Life — December 26, 1889 — page 48: what you’re looking at

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‘LIFE THE CENTURY MAGAZINE tered upon a new volume with the issue of November, which con- tained the opening parts of several leading features of the year. In this number were printed the first chapters of the “ Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson,” in which the author relates the story of his life, from his first appearance on the stage as ‘‘property” baby to within the past few years. His reminiscences and the portraits of actors and actresses with whom he has been associated—among them the elder Booth, the Wallacks, Forrest, and Charlotte Cushman—are especially interesting. His own experiences in the pioneer West, in Mexico, Australia, South America, England, France, and the Southern and Eastern States, are related in a frank and charming manner. Mr. Jefferson writes as naturally as he acts. Serial stories by Frank R. Stockton and Amelia E. Barr were also begun in the November number. During the year there will be printed other serials and a number of short stories by such well-known writers as H. S. Edwards, Sarah Orne Jewett, Richard M. Johnston, Octave Thanet, H. H. Boyesen, Arlo Bates, \ and others. The first of the “ Present-Day Papers” was printed in the JOSEPH JEFFERSON. November Century. These are a series of discussions of timely social questions by prominent men who have associated for this purpose, among them Bishop Potter and the Hon. Seth Low, the new President of Columbia College. The December number contains the beginning of the series by Prof. Fisher, of Yale, on “The Nature and Method of Revelation” ; a number of hitherto unpublished letters of the Duke of Wellington; a history and descrip- tion of the new Croton Aqueduct at New York; “The Paris Panorama of the Nineteenth Century,” one of the features of the Paris Exposition described by Alfred Stevens and Henri Gervex, who con- ceived the project and under whose supervision it was executed. The number contains also poems by Edmund C. Stedman, Margaret Crosby, Frank Dempster Sherman, and others; short stories, etc. During the year there will be published popular science papers by Prof. Holden, describing the latest discoveries in astronomy at the Lick Observatory, and illustrated articles on “ Prehistoric Americ by Prof. Putnam, of Harvard. A number of papers on Art will also be printed. In January Tur Century will contain an important illustrated paper by Miss Amelia B, Edwards, giving a full account of the recent astonishing discoveries at Bubastis, Egypt. New subscribers should commence with the November number. Tue Century costs $4.00 a year; 35 cents a number. Subscriptions are taken by booksellers and postmasters, or re- mittance may be made by check, money-order, or in registered letter, direct to the publishers, THe Century Co., 33 East 17th Street, New York. ST NICHOLAS ™ vous cores, New Volume. New Type. More Pages. Since 1873, when ST. NICHOLAS was begun, it has led all magazines for boys and girls. Nothing like it was known before, and to-day, as the Chicago Jnter-Ocean recently stated : ‘* It is the model and ideal juvenile magazine of the world.” Through its pages the greatest writers of our time are speaking to the youth of two great nations, and the best artists and engravers are training the eyes of boys and girls to appreciate the best in art. There was only one way in which Mrs, Mary Mapes Dodge, its editor, could make it better, and that w making more of it, and so, beginning with the seventeenth volume, NICHOLAS was enlarged, and the magazine is now printed in new and clearer- faced type than heretofore. During the year there will be four important serial stories by four well-known American writers. Athletic and out-door sports will be a special feature, and Walter Camp, of Yale, and others, will continue to mak this department notable. Both the Dec er a nuary issues will be h numbers. In the December number th by his daughter, containing new portraits and reproductions of the great novelist’s writings when a boy. NO INCREASE IN PRICE. Subscription price, as heretofore, $3.00 a year; 23 cents a number. A new volume began with the November nember, New subscribers should commence with that issue. Booksellers and postmasters take subscriptions, or remittance may be made, by check, draft, money or express order, or it registered letter, to the publishers, THE CENTURY CO,., 32 East r7th St., New York. comicbooks.com