Life — December 4, 1897 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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“LIFE: SCRIBNER’S ANNOUNCEMENT The Christmas Magazine MR MAXFIELD PARRISH HAS COMPOSED THE '97 CHRISTMAS COVER IT IS AS RICH AND WARM IN ITS NINE COLORS AS IT 1S QUAINT IN DESIGN MR AB FROST HAS DRAWN THE CHRISTMAS FRON- TISPIECE IT GIVES HIS IDEA OF THAT FAMOUS CHRISTMAS SCENE IN PICKWICK ‘THE SLIDE” RUDYARD KIPLING'S, stirring poem. “The Feet of the Young Men.” Decorations by Henry McCarter. A CHRISTMAS LOSS, by Henry van Dyke —the story of an early-century Christmas. Mlustrated elaborately by Corwin Knapp inson, JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS'S ‘‘A Run of Luck "—a dramatic story of twenty years before the war. Illustrated by F.C. Yohn. JANES WHITCOMB RILEY'S poem onan early portrait (now first printed) of Robert Louis “THE WORKERS," Walter A. Wyckoff's fifth paper, Camp.” Illustrated by E. Potthast. SIR_E. J. POYNTER, the new of a notable paper by Cosmo Monkhouse. With twenty repr his works. “In a Logging resident of the Royal Academy—the subject juctions from “SQUIRE KAYLEY’S CONCLUSIONS"—by Sarah Barnwell Elliott. Story of a Southern point of honor. With illustrations by W. Appleton Clark. A PENSION LOVE STORY—by Robert drawings by Henry McCarter. “A GUILTY CONSCIENCE '’—a humorous Browne. Illustrated by Peter Newell. Herrick, With some exquisite tale by William Maynadier THE OTHER CONTENTS will be made up of short stories and poems of an appropriate nature fora Christmas number. There will also appear in this number: “THE POSING OF VIVETTE''—a_ poem by J. Russell Taylor, With eight pastels in color by A. B. Wenzell—the wood block for each separate tint engraved by Florian, (The Christmas Scritner will be on sale after the 23d of November.) A PARTIAL* ANNOUNCEMENT OF SCRIBNER’S MAGAZINE FOR ’98 .. THE STORY OF THE REVOLUTION ''—by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, to run throughout the year. (For the first time all the modern art forces and resources will be brought to bear upon the Revolution, Howard Pyle and a corps of artists began work upon it last summer.) CAPTAIN A, T. MAMAN'S “The American Navy in the Revolution,” a group of articles, to be illustrated by Carlton T. Chapman, Harry Fenn, and some of the same artists that are at work on ** The Revolution.” ROBERT GRANT'S *SEARCH-LIGHT LETTERS"'—his replies to various letters that came in consequence cf his ** Reflections of a Married Man,” and "* The Opinions of a Philosopher.” “TME WORKERS" ina new field—by Walter A. Wyckoff. In ‘98 he will tell about his experience with sweat-shop laborers and anarchists in Chicago. (Fully illustrated by W. R. Leigh.) THOMAS NELSON PAGE'S FIRST LONG NOVEL, ‘Red Rock—A Chronicle of Reconstruction.” Mr. Page has devoted four years to the story, and he considers it his best work. (Illustrated by B. West Clinedinst.) 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