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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
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Abraham Lincoln, Century Magazine, Civil War, Louis Pasteur

    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
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Abraham Lincoln, Century Magazine, Civil War, Frederic Remington, Henry James, Theodore Roosevelt

    1888-04 Century Magazine Contents

    1888/04 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • From Dan to Beersheba by Edward L. Wilson with illustrations by Irving R. Wiles, J.D. Woodward, G.W. Edwards, H.W. Hall, Otto H. Bacher and Henry Fenn
  • Motherhood by Abby S. Hinckley
  • The Graysons (Serial begun in November) by Edward Eggleston
  • Bird Music: The Bluebird and the Robin by Simeon Pease Cheney
  • The Realm of Reverie by Louise Vickroy Boyd
  • The Round-Up by Theodore Roosevelt and illustrated by Frederic Remington – includes 12 Remington illustrations of various sizes with the largest being a full page
  • Robert Louis Stevenson by Henry James with portrait by J.W. Alexander – 10-1/2 pages of text plus the Stevenson portrait which is another full page
  • Surprises by Julia C.R. Dorr
  • The Russian Penal Code by George Kennan
  • A Song of Life by Richard E. Burton
  • Thefts of the Morning by Edith M. Thomas
  • The Works of Elisha Mulford by T.T. Munger
  • Marse Phil by Thomas Nelson Page and illustrated by E.W. Kemble
  • Abraham Lincoln: The National Uprising by John G. Nicolay and John Hay with illustrations from photographs and maps by DeLancy Gill and Jacob Wells
  • Love’s Imagining by Hopestill Goodwin
  • To Carmen Sylva by Emma Lazarus
  • The American Inventors of the Telegraph by Franklin Leonard Pope with illustrations from photographs, daguerrotypes and drawins by S.F.B. Morse, A.M. Turner, Harry Fenn, H.C. Edwards, and others
  • The Struggle by Danske Dandridge
  • Two Kentucky Gentlemen of the Old School by James Lane Allen with illustrations by E.W. Kemble
  • Memoranda of the Civil War
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    1888-03 Century Magazine Contents

    1888/03 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Bismarck in His Garden
  • Ranch Life in the Far West. The Home Ranch by Theodore Roosevelt and illustrated by Frederic Remington (14 page article includes 10 illustrations by Remington
  • Lifted Veils by C. P. Cranch
  • The White Tsar’s People by Richard Watson Gilder
  • Hercules: A Hero by Helen Gray Cone
  • The Lost Bird on Shipboard by Fred Woodrow
  • The Graysons: A Story of Illinois — Begun in November — by Edward Eggleston
  • To a Veteran by A. S. L. Gray
  • Salisbury Cathedrals by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer and illustrated by Joseph Pennell
  • Abraham Lincoln: A History. The Call to Arms by J. G. Nicolay
  • An Eastern Legend by Charlotte W. Thurston
  • Some Pupils of Liszt by Albert Morris Bagby
  • A Far Cry to Heaven by Edith M. Thomas
  • Coming Shadows by Titus Munson Coan
  • Au Large — Conclusion — by George W. Cable
  • Franklin’s Home and Host in France by John Bigelow with illustrations from drawings by Victor Hugo and C.A. Vanderhoof from old print
  • Russian State Prisoners by George Kennan
  • Bismarck
  • Colonel Rose’s Tunnel At Libby Prison by Captain Frank E. Moran
  • The Roads that Meet by Rose Henry Lathrop
  • Immigration by Passport by T. T. Munger
  • Auspicium by Mary Ainge De Vere
  • Topics of the Time:

  • “English as She is Taught”
  • American Architecture in English Eyes
  • The Growing Independence of American Journalism
  • Forestry and Landscape Gardening
  • Open Letters:

  • Longfellow on International Copyright by Henry W. Longfellow
  • The Public-School Problem by Caroline B. LeRow
  • Mind Training by Catharine Aiken
  • The Education of the Blind. A Reply by J. T. Morey
  • The American School of the Future by Julian Hawthorne
  • Christian Union by Paul de Schweinitz
  • To the Deaf by Katharine Armstrong
  • Names by E. W. Denison
  • Bric-A-Brac:

  • To a Little Girl in “Punch” by Robertson Trowbridge
  • Uncle Esek’s Wisdom by Uncle Esek
  • The Question by William Young
  • The Reason by Wood B. Benedict
  • Ballade of Rejected MS by Andrew Hussey Allen
  • The Glacier vs. the Editor by Charlotte W. Thurston
  • His Grave by Alice Wellington Rollins
  • In Silken Hose by William H. Hayne
  • Multum in Parvo by D. R. Goodale
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    1888-02 Century Magazine Contents

