Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-12-02
TIE CENTURY
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ton of about two hundred thousand
copies, often reaching and sometimes
exceeding two hundred and twenty-five
thousand. Chief among its many at
fractions for the coming year is a serial
which has been in active preparation
for sixteen years. 1t is a history of our
own country IN its most critical time, as
set forth in
THE LIFE OF LINCOLN,
HIS CONFIDENTIAL SECRETARIES. JOHN
G. NICoLAY y col. JOHN HAY.
This great work, begun with the
sanction of President Lincoln, and con-
tinued under the authority OF his son,
the Hon. Robert I. Lincoln, is the only
full and authoritative record of the life
Of Abraham Lincoln. Its authors were
friends ofLiucoln before his presidency,
they were most intimately associated
with him as his private secretaries
throughout his term of office, and to
them were transferred upon L%incoln's
death all his private papers. Here will
be told the inside history Of the civil
war and President Lincoln's admins
tratlon important details OF which have
hitherto remained u~nrevealed, that they
| might first appear in this authentic
history. BY reason of the publication
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THE WAR SERIES,
| which has been followed with unflagging
interest by a great audience, will oCcu-
DIV less space during the coming al
ti~ettvshurg Will be described by Gen.
Hunt, (Chief of the Union Artillery,
Gen. Longatreet, Gen. Z. NJ. Law, and
others. Chickamauga, by Gen. ID. Fl.
Hill; Sherman's March to the Sea, by
Generals Howard and SiOcum. Cen
erals q. A. Gilmore, VIM. +. Smith,
John Gibbon, Horace Porter and John
:. Mosby will describe special battles
and incidents. Stories ofnaval engage
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pear.
"The Hurdredth Man." a novel by
| Frank Il. Stockton, author of THE
Lady, or the Tiger" ETC., begins in
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w. Gable, stories by Mary Hallock
Foote, "Uncle Remus." Julian Haw-
thorne, Edward EggIeston, and other
prominent American authors will be
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Life in Siberia" who has just returned
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with reference to its bearing on the
Labor Problem; English Cathedrais,
DR.. Eggieston's Religious Life in the
American Colonies; Men and Women OF
Queen Anne's Reign, by Mrs. Oliphant;
CIairvoyance, Spirtualism. Astrology,
etc, by the Rev J. NJ. Buckley, ID. D.,
editor of the Christian Advocate; astro-
nomical papers, articles throwing light
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