Show 1 A GREAT LIBBZiIiY OjT J > < I FICirON HIFTOBT BIOGRAPHY ADVENTUaE EXPLORATION TBAVEL SCIENCE A2TO ART NtcCitires V 8 g a Z I l n Ii e I 1ft t F r I OQO w 1d I El 1 no 1 41 FF Emphatically an American documentO W Cable The best magazine ever published anywhere at any PriceJuliann Ralph Immensely readable Chas A Dana THIS PAGE CONTAINS A BRIEF MENTION A FEW OF THE LEADING FEATURES FOR THE COMING YEAR Chas Ao Danas i > q I E 1 1 eminiscences I I q TI = J kj 5 y7 I Jf Ito 1iJ J = i t = r l lP l < 1 i i hJ 2 f l f IJ ri Mr Dana was intmately associated i 1Ji fr 91 Il 4fh < flE with the great men of the period of the I J nL 1 t r1M t rrr Ij 1 t tt o I < > c Civil l War and had the confidence of > r ii rii i P + ri liit 1f = f f j rJ iff1ji i qfj1 lf Ji i f Lincoln 1 and Stanton and was sent on ftf tfr = H Tt = 1ib jJ k t gfjrjj many private missions to investigate I t < E 1 r T = > = eiE r i + 1 r > t t1 Zf p 1 7 bVi < s zt frauds in the army charges against generals tg 4 i n I jfft 1 s I J er > erals and other important investigations 0 f e J j i iaif Jl i bl lfl I < kJ J f < Lincoln called him The Ejcs of the 1 < tn = tJ T 7 rl < kb iJ1 Q 1 tFr o > y 1 tit Government He was much at the front T f 1 6 telegraphing and writing every day to rr 7 D1 I ILLUSTRATION FOR a THE TOMB OF HIS ANCESTORS 4 > r I l < Stanton and Lincoln and sending many r private letters to them and to his family unpublished rrstericl forms a notable t 1 1 ti This nota-ble art of these memoirs and includes A 0 + ci part 11 1 K1 n0P9 Ru dyo ing9 and 1 letters of Stanton Grant Sherman < M l 0o t1 p 11 iP l f others Indeed everywhere through 1 t these reminiscences there are pieces of I + 1 secret history connected with for instance 0 t in-stance the Siege of Vicksbursj < the Fall Stories i and Poems r of Richmond the transfer of Jefferson V II l V ij LI Davis to Fortress Monroe etc Every there are fresh recollections where too The Christmas number contains that c A DANA a story grit men such as Lincoln Grant s tl r ° II Of gr > i is in fact a wonderful drama of adventure and of Stanton Sherman Sheridan Chase and many others character story of India called The series is illustrated with rare and unpublished war photographs in the Govern of almost priceless value The 1 Tomb of IH 5 Ancestors ment collection which now contains over 8000 negatives I It might be described as Co Do Gibson ill Egypt The Tale of a Clouded Tiger This is one of the strongest and most important I Mr Gibson has just sailed for the Mediterranean he will i l spend the winter in impor-tant stones that Mr Kipling has written It is that will be pubhsned in instalments in illustrated i Egypt and will make there a series of pictures q p superbly McCLUREs MAGAZINE during the coming year aI Kiplings latest poem is a ballad i rn I Tile Destroyers The Newest Science 1 It is a grim moving song of torpedoes and 4 i torpedo boatsa fierce chanta war hymn It Lord Kelvin L > i will appear in an early number pictures and decorations authority on physical 1 science and the dec-orations by Howard Pyle foremost living onty r A character sketch of the a RUDYARD KIPLING thewith various unsolved problems of science In Ambush him substance of a conversation with touching of the present day N This story has just been received from Mr Kipling as this page goes to press i j The date of pubhca i WIll be announced later The Work of the Great Telescopes y r and < TettinO t Other contnbtsns by Air Kipling will be published during the year observatories getting A staff contributor is now visiting several I great material for an article that will give the latest and most interesting news of astronomical A astro-nomical science I flii f Fridtj Nan sen + l µ P 1teJ k r 1 c = E The Treat Arctic explorer has written an article on the possibilities of reaching 4 l t the North Pole on the methods that the net expedition should adopt and the important scientific knowledge to be gained Airships and Balloons r An account of the very latest experiments m aerial navigation including the story tjq i I ° i of the aluminium airship and an interview with an eminent balloonmaker of Pans t lr i The Fastest Ship An article on the Tiirbinia the swiftest of her kind based on facts and material INI P r l = = furnished by the inventor and builder of the ship and very fully illustrated c r j + q t p p Edisons Great Invention lill The story of Edisons latest achievement how he takes the hitherto unavailable i I f t y iron ore from the New Jersey mountains by the thousands of tons crushes to i I powder separates the pure iron from the waste matter and puts it into form suitable p I I for the market It has taken Edison eight years to accomplish these marvelous lI + 1 < n has been devised by Edison 1 1 > results Almost every piece of the gigantic machinery himself u A Submarine Boat Y sue 1 An account of the writers experiences during a voyage under water in a Holland 7 Ir t submarine boat with pictures by the artist who accompanied him 4i i I C 4 > JSAI < SEN is ARCTIC COSTUME Adventure and Travel r 3UTDOLF RASSENDYLt AND rrIICS53 TLAVIA veu ure ExplorationL a Y t N A detail drawn in outline from a large wash ctefetfij by C D Gibsaa Mark Twains V oyage The Siberian Railvvay By Prince Kropotkin from India to South Africa 4 d yPrince o fS Prince Kropotkin has traveled