    1888/02 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Walter Savage Landor
  • Ranch Life in the Far West. In the Cattle Country by Theodore Roosevelt with illustrations by Frederic Remington (16 pages, 11 illustrations by Remington including 2 full-page)
  • Walter Savage Landor by James Russell Lowell
  • Walter Savage Landor: Some Letters to Miss Mary Boyle
  • A Russian Political Priso by George Kennan
  • A Song of the Mocking-Bird by Maurice Thompson
  • Pictorial Art on the Stage by Evangeline W. Blashfield
  • At the Literary by James Whitcomb Riley with illustrations by E.W. Kemble
  • Au Large – Begun in November – by George W. Cable with illustrations by E.W. Kemble
  • The Governor’s Prerogative by Octave Thanet
  • A Day in Winter by Orelia Key Bell
  • The Graysons: A Story of Illinois – Begun in November – by Edward Eggleston
  • Living in Paris by J. D. Osborne
  • Emma Lazarus by Richard Watson Gilder
  • The Grand Strategy of the War of the Rebellion by General William Tecumseh Sherman
  • Values by Richard E. Burton
  • Abraham Lincoln: A History. Premier or President? by J. G. Nicolay
  • Under the Foam by Charlotte Fiske Bates
  • The Dusantes: A Sequel to the Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine — part 3 (Conclusion) — by Frank R. Stockton
  • Astrology, Divination, and Coincidences by Rev. Dr. J. M. Buckley
  • The European Craze for Decorations by Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg
  • Topics of the Time:

  • A Phase of Political Independence
  • Honesty at Elections
  • “No Successful Substitute for Justice”
  • Open Letters:

  • About Henry Irving by G.
  • Lynching by Charles F. Deems
  • Ellen Terry as Gretchen by B.
  • Bric-A-Brac:

  • Beneath the Hood by William H. Hayne
  • Content vs. Discontent by Alice Wellington Rollins
  • An Example of the Superlative by J. R. P.
  • Uncle Esek’s Wisdom by Uncle Esek
  • Young Lochinvar: An After Study by Margaret Vandegrift
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    1888-01 Century Magazine Contents

    1888/01 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of John Ruskin – Engraved by T. Johnson
  • The Catacombs of Rome by Prof. Philip Schaff
  • Au Large — Part 3 — by George W. Cable
  • The Hardest Lot by John White Chadwick
  • John Ruskin by W. J. Stillman
  • The Hawk by Langdon Elwyn Mitchell
  • The Old Man and Jim by James Whitcomb Riley (pp.
  • The Graysons: A Story of Illinois — Part 3 — by Edward Eggleston
  • John Gilbert by J. Ranken Towse
  • The Dusantes: A Sequel to the Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine — part 2 — by Frank R. Stockton
  • Russian Provincial Prisons by George Kennan
  • Inlet and Shore by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
  • Post-Meridian by Wendell P. Garrison
  • The Upper Missouri and Great Falls by Eugene V. Smalley
  • A Song of Cheer by Charles G. D. Roberts
  • Abraham Lincoln: A History. The Formation of a Cabinet by J. G. Nicolay
  • Pecuniary Economy of Food by Prof. W. O. Atwater
  • A Love Song by Robert Burns Wilson
  • An Elk Hunt on the Plains by Frederick Schwatka
  • The Artist by William H. Hayne
  • Meisterschaft – In Three Acts – by Mark Twain (10 pages)
  • The Lights of Home by William Young
  • “De Valley an’ de Shadder” by H. S. Edwards and illustrated by E.W. Kemble
  • Memoranda on the Civil War:

  • General Edwards’s Brigade at Spotsylvania by Richard Wentworth Browne
  • Edwards’s Brigade at Spotsylvania by James L. Bowen
  • Union War Songs and Confederate Officers by Richard Wentworth Browne
  • The Lost War Maps of the Confederates by Albert H. Campbell
  • Gen. Robert B. Potter and the Assault at Petersburg Crater by Henry C. Potter
  • Topics of the Time:

  • Manual Training in Common Schools
  • Our Daily Bread
  • A Southern Man Ahead of his Time
  • America is not Russia
  • Open Letters:

  • Industrial Training in the Public Schools: Philadelphia by James MacAlister
  • Industrial Training in the Public Schools: New Haven by S. T. Dutton
  • Industrial Training in the Public Schools: An Adverse View by A. P. Marble
  • Industrial Training in the Public Schools: In the New York Catholic Protectory by Ida M. Van Etten
  • The American Book by John E. Cleland
  • Atlanta, the Piedmont Exposition by Marion J. Verdery
  • Hawthorne’s Loyalty by Horatio Bridge
  • Recollections of Grant by Charles Henry Webb
  • Uncle Esek’s Wisdom by Uncle Esek
  • “The Lady or the Tiger” by Belle A. Mundy
  • Pepita by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • With Pen and Ink by Walter Learned
  • To Wilding, My Polo Pony by John Eliot Bowen
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    1887-12 Century Magazine Contents

    1887/12 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Abraham Lincoln Just Before Inauguration – Engraved by T. Johnson
  • The Sea of Galilee by Edward L. Wilson
  • Perpetual Youth by Maurice Francis Egan
  • After the War — A Story — by J. G. Perkins and illustrated by E. W. Kemble
  • The Hour-Glass by Edith M. Thomas
  • Notes on Parisian Newspapers by Brander Matthews
  • The Winging Hour by Mrs. Fields
  • Au Large — Part 2 — by George W. Cable amd illustrated by E.W. Kemble
  • Durham Cathedral by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer and illustrated by Joseph Pennell
  • Endless Resource by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
  • The Dusantes: A Sequel to the Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine — Part 1 — by Frank R. Stockton
  • The United Churches of the United States — part 2 — by Prof. Charles W. Shields
  • Twilight by Walt Whitman – Just a four line poem
  • Abraham Lincoln: A History. Lincoln’s Inauguration by J. G. Nicolay
  • Prison Life of the Russian Revolutionists by George Kennan
  • The Graysons: A Story of Illinois — Part 2 — by Edward Eggleston
  • “From Out Eternal Silence Do We Come” by Stuart Sterne
  • Pictorial Successes of Irving’s Faust by J. Pennell
  • The Acting of Irving’s Faust by J. Pennell
  • The Tonic Sol-Fa System. Opinions of a Teacher by Theodore F. Seward
  • The Tonic Sol-Fa System. Opinions of a Critic by H. E. Krehbiel
  • Comrades by Henry Ames Blood
  • Memoranda on the Civil War:

  • A Song in Camp by Colonel Henry Stone
  • The Confederate Strength in the Atlanta Campaign by Major E. C. Dawes
  • A Rejoinder to General Robertson by Colonel John S. Mosby
  • Ransom’s Division at Fredericksburg by General Robert Ransom
  • An Anecdote of the Petersburg Crater by Henry R. Howland
  • Topics of the Time:

  • Municipal Patriotism
  • International Copyright
  • The Seventieth Year of Our National Disgrace
  • “Constitution Day”
  • Open Letters:

  • Cheap Books by Brander Matthews
  • Occupations of the Blind by Edward B. Perry
  • Re-Unions
  • Bric-A-Brac:

  • Helen by John Vance Cheney
  • At First Sight by Charles H. Crandall
  • The Goddess. (Dedicated to T. B. Aldrich) by Karl
  • Meditations of a Jealous Rival by W. E. K.
  • Thou Didst Not Say Me Nay by Jennie W. Netter
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    1887-11 Century Magazine Contents

    1887/11 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait and “Autograph” of George Washington
  • The Home and Haunts of Washington by Mrs. Burton Harrison
  • Mount Vernon As It Is by Sophie Bledsoe Herrick
  • Revenge by Charles Henry Webb
  • Augustus Saint Gaudens by Kenyon Cox
  • Saint Gaudens’ Lincoln by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • The Graysons: A Story of Illinois by Edward Eggleston
  • The Last Appeal of the Russian Liberals by George Kennan
  • Abraham Lincoln: A History. The President-Elect at Springfield by J. G. Nicolay
  • Au Large — Part 1 — by George W. Cable with illustrations by E.W. Kemble
  • Sugar-Making in Louisiana by Eugene V. Smalley with illustrations by E.W. Kemble
  • Indian Summer by Dora Read Goodale
  • The Light by H. C. Bunner
  • College Composites by John T. Stoddard
  • Appomattox: “Grant’s Last Campaign” by General Horace Porter with several photographs and illustrations, including two by Winslow Homer
  • A Little Dinner by William Henry Bishop
  • One Born in November by Charlotte Fiske Bates
  • Topics of the Time:

  • To the Readers of “The Century”
  • James Louis Petigru
  • Sanitary Legislation in American Cities
  • Open Letters:

  • The Blind as Students by Edward B. Perry
  • The Incompetence of Legislative Bodies by Charles Fiske
  • Sugar by Horace White
  • Lynching by Charles F. Deems
  • The Powel Portraits of Washington
  • The November Lady in “The Century” by Maria H. Burditt
  • Bric-A-Brac:

  • A Little Comedy by Louise Chandler Moulton
  • Una by James Herbert Morse
  • Aspiration by Arthur J. Mundy
  • Misunderstood by A. L. R.
  • A Song of Degrees by Margaret Vandegrift
  • Tempora Mutantur by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    1887-10 Century Magazine Contents

    1887/10 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Ely Cathedral by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • Interpretation by Richard E. Burton
  • Abraham Lincoln: A History — The Secession Movement — by John G. Nicolay and John Hay
  • My Shadow by Ellen M. H. Gates
  • The Madrigal by Samuel Willoughby Duffield
  • Won by Julia C. R. Dorr
  • Mrs. Stowe’s “Uncle Tom” at Home in Kentucky by James Lane Allen
  • Hand-Car 412, C. P. R. by John Heard, Jr.
  • The Hundredth Man — Part 12 of 12 — by Frank R. Stockton
  • His Argument by Sarah M. B. Piatt
  • Azalia — Part 3 of 3 — by Joel Chandler Harris
  • The American Game of Foot-Ball by Alexander Johnston — 11 pages with 14 illustrations by Irving R. Wiles including “A Touch-Down”; “A Goal”; “A Fair Catch”; Foul Catches; “Quarter-Back Taking the Ball”; “The Scrimmage. Half-Back Taking the Ball”; “Breaking Through the Rush Line” and more. The article begins as follows: “However odd the title of this article may seem, its implcations are correct and legitimate. The undergraduates of American colleges, taking the so-called Rugby game of foot-ball, have developed it into a game differing in many of its phases from any of its English prototypes. There were already differences in the game in its primitive home …”
  • Twelve Years of British Song by Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • The Going Out of the Tide by Helen Gray Cone
  • Marching Through Georgia and the Carolinas by Captain Daniel Oakey
  • Sherman’s March from Savannah to Bentonville by General H. W. Slocum
  • The Battle of Bentonville by General Wade Hampton
  • The Wild Ride by Louise Imogen Guiney
  • Zweibok; or Notes of a Professional Exile by E.S. Nadal
  • The Angel of Sleep by Robert Burns Wilson
  • Topics of the Time:

  • Soldier and Citizen
  • Personal Records of the War
  • The Last Hope of the Mormon
  • The Jury System
  • Shall Immigration be Restricted?
  • Open Letters:

