Morning journal and courier., 1881-10-24
NEW PUBLICATIONS. NOW READY. EDITION 135, 900. NOV ME ER
 NUMBER or The Century
 Magazine
NEW PUBLIOATIQNs.
(sCRIBNER's MONTHLp.


 With this number begins the new series un- der the title of THE CENTURY MAGAZINE, which l will be- in fact, new, enlarged, and improved "ScRIBNER." The page is somewhat longer and wider, admitting pictures of larger size, and virtually increasing the reading matter to the extent of about
 Fourteen Additional Pages. The November number is one of rare beau ty and interest. It is richly Illustrated with 1 more than seventy engravings, among them frontispiece
 Portrait of George Eliot, the only authorized portrait of the great nov elist yet published or to be published, fur. nished by her husband, MT. Cross, and repro duced from an etching made especially for this purpose by M. Paul Rajon. It accompa- nies paper by Frederick W. Myers, who deals interestingly with George Eliot's relig ious 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 complete short story, entitled "A Curious Experience" Mary Hallock Foote furnishes an entertaining paper on ADiligence Journey in Mexico, With eight of her own illustrations, engraved by Cole, Glosson, and others. An article on Impressions of Shaksperean Char
 acters, by TOmmasO Salvini, The eminent Italian tragedian, will attract wide attention. There is also paper on Sal- vini, with drawings of him in Othello and Macbeth.
 ts 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 oppor- .tunity for reproducing seven magnificent paintings is afforded by paper on the artists
 FOrtuny and Regnau1t.
 Around Cape Ann" is a breezy 'longshore article, illustrated with nine exquisite repro ductions of etchings by Stephen Parrish. My Escape from Slavery
 by Frederick Douglass, Is paper of historical value and interest. W. J. Stillman has an interesting article, with twenty five Illustrations, on the discovery and origin of
 (MilO).
 There is capital short story by the author of ''The Village Convict. which made such hit in the August SoRIBNER an article by 8 Cunard captain on Compulsory Lane Routes in the North Atlantic''
 POEMS BY James Russell Lowell,
 Edmund Clarence Stedman, Edmund w. GOsse,
 Austin Dobson.
 Mary Mapes Dodge,
 Richard Watson Glider, and
 others. Topics of the Time'' contains contribu- tions from the pen of the late Dr. Holland, on the change in the name of the magazine; on '' The Contingency of Inability" and G Public Spirit" This November number contains the prospectus for the coming year. The portrait of Dr. Holland, photographed from ife-size picture by Wyatt Eaton, and issued just before his death, will possess a new interest to the readers of this magazine. It is offered at $500 retail, or together with THE CENTURY MAGAZINE for one year for $6.50. Subscriptions are taken by book-sell- CTS and news-dealers everywhere Regular price of the magazine, $4.OO year. 8 cents a number.
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