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1893-12 Century Magazine Contents Page for December 1889

1893/12 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Edwin Booth
  • To Lowell on this Fortieth Birthday by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Fifth Avenue by Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer
  • The Yellow Globe by Alexander W. Drake
  • My First Lions — Huntingt Fierce Game in Eastern Africa by H.W. Seton-Karr
  • The Factions of Kitwyk by Anna Eichberg King
  • The Watchman by Mary Hallock Foote
  • Artist’s Adventures – The Rush to Death by Walter Shirlaw
  • The Bowers of Paradise by Clinton Scollard
  • A Morning in Spring by Horatio Walker
  • The Casting Vote — Part 1 of 2 by Charles Egbert Craddock
  • John Henderson, Artist by George Kennan
  • George Michel — The Painter of Montmartre by Virginia Vaughan
  • Taking Napoleon to St. Helena – Part 2 of 2 by John R. Glover
  • Bismarck at Friedrichsruh by Eleonora Kinnicutt
  • Tramping with Tramps by Josiah Flynt
  • Farewell to Italy by Robert Underwood Johnson
  • Escape of the Confederate Secretary of War by John Taylor Wood
  • A Prayer in Thessaly by John Hay
  • Humor, Wit, Fun, and Satire. Prefatory Note by Charles Eliot Norton by James Russell Lowell
  • Memories and Letters of Edwin Booth by William Bispham
  • Combatants by Florence Earle Coates
  • Mr. Cummins’ Relinquishment by Richard Malcolm Johnston

  • Topics of the Time:
    Lowell’s Last Gift to Literature

  • Buying and Selling Votes
  • The Burden of Age by Edith M. Thomas
  • Establish Trade Schools
  • Lessons of the Silver Delusion
  • Notes to the Apprentice Series

    • Open Letters:

  • The Sale of Votes in New Hampshire by J. B. Harrison
  • New School of Italian Opera by W. J. Henderson
  • The Century Series of American Artists – Horatio Walker by W. Lewis Fraser
  • A Memory of Whittier by Sarah Ellen Palmer

    • In Lighter Vein:

  • Luvbyrd Goes A-courting by Janus
  • Baby Dorothy by David L. Proudfit
  • Irish Songs. “Five Little Gossoons” by Jennie E.T. Dowe
  • The Doctrine of Eternal Punishment by Howard Helmick
  • In the Studio by F.O. Small
  • Observations by Dorothea Lummis
  • The Tower in Madison Square by Theodore C. Williams
  • A Century of Fashion by M.L. Rayne
  • Farm Superstitions by Doane Robinson
  • Only and Understanding by M. C. S.
  • The Point of View by X.X.X.

    • 1893-11 Century Magazine Contents Page for November 1889

    1893/11 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Edwin Booth
  • To Lowell on this Fortieth Birthday by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Fifth Avenue by Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer
  • The Yellow Globe by Alexander W. Drake
  • My First Lions — Huntingt Fierce Game in Eastern Africa by H.W. Seton-Karr
  • The Factions of Kitwyk by Anna Eichberg King
  • The Watchman by Mary Hallock Foote
  • Artist’s Adventures – The Rush to Death by Walter Shirlaw
  • The Bowers of Paradise by Clinton Scollard
  • A Morning in Spring by Horatio Walker
  • The Casting Vote — Part 1 of 2 by Charles Egbert Craddock
  • John Henderson, Artist by George Kennan
  • George Michel — The Painter of Montmartre by Virginia Vaughan
  • Taking Napoleon to St. Helena – Part 2 of 2 by John R. Glover
  • Bismarck at Friedrichsruh by Eleonora Kinnicutt
  • Tramping with Tramps by Josiah Flynt
  • Farewell to Italy by Robert Underwood Johnson
  • Escape of the Confederate Secretary of War by John Taylor Wood
  • A Prayer in Thessaly by John Hay
  • Humor, Wit, Fun, and Satire. Prefatory Note by Charles Eliot Norton by James Russell Lowell
  • Memories and Letters of Edwin Booth by William Bispham
  • Combatants by Florence Earle Coates
  • Mr. Cummins’ Relinquishment by Richard Malcolm Johnston

  • Topics of the Time:
    Lowell’s Last Gift to Literature

  • Buying and Selling Votes
  • The Burden of Age by Edith M. Thomas
  • Establish Trade Schools
  • Lessons of the Silver Delusion
  • Notes to the Apprentice Series

    • Open Letters:

  • The Sale of Votes in New Hampshire by J. B. Harrison
  • New School of Italian Opera by W. J. Henderson
  • The Century Series of American Artists – Horatio Walker by W. Lewis Fraser
  • A Memory of Whittier by Sarah Ellen Palmer

    • In Lighter Vein:

  • Luvbyrd Goes A-courting by Janus
  • Baby Dorothy by David L. Proudfit
  • Irish Songs. “Five Little Gossoons” by Jennie E.T. Dowe
  • The Doctrine of Eternal Punishment by Howard Helmick
  • In the Studio by F.O. Small
  • Observations by Dorothea Lummis
  • The Tower in Madison Square by Theodore C. Williams
  • A Century of Fashion by M.L. Rayne
  • Farm Superstitions by Doane Robinson
  • Only and Understanding by M. C. S.
  • The Point of View by X.X.X.

    • 1893-10 Century Magazine Contents Page for October 1893

    1893/10 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Frederick Law Olmsted
  • Life among the German Tramps by Josiah Flynt
  • Plague on a Pleasure-Boat by J. Stuart Stevenson
  • The Cold Meteorite by William Reed Huntington
  • Taking Napoleon to St. Helena by John R. Glover
  • Life by Florence Earle Coates
  • Letters of Walt Whitman in War-Time by Walt Whitman – 9 pages, 8 all text by Whitman, 1 a full-page engraving of Whitman
  • Light in Shade — A Painting by I. H. Caliga
  • The Cats of Henriette Ronner by Thomas A. Janvier
  • Frederick Law Olmstead by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • The Vanishing City by Richard Watson Gilder
  • The Pratt Institute by James R. Campbell
  • Balcony Stories – A Delicate Affair by Grace King
  • Balcony Stories – Pupasse by Grace King
  • Street-Paving in America by William Fortune
  • Beranger by C. Coquelin
  • The Heir of the McHulishes — Part 2 of 2 by Bret Harte
  • Leaves from the Autobiography of Salvini — Conclusion by Tomasso Salvini
  • The Autumn Waste by Archibald Lampman
  • Benefits Forgot by Wolcott Balestier

  • Topics of the Time:

  • Richard T Auchmuty
  • A Word or Two, By Your Leave
  • Do not Miss the World’s Fair
  • A True Friend of the American Working-Man
  • Substitutes for the Extinct Apprentice System

    • Open Letters:

