Show lire Century The Century Mauazinc celebrates its twen tieth anniversary with the November num bera number which is intended to exemplify exem-plify tho best that an illustrated magazine of our day can do for its innumerable readers read-ers In the editorial on the event the editor claims for the Century a sane and earnest Americanism an Americanism that deems the best of the old world none too good for the new The great feature of the Ccntiu js new year the series on the Gold Hunters is begun with John Bid wells paper fully and curiously illustrated illus-trated on The First Emigrant Train to California Another important series of papers herein begun is Mr Rockhills illus rated account of his journey through an unknown part of Tibet the strange land of the Lamas A notable and timely contribution con-tribution to Dr Shaws series on municipal munici-pal government is his interesting and thorough thor-ough account of the government of London with its warning for American municipali ties The fiction of the number nas as its most striking contribution tho beginning I of the first long story written by the artist author F Hopkinson Smith it is entitled I Colonel Carter of Cartersville andis accompanied ac-companied by a number of pictures by Kemble Mrs Anna Eichberg King hes a story of old New York with a dozen designs de-signs by George Wharton Edwards and Frank Pope Humphrey has a ghost story entitled The Courageous Action of Lucia Richmond The poetry of the number is by Edgar Fa ycettI the late James M Mc Kay a posthumous poem entitled The Epitaph James Whitcomb Riley G P Lathrop R W Gilder Thomas A Janvier John Vance Cheney and Arlo Bates besides be-sides a full Bricabiac department of lighter verse The editorial department discusses forestry international copyright etc and WWEllsworth protests in Open Letters against The Spoiling of the Egyptians |