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1888-09 Century Magazine Contents

1888/09 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Edward Thring – Engraved by T. Johnson
  • Uppingham. An Ancient School Worked on Modern Ideas by George R. Parkin with illustrations by Joseph Pennell and Irving R. Wiles
  • Edward Thring by Bliss Carman
  • Abraham Lincoln: A History. The Mississippi and Shiloh by John G. Nicolay
  • The Industrial Idea in Education by Charles M. Carter
  • The White Cowl by James Lane Allen
  • Star Tears by Eugene Ashton
  • Doves by E. S. Starr
  • Edward Rowland Sill by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
  • The University and the Bible by T. T. Munger
  • Women Who Go To College by Arthur Gilman
  • Bird Music. Yellow-breasted Chat, Bobolink, and Whip-poor-will by Simeon Pease Cheney
  • Exile by Administrative Process by George Kennan
  • Old Age’s Lambent Peaks by Walt Whitman – 8-line poem
  • A Mexican Campaign — Part 2 of 3 — by Thomas A. Janvier
  • Poems by John Vance Cheney
  • College Fraternities by John Addison Porter
  • Hard Times in the Confederacy by A. C. Gordon
  • The Mountaineers About Monteagle by Martha Colyar Roseboro
  • Sidereal Astronomy: Old and New by Edward S. Holden
  • Waves and Mist by William H. Hayne

    • Topics of the Time:

  • Modern Collegiate Education
  • Individuality in Teaching

    • Open Letters:

  • Twenty-Five Years After Gettysburg by General R. E. Colston
  • A Just Employer
  • Is the Siberian Exile System To Be At Once Abolished? by George Kennan
  • The Canal at Island No. 10 by John Banvard
  • General Grant and Matias Romero by M. Romero
  • Art Education by W. J. Stillman
  • College Fraternities by Julius H. Seelye
  • Notes on “We-uns” and “You-uns” by George D. Scypes

    • Bric-A-Brac:

  • His Mother by Helen Gray Cone
  • Uncle Esek’s Wisdom by Uncle Esek
  • A Confession by W. J. Henderson
  • To a Poet in “Bric-A-Brac” by Annie D. Hanks
  • A Vis-a-Vis by Frank Dempster Sherman

    • 1888-10 Century Magazine Contents

    1888/10 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Emma Lazarus
  • An English Deer Park by Richard Jefferies with illustrations by Alfred Parsons and Bryan Hook
  • A Mexican Campaign – Part 3 of 3 — by Thomas A. Janvier
  • Army Hospitals and Cases by Walt Whitman (6 page article)
  • Restlessness by Emma Lazarus
  • Frontier Types by Theodore Roosevelt and illustrated by Frederic Remington (10 illustrations by Remington of various sizes with the largest being a full-page)
  • A Strike by Maud Howe
  • The New Political Generation by Edward P. Clark
  • Christianity the Conservator of American Civilization by Christopher Stuart Patterson
  • The Tomsk Forwarding Prison by George Kennan with illustrations by G.A. Frost and Henry Sandham
  • Apart by Orelia Key Bell
  • Emma Lazarus – 8 pages about Lazarus written recently after her death on Nov. 19, 1887
  • American Machine Cannon and Dynamite Guns by Lieut. William R. Hamilton with illustrations by August Will E.J. Meeker, W.Taber, JF Runge, and C.S. Rowd
  • O Music by Harriet Prescott Spofford
  • An Idyl of “Sinkin’ Mount’in” by H.S. Edwards and illustrated by E.W. Kemble
  • The Lesson of the Leaves by Charles N. Allen
  • Bird Music: Songs of the Western Meadow-Lark by Charles N. Allen
  • A Rainbow Study by Frances L. Mace
  • Abraham Lincoln: PLans of Campaign by John G. Nicolay and John Hay

    • Our National Military System:

  • What the United States Army Should Be by Gen. August V. Kautz
  • Military Education and the Volunter Militia by Col. James M. Rice
  • Comment on Col. Rice’s Paper by George W. Wingate
  • Our National Guard by Maj. Edmund C. Brust
  • Sappho by Henry W. Austin

    • 1888-11 Century Magazine Contents

    1888/11 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Lord Nelson
  • The Guilds of the City of London by Norman Moore
  • Unpublished Letters of Lord Nelson by Mrs. Herbert Jones
  • Mongst the Hills o’ Somerset by James Whitcomb Riley
  • Political Exiles and Common Convicts at Tomsk — by George Kennan
  • The Casket of Opals by George Parsons Lathrop
  • Mistaken Premises by Julia Schayer
  • “Poveri! Poveris!” by Joaquin Miller
  • Timothy Cole and His Work by W. J. Stillman
  • The New Reformation by Lyman Abbott
  • Frederick III by Ina D. Coolbirth
  • The Romance of Dollard –Part 1 — by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
  • The Story of the “Orient” by Helen Gray Cone
  • Bird Music: The Loon by Simeon Pease Cheney
  • Where Was “The Place Called Calvary?” by Charles S. Robinson
  • Pictures of the Far West — Part 1: Looking for Camp
  • Evening among the Foot-Hills by Edith M. Thomas
  • Strange True Stories of Louisiana by George W. Cable
  • Gravelotte Witnessed and Revisited by Murat Halstead
  • A Secret Song by Elizabeth Gostwycke Roberts
  • Mammy’s Li’l’ Boy by Harry Stillwell Edwards
  • A Lake Memory by William Winfred Campbell
  • Abraham Lincoln: A History — Jackson’s Valley Campaign — The Seven Days’ Battles by John G. Nicolay and John Hay
  • “O Ye Sweet Heavens”, by T. W. Parsons