all over Siberia several times and Written in his best vein and showing his keen penetration gift for he has l collected a great deal l of unpublished material and inside information humorous narrative and extraordinary powers of observation The infor-mation concerning the building of the Siberian railroad All this illustrations are by A B Frost and Peter Newell and are as droll and i i personal knowledge and private information will be used by him in humorous as the article itself < writing an article for MOCLURES Landor in Thibet In Unexplored Asia i s z A story of Sven Hedins remarkable adventures in the central 1 + t jlcf iTt Henry Savage Landor who after being captured and tortured in deserts of Asia appears in the December number He was the first i1 ii Thibet finally escaped and recently reached India Before he left European to penetrate this region and he had some very extraordinary England he agreed to furnish an account of his travels to McCLUREs adventures MAGAZINE G Andree His Balloon and His Voyage Th V l Yesuvius e 0 can esuvn US This article is written from material furnished by the brother of l Mr Strin erg Andr es companion It contains unpublished letters MARK TWAIN Pictures by C K Li son and an article by H J W Dam with and material of various sorts and unpublished pictures of Andr < his new facts about the condition of the volcano and the probability of balloon and his start together with a facsimile of the a genuine despatch another eruption a scientific study of a great volcano mingled with received by carrier pigeon after his departure J true and little known stories of adventure in and about the crater New History Biography f and Portraits r In this invaluable and always popular department of the magazine there will be The Later I a 5 I 1 rek b of L lln coln in addition to the Dana Papers constant noteworthy l features We mention Miss Tarbell has been making considerable progress in her work upon the last Washingtons Last Days four years of Lincolns life The work is written entirely from the personal standpoint stand-point only dealing with the war and its events so far as Lincoln personally was concerned The story Washingtons s last days from the diary of Tobias Lcar his secretary Th present owners of the manuscript have permitted us to makea copy and print it cerned in them It is in molding our belief that these articles make Lincoln the man entire Illustrated with the last portrait of Washington and other interesting the great War President more real and the dramatic story of those last four years of his life more absorbing than they have ever before been made pictures The Browere Life = Masks T ke Best Art ttQ anrl 1f 11 11strator6 The very existence ofahese masks was unknown to the experts American historical 11 I 4I Ii U ra documents until reproductions of them were published in the October number of McCLUREs The New York Evening Post speaks of these masks as r a very precious are making pictures for MCCLURES MAGAZINE AB findvand suggests that they might all adorn the National Library at Washington X > FROST and PETER S NEWELL illustrated the article Further selections from this series of unknown lifemasks will be published shortly in < < by Mark Twain in the November number In the December MCCLURES MAGAZINE I d = ro Decem-ber number are pictures by F S CHURCH C D oI GIBSON GOOO0000000000000000000000o00f < + m0000000000000000000000000000000 tand C K LINSON There will be numerous o W < > fi3 S5 E = t K The November number containing the opening chapters Chas A Danas C D fullpage by GIBSON in illustration of the r1o pictures in Twainfis framplndia K Mark Vo yn India to South i tr n f Reminiscences Twains Voyagefrom Africa < t > Anthony Hope novel Rupert of Hentzau A new poem the description of Edisons Wonderful Invention and many interesting k or by Rudyard Kipling will be illustrated and decorated by stories articles and poems with a wealth of superb illustrations will be given free with new early HOWARD PYLE Several beautiful cover designs have S subscriptions beginning with December or any later number itit M > r 1M been made by KENYON COX A new sea story by o a Kby The Year B with November 5 + 41 Morgan Robertson is to appear with pictures by C K I e ear Begins WI ovem er K LINSON For some months W D STEVENS has been o Send One Dollar to The S S McClure Co at the address given below the safest way to remit er living among railroad men making pictures for Mr Ham 0 is by postal money order or express money order or New York draft State that you saw the offer in jfl r k glens railroad articles Robert Barrs at Long Ladder 1 t 0 the Herald rile November number will be sent you free and your name will be entered on < J t glensbe articlesby 8 our mailing list for one year This offer will not appear in this paper again Address t will be accompanied by several dramatic pictures done by u CHARLES DANA GIBSON ALFRED BRENNAN o THE S S McCLURE CO East 25th Street New York r THE ECBST EDITION 01 THE CHRISTMAS NtTKTlTCR OF Mm r 1r MAGAZINE IS 335000 CC k i f t LL j i 1 jilt > > I > l i > J inth llyt Hopes I New Zenda I No Psi j I el r 1 Begins December NFJIplJer Jit is anextraordinary example of a sequel which surpasses t sur-passes the original It is the Scqusl to The Prisoner of < < lk Zenda andit is written as if the authors