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-NUMBER OF
The Century
Magazine
tsCRIBNER'S MONTHLY.

With this number begins the new series
under the title of 1.-THE CENTURY
MAGAZINE which will be, in fact, a new,
enlarged, and improved "SoRIBNER." The
page is somewhat longer and wider, admitting
pictures of a larger size, and VIRTUALLY
INCREASING THE READING MATTER TO THE
EXTENT OF ABOUT
Fourteen Additional Pages.
The November number is one of rare beauty
and interest. 1t is richly illustrated with
more than seventy engraviDgs, among them
a frontispiece
PORTRAIT OF GEORGE ELIOT,
The only authorized portrait of the great
novelist yet published or to be published,
furnished by her husband. Mr.. Cross. and
reproduced from an etching made especially
for this purpose by NJ Paul Rajon. 1t &C.
companies paper by Frederick w. Myers,
who deals Interestingly with George Eliot's
religious and philosophical beliefs.
MRS. BURNETT'S NEW NOVEL,
"Through One Administration, story of
social and political life in Washington, begun
in this number, is expected to rival in interest
the writer's "That Lass O. Lowrie's," and
"a Fair Barbarian"
MARK TWAIN
Contributes a complete short story, entitled
"a Curious Experience" Mary Hallock
Foote furnishes an entertaining paper on
A DILIGENCE JOURNEY IN MEXICO,
With eight of her own illustrations, engraved
by Cole, Closson and others. An article on
Impressions Of shakesperean Characters.
by Fommaso salvini,
The eminent Italian tragedian, will attract
wide attention. There il also a paper on
Salvini, with drawings of him In Othello and
Macbeth.
costumes in the Greek Play at Harvard"
By Frank d. Millet, the artist who designed
the costumes for the play, includes seventeen
striking illustrations by Brennan. An OPP
portunity for reproducing seven magnificent
paintings is afforded by a paper on the artists
FoRTUNY AND REGNAULT.
"Around Cape Ann" is breezy 'longshore
article, illustrated with nine exquisite re-
productions of etchings by Stephen Parrish.
"MY ESCAPE FROM SLAVERY"
By Frederick Douglass,
Is a paper of historical value and interest.
w. J. Stillman has an interesting article,
with twenty-five illustrations, on the dis
covery and origin of
"The so-called Venus of Melos" (Milo).
There is a capital short story by the author
Of "The Village Convict" which made such
o hit in the August ScRIBNER an article by
a Cunard captain on Compulsory Lane
Routes in the North Atls n.ic p
POEMS BY
James Russell Lowell, Edmund Clarence
stedman, Edmund W. Gosse. Austin Dob
SON, Mary Mapes Dodge, Richard watson
Glider, and others.
ssTopics of the Time contains contribu-
lions from the pen of the late DR.. Holland,
On the change in the name Of the magazine,
on "The Contingency of liability and
"a Public Spirit" The November number
contains the prospectus for the coming year.
The portrait Of DIR. Holland, photographed
from a life-sizs picture by Wyatt Eaton, and
issued Just before his death, will possess
new interest to the readers of this magazine
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