The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-02-14
THE CENTURY
In 885.
4 GREAT ENTERPRISE.

PAPERS ON THE CIVIL WAR.
The important feature of THE CEN
TURY MAGAZINE for the coming year-lu-
deed, perhaps the most important ever |
undertaken by the magazine will be |
series of separate papers on the great bat |
ties of the War for the Union, written by |
general officers high in command upon
both the Federal and the Confederate
sides, -General Grant (who writes of
Vicksburg, Shiloh, and other battles),
Generalf Longstreet, Mcclellan, Beaure-
gard, Rosecrans, Hill, Admiral Porter
and others. The Series opens in the No
vember CENTURY with graphically Illus
trated article ON
THE BATTLE OF BULL RUN.
written by the Confederate general, G. t,
Beauregard. Brief sketches, entitled
! "Recollections of Private papers
chronicling special events, descriptions OF
various auxiliary branches of the service,
etc, will supplement tine more impur-
! tant series by the various generals.
A strict regard for accuracy will guide
the preparation of the illustrations, for
which THE CENTURY has at its disposal
a very large quantity OF photographs,
drawings, portraits, maps, plans, etc,
hitherto unused. The aim is to present
in this series, not official reports, but
commanding officers ace UNITS of their
plans and operations Interesting pc :
sonal EXPERIENCES which will record lead
ing events Of the war, and possess, at the
same, historical value not easily to be
calculated
In this line THE CENTURY will main-
tain its prestige, and furnish the best
stories by American writers that can be
produced. In November begins
A NEW NOVEL BY W. D. H0WElLS.
Author of "Venetian DAYS" "a ModerI
Instance, :" etc. This stony deals with thu
J rise of an American business man.
novelette, by Grace DEMO Litchtield, anC
short stories by Uncle Remus," Franl
r.. Stockton, ii. II. Bogesen T. A. Jan
: vier, II. II. Julian Hawthorne, and othe
equally weil-known writers will appea
at various times.
MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES.
Under this heading may be included
series of papers on the Cities of Italy b
w. D. Howells, the illustrations bein
: reproductions of elchings and drawn
! by Joseph Pennell; series on
l ThE NEW NORTH WEST,
n being an interesting group of papers b
f. V. Smalley, Lieut., Schwatka, Pril
Clpal Grant iui kingston, OulaIlOJ' an
r. others, descriptive Of little known region
n papers on French and American art
sculpture and painting, with some eXqu
4 site illustrations; papers on
n Astronomy, Architecture, and History
the first being by Professor Langley al
d others, Under Architecture are include
: more of Mrs. Van Rensselaer, 5 articles I
= Churches, City and Country houses, ct
u Colonel George E. Waring, Jr. will d
lc scribe
n Progress In Sanitary Draining;
~ Z. c. Stedham, Edmund Gosse, a
mt others will furnish literary essays; Gcor
il W. Cable will contribute IN various wa.
several papers on sport ank advent
~ will soon be publishek, and
or John Burroughs
will write from time to time ON outd'
subjects.
Readers Of The CENTURY may feel sure Of k'
inr abreast Of the times on leading subjects
TO-, / NAV prouerly come within the province
", monthly magazine Its circulation Is nova
- - 40 ,OO monthly the November number uNeeet
-. that figure subscriptions should date from
a. number, beginning the War series ana MT II
iss ellis novel Price S40D year, - cents a nun
70 All bookse lcrS and news-dCalers sell u anu
A a subscriptions, o. remittance may be made 10
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