Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-12-08
THE CENTURY MAGAZINE,
(SCRIBNER' MONTHTY1

FOR THE COMING YEAR
With the November number began tn.
new series under the title of Tn
CENTURY MAGAZINE, which will be, in fact,
q rseso, eaaEs sed, and inprO0ed "SoE1BNER.'
The page Is Someachat longer and soider, ad-
uniting pictures Of a larger size AND IN.
cREAsING TIE READING MATTER ABOUT
Fourte en Additional Pages.
The following is summary of the leading
features of the 1ew series for the year:
A NEW hGVEL BY MRS. BURNETT
(authof of "Tha, Lass O Lowrio's," etc. },
entitled Through One Administration,
story of Wellington life
STUDIES OF THE LOUISIANA
CREOLES. BY George W. Cable, author
of 1.-The Grandissimes" ETC. series OF
illustrated papers, on the traditions and TO-
nance OF Creole life in Louisiana.
A NOVEL BY ". d. HOWELLS Eau.
thor of A Chance acquaintance, etc },
dealing with characteristic features OF
American life.
ANCIENT AND MODERN SCULP.
TURE. A HISTORY OF ANCIENT SCULP-
TURE," by Mrs. Lucy III. Mitchell, to
contain the finest series of engravings yet
published of the masterpieces of sculpture.
There viii also be papers on Giving
ENGLISH SCULPToRs, and on the "YouNGEB
ScuLPToRs or AMERICA" fully illustrated
THE OPERA In NEW.YORK, by
valuable series, to be illustrated with won
derful completeness and beauty.
ARCHITECTURE AND DECORA.
TI0N 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 18TH CENTURY.
Biographical sketches, accompanied by por-
traits. Of George Eliot, Robert Browning,
Rev. Frederick W. Robertson (by the late
Dean Staniey) Matthew Arnold, Christina
Rossett, and Cardinal Newman, and of the
younger American authors, VIM. d. Howells,
Henry James. Jr., and George w. Gable
SCENES OF TKACKERAT'S, HAW.
TH0RNE'S AND GEORGE ELIOTS
NOVELS. Succeeding the illustrated series
on the scenes CT Dickens novels.
TIE Reform OF THE CIVIL
SERVICE. Arrangements have been
made for series of able papers on 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.
neT, ". 3. Howells, "Mark Twain" Ed
ward Eggleston, Henry James, Jr, John
Muir, Miss Gordon Cumming, III H."
George w. Cable, Joel Chandler Harris, A.
G. Redwood, F. D, Millet, Noah Brooks,
Frank r. Stockton, Constance F. Woolson,
q. 81. Boyeson, Albert Stickney, Washing
son Gladden., J ohm Burroughs, Parke Goodwin,
fommaso Salvini, Henry King, Ernest In
yersoll, E. L. Godkin, E. B. Washburne.
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
among other features to be later announced.
THE EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS
throughout will be unusually complete, and
The Worlds Work" will be considerably
enlarged.
The price of The CENTURY MAGAZINE
viii remain at $500 per year (35 cents q
| ,umber). The portrait (size 81 x27), of
ho late DR.. Holland, issued Just before his
aeath, photographed from a ife-size draw
ng by Wyatt Eaton, will possess a new in
crest to the readers of this magazine. It
offered at S. 90 retail, or together with
EHE CENTURY MAGAZINE for $3.50. Sub
,criptions are taken by the publishers, and
| ty booksellers aud news-dealers everywhere.
TIE CENTURY CO.,
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