    • Memoranda on the Civil War:

  • Gen. Buell’s Criticism on Gen. Mitchell by F. A. Mitchell
  • Robertson on the Gettysburg Campaign by B. H. Robertson

    • Topics of the Time:

  • The Value of a Presidential Election
  • The Punishment of Crime

    • Open Letters:

  • A Question of Judgment by George Kennan
  • Sarcasm of Religion in Fiction by T. T. Munger
  • How Cuban Dances Become German Student’s Songs by Richard Hoffman
  • “The University and the Bible” by Newton M. Hall

    • Bric-a-Brac:

  • Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us by Elizabeth P. Allan
  • The Smile of Mephistopheles – of the Vicar – of Olivia by A. W. R.
  • O You Fellers in th’City (To J. W. R.) by Richard D. Lang
  • The Army Wagon by C. S. Irwin
  • A Supposition by Margaret Vandegrift
  • Squire Hobbs’s Precepts
  • While the Clock Strikes, at a Card Party by Xenos Clark

    • 1888-12 Century Magazine Contents

    1888/12 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Pictures of the Far West — Part 2: The Coming of Winter — by Mary Hallock Foote
  • Italian Old Masters — Duccio — by W. J. Stillman
  • Life on the Great Siberian Road by George Kennan
  • The Reorganization of the British Empire by George R. Parkin
  • From Sinai to Shechem by Edward L. Wilson
  • The Third of March by Julian Hawthorne
  • “Last Christmas Was a Year Ago” by James Whitcomb Riley
  • London by Henry James
  • To a Critic by James Herbert Morse
  • Beecher at Liverpool in 1863 by J. M. Buckley
  • The Last Manuscript of Henry Ward Beecher
  • Courage! To a Sad Poet by James T. McKay
  • A White Umbrella in Mexico by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • Strange True Stories of Louisiana — Francoise — by George W. Cable
  • Attraction by Elyot Weld
  • The Romance of Dollard — Part 2 — by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
  • Ad Astra by Henry Ames Blood
  • Abraham Lincoln: A History — First Plans for Emancipation — by John G. Nicolay and John Hay
  • “Minc” – A Plot by Harry Stillwell Edwards
  • “Once, When a Child” by Mary Murdoch Mason
  • The Rise and Fall of the “Irish Aigle” by George H. Jessop
  • A Lyric by Richard Henry Stoddard

    • Topics of the Time:

  • Christmas
  • Progress of Ballot Reform
  • Should There Be An “Aristocracy of Criminals”
  • A Confusion in American Party Names

    • Open Letters:

  • Political Corruption by Ernest H. Crosby
  • Another Side of the Woman’s Work Question by L. E. Holman
  • Home Rule and Culture by Margaret F. Sullivan
  • The Holt Method of Teaching Music by Mary L. Lewis
  • Herbert Spencer by M. H.

    • Bric-a-Brac:

  • Noblesse Oblige. A. D. 760 by Louise Imogen Guiney
  • Joy Doubled by Julia Anna Wolcott
  • The Song of Songs by Eva Wilder McGlasson
  • Anti-Climax by Margaret Vandegrift
  • Aphorisms from the Study by Xenos Clark
  • A Baker’z Duzzen Uv Wize Sawz by Edward Rowland Sill

    • 1889-01 Century Magazine Contents

    1889/01 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Italian Old Masters — Giotto — by W. J. Stillman
  • Horses of the Plains by Frederic Remington with illustrations by the author — 11 page article includes 13 illustrations
  • The Winter Lakes by William Wilfred Campbell
  • The Romance of Dollard — Part 3 — by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
  • Strange True Stories of Louisiana: Francoise — by George W. Cable
  • Pagan Ireland by Charles de Kay
  • A Fire Opal by Edith M. Thomas
  • The Life of Administrative Exiles by George Kennan
  • Olin Warner, Sculptor by Henry Eckford
  • An American Apprentice System by Richard T. Auchmuty
  • An Old Sermon by Zoe Dana Underhill
  • A Perverted Franchise by A. C. Gordon
  • Round About Galilee by Edward L. Wilson
  • Abraham Lincoln: A History — The Announcement of Emancipation — by John G. Nicolay and John Hay
  • A Regret by Agnes Maule Machar
  • Pictures of the Far West — Part 3: The Sheriff’s Posse
  • The Poet of the Future by James Whitcomb Riley – Half-page poem
  • An Old Man from the Old Country by George H. Jessop
  • The West Point of the Confederacy by John S. Wise

