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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