Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-08
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
The Century Magazine
IN 1900.
NOVELTY IN LITERARY
AND ART FEATURES.
PRINTING IN COLOR.
THE BEST ILLUSTRATIONS,
with Coles EngraviDgs and
Castaignes Drawings.
A Now and Superbly Illustrated
LIFE OF CROMWELL.

By the Right Hon. John Morley. M. P.
The conductors of The Century take espe.
cial pleasure in announcing this as the lead
ing historical serial OF the magazine in 1900.
No man is more competent than John Nor.
ley, who was selected by Mr. Gladstone's
family to write tho biography of Gladstone,
to treat Cromwell in the spilit of the end of
the nineteenth century.
THE ILL U5TRATIONS
will be remarkable. Besides original draw.
iugs, there will lie valuable unpublished por-
traits lent by Her Majesty the Queen, and
by the owners of the greatest Cromwell col.
leciions. ether features include:
Ernest Sc ton. Thompson's Biography of a
Grizzly" delightfully."- illustrated by the ar
tiat author, the longest and most important
literary work of the author of wild Animals
Have Known"
Paris, illustrated by Csstaigne.-A series of
Wbit.ine, author of mo 5 John Street,"
splendidiy illustrated with more than sixty
pictures by the famous artist Castaigne, in
GLIDING views of the Paris Exposition.
London. illustrated by Phil Maya series
OF papers on the East nd of London by Sir
Walter Besant, with pictures by Phil May and
Joseph Pennell.
Sailing Alone Around the World The re.
cord of a voyage of 10000 miles undertaken
singlc.handcd and alone in 40.feet boat. a
most delightful biography OF the sea.
The Author of Hugh Wynne."-Dr S.
Weir Mitchell will furnish short serial Of
remarkable psychological interest, "The Au-
photography of o Quack," and there will be
short stories by all the leading writers.
a Chapter from Mark Twains Abandoned
Autobiography. Literary "reminiscences.
Familiar accounts of Tennyson. Browning,
Lowell, Emerson, Bryant, Whittier and
Holmes.
Important Papers by Governor Theodore
Roosevelt. President Eliot of Harvard Uni
versity, Thomas BAILEY Aldrich, Woodrow
Wilson, John Burroughs and others.
American Secret Eistory.-A series Of pa.
per5 commanding interest.
The art Work of the Century. 1t is every
whcro conceded that The Century has led the
world in art Timothy Coles unique and
beautiful wood blocks will continue To be q
! feature, with the work of many other engrav-
ers who make the American school famous
The fine half.tone plates-Ie-engraved by
wood eDgravers-for which the magazine is
distinguished, will appear with new methods
of printing and Illustrating.
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Spectator.
St. Nicholas for Young Folks,
Monthly Magazine, edited by
Mary Mapes Dodge.
For 1904 splendid programme of srt,
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Ten long stories, by Ruth McEnery Stuart,
Mary Mapes Dodge. Elizabeth B. Custer and
other writers Each complete in one number.
A serial story by the author of Master
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A serial story by the author of Demise and
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A serial story of Athletics.
A serial story for little children.
Stories of railroad life.
An important historical serial of colonial
life in America By ElbiidgeS. Brooks, author
of "The Century Book of the American Revo
iution," etc.
Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of New York
and Colonel of the "Hough Biders," promises
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poets of Her Boys"
Ian Maclaren. John Burroughs and many
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Nature and science for young folks will
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Fun ard ftolie. both in rhyme stories, pic.
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