  • State Education of Frenchwomen by Theodore Stanton
  • The Question of Sex in Teacher’s Salaries by M. Babcock
  • The Apprentice System in Switzerland by H. J. Burger
  • Quits by Tudor Jenks
  • The Century’s American Artists Series by W. Lewis Fraser
  • A Muzhik’s Gratitude for the Gifts of Americans to Starving Russians by Jonas Stadling

    • In Lighter Vein:

  • A Song to Her by Frank Dempster Sherman

    • 1893-09 Century Magazine Contents Page for September 1893

    1893/09 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Daniel Webster
  • Sights at the Fair by Gustav Kobbe
  • Storm-Voices by Archibald Lampman
  • William James Stillman by Wendell P. Garrison
  • Six Bulls to Die by Mrs. Norman Cutter
  • Moonlight Song of Mocking-Bird by William H. Hayne
  • The Taormina Note-Book by George E. Woodberry
  • The Angel with the Flaming Sword — Painting by Edwin H. Blashfield
  • Benefits Forgot — Part 10 by Wolcott Balestier
  • A Glance at Daniel Webster by Mellen Chamberlain
  • A Woman in the African Diggings by Annie Russell
  • A Glimpse of the Sea by William Prescott Foster
  • When Polly Takes the Air by Lizette Woodworth Reese
  • Balcony Stories – Grandmother’s Grandmother by Grace King
  • Balcony Stories – The Old Lady’s Restoration by Grace King
  • In Her First Youth — Painting by by Lydia F. Emmet
  • The White Islander — Conclusion by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
  • The Horizon Line by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • The Census and Immigration by Henry Cabot Lodge
  • The Heavenly Cherubs by John J. Shutterly, Jr.
  • The Author of “Robinson Crusoe” by M. O.W. Oliphant
  • Philips Brooks’s Letters from India
  • The Heir of the McHulishes Part 1 of 2 by Bret Harte
  • The Test by Mary Thacher Higginson
  • The Hiltons’ Holiday by Sarah Orne Jewett
  • In Life’s Tunnel by Grace Denio Litchfield
  • Leaves from the Autobiography of Salvini by Tomasso Salvini

  • Topics of the Time:

  • Idleness and Crime
  • A Word Further as to Gold and Silver

    • Open Letters:

  • The Use and Abuse of Executive Clemency by Charles Robinson
  • Our New National Forest Reserves by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore
  • Christianity Outside of the Churches by William Chauncy Langdon
  • Money and a Day’s Work by Doane Robinson

    • In Lighter Vein:

  • At the Sign of the Skull byTheodore C. Williams
  • Sayings for the Sexes by Junius Henri Browne
  • Poetic License by W. D. Ellwanger
  • The Poverty-Party at Papineau’s Hall by Nathan Haskell Dole
  • The Voice of Dreams by Edith M. Thomas
  • “What Shall We Name the Baby?” by Jennie E. T. Dowe

    • 1893-08 Century Magazine Contents Page for August 1893

    1893/08 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Phillips Brooks
  • Fez, the Mecca of the Moors by Stephen Bonsal
  • Philips Brooks’s Letters to Children, with Notes on his Home Life
  • The Prince and Princess Achille Murat in Florida by Matilda L. McConnell
  • The Century Series of American Artists – Fox and Crows by Winslow Homer – A single full page illustration
  • Cup Defenders Old and New by W. P. Stephens
  • The White Islander — Part 3 of 4 by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
  • The Century Series of American Artists. “Little Nell” by F. Edwin Elwell
  • Balcony Stories – One of Us by Grace King
  • Balcony Stories – The Little Convent Girl by Grace King
  • Breathing Movements as a Cure by Thomas J. Mays
  • Farmer Eli’s Vacation by Alice Brown
  • The Famine in Russia – Relief Work of the Younger Tolstoy by Jonas Stadling
  • An Artist’s Letters from Japan – Yokohama, Kamakura by John LaFarge
  • Contemporary Japanese Art by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa
  • A Swedish Etcher – Anders Zorn by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • Mr. Jones’s Experiment by James Sager Norton
  • The Poet by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • The Philosophers’ Camp – Emerson, Agassiz, and Lowell in the Adirondacks by W. J. Stillman
  • A Sister of Saints – Gilberte Pascal by Marion Libby
  • Benefits Forgot — Part 9 by Wolcott Balestier
  • Quatrains by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • The Redemptioner by Edward Eggleston
  • At Niagara by Richard Watson Gilder
  • August by John Vance Cheney

  • Topics of the Time:

  • Foreign Control of Labor-Unions
  • Silver and the Debtor Class

    • Open Letters:

  • Business Politics by Charles Fiske
  • “The Century’s” American Artists Series. Winslow Homer by W. Lewis Fraser – About a half page of text
  • “Napoleon’s Deportation to Elba” by Birge Harrison

    • In Lighter Vein:

  • The Harbor-Mother by Grace Duffield Goodwin
  • How Hans Pickel Saw the Brooklyn Bridge by Nathan Haskell Dole

    • 1893-07 Century Magazine Contents Page for July 1893

    1893/07 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Sarah Siddons
  • Color in the Court of Honor at the Fair by Royal Cortissoz
  • The White Islander — Part 2 by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
  • The Galaxy by Charles J. O’Malley
  • The Most Picturesque Place in the World – Le Puy, France by J. and E. R. Pennell
  • Thomas Hardy by Harriet Waters Preston
  • The Official Defense of Russian Persecution by Joseph Jacobs
  • Leaves from the Autobiography of Salvini — Part 4 by Tomasso Salvini
  • In Granada by Archibald Gordon
  • Balcony Stories – Anne Marie and Jeanne Marie by Grace King
  • Balcony Stories – A Crippled Hope by Grace King
  • Sarah Siddons by Edmund Gosse
  • Sextains by George Edgar Montgomery
  • Old Portsmouth Profiles by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • The Mocking-Bird by Ednah Proctor Clarke
  • The Century Series of American Artists. “Sea-Bird and Land-Bird” by Mary Hallock Foote
  • The Intoxicated Ghost by Arlo Bates
  • Moonlight from the Cliff by Dora Read Goodale
  • The Reign of Queen Anne – The Author of “Gulliver” by M. O. W. Oliphant
  • An Artist’s Letters from Japan. Bric-A-Brac by John LaFarge
  • Dawn by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • Mental Medicine: The Treatment of Disease by Suggestion by Allan McLane Hamilton
  • Famous Indians — Portraits of Some Indian Chiefs by C. E. S. Wood – 10 page feature with portraits shown on medallions by Olin L. Warner and brief biographies of: Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce – Encheaskwe of the Coeur d’ Alenes – Seltice of the Coeur d’Alenes – Lot, Chief of the Spokanes – “Young Chief” of the Cayuse Indians – Moses, or Sulktash-Kosha, Chief of the Okinokanes – Sabina, daughter of Kash-Kash, Chief of the Walla-Wallas – Yatiniawitz, or “Poor Crane” Chief of the Cayuses
  • Benefits Forgot by Wolcott Balestier
  • A Voice for the People of Russia by George Kennan

