Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-12-09
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FOR THE COMING YEAR.
With the November number began tn.
new series under the title of THr
CENTURY MAGAZINE, which will be, in fact,
Be,o, en9a. ged, and fmpr0Ued "SoEIBNER.'
The page is somewhat longer and soider, ad
uniting pictures Of larger size, AND IN
cREAsIEG THE READING MATTER ABOUT
Fourts en- Additional Pnger.
The following is a summary of the leading
features of the new series for the year:
A NEW Novel BY MRS. BURNETT
(authdf of "Thss Less O Lowrie's," etc. },
entitled Through One Administration,
story Of Washington life.
STUDIES OF THE LOUISIANA
CIRCLES. By George W. Gable, author
of "The Grandissimes," etc. A series OF
illustrated papers. on the traditions and TO-
nance of Creole life in Louisiana
A NOVEL BY W. d. HOWELLS Eau.
thor of "a Chance acquaintance, etc.,
dealing with Characteristic features OF
American life.
ANCIENT AND MODERN sCULP.
TURE "HIsToRY OF ANCIENT ScULp-
TuRE," 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 SoULPTons," and on the "YoUNeEB
ScULPToRs OF AMERICA" fully illustrated.
THE OPERA IN NEW.YORK, by
Richard Grant White. A popular and
valuable series, to be illustrated with won
derful completeness and beauty
ARCHITECTURE AND DECORA.
TION 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 10TH CENTURY.
Biographical sketches, accompanied by por-
traits, of George Eliot, Robert Browning
Rev. Frederick W. Robertson (by the late
Dean Stanley, Matthew Arnold, Christina
Rossetti, and Cardinal Newman, and of the
younger American authors, VIM. d. Howells,
Henry James, Jr., and George W. Cable
SCENES OF THACKERAY'S, HAW.
THORNE'S AND GEORGE ELIOT'S
NOVELS. Succeeding the illustrated series
on the scenes of Dickens novels.
THE 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
ner, ". D. Howells, "Mark Twain" Ed
ward Eggleston, Henry James, Jr., John
Muir, Miss Gordon Cumming, III. H."
George w. Cable, Joel Chandler Harris, A.
Q. Redwood, F. ID. Millet, Noah Brooks,
Frank r. Stockton, Constance F. Woolson,
q. b. Boyeson, Albert Stickney, Washing
.on GLADDEN., John Burroughs, Parke Goodwin,
rommaso Salvini, Henry King, Ernest In
yersoll, z. L. Godkin, E. B. Washburne.
and 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. o
The price of The CENTURY MAGAZINE
viii remain at $500 per year (35 cents
lumber). The portrait (size 81 KID, of
ho late DR.. Holland issued just before his
leath, photographed from life-size draw
ng by Wyatt Eaton, will possess new in
crest to the readers of this magazine. 1t
3 offered at $500 retail, or together with
TIE CENTURY MAGAZINE for $3.50. Sub
.criptions are taken by the publishers, and
BY booksellers aud news-dealers everywhere.
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