HARPER'S ROUND TABLE
Reading edition
for 1897 will be especially noticeable for its fiction in the form of long serials, which are unique in weekly juvenile literature, short serials of from five to ten chapters each, short stories by the famous authors of the world, and its different series of articles on
HISTORIC BOYHOODS
ALEXANDRE DUMAS. PRINCE CHARLIE
By Andrew Lang
ALEXANDER POPE
By Austin Dobson
LORD BYRON
By W. E. Henley
DUTY OF THE YOUNG VOTER
WHAT A VOTE MEANS
By the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D.D.
WHAT A "POLITICAL PARTY" MEANS
By Hon. Carl Schurz
WHAT A PRIMARY MEANS
By Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge
WHAT AN ELECTION MEANS
By Thomas Wentworth Higginson
LITERARY ENTERTAINMENTS
THE FAIRY FÊTE. A CHARLES LAMB PARTY
THE CHILDREN'S HOUR. A DELFT PARTY
By Emma J. Gray
Andrew Lang
Austin Dobson
W. E. Henley
E. E. Hale
Carl Schurz
H. C. Lodge
T. W. Higginson
James Barnes
Kirk Munroe
Molly Elliott Seawell
THREE
REMARKABLE TWENTY-PART
SERIALS
A LOYAL TRAITOR
A STORY OF THE NAVAL WAR OF 1812
By James Barnes
THE PAINTED DESERT
A STORY OF THE ARIZONA DESERT
By Kirk Munroe
THE ROCK OF THE LION
A STORY OF THE SIEGE OF GIBRALTAR
By Molly Elliot Seawell
If you are not a subscriber at present and wish to enter one of the prize competitions, send two dollars and your address for a subscription when you send in your material which is to go in the competition. Four hundred and seventy-five dollars is offered in prizes of three classes to subscribers only. These three competitions are in short-story writing, in amateur photography, and in puzzle solutions. HARPER'S ROUND TABLE offers one hundred and fifty dollars divided into three parts, of seventy-five dollars, first prize; fifty dollars, second prize; twenty-five dollars, third prize, for the best stories written by actual subscribers. The Photographic competition is in five classes, with prizes amounting to one hundred and twenty-five dollars. The Puzzle competition includes five long puzzles, with prizes amounting to two hundred dollars. These puzzles will be published through the winter months. Send at once for prize-contest circulars, or look in the October 27, 1896, issue for all the offers which we have made to subscribers in competitions.
SHORT STORIES BY FAMOUS AUTHORS
A GOLF ADVENTURE
By G. H. Boughton, R.A.
A SCOTCH ADVENTURE
By S. R. Crockett
AN ISLAND ADVENTURE
By H. B. Marriot Watson
A PARISIAN CHARACTER
By François Coppée
AN ASTRONOMICAL FANTASY
By Camille Flammarion
A SCHOOL-BOY OF SCOTLAND
By Ian Maclaren
BOYS AT SEA. WOMEN AT SEA
By W. Clark Russell
THE FATE OF UTE JACK
By Owen Wister
AN AMERICAN BOY IN THE FRANCO-GERMAN WAR
By Poultney Bigelow
AN AMERICAN BOYHOOD
By Charles Dudley Warner
BIG BEN
By Hamilton Aïdé
THE LITTLE BISHOP
By Kate Douglas Wiggin
AN APRIL-FOOL'S DAY
By Laurence Hutton
MOUNTAIN CLIMBING
ASCENTS OF GREAT PEAKS. METHODS OF CLIMBING
By Edward Whymper
FIRST ASCENTS IN AMERICA
MT. TACOMA
MT. ST. ELIAS
MT. CHIMBORAZO
MT. POPOCATEPETL
MT. WHITNEY
GRAND TETON
By G. P. Serviss
OUR ARMY AND NAVY
MAKING OF TORPEDOES. MAKING OF BIG GUNS
By Franklin Matthews
PERSONNEL AND NAVAL RESERVE. NAVAL ORGANIZATION
COMMERCE DESTROYERS. CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS
By Lt.-Com. J. D. Jerrold Kelley, U.S.N.
STORIES OF AFRICAN TRAVEL
THE DWARFS OF AFRICA. ARAB SLAVE TRADERS
By Cyrus C. Adams
TRAVEL WITH STANLEY. THE AFRICAN FOREST
ACROSS THE PLAINS WITH STANLEY TO KAVALLIS
By Lieutenant A. I. Mounteney Jephson
S. R. Crockett
François Coppée
W. Clark Russell
Owen Wister
Poultney Bigelow
Charles D. Warner
Laurence Hutton
Send for a copy of the twenty-eight-page illustrated prospectus, which will give a better idea of what the paper will contain in 1897. Send also for a sample copy containing our sixteen-page illustrated Book-List of Free Books and Prize Offers (supply limited).