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1908-01 Century Magazine Contents

1908/01 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Facsimille of a Photograph in Color of Alfred Stieglitz by Edward Steichen
  • The New Color Photography by J. Nilsen Laurvik — With facsimile of a photograph in color of Mrs. Gertrude Kasebier by Edward J. Steichen, printed in color, and photographs of Mr. and Mrs. Steichen and of M. Antoine Lumiere
  • “Under the Joshua Tree” — A Story by David Gray
  • The Workingman’s Pay-Day in New York — Pictures by G.W. Peters
  • “The Red City” — Part 1 of a Novel by S. Weir Mitchell
  • “The Dompteur and the Damsels” — A Story by Frances Trumbull Lea
  • From a Nativity Play by Mabel Earle with picture of Violet Oakley printed in color
  • Home Life of the California Condor by William L. Finley with photos
  • “Come and Find Me” — Part 10 of a Novel by Elizabeth Robins with picture by Ernest L. Blumenschein
  • “Muldoon’s Last Fight” — A Story by Roger Alden Derby with pictures by Thornton Oakley
  • Madame Emma Calve as “Carmen” — Printed in color from a painting from life made for The Century by Sigismond de Ivanowski
  • “The Battle of the San Gabriel” — A Story by Charles D. Stewart with picture by Frank Stick
  • “The Revival of Lucia” — A Story by Katharine Metcalf Roof
  • Two Sonnets: 1) Unanswered 2) Summons — by Maud Scofield Beeson
  • The Reminiscences of Lady Randolph Churchill — Part 3 by Mrs. George Cornwallis-West
  • Cole’s Engravings of French Masters – “Dante and Vergil Crossing the Stygian Lake” by Eugene Delacroix — Engraved on wood by Timothy Cole
  • “Trust” — A Story by Jack London
  • “If Swart Death be a Gipsy” by Gottfried Hult
  • Beatrice Cenci by F. Marion Crawford
  • “The Fault” — A Story — by May Sinclair
  • Departments:

  • Topics of the Time
  • Open Letters
  • In Lighter Vein
  • Beautiful color illustrated automobile ad on the back cover for “The Great Arrow” from The George N. Pierce
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    1906-10 Century Magazine Contents

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  • Frontispiece: Edward H. Sothern as “Petruchio” in “The Taming of the Shrew” – Printed in Color from a Painting by Orlando Rouland
  • Khiva from the Inside — A Personal Narrative by Langdon Warner with pictures by Jay Hambidge, Corwin K. Linson and from photograph
  • The Dog Police of European Cities by William G. Fitz-Gerald with pictures from Photographs
  • Seeing France With Uncle John — Conclusion of A Story — by Anne Warner with pictures by May Wilson Preston
  • MacDowell by R.W.G.
  • The Human Side of the Czar by Amalia Kussner Coudert with portraits from miniatures by Mrs. Coudert and photograph
  • After Reading Thoreau by Emma Bell Miles
  • Edward H. Sothern in Character from paintings by Orlando Rouland
  • The Doll Lady — A Story by Edna Kenton with pictures by Orson Lowell
  • The Japanese Pilgrimage to the Buddhist Holy Land by Count Kosui Otani with pictures from photographs
  • A Perverse Generation — A Story by Grace Ellery Channing
  • An Appeal to the Past — A Story by Havey J. O’Higgins with picture by Martin Justice
  • Examples of American Portraiture, XIV — John H. Finley from the painting by S.J. Woolf
  • Running Water — part 3 of a Story by A.E.W. Mason with picture by H.S. Potter
  • Cole’s Engravings of Old Spanish Masters — In the Balcony by Goya — Engraved on Wood by Timothy Cole
  • The Pasture-Thistle by Elizabeth Akers with decoration by R. Weir Crouch
  • Justina’s Playmate — A Story by Grace Lathorp Collin with pictures by Ida Dougherty
  • Brother-Singers by Charlotte Wilson
  • What American Museums Are Doing for Native Art by Annie Nathan Meyer — Pictures from Paintings by John W. Alexander, Winslow Homer, Edwin A. Abbey, George Innes, John S. Sargent, Douglas Volk and from sculpture-group by Gutzon Borglum (four in tint)
  • The Perfect Woman — A Story by Edith Wyatt
  • The Training of the Negro by Robert Bennett Bean
  • A Voice from the Dark — A Story by Charles Bryant Howard
  • A Song of Youth by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Topics of the Time
  • Open Letters
  • In Lighter Vein
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    1906-09 Century Magazine Contents

