National Republican., 1881-10-22
ReadyOc ~. Edition, I35, 900.
THE NOVEMBER
NUMBER OF
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MONTHLY.

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The November number is one of rare
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ted with more than seventy engravings,
among them frontispiece
PORTRAIT of GEORGE ELIOT,
the only authorized portrait of the great
novelist yet published or to be published,
furnished by her husband, Mr.. Cross, and
reproduced from an etching made espe-
cially for this purpose by M. Paul Rajon.
II accompanies paper by Frederick w.
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George Eliots religious and philosophical
beliefs.
Mrs. Burnett's New Novel,
Through One Administration" a story
of social and political life in Washington,
begun in this number, is expected to rival
in interest the writer's "That Lass o. Low
ries" and "a Fair Barbarian"
MARK TWAIN
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titled "a Curious Experience" Mary
Hallock Foote furnishes an entertaining
paper on
A Diligence Journey in Mexico,
with eight of her own illustrations, en-
graved by Cole, Closson, and others. An
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Impressions of fShaksperean Char
acters, by TOmmasO Salvini,
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tract wide attention. There is also
paper on Salvini, with drawings of him
in Othello and Macbeth.
"Costumes in the Greek Play at
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FORTUNY AND REGNAULT.
"Around Cape Ann" is breezy long
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quisite reproductions of etchings by Ste-
phen Parrish.
'sMY 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 dis
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"The SO-caIled Venus of Melos"
(MilO).
There Is a capital short story by the
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an article by Cunard captain on "Com-
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James Russell Lowell, Edmund Clarence Stodmau,
Edmund "; Gosss, n. Austin Dobson,
Richard Watson Glider, and others.
"Topics of the Time" contains contri-
buttons from the pen of the late DIR. Hol-
land, on the change in the name of the
magazine, on "The Contingency of Ina
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