  • Topics of the Time:

  • Origin and Growth of the Spoils System
  • Compulsory Public Service
  • Hostility of Foreign to American Labor

    • Open Letters:

  • Poets Laureate (Who Wore the Laurels?) by Kenyon West
  • Children of the Dependent Poor: How Shall We Educate Them? by Louise Seymour Houghton

    • In Lighter Vein:

  • Biography by Elizabeth C. Cardozo
  • In the Wings by Bliss Carman
  • About Sunrise by Doane Robinson
  • Grimalkin by Clinton Scollard
  • A Literary Order by John Kendrick Bangs

    • 1893-06 Century Magazine Contents Page for June 1893

    1893/06 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: The Juno of Argos – Discovered in 1892 by the American School of Athens
  • Caught on a Lee Shore – Pleasures and Perils of a Cruise on the Florida Coast by Lieut. William Henn
  • “Where Helen Sits” by Laura E. Richards
  • The Death of Prince Imperial by Archibald Forbes
  • Vierge: The Father of Modern Illustration by August F. Jaccaci
  • College Athletics by Walter Camp
  • Notable Women: Christiana Rossetti by Edmund Gosse
  • The Juno of Argos by Charles Waldstein
  • “My White Rose of Killarney” by Jennie E. T. Dowe
  • The White Islander — Part 1 of 4 by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
  • Balcony Stories – The Story of the Day by Grace King
  • The Hermit-Thrush — Drawing by Mary Hallock Foote
  • An Hour with Robert Franz by Henry T. Finck
  • The Public Health: The Duty of the Nation in Guarding It by T. Mitchell Prudden, M.D.
  • “If Spirits Walk” by Ellen Burroughs
  • With Tolstoy in the Russian Famine by Jonas Stadling
  • Writing to Rosina – Part 2 of 2 by William Henry Bishop
  • Art by Florence Earle Coates
  • The Century Series of American Artists – The Widow by Charles Sprague Pearce
  • In Cowboy-Land by Theodore Roosevelt – 9 pages with 2 illustrations by Frederic Remington
  • Heart-Song by Lucile Du Pre
  • Benefits Forgot — Part 7 by Wolcott Balestier
  • Mrs. Pettibone’s Dinner-Horn by Charles Battell Loomis
  • To the Cicada Septendecim by Grace Denio Litchfield
  • The Poet-Heart by Grace Denio Litchfield
  • The Sunlight by Grace Denio Litchfield
  • Uncle Obadiah’s Uncle Billy by William Henry Shelton

  • Topics of the Time:

  • A National Board of Health
  • Has Gold Appreciated in Value?
  • The Disappearance of the Apprentice System

  • Open Letters:

  • Women’s Work and Wages by B.
  • The Australian Registry of Land Titles by C. Stuart Patterson
  • Specialists in Church Music Wanted by Waldo S. Pratt
  • The Australian Registry of Land Titles by Edward Atkinson

    • In Lighter Vein:

  • Polite to Strangers by Alice Turner
  • Blown About by Harry Romaine
  • Circumstances by Matthew Blake
  • The Delsarte Girl by Alice E. Ives
  • Circumstances and Cases by Margaret Vandegrift
  • An Impossibility by Maurice Thompson
  • In a London Ball-Room by L. B. W.
  • A Portrait in Distemper by Harrison S. Morris
  • A Prairie Heroine by Doane Robinson

    • 1893-05 Century Magazine Contents Page for May 1893

    1893/05 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: The World’s Fair – Looking North from the Lion Fountain
  • At the Fair by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer (1893 Columbian Exposition) – 11 pages loaded with illustrations
  • Decorative Painting at the World’s Fair by W. Lewis Fraser
  • “The White City” by Richard Watson Gilder
  • Sweet Bells out of Tune — Conclusion by Mrs. Burton Harrison with illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson
  • The Knight of Pentecost by Harriet Prescott Spofford
  • Recollections of Lord Tennyson by John Addington Symonds
  • To Alfred Tennyson by Aubrey De Vere
  • An Embassy to Provence — Conclusion by Thomas A. Janvier
  • Benefits Forgot — Part 6 by Wolcott Balestier
  • A Lie by Ellen M. H. Gates
  • Personal Impressions of Nicaragua by Gilbert Gaul
  • The Chevalier de Resseguier by Thomas Bailey Aldrich with picture by Howard Pyle
  • The Lake of the Dead by Henry Morton
  • Joseph Bonaparte in Bordentown by F. Marion Crawford
  • Leaves from the Autobiography of Salvini by Tomasso Salvini
  • “Some Verses Carol” by Henry Jerome Stockard
  • The Reign of Queen Anne. The Queen and the Duchess by M. O. W. Oliphant
  • John Muir by John Swett with portrait – 4 pages
  • Mr. Gadsbury’s Brother by M. Frances Swann Williams
  • Relics of Artemus Ward by Don C. Seitz
  • An Inside View of the Pension Bureau by A. B. Casselman
  • “With the Tread of Marching Columns” by S. R. Elliot
  • Writing to Rosina — Part 1 of 2 by William Henry Bishop

  • Topics of the Time:

  • Two Values of the Silver Dollar
  • Lincoln on the Spoils System
  • Corrupt Practices Laws: Why They Fail
  • American Boys and American Labor

    • Open Letters:

  • What the Phonograph will do for Music by Philip G. Hubert, Jr.
  • Indians who Deserve Pensions by Theodore Roosevelt – Long letter in small text spreads over 2 pages, total about 1 full page of text
  • A Hint in Municipal Reform by Joseph Hatton
  • An American Theater in London
  • “Better United States Senators” by H. Turner Newcomb
  • A Friend of Kindergarten by A. H. P.
  • The Kindergarten in Canada by James L. Hughes
  • California’s Presidential Elections by J. F. Thompson
  • A Psychological Suggestion by H. C. Wood

    • In Lighter Vein:

  • Michael Will Not Be In It by Charles Battell Loomis
  • Reflections on Adversity by Ethelwyn Wetherald
  • The Prig by Edgar Fawcett
  • The Decline of Profanity by Edward Cary
  • The Contributor’s Dream by H. S. Huntington
  • Saints and Sinners by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • Mrs. Fulsom’s Journey by Alice Turner
  • Over the Sea Lies Spain by Charles Washington Coleman

