cClure’s 
Magazine 
For the Coming Year. 
McCure’s MAGAZINE enters upon its fifth year with a circulation of 300,000 copies a mon nth 
It shrinks from no expense to secure the be 
st in literature and art. 
As an illustration of the 
editorial policy, it may be stated that it frequently pays as high as one thousand dollars for an article or 
a story, and that between thirty and forty articles 
been engaged and will be published within two aera: in the magazine. 
could be made by no other periodical in the w 
and stories costing one thousand dollars 
each have 
We believe that an eee claim 
In order to be foremost in the field ae art, the publishers have organized the most complete art 
department possessed by any magazine. This i 
inder the leadership of Mr. A. F. JAcCCACI, who not 
aes draws upon the eae artists of the eeclel Rae has a staff of engravers and specialists under his 
mmediate personal supervision, so that from the momen: a picture is drawn until it is printed, specialists 
sae charge of every step. It iso 
ing plant; not only have we the bes 
class pressmen, watch the presses hou 
While uuine a foremost position in the field 
of particular importance to us that we own and operate our own print- 
t and newest presses, but we absolutely control every part of the 
work and ommigaaee in the pressroom, and skilled representatives of the a 
ur by hour while the enormous cial are being printe 
rt department, assisted by first- 
ed. 
d of art, we also plan to maintain our supremacy in 
the distinctive branches of literature which we have made our own. 
abide Kipling has written for the Christ- 
mas number a complete novelette of Indian life, 
atale of a clouded tiger, entitled “The Tomb of 
his Ancestors.” Mr. Kipling will also contribute 
other stories and several poems. 
- Dana, of A New York Sun 
- sistant Secretary of War under Mr. Stason, vi 
furnish his reminiscences of men and events of th 
Civil War, the most important contribution to 
recent history that has been made in a quarter of a 
_ century, It will be illustrated from eaiektious 
; _— graphs from the Government War collection. 
_ Mark Twain has furnished an account of his 
_ journey from India to South Africa, mainly from 
the diary written during his recent trip around the 
world. This will be illustrated by A. B. Frost and 
Peter Newell. 
' Hope’s sequel to ‘The Prisoner of 
Zenda” will begin in December, it is entitled 
_ “Rupert of Hentzau” and is even more powerful 
; and dramatic a romance than his first novel. _ 
Ze There is no magazine that gives as much new, entertaining, instructive and stim 
as ae get None yee is $1 a = yeRt 10 cents a copy. The 
portant contributions, such as an in 
rd Kelv 
— 29 adventures in un 
coun’ 
a foremost place, and hithert 
Short stories will ne from time to time by 
Octave Thanet, by William Allen White, of the 
Emporia Gazette (whose tales of boy life are 
to rank with Aldrich’s ‘‘Story of a Ba 
hen 7 OF 
Boy” and Mark Twain's ‘Tom Sawyer ): : 
Bret Harte and a good many story writers, D° 
and old. oie 
In the field of science we shall have man) 
terview with 
s of recent 
on some of the problems est 
t wires, 
Preece telegraphing withou 
science, W. H. 
? acting jron ore 
s latest achievement in extr 
by magnetism, Walter Savage 
a ; known Thibet, ¢ ‘al 
of a trip in the Holland Submarine 
a save 
Historical portraiture will, as hecerotorrs : 
of some of the great men of our 
F its of 
printed. In this series will appear pee rs 
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