    • Topics of the Time:

  • Annexation, or Federation?
  • Separate Municipal Elections
  • Are We Just to our Architects?
  • A Crisis in the Copyright Agitation

    • Open Letters:

  • “Lawyer’s Morals” – The Responsibility of Laymen by John D. Works
  • A Letter of Lincoln by William C. Wilkinson
  • The Life of Lincoln — A Letter from Gen. Gustavus W. Smith
  • The Mothers’ Right by F. L.

    • Bric-a-Brac:

  • Her Smile His Sunlight by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • Observations by Ivan Panin
  • The Jester by Maude Annulet Andrews

    • 1889-02 Century Magazine Contents

    1889/02 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Gerome, The Artist by Fanny Field Hering
  • Pictures of the Far West — Part 4: The Orchard Wind-Break — by Mary Hallock Foote
  • Exiles at Irkutsk by George Kennan
  • Strange True Stories of Louisiana: Francoise by George W. Cable
  • Fruition by Kate Putnam Osgood
  • Revival of Hand Spinning and Weaving in Westmoreland by Albert Fleming
  • The Romance of Dollard — Conclusion — by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
  • Italian Old Masters — Simone Memmi — by W. J. Stillman
  • The All-Kind Mother by James Whitcomb Riley – Poem takes up half a page
  • Abraham Lincoln: A History — The Removal of McClellan — Financial Measures — Seward and Chase — by John G. Nicolay and John Hay
  • Slow-Burning Construction by Edward Atkinson
  • Two Negatives by Mary Spear Tiernan
  • Estrangement by Langdon Elwyn Mitchell
  • Fairies and Druids of Ireland by Charles de Kay
  • Under the Redwood Tree by George H. Jessop
  • Peaked Rock — A Legend of Narragansett by Caroline Hazard
  • The Portraits of Mary, Queen of Scots by Laurence Hutton
  • Safeguards of the Suffrage by Washington Gladden

    • Memoranda on the Civil War:

  • A Question of Command at Franklin by Gen. D. S. Stanley — Gen. J. D. Cox — Col. Henry Stone
  • The Canal at Island No. 10 by Capt. M. Randolph — Col. George A. Williams

    • Topics of the Time:

  • The Imperfections of American Law Procedures
  • Lynch Law as an Argument for Law Reform
  • A Centennial Historical Exhibition
  • French Masters and American Art Students

    • Open Letters:

  • American Artists on Gerome by several
  • Machine Guns

    • Bric-a-Brac:

  • Coming from the Fields by Harry Stillwell Edwards
  • A Natural Conclusion, After a Wet Spell by Julie M. Lippman
  • The Devil’s Balloon by C. P. C.
  • Two Valentines by Frank Dempster Sherman

    • 1889-04 Century Magazine Contents

    1889/04 — Washington’s Inauguration — Centennial Number

    Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • The Inauguration of Washington by Clarence Winthrop Bowen — 31 pages
  • Washington at Mount Vernon after the Revolution by Mrs. Burton Harrison — 16 pages
  • Washington in New York in 1789 by Mrs. Burton Harrison — 10 pages
  • Original Portraits of Washington by Charles Henry Hart
  • A Century of Constitutional Interpretation by John Bach McMaster
  • Sixty and Six; or, A Fountain of Youth by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • The Last Assembly Ball by Mary Hallock Foote
  • The Russian Police by George Kennan
  • A Scout with the Buffalo-Soldiers by Frederic Remington and illustrated by the author – 13 pages with 12 illustrations
  • A Born Inventor by Harry Stillwell Edwards
  • Music in Heaven by Christopher P. Cranch
  • Abraham Lincoln: A History — Retaliation — The Enrollment and the Draft — by John G. Nicolay and John Hay
  • A Jest Fate by Viola Roseboro
  • Italian Old Masters — Ambrogio Lorenzetti — by W. J. Stillman
  • Some Aspects of the Samoan Question by George H. Bates

    • Topics of the Time:

  • The First Inauguration
  • Constitutional Amendments
  • The Coast and the Navy
  • Republicanism in France

    • Open Letters:

  • A Trained Military Reserve by several
  • Railway Relief Associations by L. O. Goddard
  • “The University and the Bible” by John B. Daish
  • Imperial Federation by Charles H. Lugrin

    • Bric-a-Brac:

    That Poet of the Future by Charles Henry Webb

  • The Prime of Life by Walter Learned
  • Spring by Louise Morgan Smith
  • Cupid Hath Wings by Kemper Bocock
  • De Jingle ob de Bells on de Cows by Edwards A. Oldham
  • April by William Zachary Gladwin
  • Wampum by Arthur Penn