    1906/09 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: A “Vendue” or Country Auction, in the Forties – Drawing in Color by Charles D. Hubbard
  • Getting Into Khiva — Part 1 by Langdon Warner with pictures by Jay Hambidge and Otto H. Bacher, and map
  • The Gates of the Hudson by Charles M. Skinner with pictures made from paintings by Van Dearing Perrine
  • “Down on the Labrador” by Gustav Kobbe with pictures by M.J. Burns
  • “The Gladiators” — A Story — by Dorothea Deakin with picture by C.F. Underwood
  • Leave-Taking of a Happy Day by Louise Imogen Guiney
  • A Religion Nearly Three Thousand Years Old — The So-Called Fire Worshipers of Yezd by A.V. Williams Jackson with pictures by Jay Hambridge
  • On the Prairies by Gootfried Hult
  • A Romance of the Cheshire Cheese — A Story by Alice B. Morrison
  • Behind the Scenes — Pictures in tint, Troy and Margaret Kinney
  • the Descent of Blanche — A “Sexton Maginnis” Story — by Maurice Francis Egan with pictures by Arthur I. Keller
  • The Poet by Katharine Lee Bates
  • In the Anthracite Region — Pictures by Thornton Oakley
  • Twilight by Ada Foster Murray
  • The “Haystack Prayer-Meeting” and What Followed by Henry R. Elliot with picture from photograph
  • The Agricultural College and the Farm-Youth by L.H. Bailey
  • The Workers by Lily A Long
  • Seeing France with Uncle John — Part 4 of a Story — by Anne Warner with pictures by May Wilson Preston
  • Noon by John Vance Cheyney
  • Running Water — Part 2 of a Story — by A.E.W. Mason with picture by H.S. Potter
  • Hey-Day by Witter Bynner
  • Cole’s Engravings of Old Spanish Masters — The Spinners by Velasquez — Engraved on Wood by Timothy Cole
  • “Third Edition” — A Story by Grace S.H. Tytus with figure by Robb DeP. Tytus
  • The Negro Brain with Diagrams by Robert Bennett Bean
  • The Resurgent Mysteries –A Story — by Edgar Jepson
  • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Topics of the Time
  • Open Letters
  • In Lighter Vein
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    1906-08 Century Magazine Contents

    1906/08 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: The Sweet Girl Graduate – Drawing in Color by Howard Chandler Christy
  • The Catching of the Cod by William J. Henderson with pictures by M.J. Burns
  • the Doubtful Age — Part 2 of a Story by Annie C. Muirhead with pictures by Clarence F. Underwood
  • When Capital “Took Holt” — A Story — by Caroline Lockhart
  • French Cathedrals — Notre Dame, Paris – Cathedral of St. denis – St. Etienne du Mont — by Elizabeth Robins Pennell with Pictures by Joseph Pennell
  • Running Water — Part 1 of a Story — by A.E.W. Mason with picture by H.S. Potter
  • Two Poems: 1. For a Guest-Book 2. Innogen by S. Weir Mitchell
  • Seeing France With Uncle John — Part 3 of a Story — by Anne Warner
  • Hand-Of-Love — A Story by Rose Young
  • Vesuvius in Fury — Causes and Characteristics of the Great Eruption of April, 1906 by William P. Andrews with pictures from pastels by Charles Caryl Coleman (two in color) and from photographs, and map
  • Heroic San Francisco — A Woman’s Story of the Pluck and Heroism of the People of the Striken City — by Louise Herrick Wall with Drawings in pastel by C. Dormon Robinson (one in color)
  • The Humorist — A Story — by Dorothea Deakin with pictures by Clarence F. Underwood

