Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-11-15
Tar CENTURY MAGAZINE,
(SCRIBNER' MONTHLY
FOR THE COMING YEAR.

FOR THE COMING YEAR.
With the November number began the
new series under the title of Tn
CENTURY MAGAZINE, which will be, in fact,
aleao, en!u ged and improged "Scn1BNER.'
The page IS sonne,ohdt longer and aoider, adj
uniting pictures Of larger size, AND IN.
cREAsrNG THE READING MATTER ABOUT
Fourteen Additional Pages.
The following is a summary of the leading
features of the new series for the year:
A NEW Novel BY MRS. BURNETT
(authof of "Thas Lass o Lowrie's," ETC. },
entitled Through One Administration"
story of Washington life
STUDIES OF THE LOUISIANA
CREOLES. BY George W. Cable, author
of ''The Grandissimes," etc. A series OF
illustrated papers, on the traditions and 70.
nance of Creole life IN Louisiana.
A NOVEL BY W: ID. HOWELLS eau.
thor of "A Chance Acquaintance" etc.,
dealing with characteristic features OF
American life.
ANCIENT AND MODERN SCULP.
TURE. A "HIsroRY OF ANCIENT SoULp-
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 .LrvINo
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 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. Cable.
SCENES OF fHACKERAY'S, HAW-
THORNE'S AND GEORGE ELEGT'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 Z. G..
| Stedman.
STORIES, SKETCHES, AND ESSAYS
may be expected from Charles Dudley War
aer, W. d. Howells, "Mark Iwain,n Ed
ward Eggleston, Henry James, Jr., John
| Muir, Miss Gordon Cumming, H. H."
George w. Cable, Joel Chandler Harris A.
9. Redwood, F. ID, Miilet, Noah Brooks,
Frank Z. Stockton, Constance T. Woolson,
q. II. Boyeson, Albert Stckney, Washing
| ,On GLADDEN., John Burroughs, Parke Goodwin,
fou,maso Saivini, Henry King, Ernest In-
| yersoll. f. L. Godkin, Z. L. Washburne.
md many others.
One or two papers on "The Adventures
| If the Tile Club" and an original Life of
| Bewick, the epgraver, by Austin Dobson, are
Lmong 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
Will remain at $500 per year (35 cents
| lumber) The portrait (size 81 x27), of
| he late DR.. Holland, issued Just before his
ieath, photographed from life-size draw
| ng by Wyatt Eaton, will possess a new in
| erest to the readers of this magazine 1t
| offered at $500 retail, or together with
tue CENTURY MAGAZINE for Sc. So Sub
| criptions are taken by the publishers, and
~ book sellers aud news-dealers everywhere.
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