  • Christian Union and Baptism by Herbert H. Hawes
  • Christian Union and Pending Public Questions by William Chauncy Langdon
  • Secret Societies in Colleges by Charles S. Robinson
  • Henry Clay, the Slashes, and Ashland Again by W. A. W.
  • Bric-a-Brac:

  • Art and Nature
  • Aphorisms from the Quarter by J. A. Macon
  • Ballade of the Romantic Poet by Harrison S. Morris
  • Revision, by Esther B. Tiffany
  • An Old-Fashioned Girl by James B. Kenyon
  • The Missing Glove by Winifred Howells
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    1887-09 Century Magazine Contents

    1887/09 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Thomas Jefferson with drawings by Harry Fenn
  • Thomas Jefferson’s Home by John G. Nicolay with drawings by Harry Fenn
  • The Later Years of Monticello by Frank R. Stockton
  • Abraham Lincoln: A History. Lincoln’s Nomination and Election by J. J. Nicolay and John Hay
  • The Hundredth Man — To Be Concluded — by Frank R. Stockton
  • Snubbin’ Through Jersey — Part 2 of 2 — by J. B. Millet
  • “H. H.’s” Grave by M. Virginia Donaghe
  • Azalia — Begun in the August Number — by Joel Chandler Harris with drawings by E.W. Kemble
  • The Amateur Photographer by Alexander Black
  • The Camera Club of Cincinnati by Dwight W. Huntington
  • Noblesse Oblige by Robert Underwood Johnson
  • The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition by W. O. Atwater
  • The Digestibility of Food — Part 4 — by W. O. Atwater
  • Woman and Artist by Alice Williams Brotherton
  • Helen by Harriet Lewis Bradley
  • The Framers and Framing of the Constitution by John Bach McMaster
  • Sun Pondere Crescit by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Tragedy of the Crater by Major William H. Powell
  • A Dash into the Crater by George L. Kilmer
  • The Colored Troops at Petersburg by General Henry G. Thomas
  • Assault and Repulse at Fort Stedman by George L. Kilmer with illustrations by Winslow Homer, E.J. Meeker, J.D. Woodward, and from photographs
  • Topics of the Time:

  • The First Century of the Constitution
  • Mark Hopkins
  • A Great Teacher
  • Shall We Plant Native or Foreign Trees
  • Open Letters:

  • Government by the People by Robert Jones
  • The Federal Balance by Edward Eggleston
  • Ramabai Sarasvati Pundita by Emily J. Bryant
  • The Lincoln History by M. D. J.
  • A Ministry of Welcome by G. F. Krotel
  • Bric-A-Brac:

  • Transformation by A. C. Gordon
  • A Study in Black by E. W. Kemble
  • Uncle Esek’s Wisdom
  • Between the Lines by Walter Learned
  • Very Doubtful by M. E. W.
  • Face to Face by H. W. Austin
  • Hard to Suit by A. W. R.
  • A Sea-Side Flirtation by Samuel Minturn Peck
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    1887-08 Century Magazine Contents

    1887/08 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Julia Ward Howe
  • Snubbin’ Through Jersey — Part 1 of 2 — by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • The Hundredth Man — Part 10 — by Frank R. Stockton
  • Sunken Graves by Andrew B. Saxton
  • Abraham Lincoln: A History — Lincoln’s Cooper Institute Speech — by John G. Nicolay and John Hay
  • Is It a Piece of a Comet? by William Earl Hidden
  • I Shall Find Rest by Robert Burns Wilson
  • Virgo by R. J. Philbrick
  • Azalia — Part 1 of 3 — by Joel Chandler Harris
  • Nothin’ to Say by James Whitcomb Riley
  • Our Kivigtok — An Episode of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition — by A. W. Greely
  • Notes of a Professional Exile by E. S. Nadal
  • Low Prices, High Wages, Small Profits; What Makes Them? by Edward Atkinson
  • Opposing Sherman’s Advance to Atlanta by General Joseph E. Johnston
  • Hood’s Invasion of Tennessee by Colonel Henry Stone
  • Memoranda on the Civil War:

  • General Donaldson’s Fortunate Mistake by R. H. Eddy
  • General Grant on the Terms at Vicksburg by General U. S. Grant
  • The Cause of a Silent Battle by John B. DeMotte
  • A Reply to Colonel Mosby by General B. H. Robertson
  • The Songs of the War by Brander Matthews and With Notes on the Battle-Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe
  • Topics of the Time:

  • An Urgent Measure of National Defense
  • The Niagara Reservation
  • Open Letters:

  • Education of the Blind — Part 1: As Children by E. B. Perry
  • Ministerial Bureaux by Washington Gladden
  • Landscape Gardening by John Thorpe
  • Bric-a-Brac:

  • Untangling the Family Yarn by Eva M. D. Jarnette
  • In the Cafe by T. R. Sullivan
  • The Hundredth Man by G. J. Wilbur
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    1887-05 Century Magazine Contents

