BIG PRESENTS FOR BRAINY PEOPLE $500, $300, $150, $100-in all $20,000 YOU FREE Should Read Every Word in This Advertisement. In these days of misleading and catch-penny advertising, we wish to impress upon your mind that this advertisement means exactly what it states. Sustained by a capital of $200,000, we are in a position to carry out every offer made, and will refund money to any dissatisfied subscriber at any time. The following 1,069 prizes will be given to the 1,069 persons making the greatest number of words from the letters in the word "NATIONAL." Use each letter as many times as you like in making words, but not more times than it appears in "NATIONAL" in any one word. Example: Nat, Not, Nit, Nil, A, At, An, Ant, Tin, Ton, Tan, In, It, etc., etc. You can use A and N twice, as in Ann, Inn, Nation, Natal. You can use the above words in making list. Use nothing but English; use any dictionary. This contest closes November 20, 1897. BEGIN NOW. Send your list when complete. No list of words received after November 20. Here Is the List of Prizes Why We Give These Prizes We are large publishers, and to more widely introduce our beautifully illustrated monthly, THE NATIONAL HOMESTEAD MAGAZINE, devoted to Choicest Modern Literature, The House, Garden and Kitchen, How to Obtain a Home, How to Build a House, and Furnish It at a minimum cost, and a score of other features new to the general public. How to Get a Prize With your list of words you must send 25 cents, silver, postal, or express money order, or 30 cents in stamps, for a three months' subscription to The National Homestead Magazine. The person sending the largest list of words made from letters in the word "National will win the $500. The person sending the next largest, $300; the next largest, $150; the next, $100; the next 5, each a Royal Worcester Bicycle, and so on until 1,069 presents are given away. These prizes are given free and without consideration, twenty-five cents being the regular quarterly sub IT IS FOR YOU scription price. Word-making is a most fascinating and educational pastime. It is now the fad. Three prominent gentlemen, selected from three New York daily papers, will award the prizes, and certified checks will be sent to all cash prize winners. The names of the winners will be published in the next number of our great magazine immediately after the award. There will be 1,069 who will win from $1 to $500. It's worth your while to try it-it costs nothing. Our magazine alone is worth more than 25c. for three months. $15,000 in Extra Presents Besides being publishers on a large scale, we are also large owners of real estate near Greater New York. We build, decorate and furnish homes for the people. We own and control over $150,000 worth of handsome residential property, subdivided into choice villa sites, house and business lots. 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IN CONCLUSION we want it borne in mind that the primary object in publishing THE NATIONAL HOMESTEAD MAGAZINE is to present such features and attractions as will enable us to secure 100,000 new subscribers, and at the same time so educate the minds of the public at large as to enforce the belief that it is the duty of every one to own a home. The first requisite is the land. Our plan for those who acquire a homesite free is without a parallel in the history of the publishing business. And at the same time through the plans and specifications furnished free in THE NATIONAL HOMESTEAD MAGAZINE we show how to build houses costing from $500 to $5,000 and to furnish the same down to the minutest detail from the kitchen to the garret at a saving of from 25 to 40 per cent. Always bear in mind that the man or woman who owns a home paid for is not only in a position to absolutely make life worth the living, but that the achievement is an encouragement to humanity in general. The home-building and house-furnishing feature of this Magazine is alone worth many times the amount of the subscription price. We invite all to enter this contest. An opportunity like this will not occur again. DO NOT MISS IT. As to our responsibility we refer to any Mercantile Agency, or if you have friends in the city have them call and investigate. Remit in silver, postal or express money order, or registered letter. Address THE NATIONAL HOMESTEAD MAGAZINE, 206-208 Broadway, New York CUT THIS OUT. IT WILL NOT APPEAR AGAIN. Please mention McClure's when you write to advertisers. The American Monthly Review of Reviews Edited by ALBERT SHAW A large proportion of the recent comments of the press have taken occasion to explain, and, in almost every instance, to commend, the new title of THE AMERICAN MONTHLY. We print a few from the hundreds of very recent editorial comments : "The American Monthly Review of Reviews is the new title of the popular periodical edited by Mr. Albert Shaw. In course of time it will undoubtedly come to be known more briefly as the American Monthly. We are glad the change has been made." -The Dial. * "The American Monthly Review of Reviews is the title that confronts us on the cover of the July number of one of the most popular and deservingly popular-of our magazines. The old name was felt to be too restricted to indicate the full scope of the magazine, and the word American may be said to have been in the title from the start, as it was constantly used to distinguish Dr. Shaw's periodical from Mr. Stead's."