1885-12 Century Magazine Contents December 1885

1885/12 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Frontispiece: Portrait of Helen Jackson (H.H.) – Engraved by Miss C.A. Powell, from a photograph

The City of Persia — Part 1: Teheran by S. G. W. Benjamin

Saint Elizabeth by T. T. Munger

A Child of the Age by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

The Interpreter by Edith M. Thomas

The Private History of a Campaign that Failed by Mark Twain

Eve by W. J. Henderson

The Bostonians by Henry James

The Solitary Knight by James T. McKay

An American Lordship by George Parsons Lathrop

The Poet by Ina D. Coolbrith

John Bodewin’s Testimony — Part 2 by Mary Hallock Foote

The “Lamia” of Keats by Henry Eckford

The Last Poems of Helen Jackson (H. H.) — Habeas Corpus; Acquainted with Grief; Fealty; The Poet’s Forge; Vision; Vanity of Vanities; A Last Prayer; by Helen Jackson

The Lesson of Greek Art by Charles Waldstein

Bird-Enemies by John Burroughs

Faith-Cures by A. F. Schauffler

The Haunted Heart by Minna Irving

The Monitors: Their Construction and Work by Capt. John Ericsson

The Loss of the Monitor. By a Survivor by Francis B. Butts

Dangers in Food and Drink by Elwyn Waller

At Mrs. Berty’s “Tea” by Thomas A. Janvier

Topics of the Time:

Transfigured Mercantilism

The Sunday-School and Good Literature

Open Letters:

What Shall Be Done With Our Ex-Presidents? — Opinions by George F. Edmunds – Thomas Cooley – Francis Wharton – Allen G. Bigelow

The Poetic Outlook by Washington Gladden

Wanted – A Universal Tinker by X. Y. Z.

Bric-A-Brac:

The Sultan of My Books by Edmund Gosse

De Libris by Cosmo Monkhouse

On the Fly-Leaf of a Book of Old Plays by Walter Learned