Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-11-27
The CENTURY MAGAZINE,
(SCRIBNFR' MONTHLY

FOR THE COMING YEAR.
With the November number began III.
new series under the title of THE
CENTURY MAGAZINE, which will be, in fact,
a ?lesC, e7llp ged, and impr0ced "SCElBNER'
The page is soncsohdt 5onger and rider dd.
uniting pictures Of q larger size, AND IN.
CEEAsING TIE REAUING MATTER ABOUT
Faurts en- Additional Pages.
The following is a summary of the leading
features Of the new series for the year:
4 NEW hGsEL BY MRS. BURNETT
(author of ''Tha3 Lass O Lowries," etc. },
entitled Through One Administration, "
story of Washington life
STUDIES OF THE LOUISIANA
CREOLES. BY George w. Cable, author
of "The Grandissimes," etc A series OF
illustrated papers, on the traditions and TO.
nance Of Creole life IN Louisiana
A NOVEL BY VI. ID. H0WELLS (au.
thor of "A Chance Acquaintance" etc. },
dealing with characteristic features OF
American lfe
ANCIENT AND MODERN sCULP.
TURE," by Mrs. Lucy NJ Mitchell, to
contain the finest series of engravings yet
published Of the masterpieces of sculpture
There will also be papers On LIVING
ENGLISH ScULPToEs, and on the "YoUNeEB
ScULPToRs OF AMERICA" fully illustrated
THE OPERA In NEW-Y0Rk, by
Richard Grant White. A popular and
valuable series, to be illustrated with won
derful completeness and beauty.
ARCHITECTURE AND DEC0RA.
TION IN AMERICA will be treated in a
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 10TH CENTURY.
Biographical sketches, accompanied by por-
traits, of George Eliot, Robert Browning,
Rev. Frederick W. Robertson (by the late
Dean Stanley, 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 THACKERAY'S, HAW.
TH0RNE'S AND GEORGE ELiOpS
NOVELS. Succeeding the illustrated series
on the scenes of Dickens novels.
THE REFORM OF THE CIVIL
SERVICE Arrangements have been
made for q series of able papers Oh this
pressing political question.
POETRY AND POETS IN AMERICA.
There will be studies of Longfellow, Whit
tier, Emerson, Lowell, and others, by E. c.
Stedman.
STORIES, SKETCHES, AND ESSAYS
may be expected from Charles Dudley War
ner, ". D. Howells, "NEark Twain" Ed
ward Eggleston, Henry James, DR., John
Muir, Miss Gordon Cumming, H. H"
George W. Cable, Joel Chandler Harris, A.
| G. Redwood, F. D. Milet, Noah Brooks,
Frank r. Stockton, Constance f. Woolson,
| a. H. Boyeson, Albert Stickney, Washing
:on GLADDEN., John Burroughs, Parke Goodwin,
Tommaso Salvini, Henry King, Ernest In
sersoll, E. L. Godkin, e. b. Washburne.
and many others.
One or two papers on "The Adventures
| If the Tile Club" and an original Life of
Eewick, the epgraver, by Austin Dobson, are
among 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 The CENTURY MAGAZINE
xiii remain at $500 per year (35 cents a
,umber). The portrait (size 21 x27), of
he late DIR. Holland issued just before his
ieath, photographed from life-size draw
ng by Wyatt Eaton, will possess new in
crest to the readers of this magazine. 1t
offered at $500 retail, or together with
EHE CENTURY MAGAZINE for $3.50. Sub
criptions are taken by the publishers, and
Iy book sellers aud news dealers everywhere.
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