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The West Ameicati Scientist. 



in thirty of the country's population,' 

 — and large editions of both are sent 

 beyond the seas. It is an interesting 

 lact that a few years ago it was 

 found that seven thousand copies of 

 The Century went to Scotland — 

 quite a respectable edition in itself 

 The question in England is no long- 

 er 'Who reads an American book?' 

 but 'Who does not see the Ameri- 

 can magazines?' 



A few years ago The Century 

 about doubled its circulation with 

 the famous War Papers, by General 

 Grant and others, adding many more 

 readers later with the Lincoln His- 

 tory and Kennon's thrilling articles 

 on the Siberian Exile System. One 

 great feature of 1891 is to be 'the 

 gold hunters of California,' de- 

 scribing that remarkable move- 

 ment to the gold fields in '49, in a 

 series of richly illustrated articles 

 written by survivors, including the 

 nanatives of men who went to Cali- 

 'fornia by the difterent routes, ac- 

 counts of the gold discoveries, life in 

 the mines, the work of the vigilence 

 committees (by the chairman of the 

 committees) etc., etc. General Fre- 

 mont's last writing was done for this 

 series. In November appears the 

 opening article 'The Firsts Emigrant 

 Train to California,' — crossing the 

 Rockies in 1 84.1— by General Bid- 

 well, a pioneer of pioneers. Thou- 

 sands ot American families who had 

 some relative or friend among 'the 

 Argonauts of '49' will be interested 

 in these papers. 



Many other good things are com- 

 ing — the narrative of an American's 

 travels through that unknown land 

 Tibet (for 700 miles over ground 

 never before trod by a white man); the 



experience of escaping War-Prison- 

 ers; American Newspapers described 



by well-known journaHsts; accounts 

 of the great Indian Fighters, Custer 

 and others; personal anedotes of 

 Lincoln, by his private secretaries; 

 'The Faith Doctor,' a novel by Ed- 

 ward Eggleston, with a wonderfully 

 rich programme of novellettes and 

 stories by most of the leading writ- 

 ers, etc., etc. 



It is also announced that 'I he 

 Century has purchased the right to 

 print, before its appearance in 

 France or any other country, ex- 

 tracts from advance sheets of the 

 famous Talleyrand Memoirs, which 

 have been secretly preserved for half 

 a century — to be first given to the 

 world through the pages of an Amer- 

 ican magazine. All Europe is eager- 

 ly awaiting the publication of this 

 personal history of Talleyrand — 

 greatest of intriguers and diplomats. 



The Nove-mber Centiiry begins 

 the volumne, and new subscribers 

 should commence with that issue. 

 The subscription price ($4.00) may 

 be remitted directly to the publishers, 

 The Century Co., 33 East 17th St., 

 New York, or single copies may be 

 purchased of any newsdealer. The 

 publishers offer to send a free sample 

 copy — a recent back number — to 

 any one desiring it. 



SCIENCE FOR YOUNG PEO- 

 PLE. 



The Youth's Companion of Boston 

 the well-known weekly, filled with 

 choice stories and miscellany, an- 

 nounces for 1891 an interesting and 

 instructive series of papers by emi- 

 nent scientists on the latest discover- 

 ies in science. 



Among the subjects are, 'The 

 Stars,"fhe Moon, "The Earth,' The 

 Ocean,' and 'The Sun.' 'The Trap- 

 persand Hunters of the Insect Tribes,' 

 by Dr. H. C. McCook, is sure to be 

 especially fascinating to the natural- 

 ists old and young. Subscription 

 price, $1.75 per year in advance, for 

 tl\is unique journal. 