    1887/05 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Washington Irving — Engraved by T. Johnson from a daguerreotype
  • Finding Pharaoh by Edward L. Wilson
  • Pharaoh the Oppressor, and His Daughter, In the Light of Their Monuments by John A. Paine
  • Zweibek; Or Notes of a Professional Exile by E. S. Nadal
  • The Hundredth Man — Part 7 — by Frank R. Stockton
  • Amiel — The “Journal Intime” — by Robert Underwood Johnson
  • Among the Apaches by Frederick Schwatka
  • From an Ancient Irish Mound by Sarah M. B. Piatt
  • A Glimpse of Washington Irving at Home by Clarence Cook
  • The Deserter by Anthony Morehead
  • The Chemistry of Foods and Nutrition — Part 1 — by W. O. Atwater
  • If by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • A Song of Fleeting Love by Alice Williams Brotherton
  • Personal Recollections of Louis Blanc — With Notes Concerning Alsace and Lorraine — by Karl Blind
  • Abraham Lincoln: A History — The Border Conflict — by John G. Nicolay, John Hay — 28 pages and heavily illustrated
  • Keats by Robert Burns Wilson
  • Whitsun Harp, Regulator by Octave Thanet
  • Israel –A Poem by John Hay
  • The Campaign for Chattanooga by General W. S. Rosecrans
  • The Army of the Cumberland at Chattanooga by General J. S. Fullerton
  • Memoranda on the Civil War:

  • “Lee’s Invasion of Pennsylvania”
  • A Reply to General Longstreet by Colonel W. Allan
  • Stuart’s Ride Around the Union Army in the Gettysburg Campaign by Colonel John S. Mosby
  • Topics of the Time:

  • Executive Responsibility
  • The Nation’s Recent Debt to the South
  • The Problem of Government by Guilds
  • Food
  • Open Letters:

  • City Government by Guilds by John D. Cutter
  • Toynbee Hall, London by R. R. Bowker
  • Notes
  • Bric-a-Brac:

  • The Agile Sonneteer by Anthony Morehead
  • Wait a Bit, by Jennie E. T. Dowe
  • The April-Face, or the Stub-Tail Mule by Thomas Nelson Page
  • Uncle Esek’s Wisdom
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    1886-10 Century Magazine Contents

    1886/10 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Bj
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    1886-09 Century Magazine Contents

    1886/09 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Franz Liszt — Engraved by T. Johnson from a photograph by Louis Held
  • A Summer with Liszt in Weimar by Albert Morris Bagby
  • Amateur Ballooning by Alfred E. Moore
  • Balloon Experiences of a Timid Photographer by John G. Doughty
  • A Pistol-Shot by Kate Foote
  • Lost Joy by Lucile
  • The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine — Part 2 — by Frank R. Stockton
  • The Sermon of a Statue by S. M. B. Piatt
  • A Glance at the Arts of Persia by S. G. W. Benjamin
  • A September Violet by Robert Underwood Johnson
  • The Minister’s Charge — Part 8 — by William Dean Howells
  • The Successes and Failures of Chancellorsville by Gen. Alfred Pleasonton
  • Jackson’s Attack Upon the Eleventh Corps by Gen. O. O. Howard
  • Sedgwick’s Assault at Fredericksburg by Col. Huntington W. Jackson
  • Chancellorsville Revisited by General Hooker by Samuel P. Bates
  • Notes from the Prairie by John Burroughs
  • Undying Light by Richard Watson Gilder
  • The Zoological Station at Naples by Emily Nunn Whitman
  • A Song of the Mocking-Bird by Maurice Thompson
  • Memoranda on the Civil War:

  • Lee’s Knowledge of Hooker’s Movements by Gen. R. E. Colston
  • The Reserve at Antietam by Gen. Thomas M. Anderson
  • General Grant’s Reasons for Relieving General William F. Smith by Capt. Joel Benedict Erhardt
  • A Correction from Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Topics of the Time:

  • Legislative Inefficiency
  • Marriage, Divorce, and the Mormon Problem
  • The Forgotten Millions
  • Open Letters:

  • The Inefficiency of the House of Congress by Albert H. Walker
  • The Rev. Dr. Munger on “Evolution and the Faith” by Charles F. Deems
  • Reply by the Rev. Dr. Munger
  • A Plan for Harmony between Labor and the Employing Interests by S. H. Church
  • “Danger Ahead” by Lyman Abbott by John C. Perkins
  • Petra
  • Bric-a-Brac:

  • In a Venetian Picture-Gallery — Drawing by Robert Blum
  • On Some Buttercups by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • In a Bob-Tail Car by Brander Matthews
  • Her Choice by Minna Irving
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    1886-06 Century Magazine Contents

    1886/06 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Benjamin Franklin — Engraved by J.H.E. Whitney after the drawing by Kenyon Cox
  • A Literary Ramble — Along the Thames from Fulham to Chiswick — by Austin Dobson
  • The Two Bells by Bessie Chandler
  • Meh Lady: A Story of the War by Thomas Nelson Page
  • American Country Dwellings — Part 2 — by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • The Queen’s Bead by Harriet Prescott Spofford
  • Faith-Healing and Kindred Phenomena by J. M. Buckley – 16 pages of solid text
  • A Sonnet by Amelie Rives
  • Harvard’s Botanic Garden and its Botanists by Ernest Ingersoll
  • To John G. Saxe by C. S. Percival
  • The Minister’s Charge — Part 5 — by William Dean Howells
  • Circling Fancies by Edmund Gosse
  • Unpublished Letters of Benjamin Franklin by John Bigelow
  • Birds’ Eggs by John Burroughs
  • The Hotel Experience of Mr. Pink Fluker by Richard M. Johnston
  • Stonewall Jackson in Maryland by Col. Henry Kyd Douglas
  • Harper’s Ferry and Sharpsburg by Gen. John G. Walker
  • The Invasion of Maryland by Gen. James Longstreet
  • Antietam Scenes by Charles Carleton Coffin
  • Topics of the Time:

