McClure'f Magazine 



for 1901 



From its first inception, this magazine has been designed by the editor 

 to present to its readers : 



The best record ot human achievements. 



The best literature in fiction or otherwise. 



The most entertaining and instructive articles. 



The best historical papers. 



The best illustrations to illumine and explain the text. 



To include all that is wholesome, to provide all that makes for the best 

 in the intellectual life, and to present it in the most attractive form. 



How well this has been accomplished the unexampled prosperity of the 

 magazine sufficiently demonstrates. For the coming year new ideas, new 

 subjects, and new writers will be found in our pages, and we confidently assure 

 our readers of better things than ever before. A few of our forthcoming 

 features follow : 



KIM — A Great Novel of Life in India 



By RA/DYARJ3 KIPLING 



MR. KIPLING'S work has made 

 in the past a stronger and wider im- 

 pression than that of any other story- 

 teller of his time. Yet it has always 

 struck the world as youthful work, it 

 has always aroused expectation of 

 greater things to come, and there 

 vibrates in many minds a keen interest 

 as to how his full maturity may flower. 



" KIM " which begins in this issue 

 answers that question. With a large- 

 ness and a beauty beyond his former 

 achievements, with no loss of power 

 in its sweeter strength, " Kim" fulfills 

 the pledge of long ago, and comes as 

 a "ship of the line." 



In its basic outlines it is a simple 

 story, almost as simple as " Robinson 

 Crusoe," although so greatly more' 

 complicated in its workings. It is a 

 tale of a young Irish street-waif and an 

 old religious pilgrim who come together 

 in their poverty and helplessness in 

 India, who love each other from the 



"AT THE RAILWAY STATION." 



Bv Ed 



Lord Weeks. 