  • Gilbert Stuart’s Portraits of Men — John Trumbull by Charles Henry Hart
  • A Mass on the Matterhorn — Pictures from Photographs
  • Why Some Boys Take to Farming by L.H. Bailey
  • The Smoky City Is My Nest by Anita Fitch
  • Sketch Plans for Outing Cottages
    I. A Summer Cottage by Michael Stillman
    II. Log-House with plans by Thomas Tryon
    III. A Forest Hunting Lodge by Joseph henry Freedlander
  • Cole’s Engravings of Old Spanish Masters — A Spanish Flower-Girl by Murillo — Engraved on Wood by Timothy Cole
  • Mrs. Dunkin’s Morning Call — A Story by Edith M. Willett
  • Arbutus by Lorraine Roosevelt
  • The Future of San Francisco — Plan of the Proposed New City — by Benjamin Ide Wheeler
  • To San Francisco by S.J. Alexander
  • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Topics of the Time
  • Open Letters
  • In Lighter Vein
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    1906-07 Century Magazine Contents

    1906/07 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Harpooning a Porpoise from the Martingale-stay of a Whaler – Drawing in Color by Clifford W. Ashley
  • The Wild Oats of a Spinster — A Story by Alice Hegan Rice with pictures by H.S. Potter
  • “Love Laughs at Lions” — A Story by Edna Kenton with pictures by Leon Guipon
  • The Strange Case of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jules Simoneau by Julia Scott Vrooman with pictures by Harry Fenn
  • The Shadow of a Tragedy — A Story — by Grace Eleanore Towndrow with pictures by Jay Hambidge
  • The Doubtful Age — Part 1 — by Annie C. Muirhead with pictures by Clarence F. Underwood
  • Senator Hoar — In Memoriam — by Canon Rawnsley
  • What Was Expected of Miss Constantine — A Story — by Anthony Hope
  • In Chinatown — San Francisco 1904 — by grace S.H. Tytus
  • China Awakened — A Miracle of Natural Resuscitation — by Joseph Franklin Griggs
  • Fountain of the Great Lakes — Photograph of design for sculpture by Lorado Taft
  • Overproof — A Story by W. Albert Hickman with pictures by Leon Guipon
  • Manhood by William Aspenwall Bradley
  • Why Do the Boys Leave the Farm? by L.H. Bailey
  • Cole’s Engravings of Old Spanish Masters — Don Olivarez by Velasquez — Engraved on Wood by Timothy Cole
  • One of Them — A Story — by George S. Chappell with pictures by C. Ewing
  • Wilkinson’s Chance — A Story by Lawrence Mott with picture by F.E. Schoonover
  • Dry Farming — The Hope of the West — by John L. Cowan with pictures from photographs
  • The Funeral of Rat Brooks — A Story by Harry Stillwell Edwards
  • Seeing France With Uncel John — Part 2 of a Story by Anne Warner
  • A Forest Fane by Harris Merton Lyon
  • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Topics of the Time
  • Open Letters
  • In Lighter Vein
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    1906-06 Century Magazine Contents