  • A Word of Sympathy and Caution
  • Two Kinds of Boycotting
  • Who are the Guiltier
  • Open Letters:

  • Christian Union by Samuel M. Hopkins
  • Shall Women Go To College? by E. R. Sill
  • The Labor Question by Washington Gladden
  • Found: “A Universal Tinker”
  • Bric-a-Brac:

  • Urashima: A Japanese Rip Van Winkle by translated by Masayuki Kataoka
  • A Knot of Blue by Samuel Minturn Peck
  • A Warning by Arthur Lovell
  • Two Heads Better Than One by Charlotte Fiske Bates
  • The Golden Bridge by George T. Lanigan
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    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
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine, General McClellan, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Dean Howells

    1886-04 Century Magazine Contents

    1886/04 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — Engraved by T. Johnson from an ambrotype taken in 1848
  • Creole Slave Songs article by George W. Cable – 20 pages – 1. The Quadroons; 2. The Love-Song; 3. The Lay and the Dirge; 4. The Voodoos; 5. Songs of Woods and Waters – With 11 illustrations by E.W. Kemble – Plus Excerpts from Several Songs – Closing with 4-plus pages of sheet music including “Quand Mo ‘Te”; “Neg’ Pas Capa’ Marche”; “Ah! Suzette”; “Pov’ Piti Momzel Zizi”; “Bon D’je”; “Criole Candjo”; “De Zab”
  • Compensation by Celia Thaxter
  • John Bodewin’s Testimony — Part 6 — by Mary Hallock Foote
  • Past by Winifred Howells
  • Italy, from a Tricycle — Part 2 of 2 — by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
  • The Minister’s Charge — Part 3 — by William Dean Howells
  • The Water-Text by Louise Imogen Guiney
  • April’s Lady by Arlo Bates
  • Toy Dogs by James Watson :

  • The Pug – King Charles Spaniels – The Japanese Spaniel – The Blenheim Spaniel – The Italian Greyhound – The Yorkshire Terrier – Toy Terriers
  • Glimpses of Longfellow in Social Life by Annie Fields
  • Sister Tabea by Edward Eggleston
  • Young Love is Lord by John Vance Cheney
  • Christianity and Popular Education by Washington Gladden
  • Strikes, Lockouts, and Arbitration by George May Powell
  • Life on the “Alabama” by P. D. Haywood
  • Cruise and Combats of the “Alabama” by Capt. John McIntosh Kell
  • The Duel Between the “Alabama” and the “Kearsarge” — By the Surgeon of the “Kearsarge” — by John M. Browne
  • Memoranda of the Civil War:

  • In Vindication of General Rufus King by Capt. Charles King
  • Government Aid in Marking Battlefields by John J. Tigert
  • A Statement from the Commissary General by Col. L. B. Northrop
  • Topics of the Time:

  • The Grant Memorial
  • Good Signs on the Lecture Platform
  • Open Letters:

  • The Tinkering of Hymns by Charles S. Robinson
  • Shall the Federal Government Give Aid to Popular Education? by T. U. Dudley
  • The Tool-House by Cortlandt Palmer
  • Lobbying and its Remedy by T. W.
  • Lobbying in England by M. P.
  • Senator Boutwell’s Plan — “Hybridization”
  • Bric-a-Brac:

  • Discarded by Charles Henry Webb
  • Uncle Esek’s Wisdom by Uncle Esek
  • The Truth About It by M. P. Handy
  • A Cure for Heroics by Martha Wolcott Hitchcock
  • To Frederick Locker by Edward F. Hayward
  • Burning the Love-Letters by Walter Learned
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    1886-03 Century Magazine Contents

    1886/03 — Contents taken from the index are as follows:

  • Frontispiece — Portrait of Emilio Castelas – Engraved by H. Velten from a Photograph by J. Laurent
  • Italy, from a Tricycle by Elizabeth Robins Pennell and illustrated by Joseph Pennell
  • In Exile by L. Frank Tooker
  • John Bodewin’s Testimony – Part 5 – by Mary Hallock Foote
  • Recent Architecture in America by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • One Touch of Nature by Anthony Morehead
  • John Toner’s Experiment by Margaretta Wetherill Kernan and illustrated by E.W. Kemble
  • Mountaineering in Persia by S. G. W. Benjamin with illustrations by Harry Fenn and I.R. Wiles
  • The Minister’s Charge — Part 2 — by William Dean Howells
  • Premonition by Charles Warren Stoddard
  • A Borrowed Month — Conclusion — by Frank R. Stockton
  • The Maid of Thrace by Fanny Foster Clark
  • The Strength and Weakness of Socialism by Washington Gladden
  • In a Volume oif Aldrich’s Poems by W. Bliss Carmen
  • Castelar, the Orator by William Jackson Armstrong
  • Reminiscences of Castelar by Alvey A. Adee
  • Shiloh Reviewed by Gen. D. C. Buell
  • Memoranda on the Civil War:
    Controversies in Regard to Shiloh:

  • A Staff-Officer’s Account of the Attack and Withdrawal by Col. S. H. Lockett
  • The Plan of Battle and the Withdrawal of the First Day by Lieut-Col. A. R. Chisholm
  • The Fourth Regular Infantry at Gaines’s Mill by Maj. William H. Powell
  • A Correction of “Our March Against the Pope” by Gen. James Longstreet
  • The Topics of the Time:

