In the May and June numbers the papers in the War Series will be largely devoted to THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN BY GEN.  G.B.  McCLELLAN AND GEN.  J.E.  JOHNSTON.

General McClellan will contribute two papers, the first of a general nature on the Peninsular Campaign, and the second (to appear later) on the battle of Antietam, thus covering the period of his command of the Army of the Potomac.  General Joseph E. Johnston, who commanded the entire Confederate forces opposed to McClellan in the Peninsular engagements until the battle of Seven Pines, when in consequence of a wound he was succeeded by General Lee, will cover, in his papers, the period from Manassas to Seven Pines, dealing with both battles, and with his relations and differences with the President of the Confederacy.  The engagements at Gaines’s Mill and Malvern Hill, in this campaign, will be described in papers by GEN.  FITZ JOHN PORTER AND GEN.  D.H.  HILL, who were prominently engaged against each other in both actions.  These will be well supplemented by the “Recollections of a Private.”

OTHER WAR PAPERS by Generals Longstreet, Pope, Gordon, Rosecrans, Buell, Hunt, Pleasonton, Newton, and other prominent leaders, will appear in later numbers.

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THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE SERIES will receive the most careful attention, and in this particular it is thought that the series will possess an unequaled historical interest.  THE CENTURY has at its disposal a very large quantity of maps and plans, portraits of general officers of both sides, authentic paintings and drawings, and especially photographs of camp scenes, battle-fields, famous localities, etc.  A strict regard for accuracy will guide the preparation of the illustrations.

In connection with this series is appearing a number of briefer sketches, entitled “RECOLLECTIONS OF A PRIVATE,” reflecting with interesting and life-like details the experiences of the common soldier from the time of enlistment to the muster-out:  the drill, the march, the bivouac, the skirmish, the charge, the pursuit, the retreat, etc., etc.  Auxiliary branches of the service will also be treated in this supplementary way, and in several instances briefer supplementary papers will chronicle special incidents or consider special phases of an engagement.  Personal reminiscences of several of the most prominent military leaders, now dead, will also give variety to the scheme.

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OTHER FEATURES OF “THE CENTURY” include W.D.  Howells’s new novel of an American business man, “The Rise of Silas Lapham”; a novel, by Henry James, “The Bostonians,” begun in the February number; a series of papers, by W.D.  Howells, descriptive of some cities of Italy, illustrated with reproductions of etchings, by Joseph Pennell; a series of brilliantly illustrated articles on “The New Astronomy” (a paper in this series appears in the March number); articles on “The New North-west,” on Architecture, History, French and American Art, etc., etc., and short stories by the best writers—­many of them to be illustrated.  The War Series will not be allowed to interfere in any way with the general features of the magazine.