Connecticut western news., 1882-10-25
The Century Margarine.
THE NOVEMBER CENTURY.


 As the first number of Q new volume, the November Century gives promise of even increased excellence for the maga- zine during it's second year under the new name. Pictorially, the November number shows that the Century is as am bilious as ever for the reputation of American wood-engraving, as witness the frontispiece portrait of Florence Night ingale and the full-page portrait of Henry James, .Jr., both by Cole /; Elbridge Kingsley's beautiful full-page engraving, direct from nature, of @ view in New England woods Accompanying which is 0 description by the engraver, of his manner of working); the full-page repro duction, by Kruell, of an ideal bronze head which is one of the costly art treasures of the British Museum :; Mary Hallock Foote's refined and charming illustrations, engraved by Miss Powell and by Cole ; and the many other pie lures by well-known artists, some of which have special interest as the ex- ponents of new process of art repro duction.
 Though the art side of the November Century is so conspicuous, the contents offer striking proof of tendency to make the literary side of the magazine para mount and of the greatest possible ex- cellence and importance, in travel, bio graphy, fiction, poetry, criticism, and in the discussion of the foremost public questions. In earnest of this tendency, the November Century presents paper on ''Venice" (profusely illustrated) by Henry James, Jr, who treats the subject in charming, unconventional manner, with all the vivid impression and delicate ! coloring that might be expected from such 8 subject in the hands of 8 brilliant novelist paper on Henry James, Jr., himself, by w. D. Howells, whose gen erous and acute judgment of his fellow novelist cannot fail to interest wide circle of readers a remarkably able and entertaining article on 'Victor Hugo" (written expressly for the Century,, by the celebrated French novelist, Aphonse Daudet, who describes his personal in tercourse with the poet and paints @ word-portrait of Victor Hugo which will become historical-giving, besides, many interesting glimpses of Daudet's own life and literary methods; 8 forcible essay by Charles Dudley Warner on the sour ces of the material and intellectual prom inence of England, and the literary in- debtedness of the United States to the mother country, as also the growing literary independence of the United States and strong argument in the negative to the ripe question els the Jury System Failure p by Albert Stickney, who argues for the abolition of the system and suggests substitute. Other prominent features of the num- Der are Edward Eggleston's description of "The Beginning of @ Nation," the | first of his series of Life in the American Colonies, illustrations of which the mag azine is indebted to the courtesy of the British Museum the Rev. Dr. Wash ington Gladden's opening chapters in his story-with a purpose looking to Chris tian experimentation "The Chris tian League of Connecticut ;" finely illustrated paper on "A New Profession for Women," in which Franklin H. North describes the Bellevue Training School for Nurses and Mrs. Lucy M. Mitchell's illustrated paper on 'sThe Sculptures of the Great Pergamon AL tar, which are among the new and i'm portant discoveries.
 The fiction of the number comprises the first chapters of Mary Hallock Foote' $ | novel "The Led Horse Claim, which carries the reader into new and subterra- mean fields of storytelling; @ humorous short story by Frank R. Stockton, en- titled ''The Lady and the Tiger" which is in his most quiet and whimsical vein and the continuation of Mrs. Burnett's Through one Administrations" The poems of the number are by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, H. H., James T. Mckay, George Edgar Montgomery, Ed, ward N. Pomeroy, and Richard Watson Glider, not to forget some hitherto un. published verses by Robert Browning and Henry w. Longfellow, which are reproduced in autograph from child's album, in Bric-a-Brac, which contains also a clever satire on MT. Walt Whitman and MT. Oscar Wilde, by Helen Gray Cone. The more serious editorial de- partment treats 8 great variety of topics In the publishers department is an ac. count of the "Century's New Home, with drawings of the comfortable and spacious rooms in which the magazines are housed.