    • 1893-04 Century Magazine Contents Page for April 1893

    1893/04 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Sunset – Coast of Etretat — Painted by George Inness
  • The Chicago Anarchists of 1886 – The Crime, The Trial, and the Punishment by Joseph E. Gary – 29 pages
  • The Cash Capital of Sunset City by Hayden Carruth
  • The Heart of the Tree by H. C. Bunner
  • The Angel of Death Staying the Hand of the Sculptor by Daniel Chester French
  • An Embassy to Provence — Part 3 by Thomas A. Janvier
  • Aspiration by Edith Willis Linn
  • Sweet Bells Out of Tune — Part 6 by Mrs. Burton Harrison and illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson
  • A Song of Farewell by Edith Vernon Mann
  • A Tree Museum by M. C. Robbins
  • Idy by Margaret Collier Graham
  • Allegory by Edgar Fawcett
  • Sherman – Letters of Two Brothers: Passages from the Correspondence of General and Senator Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman and John Sherman – 8 pages
  • Consolation by Lisette Woodworth Reese
  • In Extremity by John White Chadwick
  • The Princess Anne by M. O. W. Oliphant
  • To-Morrow by Walter Learned
  • Margaret Fuller by Josephine Lazarus
  • I’s Niver ‘Feared for my Ould Man by Jennie E. T. Dowe
  • Benefits Forgot — Part 5 by Wolcott Balestier

    • Topics of the Time:

  • A Memorable Advance in Forest-Preservation
  • Words are Deeds, and May be Crimes
  • The Proposed Recession of the Yosemite Valley
  • Parks in and Near Large Cities – Editorial
  • The World’s Fair and Landscape-Gardening
  • Arbor Day

    • Open Letters:

  • Governmental Care for Working-Women by C. C. Johnston
  • Governmental Care for Working-Women by M. Carey Lea

    • In Lighter Vein

  • Not a Boston Girl by James G. Burnett
  • “One White May Morning” by Charles Winfred Douglas
  • The Singer’s Excuse by Mary Russell Bartlett
  • Bruddeh Isaac’s Discourse by Charles Battell Loomis
  • The Homesick Westerner by Minna Smith
  • A Problem for the Scientists by Charlotte W. Thurston
  • Crumbs from Dinner Parties by Alice Wellington Rollins
  • Conjecture by Eva Wilder McGlasson
  • E Pluribus Unum by Unum
  • Good-By to the Cradle – A 3 stanza poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Two Friends by Charles Henry Webb

    • 1893-03 Century Magazine Contents Page for March 1893

    1893/03 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Napoleon
  • The Violincello of Jufrow Rozenboom by Anna Eichberg King
  • An Embassy to Provence — Part 2 by Thomas A. Janvier
  • Silence by Maria Bowen Chapin
  • Napoleon’s Deportation to Elba — By the Officer in Charge by Thomas Ussher, R.N.
  • Jamaica by Gilbert Gaul
  • Sherman – Letters of Two Brothers: Passages from the Correspondence of General and Senator Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman and John Sherman — 11 pages
  • Caprice by N.
  • Westminster Abbey by Henry B. Fuller
  • The Rousing of Mrs. Potter by Gertrude Smith
  • The Present State of Old Testament Criticism by Edward Lewis Curtis
  • Chicago by Marion Couthouy Smith
  • Camille Saint-Saens by H. E. Krehbiel
  • Meridian by Charles T. Dazey
  • Have ye Niver Heerd tell o’ Rose Creagan? by Jennie E. T. Dowe
  • My Sister Lydia — From a painting by Edmund C. Tarbell
  • Sweet Bells Out of Tune — Part 5 by Mrs. Burton Harrison with illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson
  • The Dead King by George Horton
  • Artist Life by the North Sea by H. W. Ranger
  • One Touch of Nature by Edgar Fawcett
  • At the Keith Ranch by Anna Fuller
  • Benefits Forgot — Part 4 by Wolcott Balestier
  • The Cosmopolis City Club — Part 3 by Washington Gladden

    • Topics of the Time:

  • How Can We Secure Better United States Senators?
  • Direct Presidential Voting
  • A General Free Library Movement

    • Open Letters:

  • The Kindergarten Movement in Chicago by Alice H. Putnam
  • The Kindergarten in Turkey by Carrie P Farnsworth Fowle

    • In Lighter Vein:

  • The United States Poetry Company, Limited by John Kendrick Bangs
  • A Struggle for Life by Alice Turner
  • Observations by C. O. Stevens
  • The Ballade of the Spoons by Alice Williams Brotherton
  • The Century Series of Pictures by American Artists. Sunset – Coast of Etretat by George Inness

    • 1891-11 Century Magazine Contents November 1891

    1891/11 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Italian Old Masters – Michelangelo Buonarotti by W. J. Stillman
  • Izaak Walton From a Painting by George H. Boughton
  • Southern Womanhood as Affected by the War by Wilbur Fisk Tillett
  • A Great German Artist — Adolf Menzel by Carl Marr
  • Notes by Other American Artists by W. J. Baer and R. Blum
  • The Players by Brander Matthews
  • India by Florence Earle Coates
  • The Naulahka, a Story of East and West — Part 1 by Rudyard Kipling and Wolcott Balestier
  • Sursum Corda by Edith M. Thomas
  • What Are Americans Doing in Art? by Francis D. Millet
  • The Hunger-Strike by Elizabeth W. Fiske
  • How Old Folks Won the Oaks by J. J. Eakins
  • Bronte by Harriet Prescott Spofford
  • The Autobiography of a Justice of the Peace by Edgar Wilson Nye
  • Mazzini’s Letters to an English Family by Joseph Mazzini
  • In the Pauses of Her Song by Orelia Key Bell
  • A Rival of the Yosemite — King’s River Canon by John Muir
  • A Theft Condoned by Gertrude Smith
  • A Song for All Seasons by James Herbert Morse
  • The Food-Supply of the Future by W. O. Atwater
  • Folksong by Sylvester Baxter
  • James Russell Lowell by George E. Woodberry
  • The Sonnet by Edith Wharton
  • Lowell’s Americanism by Joel Benton with a letter from James Russell Lowell
  • The Major’s Appointment by Julia Schayer
  • The Choice by Owen Innsly
  • Music by A. Lampman
  • San Francisco Vigilance Committees by William T. Coleman

    • Topics of the Time:

  • Editorials on Finance. Michigan’s “Wild-Cat” Banks
  • Lowell’s Legacy to his Country
  • Corrupt Practices Legislation in 1891
  • An American Achievement in Art

    • Open Letters:

  • California’s Interest in Yosemite Reform by George G. Mackenzie
  • The Paris Opera by A. Vianesi
  • The Century Series of Pictures by an American Artist. Izaak Walton by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • George H Boughton by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • A Roman Catholic’s View of “Sister Dolorosa” by L. H.

