Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-12-03
Tn CENTURY MAGAZINE,
(SORTBNER' MONTHLY

Fun The COndlN0 I6AHs.
With the November number began the
new series under the title OF Tn
CKSTUeI MAGAZINE, which will be, in fact,
q ne,o, eniSrged, ard impr0ged "ScRIBSHR-
The psee is somewhat longer and toicier, oa-
mitting fsct~es Of q larger sise, AND IN.
oREAsrNG THE READING NATTBR ABOUT
Fsurtees Additional Pages.
The following ia a summary of the leading
features of the new series for the year:
4 NEW NOVEL, BY MRS. BURNETT
(authcf Of ''Thsa Lass O. Lowrie's," etc.,
entitled Through One Administration,
story of Washington life.
STUDIES OF THE LOUISIANA
CREOLES. ny George w Cable, author
of THE Greudissines," etc. A series OF
illustrated pap-rs, on rr trasitions and ro.
nance OF Cye1le lfs in Louisiana.
A NOVEL By ". u. H0WELLS (au.
thor of A Chance Acquaintance etc,
dealing with characteristic features OF
American life.
ANCIENT AND MODERN SCULP.
TURE. A HISTORY OF ANCIENT ScULp.
TURr," hy Mrs. Lucy Nj, Mitchell, to
contain the finest series of engrnYings yet
published cf :hp masterpieces of sculpture.
There viii also be papers on ''LIvISo
ESGJEsB ScUiFToKs, and on The "HoUNGKR
SCuLrToFs or AaHRIcA," fully illustrated.
THE OPERA IN NEW.yORk, ly
Richard Grant White. popular and
valuable series, to be illustrated with won
derful completeness and beauty.
ARCHITECTURE AND DECORA.
TION IN AMERICA will be treated in
way TO interest both householder and house
wife with many practical as well as beeuti
full illustrations from recent designs.
kEpRFSENTkTlNE MEN Ann
WOMEN OF THE 18TH CENTURY.
Biographical sketches, accompanied by ror-
traits, Of George Eliot, Robert Browning,
Rev. Frederick W. Robertson (by the late
Desn Stanley, Matthew Arnold. Christina
Kossstti, and Cardinal Newman, aud of III.
younger American authors, Vim. Il. Hovelis,
Henry James. Jr. aud George ". Cable.
SCENES or THACkERAY'S, HAW.
THORNE'S AND GEORGE ELI0T'S
NOVELS. Succeeding the Illustrated series
on the scenes Of Dickens novels
THE REFORM OF THE CIVIL
SERVICE. Arrangements have been
made for 4 series Of able papers on this
pressing political question.
POETRY AND POETS in AMERICA.
Thsre will be studies of Longfeilow. Whit
tier. Emerson, Lowell, and Others, by f. G.
Steimsn
StVhIF~s SnEltHES, AMI ls@'SA 10
may be expected from Charles Dudley War
aer, w u. Howells, Marx Twain" Ed
ward Eggleston, Henry James, Jr., John
Muir, Miss Gordon Cumming, II. H."
George W. Cable, Joel Chandler Harris, A.
.. Redwood, +. ID. Millet, Noah Brooks,
Frank z. Stockton, Constance Z. Woolson,
a. Fl. Boyescn Albert Stickney, Washing
on GLADDEN., John Burroughs, Parke Goodwin,
rommaso Salvini, Henry King Ernest In
yersoll, E. l.. Godkin, E. b. Washbums.
md many others.
Ono or two papers on "The Adventures
# the Tile Club" and an original Life of
Sewick, the engraver, by Austin Dobson, are
linoDg other features TO be later announced.
THE EDITORIAL DEPARTMENTS
throughout viii be unusually complete, and
The Worlds Work will he considerably
Nlarged.
The price Of THE CKSrUEY MAGAZINE
sill remain at s400 per year (35 cents
,unber) The portrait (size q I27), of
he late DR. Holland, issued just before his
ieath, photographed from Iife-sixe draw
ng by Wyatt Eaton, will possess a new in
crest to tho readers of this magazine. 1t
offered at $500 retail, or together with
tHE CENTURY MAGAZINE for $3.50. Cub
crptions arc taken by the publishers, and
'y book sellers aud news dealers everywhere.
The CENTURY CO,
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