and many others, have given material for especially prepared interviews, which will appear fully illustrated in the magazine.
THE EDGE OF THE FUTURE
is the title of a series of interviews and articles furnished by Scientists, Inventors, Notable Enterprisers, including men who have built up great businesses, railroads, manufactories, etc., Statesmen, Soldiers, Explorers, Surgeons and Investigators, and which will indicate the lines of future progress. The interviews with Edison (electricity), Pasteur (bacteriology), Tissandier (ballooning), illustrate the character of this series.
AN ENTIRELY NEW FORM OF MAGAZINE LITERATURE ARE REAL CONVERSATIONS.
It is expected that each issue of the magazine will contain real conversations between eminent personalities. The dialogue between William Dean Howells and Professor H. H. Boyesen, which appears in this number, indicates the general character of these contributions.
HUMAN DOCUMENTS
is the title to a department new in American magazine literature, and will consist principally of portraits of distinguished men and women at different periods of their lives, showing the gradual development of character in distinguished Soldiers, Statesmen, Merchants, Novelists, Actors, Inventors, etc.
FICTION BY FAMOUS AUTHORS.
A Group of Notable Short Stories has been secured by the editors of McClure’s Magazine, and two or three will be published in each issue. Stories may be expected in early numbers by