-The Critic. "The Review of Reviews has changed its name, and now appears as The American Monthly Review of Reviews. It has labored with success to point out month by month the deeper -currents of purpose and tendency in the world's news,' -The Buffalo Express. "The July number of The Review of Reviews, which begins a new volume, carries the name The American Monthly Review of Reviews. Dr. Shaw has given this very popular magazine such an American character and scope that it might well be called The American Monthly, Its success shows that the public wanted such a magazine."- The Syracuse Post. "The change portends no difference in the character and scope of the magazine, It may add dignity and distinctiveness, in which qualities, however, it has never been lacking since its start. There is nothing like it now in the broad field of current periodi-cals, and it is so good month in and month out that we do not see how it can ever have a successful rival," * -The Congregationalist. "It is an excellent name, and we congratulate The American Monthly, which is one of the most highly valued of our contemporaries, upon its selection. 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"The Review of Reviews, which has come regularly to the Surf's editorial table for years, is a generous library in itself. It is emphatically one of the things which no family can afford to do without. Its reviews and condensations from American and foreign periodical literature form a very acceptable part of its monthly bill of fare; but inasmuch as this work of reviewing the periodicals occupies very much less than half of the space of the magazine, it is obvious that the title Review of Reviews comes far short of expressing the full scope of the periodical. As an ordinary designation, the words American Monthly will better fit the facts of the case."-The Santa Cruz (Cal.) Surf. "The Review of Reviews is a library in itself, and those who possess a set of its bound volumes have a record of events which is extremely valuable."-The Waterbury American. "The Review of Reviews has become well-nigh indispensable to those who wish to be well informed in all important parts of the world's work. The summary of the contents of leading reviews and magazines is useful; but the original articles are no less so, and the portraits make an international series of exceptional value."-The Providence Journal. "Its relation to other magazines has ceased for long to be merely that of a summary and compendium of their best contents, as the title Review of Reviews taken literally would suggest; it has an independent voice of its own, notably in the timely contributions to international and world-wide topics commanding universal and immediate attention. The point of view is clearly and unmistakably American. Dr. Shaw's great monthly is a courageous attempt to take down current history in shorthand, so that we have the quickest possible intelligent account, combining chronicle and comment, of what is happening in the world. If the time is coming, as a magazine editor predicted the other day, when all our dailies and weeklies shall have run into monthlies, then The American Monthly will be the forerunner and the model of the great monthly newspaper."-The Bookman. "The Review of Reviews begins with this month's (July) magazine a change in its title which will ultimately make it known as the American Monthly. It has prefixed to the familiar title Review of Reviews three other words which make it read: The American Monthly Review of Reviews. This is of course too long a title for use by busy people, and just as we speak of Harper's and the Century, so writers will curtail the rather imposing title of the Review. But whether it shall be known as the American Monthly or Review of Reviews it is a publication that is valuable to the busy man or woman who cannot read all that is written upon all current topics, but must have them boiled down and presented in brief. In the editorial department, The Progress of the World,' all current matters of general interest, domestic and foreign, are briefly and intelligently treated, and in every number there are valuable articles from competent contributors."-The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle. "This deservedly popular magazine has entered with this numbe, on its 16th volume and announces an enlarged title. It becomes The American Monthly Review of Reviews. But the change of title does not change the character of the magazine. Its plans and methods, its scope and purpose are the same as heretofore. It remains the world epitomized; and as it presents the world in monthly instalments, its new name, American Monthly, is entirely appropriate. It has never presented a better number than the current issue. With great fullness of detail we find here the editor's intelligent comments on public affairs at home and abroad, in which every important fact of the world's progress is noted and discussed. 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Each number profusely illustrated with the most timely portraits and pictures China's Trade Relations... 218 The Cyclist as War Correspondent.. 