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1885-09 Century Magazine Contents

1885/09 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Ulysses S. Grant — Engraved by T. Johnson after the photograph from Matthew Brady
  • Panforte di Siena — Second Paper — by William Dean Howells
  • The Silent South by G. W. Cable
  • The Bostonians — Part 8 — by Henry James
  • Among the Red Roofs of Sussex by Alice Maude Fenn
  • “Whom He Loveth He Chasteneth” by Owen Innsly
  • Crow’s Nest by Mrs. Burton Harrison
  • The Great River of Alaska — Exploring the Upper Yukon — by Frederick Schwatka
  • Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: The Siege of Vicksburg by General Ulysses S. Grant – 15 pages
  • A Woman’s Diary of the Siege of Vicksburg with an introduction by G. W. Cable
  • Connecticut in the Middle Ages by Wendell Phillips Garrison
  • New Wine by Dora Read Goodale
  • The Twilight of the Poets by Edmund C. Stedman
  • Abigail Becker by Amanda T. Jones

    • Memoranda on the Civil War:

  • Comment on: Sawing Out a Channel Above Island No. 10 by Gen. Schuyler Hamilton
  • General Lew Wallace and General McCook at Shiloh by Gen. U. S. Grant
  • Who Projected the Canal at Island No. 10? by Schuyler Hamilton
  • The Charge of Cooke’s Cavalry at Gaines’s Mill by Gen. P. St. George Cooke
  • General Beauregard’s Courier at Bull Run by Campbell Brown

    • Topics of the Time:

  • Huddling in the Town and Living in the Country
  • Some Causes of the Present Depression
  • The Sensitiveness of Cities
  • General Grant’s Papers in the War Series

    • Open Letters:

  • Family Religion by Washington Gladden
  • Political Education by J. B. Peterson
  • On the Printing of “The Century” by Theodore L. De Vinne
  • Recent Inventions by Charles Barnard
  • A Plea for National Aid to Education by C. N. Jenkins
  • Women and Finance by Emily F. Wheeler
  • The Serial Story by Charlotte Porter
  • A New Solution of Indian Question by Eugene V. Smalley
  • The Indian Schools of New Mexico by R. W. D. Bryan

    • Bric-a-Brac:

  • Uncle Esek’s Wisdom by Uncle Esek
  • Aphorisms from the Quarters by J. A. Macon
  • A Study in Finance
  • King Redwald’s Altars by H. H.
  • See-Saw by Jennie E. T. Dowe
  • A Woman’s “No” by Arthur Graham
  • At the Piano by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • Getting round Grandmamma by John Vance Cheney
  • Lesson in Courting by M. A. De L. V. H.