River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-01-12
THE CENTURY MAGAZINE.
(SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY.)
For the Coming Tear.

With the November number began the new series
under the title of The CENTURY MAGAZINE,
which wiz be, in fact. new. enlarged, and Inn
proved "ScRIBNER.' The page is somewhat
longer and wider, admitting pictures of q larger
size, and increasing the reading matter about
FOURTEEN ADDITIONAL PAGES,
The following is a summary of the leading fea-
lures Of the new series for the year:
ANEW NOVEL BY Mrs. BURNETT lauthor of
HThat Lass o. Lowrie's, etc., entitled Through
One Administration" story of Washington life.
STUDIES or THE LOUISIANA cREoLES. BY
Geo. w Cable, author of The Grandissimes, = etc.
series of illustrated papers. on the traditions and
romance OF Creole life in Louisiana.
NOVEL BY W. D. HoWELLs (author of ga
Chance Acquaintance" etc., dealing with char
acteristie features Of American life.
ANCIENT AND MODERN SCULPTURE. A
"Hstory Of Ancient Sculpture" by Mrs. Lucy NJ.
yet published of the masterpieces Of sculpture.
There will also be papers on Living English
seulptors,' and on the younger Scnlptors of
American fully illustrated.
THE OPERA IN NEW YORK, by Richard Grant
White. popular and valuable series, to be Illus
trated with wonderful completeness and beauty.
ARCHITECTURE AND DECORATION IN A.
MERICA viii be treated in a way to interest both
householder and housewife with many practical
well very beautiful Illustrations from recent
designs
REPRESENTATIVE MEN AND WOMEN OF
THE 18TH CENTURY. biographical sketches.
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Browning, Rev. Frederick w. Robertson (by the
late Dean Stanley) Matthew Arnold, Christina
Rossetti and Cardinal Newman, and OF the younger
American authors, VIM. ID. Howells, Henry James,
Jr, and George w. Gable.
SCENES OF THACKERAY'S. HAWTHORNE'S,
AND GEORGE EIIOT'S NOVELS. Succeeding
the illustrated series the scenes Of Dickens
novels.
THE REFORM OF THE CIVIL SERVICE. Ar
rangements have been made for a series of able
papers on this pressing political question.
POETRY AND POETS IN AMERICA There
will be studies of Longieliow, Whittier, Emerson,
Lowell, and others, By f. G. SteduIan
STORIES, SKETCHES, AND ESSAYS may be
expected from Charles Dudley Warner w d. How
James, Jr., John Muir, Miss Gordon Cumming, "H.
H. Geo w. Cable Joel Chandler Harris, A. G.
Redwood, +. C. bIillet Noah Brooks Frank X.
stockton, Constance +. Woo son, H. ii. BUyesen,
Albert stielney. Washington GLADDEN.. John Bur-
r0ughs, Parke Goodwin, Tommaso Salvini, Henry
King Ernest Ingersoll, E. l.. Godkin, h. b. Wash
burne, and many others.
One or two papers on s'The Adventures of 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
viii be unusually complete, and trhe Worlds
Work y will be considerably enlarged.
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