    • In Lighter Vein:

  • Kitty, my Colleen by Patrick J. Coleman
  • The Prophets by C. P. Stetson
  • Brer Fox by Edward A. OIdham
  • Grace After Meat by Margaret Vandegrift
  • Ho for the Desert! by George E. de Steigner
  • My Old Skippers by Charles Henry Webb
  • The New Street-Sweeper by George Towner

    • 1883-09 Century Magazine Contents September 1883

    1883/09 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Robert Burns, from a miniature which belonged to his sister — Engraved by T. Johnson
  • Cape Cod by F. Mitchell
  • A Woman’s Reason — Part 8 by William Dean Howells
  • A Musk-Ox Hunt by Frederick Schwatka
  • The Tragedies of the Nests by John Burroughs
  • Will New York Be the Final World Metropolis? by William C. Conant
  • At Castle Hill, Newport, R.I. by Charles de Kay
  • Indian War in the Colonies by Edward Eggleston
  • Ornamental Forms in Nature by Roger Riordan
  • Professor Agassiz’s Laboratory by Ernest Ingersoll
  • Wonderland by George Edgar Montgomery
  • The Bread-winners — Part 2
  • A Burns Pilgrimage by H.H.

  • Love’s Power by Josephine Pollard
  • Our Story by Frank R. Stockton
  • Death’s First Lesson by Susan Marr Spalding
  • Love in Old Clothes by H.C. Bunner
  • Nights with Uncle Remus — Part 3 by Joel Chandler Harris

    • Topics of the Time

  • The Temperance Outlook
  • The Reticence of American Politicians
  • “College-Bred” Statesmen

    • Open Letters:

  • New York as a Field for Fiction by H.C. Bunner
  • The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union by Frances E. Willard
  • The Massachusetts Experiment in Education by Charles Barnard
  • A Romantic Career by D.C. Gilman
  • The Christian League by Washington Gladden and George K. Dunlop
  • Standard Railway Time by W.F. Allen
  • Reforming the Alfabet by Frederick A. Fernald
  • The Training of Children’s Voices by J. Spencer Curwen

    • Bric-a-Brac:

  • In Swimming-Time by James Whitcomb Riley
  • Model Children by Charles H. Turner
  • What’s in a Name? by R.K. Munkittrick
  • A Midsummer Day’s Dream by William M. Briggs
  • A Bundle of Letters by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • Massachusetts French by Bell F. Hapgood

    • 1885-10 Century Magazine Contents October 1885

    1885/10 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Samuel Bowles — Engraved by Henry Velten from a photograph
  • The Great River of Alaska — Part 2: Exploring the Upper and Lower Yukon by Frederick Schwatka
  • A Study in Independent Journalism by George S. Merriam
  • A Poet’s Soliloquy by Christopher P. Cranch
  • “Love at First Sight” by Brander Matthews
  • The Summer Haunts of American Artists by Lizzie W. Champney
  • The Gray Gull’s Wing by Mary Allen
  • The Bostonians — Part 9 by Henry James
  • The Canada Pacific Railway by George M. Grant
  • Tuscan Cities by William Dean Howells
  • March in Janiveer by H. C. Bunner
  • Riverside Park by William A. Stiles
  • The Last Days of General Grant by General Adam Badeau — Just over 20 pages with illustrations
  • Lincoln and Grant by Gen. Horace Porter
  • Reminiscences of General Grant by Gen. James Harrison Wilson
  • The Dead Comrade by Richard Watson Gilder
  • “Taps.” August 8, 1885 by F. M. Newton
  • Bigotry by Edgar Fawcett
  • Zweibak: Being Notes of a Professional Exile

    • Memoranda on the Civil War:

  • A “Famous Saying” Contradicted by Gen. D. C. Buell
  • General Heintzelman in the Peninsula Campaign by Mary L. Heintzelman
  • National Memorials of the Civil War by Charles W. Eldridge
  • General Grant’s Premonition by M. E. Seawell

    • Topics of the Time:

  • North and South
  • Prejudice and Progress
  • Civic Rivers

    • Open Letters:

  • The Connecticut Training School for Nurses
  • In the Chilcat Country by Mrs. Eugene S. Willard
  • Police Reform by L. Edwin Dudley
  • “Hunting the Rocky Mountain Goat”

    • Bric-A-Brac:

  • Accepted by Robertson Trowbridge
  • Madrigal by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • The Wood-Sprite by Roger Riordan
  • Compensations by J. A. Macon
  • Hobson’s Choice by Francis E. Leupp
  • My Rival by Bessie Chandler
  • The Race by Charles G. Blanden

    • 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

    • 1886-05 Century Magazine Contents May 1886

    1886/05 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne – Engraved by T. Johnson after a daguerreotype taken about 1848
  • Recent Architecture in America — Part 1 by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • The Minister’s Charge — Part 4 by William Dean Howells
  • The Flour Mills of Minneapolis by Eugene V. Smalley
  • To the Memory of H. H. by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Iduna by George A. Hibbard
  • A Betrothal by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • A Californian’s Gift to Science: Lick Observatory by Taliesin Evans
  • Control by Sidney Lanier
  • To Will H. Low — A Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson – A half page
  • Perturbed Spirits by Brander Matthews
  • Reunion (Regimental Officers, 1885) by David L. Proudfit
  • Hawthorne’s Philosophy by Julian Hawthorne
  • The Breeding of Fancy Pigeons by E. S. Starr
  • Evolution and the Faith by T. T. Munger
  • Zweibak; or, Notes of a Professional Exile — Part 3
  • Two Views of It by Anthony Morehead
  • The Helmet of Mambrino by Clarence King

    • From the Peninsula to Antietam

  • Posthumous Notes by Gen. George B. McClellan — 9 pages including illustrations
  • With an Introduction by Literary Executor by William C. Prime
  • Recollections of a Private — Part 7: McClellan at the Head of the Grand Army by Warren Lee Goss
  • The Battle of South Mountain or Boonsboro by Gen. D. H. Hill

    • Memoranda on the Civil War

  • In Reply to General Grant by Gen. William Farrar Smith

    • Topics of the Time

  • George Bancroft on the Legal-Tender Decision
  • Copyright
  • James Russell Lowell’s Bible Argument
  • The American Opera Company
  • A Readjustment of the Industrial Order
  • Labor Question

    • Open Letters

  • The True South vs the Silent South by John W. Johnston
  • The True South vs the Silent South by George W. Cable
  • On the South Kensington School for Cookery by Mary B. Welch

    • Bric-A-Brac:

  • An Easter Lay by David Rorty
  • Spring by Bessie Chandler
  • Time and Love by Harold van Santvoord

