Scribner's Magazine

a&q ïxée)tionkl Yeeti. yiffi Ycur 1891 has been marked by a greater advance than any similar period since the Magazine was estaUished. Not only has the literary and artütic excellent been maintained and increased, bid a corresponding gain has been made in the sakand influencc of the Magazine. At the end of 1891 the circulation has risen U mm than 140,000. It mayjwtly be promised thut thefurtlier improvemevts for the coming year will be proportionate to these largely increased opportunüies. $öt Kext Yekf. lt is iiot possible to gire, in a brief space, an account of all the features in preparation, but the material is deficiënt in neither importance nor range of subject. Amoug the subjeets treated: The Poor in the World's Great Cities. It is proposed topublisii a series of artieles, upon ft seale not boi'ore attenipti'd, givine thi results ol special stiuly and work the poor ot' the trreat cities. The plan will mclude an aci-oiint oi Miu cundiiions of üfe in those cities (in maaylands) wliere the? resulta of réfeareb will be hclpl'ul for purposes of comparisou as well ae fortheirowu Intrinsic Interest. While, lrom a BCientiflc point of view. ihe artilles will be a oontribution of great importance, the treatmept wiH be t boroug iil v popular, and The elabórate iUustrations wil! serve to malse the mesentatlon of the subject vivid as well as picturesque. Washington A listón. Unpublished ll'-mmlscencei and Letters of tliis foremost amoug early American pain tora. A mimber of illnstrations will lend additional interest to the artieles. Important Moments. The aim of this series of vory short artieles is lo describe tüe signal occasions when soioe decisive event took plaee. or when somo great experiment was first ehown to be successful- such mornents as thatol' the flrpt use of the Atlantic cable, the flrst use of the trlegraph anc telephone. the örst, successful experiment with ether thenig-htof the Chicago tire, the sceno at the moment of the vote on the impeaehment oí Andrew Jobnson, etc., etc. Out of Door Papers. In the early will be begun a number ot seasonable artieles, among them being: Small Country Places, liow to lay out and beautiiy them, by Samuei Pabsons, Jr. FisMng Lore front an Angler's Note Booh, by Dr. Leroy M. Yale. Mountain Station Life in New Zealand, by Sidney Dicktkson. Raving in Australia, by Sidney Dickinson, with iUustrations by BlRGE IlAKKISON. The iUustrations are made from original material . A f uil pmspectiw uppears in the Holiday Number, now ready. PRICE, 25 CENTS. $3.OO A YEAR. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, Publishers, - 743 and 745 Broadway, New York