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1885-03 Century Magazine Contents

1885/03 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Daniel Webster — Engraved by T. Johnson from a daguerreotype taken by F. de B. Richards
  • The Land of the False Prophet by R. E. Colston
  • The Rise of Silas Lapham — Part 5 — by William Dean Howells
  • A Vigil by Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • Hodson’s Hide-Out by Maurice Thompson
  • The Bostonians — Part 2 — by Henry James
  • The New Astronomy — Part 4 — by S. P. Langley
  • Reminiscences of Daniel Webster by Stephen M. Allen
  • Some Recollections of Charles O’Conor by John Bigelow
  • Grown Old with Nature by John Vance Cheney
  • The First Fight of the Iron-Clads — March 9, 1862 — by John Taylor Wood
  • In the Monitor Turret — March 9, 1862 — by Commander S. D. Greene
  • Watching the Merrimac by R. E. Colston
  • Recollections of a Private — Part 3 — by Warren Lee Goss

    • Memoranda on the Civil War:

  • General R. S. Ewell at Bull Run by Campbell Brown
  • Names of Western Gun-Boats
  • Erratum
  • The Worship of Shakspere by O. B. Frothingham

    • Topics of the Time:

  • The “Century” War Series
  • An Undesired Guest
  • Freedom of Discussion

    • Open Letters:

  • The Claims of Chicago by George M. Higginson
  • Courbet, the Artist by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • Progress in Forestry by B. G. Northrop
  • “About People” by Kate Gannett Wells
  • The Blue and the Gray by C. N. Jenkins
  • The Bombardment of Alexandria by C. F. Goodrich
  • Making Light of It by John Stone Pardee

    • Bric-a-Brac:

  • Uncle Esek’s Wisdom by Uncle Esek
  • Natural History by W. H. Hyde
  • A Book of Nature by R. K. Munkittrick
  • “Tulips Blooming in the Snow” by R. R.
  • The Tender Heart by Helen Gray Cone
  • An Untutored Mind by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • The Tryst by Walter Learned