The Century Magazine For The Coming Year

The Century Magazine, with its November nuniber, enters upon its twentvseventh year. During its long existente, ay reason of its many notable suocesses, ït lias won an assured and commanding rosition. During the coming year The Century will maintain ita exceptional josition as a magazine of entertainment and as a leader in art and thought. lts pictorial features will be notable, and it will command the services of the oremostartists, illustrators, and engravers of this country and of Europe. Nothing like a complete announeement of its literary features can be atempted now. Dr. WeirMitchell, vvhose novel of the American Revolution, 'Hugli Wynne," is the great success of he year, has written a new story for the present volume. It bears the piquant title : "The ad ventures of Fraucois: Foundling, Adventurer, Juggler and Fencing-Master during the French Revolution." The tale is full of romance and adventure. Mrs. Burton Harrison contributes a new novel of New York ife, called "Good Americans," in which contemporaneous social types and tendencies are briglitly mirrored and described. There will be a group of cleyer stories about horses and people who like horses, jnder the general title of "Gallops." 'A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Intervention in Mexico" will be given in a series of graphic and highly sicturesque papers by Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson. Further contributions to ■he interesting series of "Héroes of Peace" will be made by Jacob A. Rus, Gustav Kobbe, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, and others. For the benefit of the readers of The Century an unusual combination offer is made for this year. There has been issued "The Century Gallery of One Hundred Potraits," made up of the finest engravings tliat fiave appeared in the magazine, and representing a total expenditure of nearly $30,000. These are irinted on lieavy plate-paper, with wide margins, like proofs. The retail price of the gallery is $7.50, but this year it irill be Hol'l only in counection 'with a ubscription to The Century, the price of the two together being $050.