  • The Outlook for our Cities
  • Cheap Books under International Copyright
  • Open Letters:

  • Christian Union by Howard Crosby
  • Christian Union by A. A. Hodge
  • Timber Famine and a Forest School by S. W. Powell
  • What Shall Be Done With Our Ex-Presidents?, by H. L. Singleton
  • Bric-A-Brac:

  • Hog-Killin’ Time by Duvva Morgan Smith
  • Uncle Esek’s Wisdom by Uncle Esek
  • peerits – A Drawing by E.W. Kemble
  • Banished Love by Virginia B. Harrison
  • The Music-Stool by Margaret Vandegrift
  • A Rhyme for Priscilla by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    1886-01 Century Magazine Contents

    1886/01 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Guiseppe Verdi — Engraved by H. Velton from a photograph by F. Mulinier
  • The City of Teheran — Part 2 of 2 — by S.G.W. Benjamin
  • The Crickets in the Fields by Anthony Morehead
  • The Bostonians — Picking up at Chapter 38 — by Henry James
  • A Rose of Joy by Celia Thaxter
  • Feathered Forms of Other Days by R. W. Shufeldt
  • Love that Lives by George Parsons Lathrop
  • Typical Dogs – Pointers by John S. Wise and John W. Munson
  • A French Painter and His Pupils by Carolus Duran
  • John Bodewin’s Testimony — Part 3 — by Mary Hallock Foote
  • A Second Thought by Florence Wilkinson
  • The Cloverfields Carriage by Frank R. Stockton
  • The Song He Never Wrote by Helen Jackson
  • The Lesson of Greek Art by Charles Waldstein
  • Canada by Charles G. D. Roberts
  • Some European Republicans by William J. Linton
  • Verdi the Composer by Frederick A. Schwab
  • Trouble on Lost Mountain by Joel Chandler Harris
  • Spiritual Preaching for our Times by Edward Hungerford
  • The Second Battle of Bull Run by Gen. John Pope
  • Recollections of a Private — Two Days of the Second Battle of Bull Run by Warren Lee Goss
  • Topics of the Time:

  • A Broad View of Art
  • The New Political Economy
  • Open Letters:

  • Some Recent Experiments in Hybridization by Charles Barnard
  • A National Conservatory of Music, by G.
  • A Brave Candidate by C. E. W. Dobbs
  • Southern Women as Teachers of Colored Children by E. M. G.
  • Mrs. Helen Jackson’s “King Redwald’s Altars”
  • Bric-a-Brac:

  • “We Have Seen better Days” — Drawing
  • Uncle Esek’s Wisdom by Uncle Esek
  • A Protest by Arthur Lovell
  • In Advance by Bessie Chandler
  • Beneath the Mistletoe by Jennie E. T. Dowe
  • The Uhlan’s Return by C. E. S.
  • Two Negatives by F. E. Wright
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    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
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine, Henry James, Mark Twain

    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
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine, Henry James, Ulysses S Grant

    1885-09 Century Magazine Contents

    1885/09 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Ulysses S. Grant — Engraved by T. Johnson after the photograph from Matthew Brady
  • Panforte di Siena — Second Paper — by William Dean Howells
  • The Silent South by G. W. Cable
  • The Bostonians — Part 8 — by Henry James
  • Among the Red Roofs of Sussex by Alice Maude Fenn
  • “Whom He Loveth He Chasteneth” by Owen Innsly
  • Crow’s Nest by Mrs. Burton Harrison
  • The Great River of Alaska — Exploring the Upper Yukon — by Frederick Schwatka
  • Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: The Siege of Vicksburg by General Ulysses S. Grant – 15 pages
  • A Woman’s Diary of the Siege of Vicksburg with an introduction by G. W. Cable
  • Connecticut in the Middle Ages by Wendell Phillips Garrison
  • New Wine by Dora Read Goodale
  • The Twilight of the Poets by Edmund C. Stedman
  • Abigail Becker by Amanda T. Jones
  • Memoranda on the Civil War:

  • Comment on: Sawing Out a Channel Above Island No. 10 by Gen. Schuyler Hamilton
  • General Lew Wallace and General McCook at Shiloh by Gen. U. S. Grant
  • Who Projected the Canal at Island No. 10? by Schuyler Hamilton
  • The Charge of Cooke’s Cavalry at Gaines’s Mill by Gen. P. St. George Cooke
  • General Beauregard’s Courier at Bull Run by Campbell Brown
  • Topics of the Time:

  • Huddling in the Town and Living in the Country
  • Some Causes of the Present Depression
  • The Sensitiveness of Cities
  • General Grant’s Papers in the War Series
  • Open Letters:

  • Family Religion by Washington Gladden
  • Political Education by J. B. Peterson
  • On the Printing of “The Century” by Theodore L. De Vinne
  • Recent Inventions by Charles Barnard
  • A Plea for National Aid to Education by C. N. Jenkins
  • Women and Finance by Emily F. Wheeler
  • The Serial Story by Charlotte Porter
  • A New Solution of Indian Question by Eugene V. Smalley
  • The Indian Schools of New Mexico by R. W. D. Bryan
  • Bric-a-Brac:

  • Uncle Esek’s Wisdom by Uncle Esek
  • Aphorisms from the Quarters by J. A. Macon
  • A Study in Finance
  • King Redwald’s Altars by H. H.
  • See-Saw by Jennie E. T. Dowe
  • A Woman’s “No” by Arthur Graham
  • At the Piano by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • Getting round Grandmamma by John Vance Cheney
  • Lesson in Courting by M. A. De L. V. H.
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    1885-04 Century Magazine Contents

