Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-12-14
TheCENTURY MAGAZINE
(scribner's Monthly,)
FOR THE COMING YEAR.

With the November number began the
new series under the title of the Century
Magazir e, which will be, in fact q new
enlarged AID improved 'SCribner The
page is somewhat larger and wider, ad-
hitting pictures of of a larger size, and
increasing the reading matter abou
Fourteen Additional Pages.
The following is summary of the lead
ing features of the new series for the year
Anew Novel by Mrs. Burnett tau
thor of That Lass o Lowrie's,' etc J,
entitled Through One Administrat on"
a story of Washington life.
Studies Of the Louisiana Creoles.
By Geo. W Cable, author Of ''The Gran
dissimes.' etc. y series of illustrated
papers on the traditions and romances of
Creole life in Louisiana.
4 Novel by w. u HowelIs (auth0r
of ~ Chance Acquaintance etc.,
dealing wi h characteristic features OF
American life.
Ancient and Modern Sculpture A
"History or Ancient Sculpture, 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 Sculpt
ors," and on the younger Sculptors Of
America" fully illustrated
The Opera III New York by Rich
ard Grant White. A popular and valua-
bic series, to be illustrated with worder
full completeness and beauty.
Architecture and Decoration Iii
America will be treated in a way to in
terest both householder and housewi c E;
with many practical as well as beautiful
illustrations from recent designs.
Representative Men and Women
Of the 10Th Century Biographical
sketches accompanied by portraits, OF
George Eliot, Robert Browning, Rev.
Frederick w. Robertson, (by the late
Dean Stanley, Mathew Arnold, Chris
tina Rossetti, and Cardinal Newman. and
Of the younger American authors, VIM.
T.: Howells, Henry James,Jr., and George
Sc. Gable.
Scenes ofThackeary's Hawthorne s
and George Elll0t's II oVels. Succeed.
ing the illustrated series on the scenes OF
Dicken S novels.
The Reform of the Civil Service
| Arrangements have been made for q Sc
ries ofahle papers on this spressing polit
ical question.
Poetry and Poets in America. Ther'
will be studies of LOngfellOw, Whittier
Emerson, Lowell, and others, by E. c
Stedman.
Stories Sketches and Essays may b.
expected from Charles Dudley Warner
w. d. Howells, Mark I wain," Edwart
Eggelston, Henry James, Jr, John Mum
Miss Gordon Cum ming II. H. Gee
w. Cable, Joel Chandler Harris, A. 0
Redwood, F. D. Millet, Noah Brooks
Frank R. Stockton, Constance F. Wool
son, H. H Boyesen, Albert Stickney
Washington GLADDEN., John Burroughs
Parke Goodwin, Tommaso Salvini, Henr.
King, Ernest Ingersoll L. Godkin /
b. Washburne, and many others
One of two papers on "The Adventure
of the Ii c Cub" and an original Life O
Bewick, the engraver, by Austin DObsor
are among other features to be later an
nounced
The Editorial Department through
out will be unusually Complete, and 9Th
Worlds Work" will be considerably en-
larged
The price of The Century Nagazin
will remain at s. 90 per year as cents
number). The portrait (size 2ix2O C
the late DIR. Holland, issued just befor
his death, photographed from life-siz'
drawing by Wyatt Eaton, will possess
new interest to the readers of this maya
zine. 1t is offered at$5 90 retail, or togeth
er with The Century Magazine for SO. sc
Subscriptions are taken by the publisher
and by book sellers and new-dealer
everywhere.
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