WeCLURE’S MAGAZINE 3 
$1.00a year 
The idea that directs the editing of McCLure’s Macazine is that a periodical may be 
sting’ ¢ Bietiai aining, and still be authoritative and informing ; and that it may be low in price, 
ad still maintain the hi Bese literary and artistic standards. Friends of the Magazine are con- 
santly saying, “ I look into other Ree NIE but McCLure’s is the only one I really read.” ‘This 
popularity, this ente Eatnines ess, is not secured at any sacrifice of quality. The best writers and the 
ist artists are the contributors to MeChuEE 
NEW CONTRIBUTIONS TO AMERICAN HISTORY 
Foll ne an instinct which we have good reason to believe is shared by all of our serpripte we 
lave had as one of our foremost jaaebpaixe in editing the magazine, the inspiring history o 
country, idles A A. Dana’s REMINISCENCES OF MEN AND EVENTS OF THE CIVIL WAR, now totale 
ishing in the Magazine, present the per ecel side of the war as no other man could have presented 
i; and they would probably never ree been written but for the editor of McCLuRE’s. Our series 
alt IFE PORTRAITS OF GREAT AMERICANS is the sig full and adequate prchaata ation of the real 
features of those sterling patriots she we all honor andrevere. Miss Tarbell’s papers on 1H 
Earty LIFE OF LINCOLN gave the first, and indeed the only, full and accurate account * — 
jouth and early manhood that the world hashad. Mr. Hamlin Garland’s series of paper did some- 
that the same service for THE EARLY LIFE OF Grant. And in the November number will begin 
MISS TARBELL’S LATER LIFE OF LINCOLN 
Miss Ta $ pa ek "= me ‘Early Life of Lincoln” ended with Lincoln’s i 
Presiden tT be ese Y "will ex exhibit ogi at his home in Spring -selebaed ‘the 
ine of his nomi ns of tte auguration, and in pear life in the White House, giving a 
onplete picture of eee pee throughout his jak five yea also an rahe os ch th move- 
Sof the war as red in him. Miss T aibell has | eniered, from men who knew Lincoln 
= a great om OF scdolicetions that have never yet been published. 
) HISTORY BY THE MAKERS OF IT 
: Where been a significant chapte 
... vata ver Ble to have bs a man whose own life has been ge ages of MCCLURE’S Appneaictg 
Nbigraphic history, in addition to being the most entertaining to read, is perhaps 
oad It is the one kind that is infallibly vivifying; it gives us the fact, h 
ut and of the one man capable of delivering it. Scarcely a mo 
<a matter of this kind 
THE NEWEST SCIENCE, peewee 3 AND EXPLORATION 
# 
sae Seeking for the nein discoveries or speculations which touch the edge o = . 
CCLURE’s MAGAZINE has been the first to give. au 
r in the history of 
4 
| 
: 
7 
tT 
Way; Ae 
ay; EXPERIMENTS IN FLYING—an article by Octave Chanute, eine SITE 
made by him and his associates within “th key? - the Tel Telegraph Depa partment eh the 
Postal sone deg . 38 sei a arg pt HEST Oita 
authorities in tel hing wit nclimb- 
i e>—an article ee Mr. E. x or teGerald, telling the story ‘ol his recent triumph in 
Aconcagua, a peak 23,000 feet high. 
SERIALS AND SHORT STORIES a 
rial than Anthony Hope’s “ Rupert : 
ntains the ere rd set by — 
sand Anthony Hope’s “ 
—recognize 2 of all the wt eo 
N 
: magazine has tnd published a more interestin g | se 
“” now appearing in McCLurRE’s. It more than m 
it published so ea .* Ebb b Tide” and “St. ie 
CCLURE short story has come a kind by itself 
“aaa novelty and uaeliee Taserest of plot and incid 
t aracterization; and at the same time, an unfailing toe wie, 
m it : — » Cont CLunestory—a any 
illread with interest and which they will be the pero for aie 
BUY OF ANY NEWSDEALER OR REMIT DIREC 
. > MCCLURE COMPANY, 141-155 EAST 25TH ST N 
and 
EW YORK C'TY 