    1906/06 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: A Sunset Rainbow Near Jerusalem – Drawing in Color by Corwin Knapp Linson
  • Tatra — A Mountain Region Between Galicia and Hungary by Wladyslaw T. Benda (W.T. Benda) with pictures by the author — 11 pages article includes 7 illustrations by W.T. Benda
  • The Monument by John Vance Cheney
  • The Golden Whistle — A Story — by H.C. Bailey
  • A French River — The Lovely Marne from its Source to Paris — by Elizabeth Robins Pennell with pictures by Joseph Pennell
  • The Colonel’s Collection — A Story — by Arthur E. McFarlane with pictures by Arthur I. Keller
  • Cole’s Engravings of Old Spanish Masters — Dona Isabel Corbo de Porcel by Goya — Engraved on wood by Timothy Cole
  • By Stages — A Story — by Gouverneur Morris
  • The Negro and the South — by Harry Stillwell Edwards
  • National Monuments by Henry van Dyke
  • The London Bus — Pictures by Thornton Oakley
  • Fenwick’s Career — Part 8 of a Novel — by Mrs. Humphrey Ward
  • The Jay-Bird by Le Roy T. Weeks
  • Superstitions of the Past — Part 1: The grove of Dodona — by Andre Saglio
  • To the Jungfrau Peak by Trolley — A Wonderful Alpine Railway — by Ernst von Hessee Wartegg
  • Browning by Jeanie Peet
  • The American Hero of Kimberley by T.J. Gordon Gardiner with pictures by C.M. Relyea and diagrams
  • O Yuri San: A Memory — A Story by Charles Lorimer
  • Historic Palaces of Paris — The Elysee Palce by Camille Gronkowski with pictures by Jules Guerin, Andre Castainge, and from photographs
  • Seeing France with Uncle John by Anne Warner
  • Manhattan by Hamlin Garland
  • Her Character by George Hibbard
  • European Museums of Security by William H. Tolman with picture by Harry Fenn and pictures from photographs
  • The Spelling Problem — And the Present Aims of the Reformers by Benjamin E. Smith
  • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Topics of the Time: A Danger to American Democracy
  • Open Letters
  • In Lighter Vein
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    1906-05 Century Magazine Contents

    1906/05 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Nelly Custis in the Mount Vernon Garden – Drawing in Color by Anna Whelan Betts
  • The Gardens of Cornish – Pictures from photographs – by Frances Duncan
  • Imperialism by Julia Boynton Green
  • The Roping Match at Antelope — A Story by Alice MacGowan with picture by J.N. Marchand
  • The Strenuous Referee — A Story by Elliott Flower
  • The Architectural Treatment of a Small Garden by Roger Riordan and Frances Duncan
  • The Garden of the Sun — Part 2: Route Notes in Sicily — by William Sharp with pictures by Jay Hambidge
  • Fenwick’s Career — Part 7 of a Novel — by Mrs. Humphry Ward with picture by Albert Sterner
  • The Old Garden at Mount Vernon by Francis E. Leupp with pictures by Jules Guerrin
  • To John La Farge by Titus Munson Coan
  • A Question of Command — A Story — by Harvey J. O’Higgins with pictures by Martin Justice
  • “I Sought Me Symbols of Eternity” by Gottfried Hult
  • Where to Plant What by George W. Cable with pictures from photographs
  • Cole’s Engravings of Old Spanish Masters — The Prodigal Son Feasting by Murillo — Engraved on wood by Timothy Cole
  • Reflex Light from Africa by Charles Francis Adams
  • An Ancient Garden by Helen Evertson Smith with pictures by Jules Guerin
  • The Royal School of Embroideries in Athens by Anna Bowman Dodd with pictures from photographs
  • What is the Mighty All? by Langdon Mitchell
  • Prayer by Goerge Sylvester Viereck
  • The Training of the Human Plant by Luther Burbank
  • The Service-Tree by John Finlay
  • Lincoln the Lawyer — Part 6 of 6 — by Frederick Trevor Hill with pictures from photographs, documents, and ambrotype
  • The Garden by Hildegarde Hawthorne
  • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Topics of the Time: The Negro in Africa – Saving Niagara
  • Open Letters
  • In Lighter Vein
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    1894-07 Century Magazine Contents

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  • 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
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    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.
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine, Howard Pyle, Joel Chandler Harris, Mark Twain

