St. Nicholas/Volume 32/Number 2/Advertisements/Front/The Century 1905

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1905The Century

GREAT FICTION YEAR

SERIAL STORIES BY

MRS. HUMPHRY WARD

KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN

ALICE HEGAN RICE

Author of “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch”

WITH A FIVE-PART SEA-YARN BY L. FRANK TOOKER, AND

SHORT STORIES BY

Rudyard Kipling Anthony Hope Marion Crawford Jack London Owen Wister Elizabeth Robins Myra Kelly

Ruth McEnery Stuart Joel Chandler Harris Eden Phillpotts Julian Hawthorne John Luther Long Gouverneur Morris Miriam Michelson

Irving Bacheller Elliott Flower E. W. Townsend T. Jenkins Hains Anne Warner Booth Tarkington and many others

AMBASSADOR WHITE’S REMINISCENCES OF HIS MISSION TO GERMANY, 1897-1902 Beginning with the December number, The Century will print a series of intensely interesting papers by Andrew D. White, telling the story of his recently ended mission to Germany. The articles will contain personal reminiscences of the German Emperor, and will describe many important international episodes which occurred during Dr. White’s mission,—the relations of Germany and America during the Spanish War, etc. RUSSIA AND JAPAN The Century will print irom time to time important articles bearing upon the nations who are fighting the present war, and on the Eastern Question in general.

GREAT INVENTIONS DESCRIBED BY THEIR INVENTORS A group of illustrated papers of a novel autobiographical character, untechnical and of great importance: THE ARC-LIGHT by Charles F. Brush THE AIR-BRAKE by George Westinghouse THE TRANSMISSION OF POWER by Nikola Tesla ELECTRIC TRACTION by Frank J. Sprague and other articles of a similar character. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Described by its Manager Melville E. Stone, for eleven years manager of this great news association, will tell the story of its history and works its operation in Europe, its service in war-time, etc.

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Magazine1905

CHRISTMAS NUMBER

ILLUSTRATED IN COLOR

Beautiful reproductions in full color of paintings by Inness and Winslow Homer, and of color-drawings by De Monvel, Parrish, Horsfall, Jacobs, and Anna Whelan Betts; also thirty-two pages in tint.

OPENING CHAPTERS OF “SANDY”

The new serial novel by the author of
“Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch”

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FIVE CHRISTMAS STORIES

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Beginning AMBASSADOR WHITE’S
NEW REMINISCENCES

Begin new subscriptions with this issue, See special offer below.

ARTICLES OF SCIENTIFIC INTEREST Important articles on inventions and discoveries appear from time to time in The Century, In early numbers are to come: Fossil Wonders of the West, by Henry Fairfield Osborn. The New Method of Purifying Water, by Gilbert H. Grosvenor. Helen Keller on the Hand as a means of communication for the deaf-blind. Economy In Food, by Professor Russell H. Chittenden of Yale. A sensation in the study of bird-life, by Frank M. Chapman. ARTICLES OF ARCHI- TECTURAL INTEREST Very richly illustrated and prepared with the cooperation of the architects: The New Naval Academy, The N.Y. Custom House, Congressional Buildings, The Capitol Extension, New National Museum, N. Y. Public Library.

THE ART WORK During the past months many remarkable pictures in color have appeared in the pages of The Century. It is the aim of The Century to confine its colorwork to subjects which have uniqueness and an important reason for color treatment, During the coming year the magazine will print a great number of superb illustrations in color. There will be articles on famous artists and sculptors, and Timothy Cole’s engravings will continue. A very large number of the best-known illustrators willcontribute to The Century for 1905. SUBSCRIPTIONS The subscription price of The Century is $4.00 a year. The volume begins with November, and new subscribers who commence with the Christmas (December) number may obtain November free of charge. All dealers, subscription agents, booksellers, and publishers, THE CENTURY CO., Union Square, New York