NOTHER trait that it will be a special care of the editors to preserve and increase during the year is that individual character, that vividness in stories and sketches, freshness in outdoor articles, independence in criticism, which have been uniformly recognized in The Overland Monthly.
No type of comment is so frequently in our exchanges as the following:
Taking us into the atmosphere of virgin hills, and great forests, and clear waters. The stories have individuality, the editorials vigor, and the criticisms courage.—Sacramento Record-Union.
Redolent of the country in which it is published, and full of information as to its characteristics, history, and progress. English readers will do well to obtain it; they may spend many pleasant hours over its pages.—Liverpool (England) Mercury.
It is the most sprightly magazine we have seen, with not a dull line in it, and throughout original and highly attractive.—New York Union.
In especial, Indian and Chinese studies will continue to be more frequent than in any other magazine.
The high rank of The Overland Monthly in Poems, Criticism, Sketches, and papers on Public Topics will be maintained; also its careful and independent Editorial Departments.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Illustrated Articles:—
Of the many illustrated articles that will be published in 1894, the following are now in preparation, and will appear in early numbers:—
Poems of the Northwest. By Ella Higginson, Herbert Bashford, and others.
This will be a group of poems of places in Oregon and Washington, accompanied with beautiful illustrations of each place; the plan will be similar to that of the poems of California in the issue of last September.
It is probable that similar groups of poems and pictures of other parts of Pacific region will be published from time to time.
Pacific Coast Oysters. By J. G. Cooper.
A careful scientific study by a Vice-President of the California Academy of Sciences.
A Voyage Northward. By F. De Laguna.
An account of an Alaskan trip.
The Hop-Growing Industry. By Mabel H. Closson.
American Military Artists. By Alvin H. Sydenham.
This will he illustrated by photographs of Remington and Zogbaum, the principal artists treated, and by examples of their work.
A Story of the Oregon Trail. By J. B. Rhinehart.
An Indian-fighting episode.
The Various State Capitals of California.
Outward and Visible Signs: Stories of San Francisco and elsewhere. By Frank Norris.
Illustrated by the author.