    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.
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine, Edwin Booth, Napoleon, Ralph Waldo Emerson

    1893-10 Century Magazine Contents Page for October 1893

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  • 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
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Bret Harte, Century Magazine, Napoleon, Walt Whitman

    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
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Bret Harte, Century Magazine, Columbian Exposition, Daniel Webster, Henry Cabot Lodge, Worlds Fair

    1893-08 Century Magazine Contents Page for August 1893

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  • 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
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine, Japanese Art, Winslow Homer

    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
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine, Indians, Native Americans, Thomas Hardy

    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
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine, Christina Rosetti, Frederic Remington, Theodore Roosevelt, Walter Camp

    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
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine, Charles Dana Gibson, Columbian Exposition, John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, Worlds Fair

    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
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine, Charles Dana Gibson, Chicago Anarchists, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Princess Anne

    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
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine, Charles Dana Gibson, General Sherman, Napoleon

    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
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    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
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    1892-12 Century Magazine Contents

    1892/12 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Madonna and Child — From a painting by Dagnan-Bouveret
  • Madonna of Dagnan-Bouveret by Robert Underwood Johnson
  • Picturesque New York by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer — 11 page article with 12 illustrations by F.W. Mielatz and T.R. Manly – Shown are The Battery – Coenties Slip – On the East River – A Rainy Night, Madison Square – East River at Grand Steet – The Tombs – Elevated Railroad Station – Two Bridges on the Harlem – In Central Park – An Old Lane, Boulevard Near 94th Street – Boulevard Near 95th Street – In Shantytown
  • Madonna by Harrison S. Morris
  • My Cousin Fanny by Thomas Nelson Page
  • Ringing the Christmas Bells from a painting by Edwin H. Blashfield
  • The New Cashier by Edward Eggleston with picture by Charles Dana Gibson
  • Seeming Failure by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • Benefits Forgot — Part 1 — by Wolcott Balestier
  • Notable Women: I: Jenny Lind by Ronald J. McNeill
  • Noel by Richard Watson Gilder
  • Cid Ruy the Campeador by John Malone
  • Sweet Bells Out of Tune — Part 2 — by Mrs. Burton Harrison
  • Compensation by John Hay
  • A Knight of the Legion of Honor by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • Leaves from the Autobiography of Tommaso Salvini
  • Impressions of Browning and his Art by Stopford A. Brooke
  • Present-Day Papers: The Problem of Poverty by Washington Gladden
  • The Mother from a painting by Edward E. Simmons
  • To Gipsyland by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
  • After the Rain by Mary E. Wilkins
  • The Effect of Scientific Study upon Religious Belief by H. S. Williams
  • The Gipsy Trail — A poem by Rudyard Kipling
  • Balcony Stories. A Drama of Three by Grace King
  • The Annunciation from a painting by Mary L. Macomber
  • Serene’s Religious Experience: An Inland Story by Cornelia Atwood Pratt
  • War Correspondence as a Fine Art by Archibald Forbes
  • Their Christmas Meeting by Florence Watters Snedeker
  • Topics of the Time:

  • The First Duty of Congress by Editorial
  • Government Architecture in America by Editorial
  • Immigration Problems by Editorial
  • Open Letters:

  • American Painters in the Christmas Century by W. Lewis Fraser
  • To Persons Desiring to Cultivate a Taste in Music by W. J. Henderson
  • Some Tenement-House Evils by Lilliam W. Betts
  • The Prevention of Blindness in Infants by Swan M. Burnett
  • In Lighter Vein:

  • Some More Boys — Poems by James Whitcomb Riley
  • Dear Old Gotham by William Bard McVickar
  • Observations by Manley H. Pike
  • Opportunity by Margaret Vandegrift
  • Beauty by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    1891-12 Century Magazine Contents

