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 THE CENTURY MAGAZINE

-L FOR NOVEMBER-BEGINNING OF A GREAT ENTERPRISE- THE ILLUSTRATED SERIES OF WAR PAPERS.

With the November number, now ready, THE CENTURY be- gins its fifteenth year. Each season has shown an advance in circulation upon the preceding, and the magazine starts out upon the new volume with an edition of over 140,000.

The important feature of THE CENTURY MAGAZINE for the coming year, indeed, perhaps, the most important ever un- dertaken by the magazine, will be a series of separate papers on the great battles of the War for the Union, written by Gen- eral officers, high in command, upon both the Federal and Confederate sides. General Grant, who writes of Vicksburg, Shiloh, and other battles; Generals Longxtreet, McClellan, Beauregard, Rosccranz, Hill, Admiral Porter, and others. The series opens in the November CENTURY with an artioleon "THE BATTLE OF BULL RUN," BY GENERAL

BEAUREGARD,

With more than twenty illustrations, including portraits of McDowell, Johnston, " Stonewall '' Jackson, and others. General Beauregard not only describes the battle, but louche* upon his relations with Mr. Jefferson Davis and the general conduct of the War. Brief sketches, entitled " Recollections of a Private," the first one of which, printed in the some number, describes a Union private's experience at Bull Run, will supplement the more-imporUnt series by the generals. Papers chronicling spe- cial events, descriptions of various auxiliary branches of the service, etc., will appear from time to time.

A strict regard for accuracy will guide the preparation of the illustrations, for which THE CENTURY has at its disposal a very large quantity of photographs, drawings, jiur- traits, maps, plans, etc., hitherto unused. The aim is to present in this series, not official reports, but commanding officers' accounts of their plans ami operations ; interesting personal experiences, which will record leading events of the war, and posses.*, at the same time, a historical value not easily to be calculated. The November CKNTURY is a number of more than usual excellence. In it appear, also, first chapters of

A NEW NOVEL, BY W. D. HOWELLS,

Author of "Venetian Days," "A Modern Instance," etc., a story dealing with the rise of an American business man. The other fiction includes short stories by Joel Chandler Harris (" Uncle Remus "), Frank R. Stockton, and Thomas A. Janvier, with illustrations hy A. B. Frost and Mary Hallock Foots.

"HOW SHALL WE ELECT OUR PRESIDENTS?"

THREE FULL-PAGE PICTURES, BY ELIHU VEDDER,

Are conspicuous among the illustrated features of this number. They arc reproduc- tions of some of Mr. Vedder's illustrations of the Song of Omar Khayyasi, with descriptive text by Horace E. Scudder. An entertaining paper on

"THE CHINESE THEATRE," Has thirteen pictures, and an article on Sculptors of the Early Italian Renaissance,"

Is the first of two papers on sanitary subjects, by Col George L. Waring, Jr., the second of which will appear in December. Among the other content* are a poem by Austin Dobson, " The Old Sedan Chair," with illustrations by Bird : umt-

ance with Charles Reade," by Mrs. James T. Fields, with a number of mteresung letters hitherto unpublished; "Lawyer's M School" "A Phase of Social Science." by Henry C. Poster, D. D.; a fulLpage car-

. poems by Edna Deine Proctor, Elaine G.Jale, and Reader of THE CENTURY may feel sure of keeping ab, subjects that may properly rome within the province of a /,-. luSscriptiont should date from the November number now re.,Jy. the t>, the War Series and Mr. Howelh" new novel. Prut, fr "*"

AH booksellers and newsdealers sell it and takt sbicnpti<m:, or rrmittantt may A made to The Century Co., New York, N. Y.