NEWS NOTES OF THE CENTURY Τ' HE November number of The Century began the eighty-third volume of the magazine. And what a wealth of literature and art is embodied in the eighty-two volumes of The Century Magazine that have gone before! How it brings before the magazine reader of to-day the distinguished novels, short stories, art, and world-read biographies which The Century has printed! IT was in November, 1870, that the first number of The Century was issued under the name "Scribner's Monthly," which in 1881 was changed to The Century Magazine. Looking back over the forty-one years which have passed since then, one recalls the famous War Papers which Current Literature said at the time, "created the greatest interest ever felt in any series of articles published in magazines." For this series, General Grant was first induced to write his recollections of famous battles, the foundation of his well-known "Personal Memoirs" which the General finished on his dying bed, leaving a book which brought a fortune to his family. One hundred thousand new subscribers were added by reason of the publication of this series. THE war series was followed by the "Life of Lincoln," written by Messrs. Hay and Nicolay, private secretaries to the President, who received fifty thousand dollars for the right of serial publication of their life work in The Century Magazine. This is the standard life of Lincoln. GEORGE KENNAN's great exposé of the Siberian convict system was another of the early successes of The Century; and Sloane's "Napoleon," Eugene Schuyler's "Peter the Great," Morley's "Oliver Cromwell" are still fresh in the minds of magazine readers to-day. THE year 1912 will be one of the best The Century has ever seen. Pursuant to its custom of endeavoring to secure the most popular novelist for its leading serial, this year The Century announces that it will print a new novel by W. J. Locke, whose famous books have been read by hundreds of thousands during the past few years. It is not possible to print at this time anything like a complete list of the fiction features which The Century is to have. There are stories in hand by Mary Austin, George Madden Martin, Lucy Furman, L. Frank Tooker, Elsie Singmaster, and many other well-known writers, and plenty of Oliver Herford's good fun. EDWARD ALSWORTH Ross, one of the most brilliant writers of the day, is preparing a series of papers for the new volume of The Century on the Middle West. Dr. Ross is professor of sociology in the University of Wisconsin, and author of those significant books, "Social Control," "Sin and Society," and, just issued, "The Changing Chinese." Professor Ross is inclined to stress social environment rather than heredity, to explain national character in terms of social history rather than of race, and to look to economic factors for interpretation rather than to philosophical ideas. He lays great stress upon the swiftness of contemporary social development, and is a leader in inciting public opinion to catch up with actual society. He feels that in a tumultuously dynamic epoch like ours, the chief danger is lest adjustment in laws and institutions be made tardily, and only after a needless interval of acute suffering. A NOTABLE series of papers, to appear soon in The Century, will discuss the American undergraduate, his general character, his relation to his college and to society at large. The writer, Clayton Sedgwick Cooper, author of "College Men and the Bible," has made a study of college conditions in the United States, Canada, and Europe for many years, and has visited recently practically all of the important educational institutions in India, Ceylon, China, Korea, and Japan. While Mr. Cooper has consulted largely with prominent educators and public men throughout the country, his facts and opinions are based almost entirely upon actual contact with students in lecture-rooms, fraternity houses, the athletic field and campus, in large public gatherings, and in thousands of personal interviews. It is perhaps through the latter channel, the intimate personal contact with the individual undergraduate, says Mr. Cooper, that one comes nearer to the real gist and trend of the college man's deeper sentiment. It is impossible to give in a few pages, or in any number of pages at this early date, an adequate idea of the good things which may be expected in The Century during 1912. One of the most notable features already assured for the new volume will be the life of the world's greatest saint, a splendid series of papers on St. Francis of Assisi, the text by Maurice Francis Egan, American Minister to Denmark, the beautiful illustrations in color by Boutet de Monvel, the great French artist. In answering advertisements please mention SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE FOR the forty-one years of its existence, The Century has been a leader among magazines in what it has done for art. The greatest living illustrators contribute frequently to its pages, and articles on artists and their work have always been a leading feature. In The Century the work of Jean François Millet was first brought to popular attention, and in 1912 there will be another article on Millet containing much that is new about him. WHAT The Century Magazine has constantly striven for has been noble art rather than popular illustration. A partial array of the artists who will work for The Century during the coming year gives some idea of the brilliance and excellence of its decorative features. Timothy Cole, the greatest wood-engraver in the world, who for twenty-eight years has been engraving the Old Masters in European Galleries, will contribute to its pages his beautiful woodcuts of "Masterpieces in American Galleries." He returned to America for the purpose of doing just this work. His truly remarkable blocks should draw attention to the great treasures of art in the public and private collections of the United States. AN important group of articles on Jean François Millet, the great French painter of "The Angelus," will be a noteworthy feature of the coming year. Karl Bodmer, the Swiss painter, who drew American landscapes, will be one of the contributors. He knew Millet intimately. These reminiscences are, in effect, art criticisms of the most entertaining kind and show interestingly the nobility of character of the greatest painter of our day. These articles will be illustrated by many heretofore unreproduced masterpieces by Millet. Arthur Rackham, by many people considered the greatest living delineator of children, has promised to contribute to the pages of The Century during 1912. BOUTET DE MONVEL, the most charming and imaginative of French illustrators, is to contribute a beautiful series of drawings illustrating the life of St. Francis of Assisi. Many of these pictures will be in color, and all of them will be in de Monvel's graceful and distinguished manner. THE Dickens centenary will be celebrated by The Century Magazine by the publication of interesting pictures and articles with Dickens the central figure. These will include an authentic portrait of Charles Dickens heretofore unreproduced, and drawings by S. J. Woolf depicting the best known characters of Dickens's novels. LOVERS of Japanese art will be glad to learn that The Century contemplates the publication of some authoritative articles on Japanese prints. These articles will be embellished with many illustrations in black and white and some in color. FEW American artists have won such deserved fame and reputation as Mr. Maxfield Parrish, and The Century is glad to announce that an article on Mr. Parrish and his work will shortly appear from the hands of Mr. Christian Brinton, the distinguished art critic. It will be embellished with many reproductions of Parrish's work. IN color work The Century will be particularly strong, in 1912 as in the years past, maintaining the high standard of its reproductive color plates and its careful and artistic color-printing. Foreign artists and their work will be regularly considered. Reproductions of single pictures or groups of pictures by them will be a notable feature of The Century in 1912. ONE of the interesting experiments of The Century during 1912 will be the careful reproduction of certain well-known color etchings. Among the etchings reproduced will be some of the work of C. F. W. Mielatz, whose views of New York in this medium have won him a well-deserved fame. IN the matter of engraving, The Century will continue preeminent among American magazines. It is not enough for The Century that a plate be made by the best American process houses. When the process house has finished with a plate, it is the custom of The Century to place the more notable plates in the hands of a few carefully chosen engravers. These men are consummate artists in their work. In their hands the plates are carefully retouched. High lights are brought out; "values" are restored, and the original meaning of the artist most carefully and precisely preserved. 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