The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-10-31
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TEGINNlNG a NEW VOLUME.
The CENTURY

The CENTURY
FOR NOVEMBER.
THE CENTURY begins It's sixteenth year
with monthly circulation Of considerably
over 100000 The great gain has been due
70 the success Of the War Pspers, and 10
the iact that the general features Of the
magsEiRe have basR unusually strong dur
log the past YEAR
Tho November number, nov ready, con-
ts!usi
CHATTANOOGA" BY GEN. GRANT,
The third paper Of Gen. Grants personal
memoirs OF the war, describing, With great
interest, the famous battle Of Chattanooga.
With it appears full.page picture Of Gen.
Grant, from photograph taken at MI.
McGregor, and the reproduction OF one OF
his letters to DR.. Douglas.
THREE SHORT STORIES,
UThs Story Of Seven Devils" by Frank X,
Stockton, "a Cloud nn tho MOuntain1"
by SIaTy HhlIock Fo0tr, "Thr hJH.
tory of Wilhelm KmIISt," by
aIlsp Jackson ID. ~
TWO IMPORTANT ESSAYS.
danger Ahead" remarkably able and
suggestive paper on socialism aud the
labor problem, BY Lyman thbott; and an
article on 1.-The United Churches Of the
United States, the latter to be followed
by rspers on church unity by representa-
tives Of various denominations.
THREE ILLUSTRATED ARTICLES,
a. Photographers Visit To PstFR," with IL
pic urrE; "LiVIug E"gllsh AculptOrs,"by
Edmund Gos.e, 8 p!ctnrSsj typical
Dogs - ssttors," by various
experts, 7 pictures.
"JoHN BoDEwIN'S TEs rlMoNY,"
49, By MARY HALLoCK FoorE.
The first chapters OF new serial story Of
mining life, by the author OF "The Led
Horse Claim" -,
Also short paper on "Cbautauqua," by
Edward Everett Hale. In. the depart
men,s an editorial on 1.-THE Outlook Tor
Civil.Service Reform" and open letters on
various timely subjects. "Bric a'brAc" con-
tains humorous poems, and cartoon by
E. w. Kemble.
Among the features for the coming vol
une are:
THE WAR PAPERS
by GENERAL GRANT AND o rHERs.
These will be continued (most OF them il.
lustrated) until the chief events Of the
Civil War have been described by leading
participants on both sides. General Grants
papers include description Of tire battles
OF the Wilderness. General Mcclellan
will write Of Anlietam. General D. G.
Bucll Of Shiloh, Generals Pope, nng.
street and others OF the Second Bull Run,
ETC., etc. Naval Combats, including the
fight between the KflEargc and the ALd-
Ldnd, by officers OF both ships, will be de-
sCribed.
The "Racollections OF a Private" and
speCiul war papers of an anecdotal or hui
morous character will be features OF the
SERIAL STORIES by
W. D. IOwELLs, MARY UALLnCK
FoorF, AND GEoRGEw. CABLE.
Mr.. Howells's serial will be in lighter vein
than "The Rise OF Silas Lapham." Mr..
Cables is u novelette, Of the ACadianS OF
Louisiana. Mr.. Cable will also contribute
q series Of papers on Slave songs and
dances, including negro ssrpent-woIship,
etc.
Include "a Tricycle. Pilgrimage TO Rome"
illustrated by Pdnnell; Historical Papers
by Edward Egglcston, and others; Papers
on Persia, by S. e. ". benjamin, lately
U. S. minister, with numerous ilIustra:
tons; Astronomical Articles, practical and
popular, on "Sidereal Astronomy; Pa.
pers on Christian Unity by representa-.
tives Of various RELIGIOUS denominations;
Papers on Manual Education, by various
experts, ETC., etc.
SHORT STORIES
BY Frank r. Stockton, Mira. Helen Jack
son IA. H., Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote,
Joel Chandler Harris, II. II. oTcsen,
T. A. Janvier, Julian Hawthorne, Richard
NJ. Johnston, and others; and poems by
leading poets. Tho Observation-Disclosures
Letters, "Bric-a-Brac," ETC., will be fully
sustained.
THE ILLUSTRATIONS
Will be kept up to the standard which has
made THE CENTURY eHgravings famous
tho world over.
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Regular subscription price, $500 year.
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Papers, with contributions from Generals
Grant, Beauregard, Mcclellan, J. E. John.
ston, Lew Wallace, Admiral Porter and
others, we will send the ~ back numbers,
November, 1854, to October, 1885, with a
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