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1886-09 Century Magazine Contents

1886/09 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Franz Liszt — Engraved by T. Johnson from a photograph by Louis Held
  • A Summer with Liszt in Weimar by Albert Morris Bagby
  • Amateur Ballooning by Alfred E. Moore
  • Balloon Experiences of a Timid Photographer by John G. Doughty
  • A Pistol-Shot by Kate Foote
  • Lost Joy by Lucile
  • The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine — Part 2 — by Frank R. Stockton
  • The Sermon of a Statue by S. M. B. Piatt
  • A Glance at the Arts of Persia by S. G. W. Benjamin
  • A September Violet by Robert Underwood Johnson
  • The Minister’s Charge — Part 8 — by William Dean Howells
  • The Successes and Failures of Chancellorsville by Gen. Alfred Pleasonton
  • Jackson’s Attack Upon the Eleventh Corps by Gen. O. O. Howard
  • Sedgwick’s Assault at Fredericksburg by Col. Huntington W. Jackson
  • Chancellorsville Revisited by General Hooker by Samuel P. Bates
  • Notes from the Prairie by John Burroughs
  • Undying Light by Richard Watson Gilder
  • The Zoological Station at Naples by Emily Nunn Whitman
  • A Song of the Mocking-Bird by Maurice Thompson

    • Memoranda on the Civil War:

  • Lee’s Knowledge of Hooker’s Movements by Gen. R. E. Colston
  • The Reserve at Antietam by Gen. Thomas M. Anderson
  • General Grant’s Reasons for Relieving General William F. Smith by Capt. Joel Benedict Erhardt
  • A Correction from Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

    • Topics of the Time:

  • Legislative Inefficiency
  • Marriage, Divorce, and the Mormon Problem
  • The Forgotten Millions

    • Open Letters:

  • The Inefficiency of the House of Congress by Albert H. Walker
  • The Rev. Dr. Munger on “Evolution and the Faith” by Charles F. Deems
  • Reply by the Rev. Dr. Munger
  • A Plan for Harmony between Labor and the Employing Interests by S. H. Church
  • “Danger Ahead” by Lyman Abbott by John C. Perkins
  • Petra

    • Bric-a-Brac:

  • In a Venetian Picture-Gallery — Drawing by Robert Blum
  • On Some Buttercups by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • In a Bob-Tail Car by Brander Matthews
  • Her Choice by Minna Irving