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1889-10 Century Magazine Contents

1889/10 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Moliere as Caesar
  • The East Siberian Silver Mines by George Kennan
  • Moliere and Shakspere by C. Coquelin
  • The Martens by C. A. Bartol
  • Base-Ball – For the Spectator by Walter Camp
    7 pages about baseball including an illustration of the field and 10 additional small illustrations of players in various forms of action; talk of early days, first pros, formation of National League, with the bulk of the article an explanation of the game with explantions of rules and some strategy. No players are mentioned by name, though some clubs are.
  • Abraham Lincoln A History – Blair’s Mexican Project – The Hampton Roads Conference – The XIIth Amendment by J. G. Nicolay and John Hay
  • Italian Old Masters – Filippo Lippi by W. J. Stillman
  • Three Jewish Kings by Edward L. Wilson
  • Over their Graves by Henry Jerome Stockard
  • The Pretty Girls of the West — Part 10 of Pictures of the Far West by Mary Hallock Foote
  • On a Great Poet’s Obscurity by Robert Underwood Johnson
  • The Longworth Mystery by Young E. Allison and illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson
  • Compensation by Stuart Sterne
  • Songs of Ireland by Jennie E. T. Dowe
  • Ben and Judas by Maurice Thompson
  • Phryne in Hades by William Young
  • Reminiscences of the Herschels by Maria Mitchell
  • The Old Bascom Place — Part 3 of 3 — Joel Chandler Harris
  • Sunrise by Alice Wellington Rollins
  • Education. The Training of the Teacher by Nicholas Murray Butler
  • Education. Manual Training as a Factor in Modern Education by Francis Newton Thorpe
  • Education. The Democratic Ideal in Education by Felix Adler
  • Illusions by H. S. Sanford, Jr.
  • War Diary of a Union Woman in the South by George W. Cable
  • To a Dog’s Memory by Louise Imogen Guiney

    • Topics of the Time:

  • Disasters
  • History and Current Politics
  • The Late Professor Alexander Johnston
  • Politics, Current, and History
  • Education. A New College for Women
  • A New College for Women

    • Open Letters:

  • A View of the Confederacy from the Inside by Judge John A. Campbell
  • Maria Mitchell by Anna C. Brackett
  • The Single Tax on Land Values by William S. Kahnweiler
  • Country Roads by R. A. Learned
  • The Iowa Experiment by Johnson Brigham
  • A Tenor Farm by G. H. Wilson
  • Irish Estates by George W. Ruxton

    • Bric-A-Brac:

  • By the Sea by E. W. Kemble
  • Reflections by J. A. Macon
  • The Elder Galvanism by Dora Read Goodale
  • When Polly Goes By by M. E. W.
  • The Direct Tale by Margaret Vandegrift
  • Ol’ Pickett’s Nell by Mather Dean Kimball
  • Teddy by William Zachary Gladwin