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 243 $30000 CIVEN OUR NEW AND IMPROVED We request that you carefully read all details below given of our new and improved word-spelling contest. The word now announced is Geographical. It contains twelve letters. Our offer is to give $300 in cash prizes, and an extra prize of a very choice book to persons who make smaller lists of words from "Geographical." This is the manner of compiling them: Heal, peal, leap, ape, grape, par, harp, clog, and so on; use these words and as many more as you can think of, but you cannot use a letter twice in the same word except G or A, and we will permit you to use these letters twice because they are repeated in "Geographical." After studying out all the words you can, write them neatly on paper, putting them alphabetically. For example, place all words that begin with A together, and so on, in order to facilitate the examining by our committee. No names of persons (such as Ralph), or names of places (such as Georgia), or other proper nouns, will be admissible; neither will we count abbreviations, prefixes, suffixes, obsolete or foreign words. No words will be allowed unless they are printed in the dictionary section of "Woman's World Dictionary and Reliable Guide." We therefore advise you to send for this new book at once, so that you can compile your list of words successfully. In previous contests the prizes have been awarded to persons having access to all the dictionaries, encyclopedias, directories and books of reference in large cities and colleges. In this contest, as the "Woman's World Dictionary and Reliable Guide" will be the guide and basis of comparison for all lists, this contest will give every one an equal chance, whether living in country or city. It makes the contest a simple one. PRIZES TO BE PAID. For the most complete list of words sent us in accordance with our rules we will pay $100 in gold. For the second largest list we will pay $50 in gold. For the next five largest lists we will pay each $10 in gold. Next twenty largest lists, $5 each. For every list sent us we will send a new edition of the famous and popular story entitled "The Scarlet Letter," by Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the most celebrated and fascinating books in American literature, neatly printed in good clear type, prettily bound and unabridged. This book, in clothbound form, has been sold at $1.25, but you get the full story free, postpaid, when we receive your list. We shall also award other high prizes, each same and of equal high valuation, to contestants who use our Dictionary, the only conditions being that the recipient of a gift shall become a regular subscriber to Woman's World and Jenness Miller Monthly. CONTEST ENDS OCT. 19, '97. This "Geographical" word-spelling contest will be closed October 19, and your list must positively reach us not later than that date. This affords you ample opportunity to send now and secure the "Woman's World Dictionary and Reliable Guide" and compile your list of words according thereto. We agree that every person who buys our Dictionary and compiles a list carefully shall receive a prize of good value in addition to opportunity of earning one of the valuable cash prizes on conditions in above paragraph. Read Every Word of This. All lists of words offered in this contest will be examined according to the words in the Dictionary Department of our new 'Woman's World Dictionary and Reliable Guide." A mint of information. This volume excels in completeness and compactness of value any book of the kind ever published. It includes over 30,000 words, which are fully pronounced; it is a dictionary compiled up to this month; all new words added. It includes a Statistical Gazetteer of the World, giving important information about every country on the globe, with populations, names of rulers, cities, areas, etc. It shows you the values of foreign money, old coins, etc. It gives rules for spelling, also abbreviations that every one should learn. This compilation contains the essential rules of etiquette in six books, teaching all the rules of good society in public, in the parlor, dining-room, when courting, calling, etc. Golden Rule helps. All about punctuation. Guide for making notes, receipts, due bills, etc., legally. How to write letters on business, love or social matters. Definitions of foreign phrases. Parliamentary rules; how to conduct a meeting; speeches on many subjects; what to say at weddings, presentations, school ceremonies, etc. A Perpetual Calendar that enables you to tell any day of the week in the last 200 years or for the next 500 years to come. The " Woman's World Dictionary and Reliable Guide" is handsomely bound in cloth, lettered in gold, printed in clear type on extra quality paper, and is in every respect a most important and valuable reference library. We will send it by mail, postpaid, upon receipt of 25 cents in silver or stamps. Address Woman's World Publishing Co., Dept. 120, 22 and 24 North William Street, New York City. CLOSING INFORMATION. After you have carefully compiled your list of words, send it to us, with 25 cents to pay for three months' subscription to our charming, handsomely printed, profusely illustrated magazine, Woman's World and Jenness Miller Monthly. As soon as your list and subscription reach us the prize of the story, "The Scarlet Letter," in book form, will be mailed to you. When the committee finally examines the list, directly after October 19, the $300 in cash prizes will be forwarded to contestants, and, as above guaranteed, we will also give prizes of high value to all contestants who have used our Dictionary, in addition to the opportunity to gain valuable cash prizes for largest lists. To avoid any mistakes, we shall send a coupon in each Dictionary, which, when returned, attached to your list, will insure a prize to be given in accordance with the excellence of your list. In conclusion, we assure you that we are perfectly trustworthy. We have paid over $10,000 in prizes of cash, etc., within a year. We refer to any mercantile agency as to our reliability. If you have a friend in New York, ask him or her to call and investigate. We wish to also state, for your assurance, that we always refund money to any dissatisfied person. Address: WOMAN'S WORLD PUBLISHING CO., Dept. 120, Nos. 22 and 24 North William Street, New York City. 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