    1885/04 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • A Florentine Mosaic — Second Paper by William Dean Howells
  • Love’s Change by Anna R. Aldrich
  • Phases of State Legislation by THEODORE ROOSEVELT
  • Wayside Music by C. H. Crandall
  • From Puget Sound to Upper Columbia by E. V. Smalley
  • The Meditations of Mr. Archie Kittrell by Richard Malcolm Johnston
  • In April by Helen Jackson
  • The Rise of Silas Lapham — Part 6 by William Dean Howells
  • The Colonists at Home by Edward Eggleston
  • The Bostonians — Part 3 by Henry James
  • In Winter by Louise Chandler Moulton
  • In Plain Black and White by Henry W. Grady
  • New Orleans before the Capture by George W. Cable
  • The Opening of the Lower Mississippi by David D. Porter
  • Topics of the Time:

  • Not the American Way
  • The Difference Between a Painting and a Pound of Sugar
  • Practical Politics
  • An Attempt to Save Niagara
  • Open Letters:

  • The Solid South by Edward P. Clark
  • “The School of Dishonesty” by P. H. Felker
  • Bric-A-Brac:

  • Atropos vs. Lachesis by Margaret Vandegrift
  • Changing the Subject by W. H. Hyde
  • Distance by Berry Benson
  • Ethiopiomania by Henry Tyrrell
  • Love’s Seasons by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • A Waif by Alice Trumbull Learned
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    1885-03 Century Magazine Contents

    1885/03 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Daniel Webster — Engraved by T. Johnson from a daguerreotype taken by F. de B. Richards
  • The Land of the False Prophet by R. E. Colston
  • The Rise of Silas Lapham — Part 5 — by William Dean Howells
  • A Vigil by Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • Hodson’s Hide-Out by Maurice Thompson
  • The Bostonians — Part 2 — by Henry James
  • The New Astronomy — Part 4 — by S. P. Langley
  • Reminiscences of Daniel Webster by Stephen M. Allen
  • Some Recollections of Charles O’Conor by John Bigelow
  • Grown Old with Nature by John Vance Cheney
  • The First Fight of the Iron-Clads — March 9, 1862 — by John Taylor Wood
  • In the Monitor Turret — March 9, 1862 — by Commander S. D. Greene
  • Watching the Merrimac by R. E. Colston
  • Recollections of a Private — Part 3 — by Warren Lee Goss
  • Memoranda on the Civil War:

  • General R. S. Ewell at Bull Run by Campbell Brown
  • Names of Western Gun-Boats
  • Erratum
  • The Worship of Shakspere by O. B. Frothingham
  • Topics of the Time:

  • The “Century” War Series
  • An Undesired Guest
  • Freedom of Discussion
  • Open Letters:

  • The Claims of Chicago by George M. Higginson
  • Courbet, the Artist by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • Progress in Forestry by B. G. Northrop
  • “About People” by Kate Gannett Wells
  • The Blue and the Gray by C. N. Jenkins
  • The Bombardment of Alexandria by C. F. Goodrich
  • Making Light of It by John Stone Pardee
  • Bric-a-Brac:

  • Uncle Esek’s Wisdom by Uncle Esek
  • Natural History by W. H. Hyde
  • A Book of Nature by R. K. Munkittrick
  • “Tulips Blooming in the Snow” by R. R.
  • The Tender Heart by Helen Gray Cone
  • An Untutored Mind by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • The Tryst by Walter Learned
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

    1885-02 Century Magazine Contents

    1885/02 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • A Florentine Mosaic — Part 1 by William Dean Howells
  • In the Sierras by Charles Warren Stoddard
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes by Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • Canada as a Winter Resort by W. George Beers
  • Rain in the Night by Willoughby Samuel Duffield
  • The Bostonians — Part 1 by Henry James
  • IMPORTANT: Part 3 of 3 of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” — First Printing Anywhere — Part 3 is “Royalty on the Mississippi” by MARK TWAIN
  • The Knight of the Black Forest — Part 3 of 3 — by Grace Denio Litchfield
  • Dutch Portraiture by W. J. Stillman
  • To a Debutante by Henry Tyrrell
  • The Rise of Silas Lapham — Part 4 by William Dean Howells
  • Longfellow in Westminster Abbey by Edgar Fawcett
  • The Battle of Shiloh by ULYSSES S. GRANT
  • Albert Sidney Johnston and the Shiloh Campaign — By His Son William Preston Johnston
  • Notes of a Confederate Staff Officer by Thomas Jordan
  • Memoranda on the Civil War:

  • The Offer of Union Command to General A. S. Johnston by Fitz John Porter
  • Gen. Robert Patterson and the Battle of Bull Run by Robert E. Patterson
  • Uniform of the Highlanders at Bull Run by William Todd
  • Topics of the Time

  • Some Practicable Reforms
  • Three Comments on the Stage
  • Overmuch Wisdom
  • “Let Us Have Peace”
  • Bric-A-Brac

  • Uncle Esek’s Wisdom by Uncle Esek
  • The Point of View by E. W. Kemble
  • Aphorisms from the Quarters by J. A. Macon
  • Plantation Memories by Joel Chandler Harris
  • Two Valentines by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • Filed Under: Century Magazine Tagged With: Century Magazine

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