    • 1888-08 Century Magazine Contents August 1888

    1888/08 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of George Kennan – Engraved by T. Johnson
  • A Home of the Silent Brotherhood — The Abbey of La Trappe in Kentucky by James Lane Allen
  • A Man’s Reproach by Arlo Bates
  • Home Culture Clubs by George W. Cable
  • The Cricket by Charles Edwin Markham
  • My Meeting with Political Exiles by George Kennan
  • Death by Florence Earle Coates
  • The Graysons — A Story of Illinois — Conclusion by Edward Eggleston
  • A Mexican Campaign — Part 1 of 3 by Thomas A. Janvier
  • The Crying Bog — A Legend of Narragansett by Caroline Hazard
  • The Experiments of Miss Sally Cash by Richard Malcolm Johnston
  • The Knight in the Silver Mail by Minna Irving
  • Abraham Lincoln — A History — Tennessee and Kentucky by J. G. Nicolay, John Hay
  • Lincoln Cathedral by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • Sidereal Astronomy — Old and New by Edward S. Holden
  • Still Days and Stormy by Richard E. Burton
  • The Heart of the Southern Catskills by John Burroughs
  • The Pulpit for To-Day by Lyman Abbott
  • George Kennan by Anna Laurens Dawes
  • The Only Foe by Celia Thaxter

    • Memoranda on the Civil War

  • General Lee’s Views on Enlisting the Negroes by Andrew Hunter
  • Some Errors in General Sherman’s “Grand Strategy” by W. Allen

    • Topics of the Time:

  • An Administrative Novelty
  • Modern Science in its Relations to Pain
  • Socialism and the “Trusts”

    • Open Letters:

  • The Teacher’s Vacation by H. W. Compton
  • More Anecdotes of Father Taylor by John Codman
  • Extend the Merit System by P. F. Hallock
  • Abolition of Slavery by the Cherokees byGeorge E. Foster

    • Bric-A-Brac:

  • Observations by Ivan Panin
  • Consolation by M. E. W.
  • Divided by C. E. S.
  • The Friend of Ages Ago by Charles Henry Webb
  • The Ladies of Manhattan by G. F. Jones
  • Love in Leap-Year by Kemper Bocock
  • The Tale of the Tiger by M. S. Hopson

    • 1888-07 Century Magazine Contents July 1888

    1888/07 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Louis Pasteur and Granddaughter – Engraved by T. Johnson, after a painting by Bonnat
  • Sinai and the Wilderness by Edward L. Wilson
  • The Graysons — A Story of Illinois — Part 9 by Edward Eggleston
  • The Steppes of the Irtish by George Kennan
  • Disease Germs and How To Combat Them by Lucius Pitkin
  • Cathedrals. Lichfield by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • Abraham Lincoln — A History — Lincoln and McClellan by J. G. Nicolay, John Hay
  • Bird Music. Sparrows by Simeon Pease Cheney
  • Matthew Arnold by William P. Andrews
  • The High Tide at Gettysburg by Will H. Thompson
  • Waiting for the Bugle by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

    • The Career of the Confederate Ram “Albemarle”

  • 1. Her Construction and Service. By her Builder by Gilbert Elliott
  • 2. The “Albermarle” and the “Sassacus” by Edgar Holden
  • 3. The Destruction of the “Albermarle” by Commander W. B. Cushing
  • 4. Note by her Captain by A. F. Warley
  • A Note of Peace — Reunions of the “Blue and the Gray” by George L. Kilmer
  • Dreams, Nightmare, and Somnambulism by J. M. Buckley
  • On the Battle-Field by Brander Matthews

    • Topics of the Time:

  • A Lay Sermon to the Clergy
  • Selfishness and Self-Interest
  • A New Branch of an Old Profession
  • The Independence of Literature

    • Open Letters:

  • The Ethics of Copyright by Washington Gladden
  • The Story of the First News Message by Telegraph by S. V.
  • The Postal Service
  • The Prohibition of Railway Pools by Thomas L. Greene
  • Matthew Arnold and Franklin by John Bigelow
  • Mary Magdalene
  • “We-uns” and “You-uns” by L. C. Catlett
  • Lincoln and Secession by M. C. Roseboro

    • Bric-A-Brac:

  • Folly Land by Danske Danbridge
  • Uncle Esek’s Wisdom by Uncle Esek
  • Mac’s Old Horse by M. G. McClellan
  • To J. W. R. by Patty Caryl
  • Gladness by James Whitcomb Riley
  • Minnie versus Minerva by Henry W. Austin
  • The Way To Win by Samuel Minturn Peck

    • 1888-06 Century Magazine Contents June 1888

    1888/06 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Plains and Prisons of Western Siberia by George Kennan
  • Infinite Depths by Charles Edwin Markham
  • Matthew Arnold’s Criticism by John Burroughs
  • Selina’s Singular Marriage by Grace Denio Litchfield
  • A Cry by Louise Chandler Moulton
  • The Ranchman’s Rifle on Crag and Prairie by Theodore Roosevelt with illustrations by Frederic Remington
  • Unshed Tears by Julian Hawthorne
  • The Liar — Part 2 of 2 by Henry James
  • The Golden Prime by Frances Louisa Bushnell
  • How the Mohawks Set Out for Medoctec by Charles G. D. Roberts
  • A Printer’s Paradise – The Plantin-Moretus Museum at Antwerp by Theodore L. De Vinne
  • The Philosophy of Courage by General Horace Porter
  • Bird Music. The Oriole and the Thrush by Simeon Pease Cheney
  • “Since Cleopatra Died” by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • What We Should Eat by Professor W. O. Atwater
  • The Graysons — A Story of Illinois by Edward Eggleston
  • The King’s Seat by Mrs. Annie Fields
  • Richard Malcolm Johnston by Sophie Bledsoe Herrick
  • Love Asleep by Philip Bourke Marston
  • Abraham Lincoln — A History. The Advance – Bull Run, Fremont. Military Emancipation by J. G. Nicolay and John Hay
  • By Telephone by Brander Matthews
  • Kansas Bird Songs by Amanda T. Jones

    • Topics of the Time

  • Reform in Our Legislative Methods
  • The American Flag for America
  • Art Revival in American Coinage

    • Open Letters:

  • Mr. Arnold and American Art by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • “The Workingman’s School and Free Kindergarten”
  • A Democratic Government in the Colleges by Charles F. Thwing
  • An Attempted Division of California by Leon F. Moss

    • Bric-A-Brac:

  • Ole Settlers’ Meetun by Richard Lew Dawson
  • To John Burroughs by F. Blanchard
  • June 21st by George Birdseye
  • A Lost Opportunity by G. Courtenay Walker
  • Uncle Esek’s Wisdom by Uncle Esek

