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with The Century means familiarity with all the best in American art to-day and acquaintance with the choicest work of foreign artists. It means that liberal education in modern art which every wise parent values for the growing-up son and daughter. Other features of very special interest in the new volume of The Century:

will tell the story of those events since the Civil War which have been important factors in our national life. The articles are being written by distinguished editors throughout the country, men who were part of the events and conditions they picture. This is history of living interest to young people who would be well informed. Some of the contributors to this series, and their subjects, are given on these pages.

through Dalmatia and Greece in the pages of The Century during 1913. Robert Hichens’s brilliant pen, Jules Guérin’s wonderful brush, will make the people and scenes of this unfamiliar land marvelously alive for readers of The Century.

Do you remember “Little Lord Fauntleroy” and “Sarah Crewe” and “The Secret Garden”? Then you will want to read this new story by this writer of magic pen who has never grown up. It is to be The Century’s serial novel during 1913, and is to “be called “T. Tembarom.” It is a story of New York and English rural life.

Every one has heard how when governments want to send secret orders to their ambassadors abroad, they use a cipher which is a combination of words or figures that no one can read unless he is in the secret. Hundreds of years ago, the Greeks sent such messages by swift runners. Now they flash over telegraph and cable wires. The November Century’s story of how nations have invented ingenious means of secret writing is a fascinating one; and it is interestingly told by John H. Haswell.

''Is The Century coming regularly into your home? If not, a copy of the beautiful and interesting November number will be sent free, on request, to any St. Nicholas subscriber. Address: 'THE CENTURY CO.'', Union Square, New York.

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