interest in the characters and all of his ideas and invention and subtle Y r art had been concentrated upon this one story He has + not attempted to devise a new field of action for the characters but has taken the same situation and carried it on to a noble conclusion No other book that we are acquainted with not even a novel of Dumas so fully exemplifies the spirit of pure romance The hero goes through the involved and unexpected dangers and hazards p haz-ards not simply with bravery but with the highhearted and joyous j spirit that comes from his knowledge of the r fact that he is following his duty and fighting it through for the sake of the woman he loves u It has been magnificently illustrated in absolute 1 i I sympathy with the text by CD GIBSON with a series HOPS of page pictures jr iTfae Railroad Mari93 Ofi A Narrative of Work Adventures Hazards Accidents and Escajijes These articles are by Herbert E Hamblen who wrote the successful book On Many Seas After R his return from the sea Mr Hamblen became a railroad rail-road man Every day the railroad man takes chances that would apgal men used to less hazardous work tr These articles are Drawn from Fifteen Years Experience as Brakeman 1 Brake-man Fireman and Engineer Mr Ham len knows the life thoroughly He I y started in as a wiper on an engine and worked his way up until he became an experienced engineer on a fst 1 passenger express He has an extraordinary memory r for details and every incident as narrated in these articles is vividly and dramatically told k Braking in a freight yard Whims of a locomotive Cif t Caught between the cars An engine at last J 1 t The mysteries firing A runaway locomotive f A mistake in train orders Taking chances r Buried under a wreck Mixed up in a strike 4 Discharged for truihtelling Rack at the throttle CTHE AUTHORS DRAWN FHOJI Lira An autocratic engineer Getting on BY W DSTEVEMS The Best Short Story Writers William Allen White Octave Thanet 0 will contribute more of the Boyville cc The Peace Offering a dramatic stories which have been so well received story of a strike will be published in ain a-in the magazine and have won for him a early number and the story of a Grand reputation as a writer of fiction Army man is now being illustrated IOOOict Barts i Stories Robert Barr will contribute frequent short stories to the magazine The Arch bishops Christmas Gift appears in the December number The Long Ladder t a thrilling tale of daring and fighting in the Middle Ages will be printed in January and we have other characteristic stories of his humorous or adventurous or both Ian Maclaren Stephen Crane first widely known in America through has written a vivid and beautiful story cf McCLUREs will contribute to an early life in the Southwest entitled The BriQ 1 number The Left Hand of Samuel Comes to the Yellow Sky and he will Dodson It is not a dialect story contribute other short stories Secret Service StoJries Ray S Baker a nephew of the head of the Secret Service in the Civil War has written from family papers several strange true stories of the perilous adventures of i his father and uncle that have all the absorbing interest of the best romance J 0 ZangwiU i the famous author of The Children of the Ghetto has not written much short fiction of late but in The Joyous Comrade soon to be published in MCCLURES he has produced a tale as fine as his best early work I Also short stories by Conan Doyle Morgan Robertson GHfccrbParUer Joel Chandler Harris Brot iarte II G Wells Clinton Ross W W Jacobs Eland mgZias I t El-and many young writers of ability and promise True Indian Stories Xr c By Harnlin 1 Garland µ A Mr Garland has spent many months among the Indians gathering thcirrefcn iscences and traditions In coming numbers i of the magazine will 1 1 appear Two Moons Story of the Ouster j 1i lfI iji I IIIIII 1 J III y Fight i lJ I IJmtf11 I I I7 i sCt 1 1 1f3 l jl I tl This tale taken down from the lips of the tIj f chief Two Moons IS a vivid and dramatic story Z2tp 1 tfiit t1 1tt 4 It iJJtl J r Sitting Bulls Defiance Jf r l ii frt f A fine story of Sitting i Bulls refusal to treat i 3 l 7 1 lN fj with a commissioner from the Government tiis Jl JfA5 ti f and his insensibility to fine words and rich gifts l t GIs a J 1 tlt I A Rising Wolf Ghost Dancer Utii i t 4 jj Rising Wolfs autobiography giving strange i I aa instances of his power of magic and his own i 11i = ffii I story of how he acquired the power 1I Li r 1 ri I i f A Divers 1 y1 f 1 r ti r 1 a itih t A a c > o r L r Autobiography 1 p f M t y 4 r yp s The story of one of the most daring and ntlJtJl most experienced divers who has worked underwater r 1 ij J < Ii Ij I 2 under-water in almost every part of the world and rr < fft II j has had innumerable adventures and hairbreadth r Ioillit l hair-breadth escapes A STP31 scNE N NEW YORK nr 1950 0 The Twentieth Century City B By Col George E Waring o Col Waring in an early article will describe the conditions of Ufc RS he conceheaf them in the perfected city of the next century He will show what the roc c theo the-o streets the water supply the means of transportation the safeguards of Ife idP health and the provisions for sport and pleasure arc likes to beia the Cleat itictl P York following out the present lines of 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