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1886-04 Century Magazine Contents

1886/04 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — Engraved by T. Johnson from an ambrotype taken in 1848
  • Creole Slave Songs article by George W. Cable – 20 pages – 1. The Quadroons; 2. The Love-Song; 3. The Lay and the Dirge; 4. The Voodoos; 5. Songs of Woods and Waters – With 11 illustrations by E.W. Kemble – Plus Excerpts from Several Songs – Closing with 4-plus pages of sheet music including “Quand Mo ‘Te”; “Neg’ Pas Capa’ Marche”; “Ah! Suzette”; “Pov’ Piti Momzel Zizi”; “Bon D’je”; “Criole Candjo”; “De Zab”
  • Compensation by Celia Thaxter
  • John Bodewin’s Testimony — Part 6 — by Mary Hallock Foote
  • Past by Winifred Howells
  • Italy, from a Tricycle — Part 2 of 2 — by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
  • The Minister’s Charge — Part 3 — by William Dean Howells
  • The Water-Text by Louise Imogen Guiney
  • April’s Lady by Arlo Bates

    • Toy Dogs by James Watson :

  • The Pug – King Charles Spaniels – The Japanese Spaniel – The Blenheim Spaniel – The Italian Greyhound – The Yorkshire Terrier – Toy Terriers
  • Glimpses of Longfellow in Social Life by Annie Fields
  • Sister Tabea by Edward Eggleston
  • Young Love is Lord by John Vance Cheney
  • Christianity and Popular Education by Washington Gladden
  • Strikes, Lockouts, and Arbitration by George May Powell
  • Life on the “Alabama” by P. D. Haywood
  • Cruise and Combats of the “Alabama” by Capt. John McIntosh Kell
  • The Duel Between the “Alabama” and the “Kearsarge” — By the Surgeon of the “Kearsarge” — by John M. Browne

    • Memoranda of the Civil War:

  • In Vindication of General Rufus King by Capt. Charles King
  • Government Aid in Marking Battlefields by John J. Tigert
  • A Statement from the Commissary General by Col. L. B. Northrop

    • Topics of the Time:

  • The Grant Memorial
  • Good Signs on the Lecture Platform

    • Open Letters:

  • The Tinkering of Hymns by Charles S. Robinson
  • Shall the Federal Government Give Aid to Popular Education? by T. U. Dudley
  • The Tool-House by Cortlandt Palmer
  • Lobbying and its Remedy by T. W.
  • Lobbying in England by M. P.
  • Senator Boutwell’s Plan — “Hybridization”

    • Bric-a-Brac:

  • Discarded by Charles Henry Webb
  • Uncle Esek’s Wisdom by Uncle Esek
  • The Truth About It by M. P. Handy
  • A Cure for Heroics by Martha Wolcott Hitchcock
  • To Frederick Locker by Edward F. Hayward
  • Burning the Love-Letters by Walter Learned