The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-16
THE MAGAZINES,

| the publishers of Scribner's Magazine
promise that 1897 shall be a red lette
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1897. Scribner costs 50 year.
On petition OF the creditors of tbs
Arena Publishing company male Oct.
1896, before Judge Dunbar to appoint 9
Temporary receiver, A. d. Cha ndler
Esq, was appointed for ths protection
and adjustment of The interests oi the
creditors during a icorsan zatfon OF TINS
c.r.pany. The officers OF tue company
did not contest the petition, feeling ths;
it is for the best interests of all parties
concerned as an equitable plan pending
the business changes to be made.
The Arena Company will be recapitai-
lied by experienced business men and
placed in new hands and on firm finan-
cial basis. the magazine to be an open
court for the promulgation OF all authoTi-
tative and important opinions
The business OF the Arena, both as a
magazine and as book publishing z
house. has had quite phenomenal
growth, but had not sufficient capital 10
handle the business into which II had
developed. With the reorganized com
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its growth and add to its reputation now
so well established, in the success Of
which all readers and thinkers feel per-
sonal Interest on account Of the national
influence which this publication has at
tanned.
An even excellence makes the good
things which the Ladies Home Journal
promises unusually interesting and
strong. The list is long and sturdy. One
series of papers alone would sell the
magazine: that is. the three White
House articles which ex-President Har-
rison is to write. No man has ever done
what General Harrison will do IN these
articles: show US what "A Day With the
President at His Desk' means in one
article; in another tell OF The Social
Life OF the President" and in th.r.l
article describe Upstairs Life in the
White House" Each Of the articles will
be profusely illustrated. Another serses
equally fascinating is the one cslle1
Great Personal Events" in which some
of the greatest enthusiasms which have
occurred In America Rlii be revived:
those wonderful times when Louis Kos
suth rode Up Broadway; when the young
Prince OF Wales vas here. x1en Jenny
Lind sang IN Castle Garden; when Henry
Ward Beecher esectrifed his conzregs-
hon by selling slaves in rs pulpit; wren
Grant went round tse world: xfer
Henry Clay baie farewell 10 the senate:
when Johr Wesley preached e Georgia,
OF which so few know.
The ras. twenty or more years haze
brought % Esht. through historical az
archaeological research. a vast 6esl that
adds materially - our conception % the
tiEne sni place n which Carts; H*sd
R1; II has been the scholars alone. tse
men Of the cios=t. sao have been beyse-
ftsi by tnese results IL would seem
no< hat i has uzulSes-ly become the
mission Of soma popular medium 20 ren-
der accessible 20 the masses "a an al
srsctfve fo--1. this ircrea SD kno~iA1se
A recent remarkable attempt has ossa
c1zd= 20 accomplish this Beziania-
with the No-eTnoer EarnceS. ac1 c1nrin-
1frE Tor year, 4 Ne N2tFon1R AsEex-r-
anDounces ire publication q serisI. -
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ought 20 resd-Dorssar. eorpls.s. direct, I,
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