Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-11-24
TIE CENTURY MAGAZINE,
(SCRTBNER MONTHLY

FOR THE COMING YEAR.
With the November number began tn.
new series under the title of TIE
CENTURY MAGAZINE, which will be, in fact,
q l5e3e. eaIg god, md i3nproced "ScRIBNER'
Tile page Is so02C30jiGt longer and rider, dd-
uniting pictures Of larger size, AND IN
cREAsING TEE READING MATTER ABOUT
EozsrGeeD Additional Pages.
The following is summary of the leading
features Of the new series for the year:
A NEW h1VEL BY MRS. BURNETT
(authCr OF ''Ihat Less O Lowrie's," etc. },
entitled - Through One Administration,
story OF Washington life.
STUDIES OF THE LOUISIANA
CREOLES. BY George W. Cable, author
Of The GrandissInes," etc. A series Of
illustrated papers. on the traditions and 70.
nance OF Creole life in Louisiana
A NOVEL 81 If, D. H0WELLS 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 NJ Mitchell, to
contain the finest series Of eng1avings yet
published of the masterpieces of sculpture.
There vii also be papers on LIVING
English SCULPToRs, and On the ''YoUNGEB
SCULPToBs OF AMERICA, =" fully illustrated.
TIE OPERA IN NETWORK, by
Richard Grant White. A popular and
valuable series, to be illustrated with won,
derful completeness and beauty.
ARCHITECTURE AND DEC0RA.
TION IN AIiEI.ICA will be treated in
way to interest both householder and house
wife; with many practical as well as beauti
full illustratioDs from recent designs.
REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND
WOMEN OF THE 18TH CENTURY.
Biographical sketches, accompanied by por
traits, Of George Eliot, Robert Browning,
Rev. Frederick ". Robertson (by the late
Dean Stnley) 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.
TH0RNE'S AND GEORGE ELl0T'S
NOVELS. Succeeding the illustrated series
on the scenes Of Dickens novels.
THE REFORM OF THE CIVIL
SERVICE. Arrangements have been
made for a series Of able papers on thif
pressing political question.
POETRY AND POETS IN AMERICA.
There will be studies of Longfelow, Whit
tier, Emerson, Lowell, and others, by E. c.
Stedman.
STORIES, SKETCHES, AND ESSAYS
may lie expected from Charles Dudley War
aer, W. D. IIowells, MARX Iwain,n Ed
ward EggIeston, Henry James, Jr., John
Muir, Miss Gordon Cumming, II. H."
George W. Gable, Joel Chandler Harris, A.
G. Redwood, T. D. Millet, Noah Brooks,
Frank Il. Stockton. Constance T: Woolson,
q. I'll. Boyescn, Albert Stickney, Washing
on GLADDEN., John Burroughs, Parke Goodwin,
Iommaso Saivini, Henry King, Ernest In
sersoll, E. i. Godkin, Z. b. Washburne
md many others
One or two papers on 1.-THE Adventures
# the Tile Club" and an original Life of
Bewick, the ergrayer, 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
Nil remain at S4.00 per year (35 cents
lumber). The portrait (size 21 x27), of
he late DR.. Holland, issued just before his
leath, photographed from q ife-size draw
ng by Wyatt Eaton, will possess new in
crest to the readers of this magazine. It
offered at $500 retail, or together with
EHE CENTURY MAGAzIEE for $3.50. Sub
eriptions are taken by the publishers, and
BY booksellers aud news-dealers everywhere.
The CENTURY co,
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