    1891/12 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • The Century’s Christmas Pictures — The Holy Family by Frank Vincent Du Mond
  • The Christ-Child by Richard Watson Gilder
  • Italian Old Masters — Raphael by W. J. Stillman
  • At First by Amanda T. Jones
  • The Century’s Christmas Pictures — The Arrival of the Shepherds by H. Lerolle
  • The Shepherds by Edith M. Thomas
  • The Christmas Shadrach by Frank R. Stockton
  • The Midnight Call by Kate Putnam Osgood
  • The Naulahka a Story of East and West — Part 2 — by Rudyard Kipling and Wolcott Balestier – 12 pages
  • The Rapture of Hetty by Mary Hallock Foote
  • Queen Elizabeth by Rose Terry Cooke
  • The Century’s Christmas Pictures — The Appearance of the Angel to the Shepherds by P. Lagarde
  • Mozart – After a Hundred Years by Amelia Gere Mason
  • Remembrance by William Sharp
  • A Christmas Fantasy with a Moral by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • The Two Lessons by Thomas W. Higginson
  • The Century’s Christmas Pictures — The Annunciation to the Shepherds by J. Bastien Lepage
  • The Bowery by Julian Ralph
  • Childhood by Viola Roseboro
  • The Century’s Christmas Pictures — Holy Night by Fritz Von Uhde
  • The Ocean from Real Life by John A. Beebe
  • Science and Immortality by Augustus Jay DuBois
  • Frost-Flowers by William Prescott Foster
  • Sympathy by Charles H. Crandall
  • The Golden Age of Pastel by Elizabeth Wells Champney
  • The Long Ago by Julie M. Lippmann
  • The Century’s Christmas Pictures by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • Wulfy: A Waif — A Christmas Sketch by Vida D. Scudder
  • An Offertory by Mary Mapes Dodge
  • The Century’s Christmas Pictures — Madonna by Dagnan-Bouveret
  • The Song of the Brook by Mary Ainge DeVere
  • Characteristics — Part 1 — by S. Weir Mitchell
  • Sherman and the San Francisco Vigilantes — Unpublished Letters by General W. T. Sherman – Just over 13 pages
  • Topics of the Time:

  • The Senate Charities Aid Association
  • The Century Christmas
  • Editorials on Finance. The “Per Capita” Delusion
  • The World’s Columbian Exhibition
  • Open Letters:

  • John Boyle O’Reilly as a Poet of Humanity by George Parsons Lathrop
  • The New England Kitchen by Maria Parloa
  • Playgrounds and Parks for Children by Walter Vrooman
  • In Lighter Vein:

  • Smithy Song by George Horton
  • Understood by William B. McVickar
  • The Blue and the Gray by R. W. P. Noble
  • Embarrassing to a Modest Man by John Kendrick Bangs
  • Friends Only by F. H. Curtiss
  • Jack Frost by Esther B. Tiffany
  • The Little Tunker Bonnet by Benjamin S. Parker
  • A Paradox by Lydia C. Heckman
  • Christmas Day by Alice Williams Brotherton
  • A Christmas Toast by John H. Boner
  • To a Southern Girl by James G. Burnett
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    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
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine, Edith Wharton, John Muir, Michaelangelo, Rudyard Kipling

    1891-10 Century Magazine Contents

    1891/10 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Portrait of Rudyard Kipling
  • My Last Days in Siberia by George Kennan
  • Was it an Exceptional Case? by Matt Crim
  • Aerial Navigation — The Power Required — by Hiram S. Maxim — 8 page article includes 6 illustrations
  • Besieged by the Utes – The Massacre of 1879 by E. V. Sumner
  • Ona Blank Leaf in “The Marble Faun” by Elia W. Peattie
  • Play in Province. A Water Tournament by Joseph Pennell
  • In Answer to a Question by Lilla Cabot Perry
  • The Press and Public Men by Henry V. Boynton
  • An Escapade in Cordova by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • Masks by Richard E. Burton
  • Pro Patria by R. W. Gilder
  • The Story of a Story by Brander Matthews
  • The Wood-Maid by Helen Thayer Hutcheson
  • Who Was Eldorado by H. R. Lemly with 26 illustrations
  • The Robber by James B. Kenyon
  • Italian Old Masters. Lorenzo di Credi – Perugino by W. J. Stillman
  • Rudyard Kipling by Edmund Gosse – 10 pages, all text
  • Love by William Wilfred Campbell
  • Tarrying in Nicaragua — To California in 1849 — by Roger S. Baldwin Jr.
  • The Personal Appearance of Lincoln by John G. Nicolay
  • The Summer Pool by Charles G. D. Roberts
  • The Faith Doctor — Conclusion — by Edward Eggleston
  • Topics of the Time:

