The Midsummer Holiday Scribner.
THE publishers of Scribner's Monthly propose as their special contribution to the glories of the Centennial year, the publication of the most beautiful number of a popular magazine ever issued in the world. The ambition is a laudable one, the promise is made in good faith, and the power to fulfill the promise will hardly be doubted by those who have watched the history and progress of the Scribner Magazines. This special number of Scribner's Monthly, which will be entitled The Midsummer Holiday Number, will comprise one hundred and sixty pages, contributed by the most eminent writers; among these are Bryant, Stoddard, “H. H.,” Sidney Lanier, Bret Harte, E. E. Hale, Col. Waring, John Burroughs, T. B. Aldrich, Celia Thaxter, Tourgueneff, the Russian novelist, Gail Hamilton, Henry James, Jr., and others only less distinguished. The illustrations will be profuse in number, and especially notable as specimens of the designer's, engraver's and printer's arts. All that culture and skill, developed by a fruitful experience, can do to make this number of the magazine attractive, will be done. The edition will be 75,000 copies. The contents of the Midsummer Holiday number of Scribner will be light, as midsummer reading generally should be, but some of the contributions will be extraordinary. Mr. Bryant's poem of one hundred and sixty lines, produced at his advanced age, will fairly dispute the claim to eminence with some of his earlier and best known poems. Stoddard's Hopes Civitas is the longest, most ambitious, and best poem he has written for many years. Mrs. Burnett begins her serial, That Lass o' Lowrie's, and Bret Harte ends Gabriel Conroy. Hide-and-seek Towne, by “H. H.,” is a notable sketch, with lavish wealth of illustration, and Miss Bridges makes her first appearance as an illustrator in Mr. Burroughs' characteristic article on Birds. The Midsummer Holiday Number of Scribner's Monthly will be issued about the 20th of July, and cannot fail to attract very wide attention, not only from our own people, but from our intelligent visitors from the other side of the water. Dealers should send in their orders at once. SCRIBNER & CO.,
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