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Enters upon a new volume with the issue of November, which con- 

 tains the opening parts of several leading features of the year. In 

 this number are the first chapters of the " Autobiography of Joseph 

 Jefferson." In it the author relates the story of his life, from his first 

 appearance on the stage as " property " baby, to within the past few 

 years. His reminiscences and the portraits of actors and actresses 

 with whom he has been associated — among them the elder Booth, 

 the Wallacks, Forrest, and Charlotte Cushman — are especially in- 

 teresting. His own experiences in the pioneer West, in Mexico, 

 Australia, South America, England, France, and the Southern and 

 Eastern States, are related In a frank and charming manner. Mr. 

 Jefferson writes as naturally as he acts. Serial stories by Frank R. 

 Stockton and Amelia E. Barr also begin in the November number. 

 Mr. Stockton humorously describes the extraordinary cruise of The 

 Merry Chanter. Mrs. Barr, the author of "Jan Vedder's Wife," 

 etc., has written for The Century a story of love in the days 

 of Cromwell and the Merry Monarch, entitled " Friend Olivia." 

 During the year there will be printed other serials and a number of short stores by such 

 well-known writers as Arlo Bates, H. S. Edwards, Sarah Orne Jewett, Richard M. John- 

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 printed in the November Century. These are a series of discussions of timely social questions 

 by prominent men who have associated for this purpose, among them Bishop Potter and the Hon. 

 Seth Low, the new President of Columbia College. In December will begin the series by Prof. 

 Fisher, of Yale, on the "Nature and Method of Revelation." During the year will be published 

 popular science papers by Prof. Holden, describing the latest discoveries in astronomy at the Lick 

 Observatory and illustrated articles on " Pre-historic America," by Prof. Putnam, of Harvard. A 

 number of papers on Art will also be printed. In the November number will be found " A Con- ■ 

 necticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court," a new story by Mark Twain ; a description of the Gro- 

 lier Club, by Brander Matthews ; poems by Walt. Whitman, T. W. Higginson, Margaret Deland, 

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