ELBRIDGE KINGSLEY.

BRUCE CRANE.

WALTER L. PALMER.

SCRIBNER’S MAGAZINE.

Christmas Number Now Ready.

The completion of the second year of SCRIBNER’S MAGAZINE will be signalized by the publication of a remarkably beautiful and interesting Christmas Number. There will be about sixty illustrations, one-third of them full-pages of rich design.

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON will contribute a second instalment of his romantic novel, “The Master of Ballantrae,” strikingly illustrated by William Hole.

H. C. BUNNER’SSquire Five Fathom” is a delicate and finely imagined story. C. Jay Taylor of Puck, will fully illustrate it.

REBECCA HARDING DAVIS will tell a story of life at a wayside station in the North Carolina mountains. Illustrations by Alfred Kappes.

W. M. TABER will contribute an unusually ingenious tale of a mystery entitled “Three Bad Men,” with illustrations by Francis Day and M. J. Burns.