Life — November 2, 1899 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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November 2, 1809. DRAWN FROM THE PORTRAIT OF CROMWELL BY SAMUEL COOPER, IN SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND. CAN you tell, offhand, in just what century Cromwell was born? Can you even tell how he died? Reading history is delightful when it can be taken as a recreation. The Century Magazine has printed some of the greatest histories of our time, and in 1900 it will follow them with a superbly illustrated life of Oliver Cromwell, written by the Right Hon, John Morley, M.P., than whom there is no one more competent to treat Cromwell in the spirit of the end of the nineteenth century, Mr. Morley is the author- ized biographer of Gladstone, and his work as a his- torian is well known. The illustrations of the history will be remarkable. Besides original drawings by well-known artists, there will be valuable unpublished portraits, permission to reproduce which has been given by Her Majesty the Queen, and by the owners of some of the most famous collections in Europe. Why not make this your serious reading for 1900, remembering, too, that it is only one of scores of good things in The Century? Begin your subscription with November,—printed in tints. PRESS OF THE J. W. PRATT CO., NEW YORE. The November Century in which the Cromwell history opens, ts one of ‘the most beautiful numbers of @ magazine ever issued, printed im tints, the cover designed by Ernest Haskeit. It contains the first instalment of ‘*The Blography of a Grizzly,’ the most im- portant work of Ernest Seton-Thomp- son, the author of “Wild Animals I Have Known,” strikingly lustrated by the author. © Autobiography ofa Quack,” the sertal story by Dr. 8. Weir Mit- ehell, begins in this issue, ® curious psycho- logical study, full of humor and entertainment, Mark ‘Twain furnisnes «chapter from the autoblography which It was sald recently he was working on und would hold back for a hundred years, Captsin Joshua Slocam’s ‘“Sall- ing Alone Around the World is ono of the hits of the magazine year. in the November Century Captain Slocum describes bis call at Juan Fernandez and his visit with the family of Robert Louls Stevenson at Samoa, Governor Theodore Roosevelt con- tributes an article on“ Military Preparedness and Unpreparedness,” and Preatdent Eliot of Harvard writes of “The Forgotten Millions. * ‘There are three unusually strong stortes (all of them Illustrated), and # most entertaining article, iustrated, on *¢ Wagner from Behind the Scenes, describing “scenery that acta” Bny tt on any news-stantl (price 35 cents), or begin a year's xubscription with thix November number, remitting $4.00 to the publishers, THE CENTURY COMPANY, Unton Square. New York. nS as eS ks comicbooks.com