional or not, is mainly of the personal
kind-nearly every article having for its
subject some conspicuous individuality
even Miss Phelps story has for its hero a
real person, whose tragic fate is here re-
corded. The most famous of the names,
after the historical ones of the great Peter,
and "the Bonapartes, p" is that of Gladstone
| The authorship of this article is not di.
vulged but it is evident that the writer
has had exceptional opportunities for the
study of his theme and it is safe TO say
that he has given to the world the most
profound and satisfactory, the most clearly
explanatory and philosophical exposition
of the greatest of living English states
men that has yet appeared. An illustra.
/ ted paper, on "Bordentown and the Bona
parties" will open new and curious chap
ter of American society to most readers
| The article on "TableauX," with pictures
| by Miss Oakley, goes more thoroughly than
usual into the artistic capabilities Of such
/ entertainments. 1.-THE Secret Of Second
| sight is authoritively revealed by an sex
cOnjurer." The poems of the number are
by IL. ii. Boyesen, Mrs. Piatt, IL. II. and
others.
In the editorial departments, DR.. Hol-
! land has something To say about the origin
and history of Scribncr "There was"
/ he says, emo popular magazine IN existence
which it took for model. 1t aimed at
| higher excellence in art than had hitherto
been attempted, and fresher, more Wig
orous and inspiring literature than had
been exemplified in any popular periodical
! American or foreign. 1t has not only ac-
complished what it undertook, butt he
believes, "it has greatly modified and ele-
waited the work of its contemporaries. !"
He furthermore calls attention to the policy
adopted by Scri6ner some years ago, Of
| fostering American writers of serial nov
els, and refers as fruits Of the policy TO
the works of Mr.. Gable, author of "The
Grandissimes," and Mrs. Burnett, author
of "That Lass o. Lowrie's," and Ola
| worth's."
In speaking of fiction, the magazine
can claim also Brete Hart's only novel and
the SAKE Holm stories. DIR Eggleston's
first story for adult readers was written Tor,
and at the request of, IScribner he after.
ward wrote his first novel for other publi-
cations, but his latest novel, "Roxy," ap-
peared In Scribner. DIR. Holland saws
"Will our readers bear with us, on this an
niversary, when we attempt TO give them
summing-up of what we have done for
them, for the small sum of forty dollars
We have given them twenty large volumes
of good illustrated reading, on all possible
topics, and in all possible forms of literary
art. These volumes have contained six
teen thousand seven hundred and thirty
two pages of matter, illustrated by six
thousand six hundred and eighty eight
wood cuts, costing from ten dollars to
three hundred dollars each. Out of the
material published In these twenty volumes,
there have been made and published over
fifty books, the retail price of which |
amounts TO more than twice the subscrip-
tion price Of the magazine during the |
whole period, 10 say nothing Of other vol |
umes TO appear, like Schuyler's Peter the |
Great, Sensier's Life Of Millet,' Sted- |
mans work on the American poets, etc" /
The fifty books referred 10 above are only |
small part Of the immense mass of ma |
terial of which the twenty magazine vol
nmes are composed.