    • 1889-09 Century Magazine Contents

    1889/09 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Chief Justice Marshall engraved by J.H.E. Whitney after a crayon drawing by Saint Memin
  • Winged Botanists by W. Hamilton Gibson
  • Italian Old Masters Masaccio by W. J. Stillman
  • Napoleon in Exile – Unpublished Letters by British Officers – by Eleanor C. Price
  • A Forest River – Love after Life by Langdon Elwyn Mitchell
  • An American Artist in Japan by Theodore Wores
  • In the Orchard by James B. Kenyon
  • Abraham Lincoln A History – Cabinet Changes – Lincoln Reelected – Chase as Chief Justice by J.G. Nicolay and John Hay
  • To George Kennan by Nathan Haskell Dole
  • Life by Louise Morgan-Smith
  • The Pharaoh of the Exodus and His Son, in the Light of their Monuments by John A. Paine
  • “Albemarle” Cushing by James Jeffrey Roche
  • The Poet by Richard E. Burton
  • The History of the Kara Political Prison by George Kennan
  • Attalie Brouillard by George W. Cable
  • Jufrow van Steen by Anna Eichberg King
  • The Old Bascom Place – Part 2 of 3 – by Joel Chandler Harris
  • Saint-Memin’s Portrait of Marshall by Joseph P. Bradley
  • Telegraphing in Battle by J. Emmet O’Brien

    • Topics of the Time:

  • Ballot Reform Progress
  • Eight Hours a Day

    • Open Letters:

  • The Centenary of Fenimore Cooper by Brander Matthews
  • Strange True Stories of Louisiana. Salome Muller by George W. Cable

    • Bric-A-Brac:

  • Reflections by J. A. Macon
  • The Apple by George Birdseye
  • Chloris and Corydon by Scollard Clinton
  • The Dog Stealer’s Story by Maria Bowen Chapin
  • Song of a Blue-Bird’s Egg by Eli Shepperd

    • 1889-07 Century Magazine Contents for July 1889

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    1889/07 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Detail from the “Adoration of the Kings” by Gentile de Fabriano
  • Winchester Cathedral by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • The Last Trip In – Part 8 of Pictures of the Far West by Mary Hallock Foote
  • San Antonio of the Gardens by Thomas A. Janvier
  • Vapor and Blue by William Wilfred Campbell
  • Inland Navigation of the United States by Charles Barnard
  • The Advance in Steamboat Decoration by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • An Echo of Antietam by Edward Bellamy
  • Broadway by Edith M. Thomas
  • The Free Command at the Mines of Kara by George Kennan
  • On the Indian Reservations by Frederic Remington – 12 pages with 12 illustrations of varying sizes
  • Casco Bay by Benjamin S. Parker
  • Abraham Lincoln A History: Lincoln Nominated – The Wade-Davis Manifesto – Horace Greeley’s Peace Mission by J. G. Nicolay and John Hay
  • Nils’s Garden by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Women in Early Ireland by Charles de Kay
  • The Temperance Question in India by Bishop John F. Hurst
  • Sleep by Thomas Nelson Page
  • Italian Old Masters – Gentile da Fabriano by W. J. Stillman
  • Presentiments, Visions, and Apparations by J. M. Buckley
  • The King’s Diary by John W. Chadwick

    • Topics of the Time

  • The Day of Independence
  • Summer Exodus and What It Testifies
  • Outdoor Sports

    • Open Letters

  • Indians, and Indians by Hamilton Wright Mabie
  • Industrial Education for the Negro by S. W. Powell
  • Charles Thomas, Secretary of Continental Congress by Horatio Jones Jones
  • Salmon P. Chase’s Training for Finance by W. M. Dickson
  • The Relations of the United States and Canada – Imperial Federation by Arthur A. Loring
  • Retaliation in Missouri by General John McNeil
  • Governor Seymour during the Draft Riot by Everett P. Wheeler
  • One Reason for the Inefficiency of Women’s Work by Mary A. Johnson
  • The Decline of the Editorial by W. T. Hunt
  • Confiscation no Remedy by W. M. Dickson
  • General Sheridan and His Troops by C. L. Gabrilson

    • Bric-A-Brac

  • At the Door by Walter Learned
  • A Flag of Truce by G. Preston
  • Just Bloomed by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
  • A Purpose by Margaret Vandegrift
  • The Reason by George Birdseye
  • A Song of the Road by Julia G. Lippmann

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    1889-08 Century Magazine Contents

    1889/08 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Alfred Lord Tennyson engraved by T. Johnson from a photograph by Mrs. Cameron
  • The Stream of Pleasure – The River Thames by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
  • Afternoon at the Ranch – Part 9 of Pictures of the Far West by Mary Hallock Foote
  • The Poison of Serpents by S. Weir Mitchell
  • The Bible in Tennyson by Henry van Dyke
  • State Criminals at the Kara Mines by George Kennan
  • Artist Wanderings Among the Cheyennes by Frederic Remington – 10 pages inlcuding 10 illustrations of varying sizes by the author
  • Across the Fields to Anne by Richard E. Burton
  • Something Wrong by Julia G. Skinner
  • Abraham Lincoln A History: The Chicago Surrender – Conspiracies in the North – Lincoln and the Churches by J. G. Nicolay and John Hay
  • To a Painter by Celia Thaxter
  • Wood-engravers in Camp by Frank French
  • Originality in Wood-engraving by Elbridge Kingsley
  • Painter-engraving by W. B. Closson
  • The New School of Engraving by John P. Davis
  • Brook Song by James Herbert Morse
  • The Peter-Bird by Henry Thompson Stanton
  • The “Haunted House” in Royal Street by George W. Cable
  • How Man’s Messenger Outran the Moon by David P. Todd
  • Security by Alice Wellington Rollins
  • The Old Bascom Place — Part 1 of 3 — by Joel Chandler Harris
  • Uncalendared by Charlotte Fiske Bates
  • Italian Old Masters. Fra Angelico by W. J. Stillman
  • A Positive Romance by Edward Bellamy
  • A Song of the Woodland Spirit by Robert Burns Wilson

    • Topics of the Time

  • The Lessons of Summer Travel
  • Tipping
  • Editorial
  • The Washington Memorial Arch

    • Open Letters:

  • Union Veterans and their Pensions by George L. Kilmer
  • “The Use of Oil to Still the Waves” by George Gladstone

    • Bric-A-Brac:

  • A Fence Corner Oration by Harry Stillwell Edwards
  • The Sensitive Visitor by Orelia Key Bell
  • Constancy by George Birdseye
  • Forgotten Books by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • An Unpublished Song by Thomas Moore
  • To Rose Mistress by Louise Chandler Moulton
  • Two Loves by Cora Stuart Wheeler

