“Historic Girls,” a companion series to “Historic Boys.”  By E.S.  Brooks.

“Ready for Business”; suggestions to boys about to choose an occupation.  By G.J.  Manson.

“Driven Back to Eden,” a serial.  By E.P.  Roe.

“Talks for Young Folks,” a series of popular papers, by H.H. (Helen Jackson).

“Among the Law-makers”:  recollections of a boy-page in the U.S.  Senate,—­containing much political information, both instructive and amusing.  By Edmund Alton.

“Davy and the Goblin,” a very funny serial story by a new writer, Charles Carryl.

Short Stories by Louisa M. Alcott.

“The Progress of Invention”:  from “Palanquin to Parlor-car,” “From Cross-bow to 100-ton Gun,” etc.  Descriptive papers, by Charles E. Bolton.

“Art Work for Young Folks”; papers on decorative handicraft, by Charles
G. Leland.

“Sheep or Silver?” a story of Texan life.  By the late Rev. William M.
Baker.

“A Garden of Girls,” being six short stories for girls, by Six Leading
Writers.

“Tales of Two Continents”; stories of adventure, by H.H.  Boyesen.

“Cartoons for Boys and Girls,” funny pictures by St. Nicholas Artists.

“From Bach to Wagner”; brief, pointed biographies of great musicians.  By Agatha Tunis.

Special Papers by chosen writers, including Mary Hallock Foote, Joaquin Miller, Alice Wellington Rollins, G.B.  Bartlett, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Rev. Washington Gladden, Julia Schayer, Anna Lea Merritt, W.O.  Stoddard, D. Ker, Ernest Ingersoll, Clara E. Clement, Lieutenant Schwatka.

The Illustrations will be the work of the very best artists and engravers; and there will be plenty of them.  In the November and December numbers are beautiful colored frontispieces.  Buy the November number for the children.  It costs only 25 cents, and all book and news dealers sell it.  The subscription price is $3.00 a year, and now is just the time to subscribe.

A free specimen copy of ST. NICHOLAS will be sent on request.  Mention this paper.

THE CENTURY CO., NEW YORK, N.Y.

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THE CENTURY IN 1885.

A GREAT ENTERPRISE.

PAPERS ON THE CIVIL WAR.

The important feature of THE CENTURY MAGAZINE for the coming year—­indeed, perhaps the most important ever undertaken by the magazine—­will be a series of separate papers on the great battles of the War for the Union, written by general officers high in command upon both the Federal and the Confederate sides,—­General Grant (who writes of Vicksburg, Shiloh, and other battles,) Generals Longstreet, McClellan, Beauregard, Rosecrans, Hill, Admiral Porter and others.  The series open in the November CENTURY with a graphical illustrated article on the BATTLE OF BULL RUN, written by the Confederate general, G.T.  Beauregard.  Brief sketches, entitled “Recollections of a Private,” papers chronicling special events, descriptions of various auxiliary branches of the service, etc., will supplement the more important series by the various generals.