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��LITERARY NOTES.

��The Lincoln history in The Century, by the private secretaries of Mr. Lin- coln, IVIessrs. Nicoluy and Hay, will deal during the coniino; year with the political and military history of the early period of the war. New light will be thrown upon certain events of that peiiod by the publication of corre- spondence and other documents never before printed, and unknown to Init a small circle. The historians now en- ter upon a more impoi'tant and pei'- sonal part of their narrative. The pub- lication of this history has l)rought an increase of 25,000 subscribers to The Century.

The War Series in that magazine has given it 75,000 new sul)scribers, probably the greatest gain from any one featuie in the history of maga- zines. This series, so far as it relates to the descriptions of campaigns and battles by distinguished generals, will virtually close with the November number. Future papers on this sub- ject will be of a general or at least untechnical sort, — among them a cu- rious and popular statistical paper on "■ Regimental Losses in the War," narratives of ])ersonal adventure, " Colonel Rose's Tunnel from Libby Prison," "• Hard Times in the Con- federacy," etc., etc. General Sher- man's article on " The Strategy of the War" will appear in an early number.

Mws. FuAXCES Hodgson Burnett will contribute a short serial to the coming volume of St. Nicholas for Young F(jl'ks, which is said to ])e a worthy successor of that author's famous '• Little Lord Fauntleroy," which appeared in iSt. Nicholas a year ago. Joel Chandler Harris, John Burroughs, Frank R. Stockton, H. H. Boyesen, J. T. Trowbridge, Col. Rich- ard M. Johnstone, and Louisa M. Al- cott are among the many distinguished writers who will contribute serial and

��short stories to this famous magazine for young people. It will have an il- lustrated series on Australia, and i\L'. Edmund Alton, author of "Among the Lavv-makers" (Congress), will contiibute "The Routine of the Re- cal workings of the administrative departments, the White House, etc.
 * )ut(lic," describing the daily practi-

Edavaui) P^guleston, author of the famous ''Hoosier Schoolmaster," will furnish a novel to The Century for 1887-8. It is a story of Western life, and de|)icts a trial in which Abraham Lincoln was a chief actor. It was written before any part of the Life of Lincoln had been pulilished, and the appearance at this time of Mr Lin- coln as an important auxiliary char- acter in a work of fiction is a pure coincidence.

George W. Cabee will contribute a novelette to early numbers of the The Century, and Frank R. Stockton has written a three-part story, " The Dusantes," for the same magazine. Mr. Stockton's new novel, "The Hun- dredth Man," has just been issued in book form.

The Siberian Papers, by George Kennan, wmU be a great feature of Tlte Century for the coming year. Mr. Kennan has just returned from a journey of 1500 miles through Euro- pean and Asiatic Russia, undertaken at the request of the editor of The Century. By means of a circular let- ter from the Russian Minister of the Interior, Mr. Kennan was enabletl to visit nearly every important prison and mine in Siberia. He made the intimate personal acquaintance of more than three hundied exiled liber- als and Nihilists, and he will give a thorough account of the terrible con- vict system of Siberia. Mr. Kennan's papers will be further enriched by a

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