THE POINT OF VIEW-THE CHRISTMAS DEBTOR. THE FIELD OF ART-THE PORTRAITS IN THE CITY HALL AND MUNICIPAL OFFICES, 783 ABOUT THE WORLD-ELECTRICITY VERSUS STEAM FOR RAILROADS-POSTAL BANKS Copyright, 1897, by Charles Scribner's Sons. ALL RIGHTS Reserved. 788 Entered at New York Post-Office as Second-class Mail Matter Price, 25 cents a number; $3.00 a year THE PLANS FOR 1898 ARE ANNOUNCED ON THE FOLLOWING PAGES MAGAZINE FOR 18 9 8 "There is something about SCRIBNER'S which one does not Senator Lodge undertook this large work with two ideas in view: (1) To present the fight for American independence as a vivid picture of a vital struggle, reproducing the atmosphere and feeling of the time. (2) To make clear the historical significance and proportion of the events described, as they can now be discerned with the perspective of years. A VIVID This is a subject in which the author of "The Life of Washington" has been all his life intensely interested. For the first time all the modern forces and resources of the illustrative art will be brought to bear upon the subject. As in the story so in the illus The full announcement of the magazine in small book-form, printed in two colors with numerous illustrations (cover and decorations by Maxfield Parrish), will be sent upon application. ii preparing for the magazine will For illustrating these papers a plan similar to that of The Story of the Revolution will be followed. The real atmosphere will be sought. Page's First Long Novel "RED ROCK-A Chronicle of Reconstruction" is the title of the novel upon which Thomas Nelson Page has been at work for the past four years. Mr. Page has hitherto written of the Old South or the New South; he now writes the novel of the era when the Old South was lost for ever and the New South had not yet found itself. It is his first long novel, and he considers it his best work. The American Navy in the BY CAPTAIN A. T. MAHAN, U. S. N. The articles which Captain Mahan, author of "The Sea Power in History," is deal largely with the ro THE ROMANTIC [From Page's "Red Rock-A Chronicle of Reconstruction"] iii THE CARPET BAGGER AND The doings of the Ku-Klux Klan figure in the story and there are other elements that furnish movement. But all through there is the fascinating atmosphere of old families in Southern house parties, THE KU-KLUX and generous hospitality, and beautiful women and gallant men. Each instalment of the novel will be illustrated by a full-page drawing by B. West Clinedinst. KLAN (This will be the leading fiction* serial and will run through the year.) The Workers-An Experiment in Reality BY WALTER A. WYCKOFF The Princeton graduate who became a day-laborer in order to learn the truth about the working-classes will continue the singular narrative of his two years' actual experience. The second part, to appear during 1898, will have to do with the young laborer's experiment in the West, where he had even more instructive experiences, nearly starving on the streets of Chicago as a member of the army of the unemployed," living in tenement houses, associating with sweat-shop workers, attending anarchists' meetings, etc. Here he found his most valuable sociological material. Previous to this time his experience had been as a laborer in normal conditions in rural districts; now he met with the complicated problems brought about by organized labor in overcrowded cities, strikes, etc.t "The Workers" will be more extensively illustrated during '98, with from eight to ten drawings for each instalment. Mr. W. R. Leigh is now sketching for it in Chicago. FORTY-FIVE YEARS IN Senator Hoar's Political Reminiscences Senator Hoar is one of the fathers of the senate. He has been continuously in public life for over forty-five years, from PUBLIC LIFE the days of Sumner to the Dingley Tariff. Being such a shrewd observer and witty writer and speaker, and at the same time having such a store of experience to draw upon, he has made an especially entertaining contribution. (The letters will appear from time to time throughout the year.) More About Great Businesses "THE BRAINS BEHIND GREAT BUSINESSES " The reason the articles upon the Conduct of Great Businesses during the past year were so successful was because they were written from the point of view of the brains behind great businesses. They were not industrial articles; they did not catalogue what was done in various enterprises; they explained Why. During the coming year the series will be continued with papers on "The Mine," "The Theatre," etc. Each article will be illustrated with a series of drawings made from actual scenes by well-known artists. Life at Girls' Colleges OF CLASS The "Higher Education" of woman is not to be considered WHEN OUT in these articles, but what the students at women's colleges do ROOM when out of classroom, not seeking the higher education. Like the recent series on Undergraduate Life at Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, these articles will not touch on histories of the institutions, or the working of the curricula. They will tell of the manners and customs and life of various American college girls. There will be three articles, LIFE AT WELLESLEY by Abbe Carter Goodloe; LIFE AT SMITH and LIFE AT VASSAR by graduates whose names will be announced later. Each of these will be illustrated by a score or more drawings made from life and actual scenes by artists who will spend a term or so at each college for the purpose. Bits of Europe in America There are a number of settlements of Europeans who are in this country, but not of it, who live very much as they did at home, with all their characteristic manners and customs. The three most typical of these have been studied by three women for the magazine, as follows: |