    • 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

    • 1893-02 Century Magazine Contents

    1893/02 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  • An Embassy to Provence — Part 1 — by Thomas A. Janvier
  • Balcony Stories — I. Mimi’s Marriage II. The Miracle Chapel — by Grace King
  • Sweet Bells Out of Tune — Part 4 — by Mrs. Burton Harrison with pictures by Charles Dana Gibson
  • Stray Leaves from a Whaleman’s Log by James Temple Brown
  • Franz Liszt by Camille Saint-Saens
  • Benefits Forgot — Part 3 — by Wolcott Balestier
  • From Dawn to Sunrise by Esther Bernon Carpenter
  • The Voice of Tennyson by Henry Van Dyke
  • Spring Songs — “The Mournig Dove” — Drawn by Mary Hallock Foote
  • An Art Impetus in Turkey by John P. Peters
  • Genesis by John Hall Ingham
  • Purity — Painted by William Thorne
  • Goliath by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • Lovers in London by Violet Hunt
  • The Cosmopolis City Club — Part 2 — by Washington Gladden
  • On a Head of Christ by Quentin Matsys by Bessie Chandler
  • Life in the Malay Peninsula by John Fairlie
  • Leaves from the Autobiography of Tommaso Salvini
  • The Professor’s Aberration by Florence Watters Snedeker
  • The Lustigs by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • A Voice for Russia by the Secretary of the Russian Legation, Pierre Botkine
  • Preliminary Glimpses of the Fair (Columbian Exposition) by Clarence Clough Buel

    • Topics of the Time:

  • A Word from Russia
  • Efficiency of Ballot Reform
  • Free Art, A National Necessity
  • Responsibility for the Spoils System
  • Reform in Contested Election Cases

    • Open Letters:

  • How Pianists May Be Different and Yet Each Be Great by Fanny Morris Smith
  • Columbus Relics, The Question of Genuineness by X. Y. Z.
  • The First Account of the Grand Falls of Labrador by A. H. Whitcher
  • William Thorne (The Century’s American Artists Series) by W. Lewis Fraser
  • Abraham Lincoln’s Last Hours by Charles Sabin Taft, M.D.

    • In Lighter Vein:

  • The General Opinion by Alice Turner
  • Counter Thoughts by Mary Mapes Dodge
  • Uncle Ben and Old Henry by Harry Stillwell Edwards
  • A Counter by Edith M. Thomas

    • 1893-01 Century Magazine Contents

    1893/01 — Contents taken from the index are as follows:

  • Frontispiece — Portrait of John Greenleaf Whittier

  • Balcony Stories. La Grande Demoiselle by Grace King with pictures by A.E. Sterner
  • The Great Wall of China by Romyn Hitchcock
  • A Winter Ride to the Great Wall of China by N. B. Dennys
  • The Million Pound Bank Note by Mark Twain
  • The Reward of the Unrighteous by George Grantham Bain with pictures by A.B. Wenzell
  • The Lights o’ London by Louise Imogen Guiney
  • The Reward of the Unrighteous by George Grantham Bain with pictures by A.B. Wenzell
  • Crusty Christopher by Henry A. Beers with portrait of John Wilson
  • Whittier by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
  • The Kindergarten Movement by Talcott Williams
  • The Child-Garden by Richard Watson Gilder
  • The Story of Jean Francois Millet’s Younger Life by Pierre Millet
  • An Illustrator of Dickens by Arthur Allchin with pictures by Hablot Knight Brown (“Phiz”) and portrait
  • A Bridal Measure by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • The Cosmopolis City Club – Part 1 – by Washington Gladden
  • Benefits Forgot – Part 2 – by Wolcott Balestier
  • To Gipsyland by Elizabeth Robins Pennell with pictures by Joseph Pennell
  • Sherman – Letters of Two Brothers: Passages from the Correspondence of General and Senator Sherman, by William Tecumseh Sherman, John Sherman
  • Personal Studies of Indian Life by Alice C. Fletcher with pictures by A. Castaigne
  • Sweet Bells Out of Tune – Part 3 – by Mrs. Burton Harrison with pictures by Charles Dana Gibson
  • Lethe by Louise Chandler Moulton
  • New Day by Charles Washington Coleman
  • The Century Series of Pictures by American Artists. The Mother by Alice D. Kellogg
  • Notable Women: Dorothea Dix by Mary S. Robinson

    • Topics of the Time:

  • The Proposed Recession of the Yosemite Valley – Editorial
  • Columbian Exposition: New York and the World’s Fair – Editorial
  • Finance, Legal tenders and Bimetallism – Editorial
  • The Kindergarten Movement: The Kindergarten not a Fad – Editorial

    • Open Letters:

  • The Kindergarten in a Nutshell by W. T. Harris
  • The Possibilities of a Kindergarten by Angeline Brooks
  • The Philanthropic Side of Kindergarten Work by Mary Katharine Young
  • Columbian Exposition: The Eye and Ear at Chicago by Daniel C. Gilman
  • American Artists Series – Alice D. Kellogg by W. Lewis Fraser

    • In Lighter Vein:

  • An Unconscious Diplomat by Alice Turner with picture by E.W. Kemble

    • 1894-07 Century Magazine Contents

    1894/07 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Thomas William Parsons with a footnote by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • Coasting by Sorrento and Amalfi by F. Marion Crawford
  • The Highroad from Salerno to Sorrento by J. Howe Adams
  • Franz Schubert by Antonin Dvorak
  • Where Goest Thou? by Edith M. Thomas
  • The Evolution of a Battle Ship by Albert Franklin Matthews
  • Susanna by Nannie A. Cox
  • “The Star-Spangled Banner” by John C. Carpenter
  • Old Dutch Masters: Jacob Van Ruisdael by Timothy Cole
  • A Cumberland Vendetta — Part 3 — by John Fox, Jr.
  • A Dream by Hildegarde Hawthorne
  • Present Day Papers: The Attack on the Senate by Charles Dudley Warner
  • What German Cities Do For Their Citizens by Albert Shaw
  • Across Asia on a Bicycle — Part 3: Through Persia to Samarkand by Thomas Gaskell Allen, Jr.
  • Love in Idleness by F. Marion Crawford
  • An Unexpected Legacy by Alice Turner
  • Superstitions of the Sea by J. D. Jerrold Kelley
  • The Passing of the Day by John Vance CheneyA Bachelor Maid — Part 1 — by Mrs. Burton Harrison
  • Painting at the Fair (Columbian Exposition) by John C. Van Dyke
  • A German Comic Paper “Fliegende Blatter” by William D. Ellwanger
  • Celebrating the Fourth in Antwerp — Artists’ Adventures — by George Wharton Edwards
  • Her Mother’s Success by Viola Roseboro
  • Sleep and Death by Henry Tyrrell

    • Topics of the Time:

  • The New Woman-Suffrage Movement by Editorial
  • A Martyr of To-day
  • The Latest Cheap-Money Experiment by Editorial

    • Open Letters:

  • “The Anti-Catholic Crusade” — A Reply by Adam Fawcett — A Rejoinder by Washington Gladden
  • A Recent Phase of Relief Work by Laurence Veiller
  • The Public Milk-Supply by H. W. Conn
  • Voting by Machinery
  • Stonewall Jackson’s Eccentricity by W. M. Taliaferro

    • In Lighter Vein:

  • A Game of Whist by James G. Burnett
  • Transformation by Richard Burton
  • Outlines by Berry Benson
  • Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Valor by H. K. D.
  • When the Heart’s in its Prime by Mary Berri Chapman