Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-12-07
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(scribneg's Monthly,)
FOR TIE COMING YEAR.

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Magazi e, which will be, in fact a new,
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page is somewhat larger and wider, ad-
hitting pictures Of Of larger size, and
increasing the reading matter about
Fourteen additional Pages.
The following is a summary of the lead
ing features of the new series fer the year
Anew fsoyei by Hrs. Burnett (au
thor of That Lass o Lowrie's,' etc J,
entitled Through One Administrat on, -
story OF Washington life
Studies of the Louisiana CreoleS
By Geo " Cable, author OF ''The Gran
dissimcs' etc. y series of illustrated
papers on the traditions and romances of
Creole life in Louisiana.
& Move by w. d Howells (author
of IA Chance Acquaintance etc. },
dealing wi h characteristic FEATURES Of
Anne lean life
Ancient and Modern Sculpture A
"History OF Ancient Sculpture, b.! Mrs
Lucy M, Mitchell, to contain the finest
series of engr"vings yet published Of the
masterpieces of soul pture. There will
also be papers on Living English Sculpt
Ors," and on the ~ ounger Sculptors of
America fully illustrated,
The Opera IN New York by Rich
ard Grant White. A popular and valua
bic series, to be illustrated with worder-
tul completeness and beauty.
Architecture and Decoration ia
America will be treated in a way TO in
terest both householder and housewife;
with many practical as we'll as beautiful
illustrations from recent designs.
Representativ II en- and Women
Of the 18th Century Biographical
sketches accompanied by portraits. OF
George Eliot, Robert Browning, Rev.
Frederick W. Robertson, (by the late
Dean Stanley, Mathew Arnold, Chris
tina r ssetti, and Cardinal Newman and
of the younger American authors Vim.
!. Elowells, Henry JamesJr., and George
= Gable.
Scenes Of Tnackeary's Hawthorne S
and George Elliot's N ovels. Succeed :
ing the illustrated series on the scenes Of
| Dicken novels.
The Reform Of the Civil Service
| Arrangements have been made for a Sc
ries ofahle papers on this spressing polit
ical question.
Poetry and Poets in Am erica. There
will be studies Of Longfellow, Whittier
Emerson, Lowell, and others, by L, c
Stedman.
Stories Sketches and Essays may be
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w. d. Iowells, Mark Twain Edward
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Miss Gordon Cumming Fl. H. Geo
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Frank K. Stockton, Constance F. Wool
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Washington. Gladden., John Burroughs
Parke Goodwin Tommaso Salvini, Henry
King, Ernest Ingersoll { L. Godkin +
b. Washburne, and many others
One of two papers on ''The Adventures
of the Ii c Cub" and an original Life O.
Bewick, the engraver, by Austin DObson
are among other features to be later an
nounced.
The Editorial Department through
out will be unusually complete, and "The
Worlds Work" will be considerably en-
larged.
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NUMBER. The portrait (size 2lx27) OF
the late DIR. Holland, issued just before
his death, photographed from a life size
drawing by Wyatt Eaton, will possess a
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