Striking Summer Features.

Continuing a custom which has proved so successful in past years, the August issue of The Century Magazine is known as the “Midsummer Holiday Number,” being especially devoted to papers and stories of a light and entertaining character

For Summer Reading,

and enriched with an unusual number of choice engravings. The appearance of this Midsummer Holiday Number has in past years been pronounced

“The Literary Event of the Season,”

and, in its literary and art attractions, the present issue is fully up to the high standard thus established.

Among the special features in this number are richly-illustrated papers on Steam Yachts; the Pilgrimage of the Zuni Indians to Boston; “The Borderlands of Surrey;” “Some English Artists and their Studios;” a portrait of Richard Wagner and an article, “How Wagner makes Operas” “The Lambs,” a burlesque tragedy in blank verse, by the author of “Confessions of a Frivolous Girl;” a story by Noah Brooks, “The Phantom Sailor,” etc.

Persons who are not regular readers of The Century will be repaid by getting a copy of this special number. All book-sellers and newsdealers sell it; price, 35 cents.

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