SCIENCE, 



[Vol. XVI. No. 404 



The Century Magazine in 189 1. 



miles of which was over ground never 

 before traveled by a white man; "Per- 

 sonal Traits of Lincoln," by his private 

 .secretaries, Messrs. Nicolay and Hay ; 

 -' Adventures of War Prisoners," ex- 

 periences of Union and Confederate 

 soldiers during the civil war; "Ameri- 

 can Newspapers," described by noted 

 journalists; "American and £nglish 

 Frigates in the War of 1812 " ; "In- 

 dian Fights and Fighters," by officers 

 who served with Custer, Mackenzie, 

 Crook and Miles ; " The Court of the 

 and many other incidents of that v ■?ff^''«)'3zar Nicholas," by an ex-minister to 

 citing period, including a paper by "Russia; suggestive papers on the Gdv- 



The, recent remarkable serial suc- 

 cesses of this magazine, — the famous 

 War Papers, Kennan's Siberian Arti- 

 cles, and the Life of Lincoln, — will be 

 continued in the coming volume (the 

 forty-first) by " The Gold Hunters of 

 California," a series of separate illus- 

 trated papers on the gold fever of '49, 

 telling of the discovery of gold, the 

 movement to California (by survivors 

 of various expeditions) t/l^a in the 

 mines, the Vigilance Coni. ^^-''A'^. (by 

 the chairman of both comu- °**^^ 



General Fremont. 



Another notable feature will be the 

 publication of extracts from advance 

 sheets of the Talleyrand Memoirs soon 

 to be issued in book-form in Paris, 

 the manuscript of which has been 

 secretly preserved for more than half 

 a century, — to be printed first in an 

 American magazine. 



Other interesting serials include 

 "An American in Tibet," papers 

 describing a remarkable journey, 700 



ernment of Cities ; a series of engrav- 

 ings of noted pictures by American 

 Artists; the "Present-Day Papers," 

 by Bishop Potter, Seth Low, and others. 

 Fiction includes "The Faith Doctor," 

 a serial novel of New- York life by 

 Edward Eggleston; "The Squirrel 

 Inn" by Frank R. Stockton, and novel- 

 ettes and short stories by nearly all 

 the leading writers, Joel Chandler 

 Harris, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Bran- 

 der Matthews and many others. 



The November Number, 



which begins the new volume, contains opening chapters of several important serials, including General 

 John Bidwell's account of "The First Emigrant Train to California" (1841), "An American in Tibet," 

 " Early Victories of the American Navy," and " Colonel Carter of Cartersville," a delightful illustrated 

 novelette by F. Hopkinson Smith. Also " Life in the White House in the Time of Lincoln " by Col. 

 John Hay, "On the Andersonville Circuit" by an ex-Union prisoner, " How London is Governed," 

 "The Printing of The Centdry," two complete stories, etc. Nearly one hundred illustrations. Ready 

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