Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-12-13
The CENTURY MAGAZINE,
(SCRIBNER' MONTHLY
FOR THE COMING YEAR.


With the November number began the
new series under the title Of THE
CENTURY MAGAZINE, which will be, in fact,
a ase;o, enla ged, and fmpgoged "ScRIBNER.'
TIE page is so1ac,o1at longer ana eo5der, cd
uniting pictures Of a larger size, AND IN.
cREAsING THE READING MATTER ABOUT
Eeurt. en- = additional Pages.
The following is summary of the leading
features of the new series for the year:
A NEW Novel BY MRS. BURNETT
(auth6r Of "Tha, Lass O Lowrie's," etc },
entitled Through One Administration"
story of Washington life.
STUDIES OF THE LOUISIANA
CREOLES. BY George W. Cable, author
of "The Grandissi1nes,n etc. A series OF
illustrated papers, on the traditions and TO-
nance OF Creole life IN Louisiana
A NOVEL III VI. ID. HOWELLS (au.
thor Of ga Chance Acquaintance" etc. J,
dealing with characteristic features OF
American life.
ANCIENT AND MODERN SCULP.
TURG 4 "HIsroRY OF ANCIENT SOUP
TURE," by Mrs. Lucy nj. Mitchell to
contain the finest series Of engravings yet
published of the masterpieces OF sculpture.
There VIII also be papers on LIVING
: ENGLIsH ScULPToRs, y and on the ''YoUNGEB
ScULPToRs OF AMERICA fully Illustrated.
THE OPERA IN NEW-YORK, by
Richard Grant White. A popular and
valuable series, to be illustrated with won
derful completeness and beauty.
ARCHITECTURE AND DEC0RA.
TION n AMERICA will be treated in
way to interest both householder and house
wife; with many practical as well as beauti'
full Illustrations from recent designs.
REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND
WOMEN OF THE 18TH CENTURY.
Biographical sketches, accompanied by por-
traits. of George Eliot, Robert Browning,
Rev. Frederick W. Robertson (by the late
Dean St2niey), Matthew Arnold, Christina
Rossetti, and Cardinal Newman, and of the
younger American authors, VIM. D. Howells,
Henry James, Jr., and George W. Cable
SCENES OF THACKEKAY'S. HAW.
THORNE'S AND GEORGE ELi0T'S
NOVELS. Succeeding the illustrated series
on the scenes of Dickens novels. III
THE REFORM OF THE CIVIL
SERVICE. Arrangements have been
made for e series Of able papers on this
pressing political question.
POETRY AND POETS IN AMERICA.
There will be studies Of Longfellow, Whit
ter, Emerson, Lowell, and Others by E. c.
Stedman.
STORIES, SKETCHES, AND ESSAYS
may be expected from Charles Dudley War
ner, W. D. Howells, Mark Twain" Ed
ward Eggleston, Henry James, Jr., John
Muir, Miss Gordon Cumming, II. H"
| George W. Gable, Joel Chandler Harris, A.
G. Redwood, F. D. MiIlet, Noah Brooks,
Frank r. Stockton, Constance F. Woolson,
a. Ell. Boyeson, Albert Stiekney, Washing
:on GLADDEN., John Burroughs, Parke Goodwin,
fommaso Saivini, Henry King, Ernest In
| gersoll Z. L. Godkin, E. B. Washbune
md many others.
One or two papers on "The Adventures
If the Tile Club" and an original Life of
Bewick, the engraver, by Austin Dobson, are
tnlong other features TO be later announced.
THE EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS
throughout viii be unusually complete, and
The Worlds Work will be considerably
enlarged.
The price of TIE CENTURY MAGAZINE
viii remain at $4,00 per year (35 cents
lumber). The portrait (size 81 x27), of
he late DR.. Holland, issued Just before his
aeath, photographed from life-size draw
ng by Wyatt Eaton, will possess new in
crest to the readers of this magazine It
offered at $500 retail, or together with
! EHE CENTURY MAGAZINE for Sc so. Sub
ycriptions are taken by the publishers, and
! by book sellers aud Iews-dealers everywhere.
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