The American Missionary — Volume 41, No. 11, November, 1887

Literary Notes.

The Lincoln history in The Century, by the private secretaries of Mr. Lincoln, Messrs. Nicolay and Hay, will deal during the coming year with the political and military history of the early period of the war. New light will be thrown upon certain events of that period by the publication of correspondence and other documents never before printed, and unknown to but a small circle. The historians now enter upon a more important and personal part of their narrative. The publication of this history has brought an increase of 25,000 subscribers to The Century

Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett will contribute a short serial to the coming volume of St.Nicholas for Young Folks, which is said to be a worthy successor of that author’s famous “Little Lord Fauntleroy,” which appeared in St.Nicholas a year ago. Joel Chandler Harris, John Burroughs, Frank R. Stockton, H. H. Boyesen, J. T. Trowbridge, Col. Richard M. Johnstone, and Louisa M. Alcott are among the many distinguished writers who will contribute serial and short stories to this famous magazine for young people.

Edward Eggleston author of “The Hoosier Schoolmaster,” will furnish an illustrated novel to The Century for 1887-8. It is a story of pioneer life in Illinois.

George W.Cable will contribute a novelette to early numbers of The Century, and Frank R.Stockton has written a three-part story, “The Dusantes,” for the same magazine.Mr. Stockton’s new novel, “The Hundredth Man,” has just been issued.

The Siberian Papers, by George Kennan, will be a great feature of The Century for the coming year. Mr. Kennan has just returned from a journey of 15,000 miles through European and Asiatic Russia, undertaken at the request of the editor of The CenturyBy means of a circular letter from the Russian Minister of the Interior, Mr. Kennan was enabled to visit nearly every important prison and mine in Siberia.

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