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"THE AMANA SOCIETY; or, the Community of True Inspiration,"* by Octave Thanet.

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THE SWEDISH COLONIES IN MINNESOTA," by Cornelia Atwood Pratt. "ICELAND IN DAKOTA," by Elia W. Peattie.

They are to be fully illustrated with artistic drawings from photographs taken under the supervision of the authors.

KIPLING

Short Fiction

"We believe it is more equal in the quality of its short fiction offer-
ings than any other American periodical." Indianapolis News.

Mr. Rudyard Kipling, whose best work, both in fiction and poetry, has been represented in the pages of Scribner's, will, as has already been announced, again be a contributor during 1898.

GRAHAME

Mr. Kenneth Grahame, whose further stories of The Golden Age appearing in the magazine during the past year won such high praise, will also be a contributor during 1898.

CABLE

Mr. George W. Cable, who has written almost no short fiction in a number of years, will contribute a group of three stories; and others of the magazine's old and new contributors have already in its safe stories which will score successes during the coming year.

THE BEST STORY"

In short fiction, which has always been one of the magazine's strong points, there will be a continuation of its " Policy," which is, to get not only the best work of well-known authors, but the best work regardless of its authorship; to cultivate no one style of fiction or ephemeral tendency; but, in brief, to get the best story.

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A New York Day

BY C. D. GIBSON

Mr. Gibson will present in this series what he considers the typical scenes of a typical New York day.

NEW YORK

AS SEEN BY

C. D. GIBSON

Under the title "Morning" there will be four pictures showing what a different thing Morning means to different New Yorkers. There will be scenes at the Ferries and on the Elevated Roads where people are hurrying to their day's work, while another picture of the same part of the day but in a different part of the town will show those who eat leisurely breakfasts in clubs and boudoirs. And so on with the other periods of the day-Noon, Evening, and Night.

The Seven Ages of American Woman

BY C. D. GIBSON

In this study Mr. Gibson will show in a series of full-page drawings his own creation, The American Girl, in the seven stages of her development:

FROM BABY

TO MATRON

The Baby, The Despotic Little Girl, The School-girl, The Bud, The Fiancée, The Young Wife, and The Matron.

Picturesque New York

Much of Manhattan Island has been pictured and written about. But there is a sort of article and an entirely novel scheme of illustration that have not yet been attempted, which Scribner's has in view for next year. It will include: New York from the Waterfront, the Cross-Streets, the Walk Uptown.

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SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE
RECEIVED BY ALL BOOKSELLERS AND
DEALERS PRICE $3.00 A YEAR POSTAGE
PREPAID.. ADDRESS CHARLES SCRIBNER'S
SONS 153-157 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK

(On the next page will be found an announcement of the contents of the January number.)

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The January Scribner

SENATOR LCDGE'S STORY OF THE REVOLUTION will begin with a vivid description of "THE FIRST STEP" in the summer of 1774: the procession of Colonial delegates marching into Carpenter's Hall, and the Philadelphia citizens looking on, picking out the prominent figures-who were to become more prominent-Patrick Henry, the Adamses, Randolph, Lee, the Rutledges, Hopkins, John Jay, and others, including the tall figure of one Col. Washington. From the exposition of what was accomplished by this assembly and the real significance of it, the author turns to the description of "THE FIRST BLOW." The first instalment of this work shows the value of the author's method which is, first, to present the fight for American independence as a vivid picture, and, second, to make clear the historical significance and proportion of the events described.

The 27 drawings by Howard Pyle, Ernest Peixotto and F. C. Yohn fully illustrate the

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THOMAS NELSON PAGE'S NOVEL, "RED ROCK, A CHRONICLE OF RECONSTRUCTION, will open at Red Rock, the comfortable and hospitable seat of the Grays of Virginia, showing the characters of the story in their idyllic childhood before the war. A memorable "party" is described, and then the approach of the exciting war times. The struggle itself will be passed over briefly, for this is not a war story, and the next instalment will show the condition of Red Rock and its people at the beginning of the Reconstruction days. The frontispiece by Clinedinst will illustrate one of the scenes.

THE FRENCH LITERARY CIRCLE that met at the "garret" of the brothers de Goncourt-its members, its atmosphere, and its attitude toward the rest of the Parisian liter

ary world will be described by ALINE GORREN. For illustrating this paper permission was ootained to reproduce the portraits drawn on fly-leaves of presentation copies of books in Goncourt's library. The collection will include likenesses of "the five hissed authors," Flaubert, Daudet, Zola, Tourguénieff, and Edmond de Goncourt, and other celebrated men and women sketched by Raffaeli, Carrière and others.

LLOYD OSBORNE, the stepson and collaborator of the late Robert Louis Stevenson, will contribute "THE CROWN VERSUS BILLY," a short story of the South Sea Islands. The action takes place on board a British man of war.

SUSAN NICHOLS CARTER, the late head of the Cooper Union Art School, wrote, just before her death, a bright, sunny paper describing the chestnut groves of northern Italy. Corwin Knapp Linson, the artist, went over the ground later for the magazine and made a score of illustrations in pen, crayon and oils. BRET HARTE'S POEM, "THE BIRDS OF CIRCENCESTER," will be illustrated by Pyle.

HELEN WATERSON MOODY'S third essay on "THE UNQUIET SEX" will have to do with "Woman and Reforms."

SOME TENDENCIES OF MODERN OPERA by Reginald de KoVEN, and an Arizona Story by W. LE C. BEARD (illustrated by Clinedinst) will be among the other contents.

MR. RUSSELL STURGIS, the art critic. will now take special charge of the department "THE FIELD OF ART." The January number will contain a discussion of Rodin, by Mr. Brownell and Mr. La Farge, suggested by two recent works.

