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tiers, pictures of the homes of authors
and famous works Of art. The Book
mar is published on the 25th of each
month and can be supplied, at this
office, at a reduction from the regular
price, which is 81 a year.
TheMarchRomance with its twenty
complete stories, all of absorbing in
terest. It's book, stage, and editorial
department is without doubt, the best
story magazine ever offered to the pub
lie for ten cents. That the new editor
and publisher of Romance is working
on broad-lninded principles, is progress
sive and fearless in the practical work.
ing of a magazine is evidenced in the
copy before US. In the three months
under the new management, Romance
has come to be known as the most
thoroughly advertised story magazine
gaining a reputation, at the same time,
as a publication which lives up to its
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The most interesting people Of the
world just at this moment are the
millions of famine and plague stricken
India. But little is known Of this
region by the people of the United
States. Such reports as come to us
are the things seen through British
glasses. What has been the effect of
British rule in India? Why these
terrible famines Why plaques ?
Julian Hawthorne has been sent by
the Cosmopolitan magazine to India
to obtain answers to these questions
at first hand and depict the situation
as it appears to an American. The
March Cosmopolitan contains the
first of what is probably the most ip-
portant series of articles ever pre-
sented in this magazine.
1t may be, and, indeed, it seems
quite probable, that the series of
manuscripts which has been recently
discovered, and which has been Sc
cured by Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Com
pany, of New York City, are the orig
inal papers, which were carried over
by Count de Deux-Ponts. There are
not, however, IN his autograph, but
in that of some unknown person, prot
ably a clerk. Curiously enough, after
lis years, a collection of manuscripts
relating to the Siege Of Yorktown has
r gently turned up in Paris. These
C Imprise a contemporary copy OF
Count de Rochambeau's W diary,
from the time the French armies left
the Hudson, the 18th of August, to
the surrender of Yorktown, or the
10th of October, 1881. Accompanying
this, written by a different hand, but
enclosed IN the same cover, is a diary
of the siege by n Of the engineer
officers, and a most beautifully exc
cuted manuscript map, in colors, of
Yorktown and vicinity.
Messrs. Copeland and Day, Boston,
announce the publication of "The Fal
con of Langeac," by Isabel Whitley.
1t is a romance OF love and adventure
in France, when the invasions Of Eng
lish, Germans and Spanish, and the
treachery of the Constable de Bourbon
had nearly destroyed the kingdom.
The style is that of the old French
Chronicles, easy and smooth, and the
story being told in the first person, the
actors are kept sin the centre OF the
stage"
The hero, Armel de Langeac is in
voled in a series of troubles troubles
the difference in the law of Inherit
ance in Brittany and France, and he
seeks sanctuary at the famous abbey
of Mont Saint Michel. His character
and that Of the heroiue are tictions, but
all the incidents related Of them are
accurately true to the life of the time
and wherever real persons or events
are mentioned the points are accura'
tely taken.
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