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1885-01 Century Magazine Contents

1885/01 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Edward Everett Hale — Engraved by T. Johnson after after a photograph by G.C. Cox
  • Recent Architecture in America — Part IV: Churches — by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • Edward Everett Hale by William Sloane Kennedy
  • The Knight of the Black Forest — Part 2 — by Grace Denio Litchfield
  • The Making of a Museum by Ernest Ingersoll
  • Mariana by Stuart Sterne
  • The Rise of Silas Lapham — Part 3 — by W. D. Howells
  • Christianity and Popular Amusements by Washington Gladden
  • How Squire Coyote Brought Fire to the Cahrocs by John Vance Cheney
  • To a Face at a Concert by E. R. Sill
  • Orpiment and Gamboge by Ivory Black
  • Unlooked-For Return by Charlotte Fiske Bates
  • The Freedman’s Case in Equity by George W. Cable
  • Recollections of Foote and the Gun-Boats by James B. Eads
  • Longing by William M Briggs
  • Operations of the Western Flotilla by Henry Walke
  • The Kalispel Country by Eugene V. Smalley
  • Retrospect by Mary A. Leonard
  • IMPORTANT: Part 2 of 3 of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” — First Printing Anywhere — Part 2 is “Jim’s Investments and King Sollermun” by MARK TWAIN
  • An Autumn Meditation by Richard Watson Gilder

    • Topics of the Time:

  • The Degradation of Politics
  • The Newspaper and the Organ
  • A Grave Responsibility

    • Open Letters:

  • The Trouble with the Stage by J. Ranken Towse
  • Natural Gas Wells by J. D. Dougherty
  • Political Work for Young Men by John H. Wigmore
  • A Great Historical Enterprise by Noah Brooks
  • Old Questions and New by A Southern Democrat
  • Our Church Club by Julia C. R. Door
  • Another Plan for Women’s Clubs by M. L. N.
  • Cooperative Studies
  • Church Music by Edward Witherspoon
  • The Recent Legal-Tender Decision by Harry H. Neill
  • The Recent Legal-Tender Decision by Isaac L. Rice
  • “Anachronism” by William Dean Howells
  • Death of Tecumseh by Benjamin B. Griswold
  • The Apathy of Women by C. P. W.

    • Bric-a-Brac:

  • Uncle Esek’s Wisdom by Uncle Esek
  • The Fair Physiologist by J. Harper Benson
  • Literal by W. H. Hyde
  • Her Waiting by Emma C. Dowd
  • Here by My Fire by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • A Hen on an Eggs by Cupid Jones
  • Bessie Brown, M. D. by Samuel Minturn Peck