THE POINT OF VIEW will continue.

(The January number will be out on December 20th)

of New Books for the Holidays ***

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Old Creole Days

This collection of short stories has long been known as one of Mr. George W. Cable's masterpieces, and

the present edition is as unique in its mechanical perfection as

the stories themselves are in our literature. Mr. Albert Herter has supplied eight full-page illustrations and fourteen head-and-tail pieces, (one of them, with a reduced full-page, is here shown) all of which have been reproduced in photogravure, and these pictures have rarely been equalled in their realistic delicacy, firmness, and charm by any American illustrator. Mr. Herter has also furnished a handsome cover-design, so that the volume is peculiarly in key throughout, his pictures being illustrations in the truest sense of the word. With a title-page printed in two colors, wide margins, light paper, and fine printing, this volume is a triumph of the book-maker's art. The price of the regular edition is $6.00, and there are still a few copies of the limited numbered edition on Japan paper for sale at $12.00 net.

London: as Seen by C. D. Gibson

HERE are few more notable figures on the artistic horizon at present than Mr. Gibson, and the present volume undoubtedly contains his most ambitious and characteristic collection of work thus far. These London views include not only striking examples of his most finished pen-and-ink drawings, but also a number of important pictures in wash and crayon, which are truly noteworthy. The artist's facile pen has depicted everything most striking and picturesque, and the large size of the volume, twelve by eighteen inches, has given an exceptional chance to do justice to the pictures. The price of the volume is $5.00, the édition de luxe, $10.00 net; and by ordering at once it may be still possible to secure a copy of the latter.

This Country of Ours. By Benjamin Harrison

This unique volume, by General Benjamin Harrison, ex-President of the United States, supplies a want which almost everyone must have experienced. It is the first really adequate attempt to explain in a popular manner the working of our national government-the Presidential Office, the Senate, the House, the Supreme Court, and the various departments. There can be no doubt that the volume will, as General Harrison expresses it in his preface, "promote an intelligent patriotism and a faithful discharge of the duties of citizenship." The New York Tribune says: "Nowhere could there be found a volume better adapted to popular use than this compendium of one of the wisest of our Presidents These chapters possess a permanent value." The Boston Budget, too, says: We have no other volume which deals so fully and yet so concisely with this important subject, and it will undoubtedly commend itself as a most valuable text-book in the schools, filling a place that is entirely its own." (12mo, $1.50.)

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Dr. van Dyke is here peculiarly in his element, for he is dealing with the transition from those pagan human sacrifices with which the barbarian Germans defiled the gloomy oak of Geismar to the peaceful celebration of the birth of Christ, here initiated through the dramatic interruption of these rites by the Wessex monk, Winfried. The author's feeling for nature and the strong and true religious sense so manifest in all his writings combine to make this a singularly vivid, strong, and charming story. Mr. Howard Pyle has illustrated the book, in his usual conscientious and satisfactory style, with full-page pictures reproduced in photogravure, and a pleasingly holiday effect has been given to the volume by the decorative borders, illuminated title, and striking cover. (8vo, $1.50.)

The Decoration of Houses

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This important volume is the joint work of Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr., and it will be found most helpful to all the thousands of people who are striving to "make the best" of their surroundings, æsthetically speaking. The problems continually encountered in the effort to get the best effects from various architectural conditions are here met by suggestive descriptions, with a series of fifty-six photographic illustrations which show what the artistic taste of different periods has already devised, and the book presents many new aspects of a subject far too much neglected among us. (Square 8vo, $4.00.)

From The First Christmas Tree"

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Vasari's Lives of the Painters.

By Giorgio Vasari

This translation of Vasari's classic work is edited and annotated in the light of recent discoveries by E. H. and E. W. Blashfield and A. A. Hopkins, and the price of the four volumes is $8.00. The New York Sun says: "The bibliography prefixed to each life, and the copious notes, complete one of the most valuable, and certainly the most interesting, contributions to the literature of art that has been issued in recent years." The Tribune says: "These volumes should be eagerly received by many who have never studied art at all," and the Evening Post declares this "the best English edition in existence."

His Grace of Osmonde. By Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Being the Portion of the History of that Nobleman's Life Omitted from the Narrative Given to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality." (12mo, $1.50.) This sub-title gives the key to this remarkable story, which probably marks a unique experiment in fiction. In it Mrs. Burnett has written the man's side of the story, the woman's side of which was given in her very successful "Lady of Quality," now in its twenty-sixth thousand, and she has thus given an additional piquancy and interest to a story which could not have failed to be most widely read for its intrinsic strength and its forceful delineation of character.

St. Ives. By Robert Louis Stevenson

"The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England" is what our greatest romanticist has here woven into a fascinating tale. The fact that it went so speedily into a fourth edition is sufficient evidence that the public at once appreciated it as a remarkably entertaining story. The Bookman says: "We are inclined to think it is in St. Ives' that Stevenson erects his true monument as a master of narrative style," and the Times (London) declares : "Neither Stevenson himself nor any one else has given us a better example of a dashing story, full of life and color and interest."

The History of the Lady Betty Stair

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One of the decided "successes" of last year was Miss Molly Elliott Seawell's Abelle "Sprightly Romance of Marsac," and the author has repeated her good work this season with the present attractive romance, which is illustrated by T. de Thulstrup, and is bound similarly to "Marsac." (12mo, $1.25.) The Art Interchange says: gether the story is a delightful one and marks a long step in advance of the author's previous work. The gain is in the line of vigorous and clear-cut characterization." STEVENSON

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