Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1891 — A GREAT MAGAZINE. [ARTICLE]

A GREAT MAGAZINE.

The Century’s Programme in 1892--A New “Life es Columbus”—Articles for Farmers, etcThat great American periodical The Century, is going to outdo its own unrivaled record in its progiamme for 1892, and as many of its new features begin with the November number, new readers should commence with that issue. In this number are the opening chapters of “the naulahka,”

a novel by Budyard Kipling, the famous author of “Plain Tales from the Hills,” written in collaboration with an American writer, Wolcott Balestier. It is the story of a young man and a young woman from a “booming” Colorado town who go to India, he in search of a wonderful jeweled necklace, called “the Naulahka” (from which the story takes its name), and she as a physician to women. The novel describes their remarkable adventures at the court of an Indian maharajah. Besides this, the Century -will print three other novels during the year, and a great number of short stories by the best American story-writers. The well-known humorist Edgar W. Nye (“Bill Nye”) is to write a series of amusing sketches which he calls his “autobiographies,” the the first one of which, “The Autobiography of a Justice of the Peace,” is in November. This number also contains a valuable and suggestive article on “The FoodSupply of the Future,” whjch every farmer should read, to be followed by a number of others OF GREAT PRACTICAL VALUE TO FARMERS,

treating especially of the relations of the Government to the farmer, what it is thing and what it should da This senes will include contributions from officers of the Department of Agriculture, and other well-known men will discuss “The Farmer’s Discontent,” “Co-opera-tion,” etc., etc.

A celebrated Spanish writer is to furnish a “Life of Columbus,” which will ba brilliantly illustrated, and-the publishers of The Century ’ have arranged with the managers of the World’s Fair to print articles on the buildings, eta. One of the novels to appear in 1892 is A STORY OF NEW YORK LIFE by the author “The Anglomaniacs, ”

r -V -V- ♦ • and the magazine will contain a great deal about the metropolis during the year,—among other things a series of illustrated articles on “The Jews in New York.” In November is an illustrated descripton of “The Players Club,” founded by Edwin Booth, and one of the features of the splendidly illustrated Christmas (December) number is an article on “The Bowery.” To get The Century send the yearly subscription price ($4.00) to The Century Co., Union Square, New York, N. Y.