McClure’s 
Magazine 
For the Coming Year. 
McCuvre’s MaAGAziINe enters upon its fifth year with a circulation of 300,000 copies a month. 
d art. 
It shrinks from no expense 
to secure the best in literature an 
s 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 
ould be made by no other periodical in the world. 
that between thirty and forty articles and stories costing one thou 
been engaged and will be published within two years in the magazine. 
sand dollars each have 
We believe that an equal claim 
order to be foremost in the field of art, the publishers have organized the most complete art 
department possessed by any magazine. 
This is under the leadership of Mr. A. F, Jaccacr 
c1, who not 
only draws upon the foremost artists of the world, but has a staff of engravers and specialists under his 
immediate personal supervision, so that 
have charge of every step. 
ing plant; not only have we the b 
work and processes in the pressroom, pee skilled representatives of the 
tch the presses hour by hour while the enormous editions are being printe 
aking a foremost position in the field of art, we also plan to maintain our supremacy in 
class cy wa 
hile 
from the moment a picture is drawn until it is printed, specialists 
It is of paeesees importance to us that we own and operate our own print- 
and newest presses, but we absolutely control every part 
of the 
art department, assisted by first- 
rinted 
the obese branches of literature which we have made our own. 
Rudyard Kipling has written for the Christ- 
-mas number a complete novelette of Indian life, 
a tale of a clouded tiger, entitled ‘‘ The Tomb of 
his Ancestors.” Mr. Kipling will also contribute 
other stories and several poems. 
Charles A. Dana, of the New York Sun, As- 
‘sistant Secretary of War under Mr. Stanton, will 
furnish his reminiscences of men and events of the 
Civil War, the most important contribution to 
recent history that has been made in a quarter of a 
century, It will be illustrated from unpublished 
photographs 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. will be illustrated by A. B. Frost and 
Peter Newell. 
Anthony 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. 
as McCrure’s. The price is $1 a 
less than $1.50). 
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Short stories will appear from time to time b 
Octave Thanet, by William Allen White, of the 
Emporia Gazette (whose tales of boy life are 
worthy to rank with Aldrich’s ‘‘Story of a Bad 
Boy” and M Twain’s ‘‘Tom Sawyer”), by 
Bret Harte and a good many story writers, new 
and o 
In the field of science we shall have many im- 
portant contributions, such as an interview with 
Lord Kelvin on some of the problems of recent 
science, W. H. Preece telegraphing without wires, 
Edison’s latest achievement in extracting iron ore 
y magnetism, Walter Savage Landor’s ex- 
plorations and adventures in unknown Thibet, and 
an account of a trip in the Holland Submarine 
at. 
Historical portraiture will, as heretofore, have 
a foremost place, and hither 
printed. In this series will appear portraits of 
Adams, Calhoun, Jefferson, Lincoln and others. 
There is ne magazine that gives as much new, spiel instructive and stimulating Agta 
a year, 10 cents a copy 
‘up the year would form twenty octavo books (not one of these ks ale be sold through the trade re 
The con s of the two volumes which make 
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