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1887-10 Century Magazine Contents

1887/10 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Ely Cathedral by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • Interpretation by Richard E. Burton
  • Abraham Lincoln: A History — The Secession Movement — by John G. Nicolay and John Hay
  • My Shadow by Ellen M. H. Gates
  • The Madrigal by Samuel Willoughby Duffield
  • Won by Julia C. R. Dorr
  • Mrs. Stowe’s “Uncle Tom” at Home in Kentucky by James Lane Allen
  • Hand-Car 412, C. P. R. by John Heard, Jr.
  • The Hundredth Man — Part 12 of 12 — by Frank R. Stockton
  • His Argument by Sarah M. B. Piatt
  • Azalia — Part 3 of 3 — by Joel Chandler Harris
  • The American Game of Foot-Ball by Alexander Johnston — 11 pages with 14 illustrations by Irving R. Wiles including “A Touch-Down”; “A Goal”; “A Fair Catch”; Foul Catches; “Quarter-Back Taking the Ball”; “The Scrimmage. Half-Back Taking the Ball”; “Breaking Through the Rush Line” and more. The article begins as follows: “However odd the title of this article may seem, its implcations are correct and legitimate. The undergraduates of American colleges, taking the so-called Rugby game of foot-ball, have developed it into a game differing in many of its phases from any of its English prototypes. There were already differences in the game in its primitive home …”
  • Twelve Years of British Song by Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • The Going Out of the Tide by Helen Gray Cone
  • Marching Through Georgia and the Carolinas by Captain Daniel Oakey
  • Sherman’s March from Savannah to Bentonville by General H. W. Slocum
  • The Battle of Bentonville by General Wade Hampton
  • The Wild Ride by Louise Imogen Guiney
  • Zweibok; or Notes of a Professional Exile by E.S. Nadal
  • The Angel of Sleep by Robert Burns Wilson

    • Topics of the Time:

  • Soldier and Citizen
  • Personal Records of the War
  • The Last Hope of the Mormon
  • The Jury System
  • Shall Immigration be Restricted?

    • Open Letters:

  • Christian Union and Baptism by Herbert H. Hawes
  • Christian Union and Pending Public Questions by William Chauncy Langdon
  • Secret Societies in Colleges by Charles S. Robinson
  • Henry Clay, the Slashes, and Ashland Again by W. A. W.

    • Bric-a-Brac:

  • Art and Nature
  • Aphorisms from the Quarter by J. A. Macon
  • Ballade of the Romantic Poet by Harrison S. Morris
  • Revision, by Esther B. Tiffany
  • An Old-Fashioned Girl by James B. Kenyon
  • The Missing Glove by Winifred Howells