  • The Century a National Magazine
  • Editorials on Finance: A Cheap Money Retrospect
  • Presidential Voting Methods
  • The Key to Municipal Reform
  • James Russell Lowell Poet and Citizen
  • Open Letters:

  • “Laurels of the American Tar in 1812”
  • Reply to Criticisms by George Kennan
  • Bric-a-Brac:

  • “Deserving Poor” by George Horton
  • The Poet Paradox by John Kendrick Bangs
  • To the St. Lawrence River in Autumn by Douglas Sladen
  • What My Clock Says by Nelly Marshall McAfee
  • Lowell (August 14th 1891) by R. W. Gilder
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    1891-09 Century Magazine Contents

    1891/09 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Full-page portraits of the Emperor and Emperoress of Germany
  • The German Emperor by Poultney Bigelow
  • Thou Reignest Still by Louise Chandler Moulton
  • Thumb-Nail Sketches – Moglashen by George Wharton Edwards
  • A Common Story by Wolcott Balestier
  • Two Kings by William H. Hayne
  • On the Study of Tennyson by Henry Van Dyke
  • The Squirrel Inn — Part 4 — by Frank R. Stockton
  • The Press as a News-Gatherer — By the Manager of the Associated Press, William Henry Smith
  • The Eleventh Hour Laborer by L. Gray Noble
  • Life on the South Shoal Lightship by Gustav Kobbe
  • Play in Province — The Grand Arrival of the Bulls by Joseph Pennell
  • Play in Province — The Ferrade by Joseph Pennell
  • “Alone We Come into the World” by Stuart Sterne
  • The Little Renault by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
  • On Elkhorn by Robert Burns Wilson
  • Our Summer Migration by Edward Hungerford
  • Twilight by Alexander Harrison
  • Cape Horn and Cooperative Mining in ’49 by Willard B. Farwell
  • Gray Rocks and Grayer Sea by Charles G. D. Roberts
  • The White Crown by Herbert D. Ward
  • The Faith Doctor — Part 7 — by Edward Eggleston
  • The Clown and the Missionary by Viola Roseboro
  • Topics of the Time:

  • The Argentine Cheap Money Paradise
  • The Lottery’s Last Ditch
  • Open Letters:

  • “Orthodoxy and Liberty”
  • “Valor and Skill in the Civil War” by J. T. Derry
  • Vivisection Does it Help? by Edward Berdoe
  • The Century Series of Pictures by American Artists — Open Letter by William A. Coffin
  • Alexander Harrison by William A. Coffin
  • A Denial from the Confederate Diplomatists by Edwin De Leon
  • The Treatment of Inebriates by L. Edwin Dudley
  • Bric-a-Brac:

  • Reflections by J. A. Macon
  • Cour d’Amour. – Cupid J. by Charles Francis Coburn
  • Patience Ceased to be a Virtue by Edith M. Thomas
  • The Thoughtless Thinker by John Kendrick Bangs
  • Two Seasons by Eva Wilder McGlasson
  • Observations from the Women’s Quarters by Chloe
  • Positively Pretty by Eugene Bradford Ripley
  • Sweet Mistress Nance of Milburn Town by William Page Carter
  • To an English Sparrow by George Horton
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

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