Life — November 26, 1896 — page 24: what you’re looking at

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November 26, 1854, THE BEGINNING OF A NEW DECADE OF SCRIBNER’S MAGAZINE IN 1897 will be the occasion of a most elaborate programme, containing many novel features, for which the publishers | have been two years preparing. One of the notable attractions will be a series of articles on ll This is the first time ONDON Mr. Gibson has ap- peared as a writer. He visited London AS SEEN last summer for Scribner's Magazine for the purpose of BY C D GIBSO ” depicting with pen | bs © and pencil those scenes and types which the huge metropolis presents in endless variety. For the reader it willbe a ramble over London town in company with a rarely shrewd and sympathetic observer. The abundant illustrations present portraits of the most striking figures in London lite; | Royalties, the celebrities of art, literature and the army ; social functions, the theatres, the Queen's Drawing Room ; types of street singers, flower girls, recruiting sergeants, etc.. etc. Noted Lon- doners—General Sir Evelyn Wood, DuMaurier, Anthony Hope, Phil May, etc.—appear in Mr Gibson’s drawings in a way which shows that he drew them as they lived. a Of like novelty will be the first considerable NOVEL BY RICHARD HARDING DAVIS “SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE” which will be- | gin in January. A LONDON PARK ORATOR The hero, a young American engineer in South America, is one of the most vigorous men Mr. Davis has ever drawn, and the story BEAUTIFUL 16-PAGE PROSPECTUS FREE throughout will be full of exciting and dramatic episodes. C. D. TO ALL UPON REQUEST Gibson will illustrate it. Charles Scribner’s Sons, Publishers, New York. comicbooks.com