Life — November 4, 1886 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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A GREAT ENTERPRISE. Tue CENTURY MAGAZINE, with it enormous circulation (edition of November number is a quarter of a million) and great resources, has never undertaken a more important work than the one which will be its leading feature during the coming eat. This is a history of our own country in its most critical time, as set forth in THE LIFE OF LINCOLN, By His Confidential Secretaries, JOHN C. NICOLAY and COL. JOHN HAY. This great work, begun with the sanction of President Lincoln, and continued under the authority of his son the Hon. Rob’t T. Lincoln, is the only full and authoritative record of the life of Abraham Lincoln. Its authors were friends of Lincoln before his presidency ; they were most intimately associated with him as private secretaries throughout his term of office, and to them were transferred upon Lincoln’s death all his private papers. Here will be told the inside history of the civil war and of President. Lincoln’s administration, —important details of which have hitherto remained unrevealed, that they might first appear in this authentic history. By reason of the publication f this work, — THE WAR SERIES, which has been followed with unflagging interest by a great audience, will occupy less space during the coming year, but will by no means be entirely omitted. Articles on Gettysburg, Chick- amauga, Sherman’s March, etc., with stories of naval engagements and prison life, will appear NOVELS AND STORIES include a novel by Frank R. Stockton, two novelettes by George W. Cable, stories by Mary Hallock Foote, “Uncle Remus,” Edward Eggleston, and other American Jauthors. SPECIAL FEATURES andi (with illustrations) include a series of articles on affairs in Russia and Siberia, by George Pea s Kennan, author of “ Tent Life in Siberia,” who has just returned from a most eventful visit to \ Siberian prisons ; papers on the Labor Problem; English Cathedrals, by Mrs. Van Rensselaer ; Dr. Eggleston’s Religious Life in the American Colonies; Men and Women of Queen Anne’s Reign, by Mrs. Oliphant ; Clairvoyance, Spiritualism, Astrology, etc., by Rev. J. M. Buckley, D. D.; Astronomical papers ; Articles on Bible History, etc. THE NOVEMBER CENTURY. READY Nov. 1ST. EpITIon, 250,000 Copies: CONTAINS: First Chapters of the Life of Lincoln, Described above, including the editorial presentment and author's preface ; with a new frontispiece portrait of Lincoln, and nineteen illustrations. This installment, entitled “ Lincoln as Pioneer,” gives the ancestry of the President, and the rela- tio between the Lincoln family and Daniel Boone; also Lincoln’s boyhood and early manhood, and a graphic account of the frontier States in the earlier days. Old Chelsea. By Dr. B. E. Martin. Describing’a picturesque suburb of London, once the home of Queen Elizabeth, Nell Gwynn, George Eliot, Carlyle, and other famous characters ; illustrated by Seymour Haden and Joseph Pennell. Machine Politics in New York. By THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Including chapters on “ Heelers,” “ The Social Side,” “The Liquor-Seller in Politics,” “Boss Methods,” etc., etc. The Fate of a Voice; A Story BY Mary HALLock Foote, Author of “The Led-Horse Claim,” “John Bodewin’s Testi- Mony,” etc., with one full-page illustration by the author. General Hooker’s Appointment and Removal. An anonymous article by a gentleman who was at army headquarters in Washington at the time of the events described. Subscription price, $4.00 a year, 35 cents a number. Dealers, postmasters and the publishers take subscriptions. for our beautifully illustrated 24-page catalogue (free), containing full prospectus, etc. First Chapters of Stockton’s New Novei. This love-story of real life, “The Hundredth Man,” is different from anything the author has yet undertaken. It will run through twelve numbers of THE Century. The Need of Trade Schools. By Richard Auchmuty, founder of the New York Trade Schools. With illustrations. Gettysburg, The First Day’s Battle. By Gen. Henry J. Hunt, Chief of Union Artillery, with Maps of the Gettysburg Campaign, by Gen. Doubleday, and numerous illustrations. An Art Paper. By CHARLES WALDSTEIN, On the Temple of Diana of the Ephesians, and other recent discoveries ; in which the author identifies an ancient silver plate lately found in France as the work of the silversmiths of Ephesus, whose industry is described in the New Testament. Illustrated. The Departments include editorials on “The American Militia,” “The Con- gressional Balance-sheet,” etc.; there are open letters on “A Siberian Tragedy,” by George Kennan, “Time Reckoning for the Twentieth Century,” by Principal Grant, of Kingston, “Genius and Matrimony,” “The Architectural League of New York,” with short verse, a satire by Bill Nye, etc., in “Bric-a Brac.” 3 Send < THE CENTURY CO., New York. comicbooks.com