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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

    • 1888-07 Century Magazine Contents July 1888

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

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

    • The Career of the Confederate Ram “Albemarle”

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

    • Topics of the Time:

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

    • Open Letters:

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

    • Bric-A-Brac:

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

    • 1888-08 Century Magazine Contents August 1888

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

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

    • Memoranda on the Civil War

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

    • Topics of the Time:

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

    • Open Letters:

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

    • Bric-A-Brac:

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

    • 1889-09 Century Magazine Contents

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

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

    • Topics of the Time:

  • Ballot Reform Progress
  • Eight Hours a Day

    • Open Letters:

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

    • Bric-A-Brac:

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

    • 1889-10 Century Magazine Contents

    1889/10 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Moliere as Caesar
  • The East Siberian Silver Mines by George Kennan
  • Moliere and Shakspere by C. Coquelin
  • The Martens by C. A. Bartol
  • Base-Ball – For the Spectator by Walter Camp
    7 pages about baseball including an illustration of the field and 10 additional small illustrations of players in various forms of action; talk of early days, first pros, formation of National League, with the bulk of the article an explanation of the game with explantions of rules and some strategy. No players are mentioned by name, though some clubs are.
  • Abraham Lincoln A History – Blair’s Mexican Project – The Hampton Roads Conference – The XIIth Amendment by J. G. Nicolay and John Hay
  • Italian Old Masters – Filippo Lippi by W. J. Stillman
  • Three Jewish Kings by Edward L. Wilson
  • Over their Graves by Henry Jerome Stockard
  • The Pretty Girls of the West — Part 10 of Pictures of the Far West by Mary Hallock Foote
  • On a Great Poet’s Obscurity by Robert Underwood Johnson
  • The Longworth Mystery by Young E. Allison and illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson
  • Compensation by Stuart Sterne
  • Songs of Ireland by Jennie E. T. Dowe
  • Ben and Judas by Maurice Thompson
  • Phryne in Hades by William Young
  • Reminiscences of the Herschels by Maria Mitchell
  • The Old Bascom Place — Part 3 of 3 — Joel Chandler Harris
  • Sunrise by Alice Wellington Rollins
  • Education. The Training of the Teacher by Nicholas Murray Butler
  • Education. Manual Training as a Factor in Modern Education by Francis Newton Thorpe
  • Education. The Democratic Ideal in Education by Felix Adler
  • Illusions by H. S. Sanford, Jr.
  • War Diary of a Union Woman in the South by George W. Cable
  • To a Dog’s Memory by Louise Imogen Guiney

    • Topics of the Time:

  • Disasters
  • History and Current Politics
  • The Late Professor Alexander Johnston
  • Politics, Current, and History
  • Education. A New College for Women
  • A New College for Women

    • Open Letters:

  • A View of the Confederacy from the Inside by Judge John A. Campbell
  • Maria Mitchell by Anna C. Brackett
  • The Single Tax on Land Values by William S. Kahnweiler
  • Country Roads by R. A. Learned
  • The Iowa Experiment by Johnson Brigham
  • A Tenor Farm by G. H. Wilson
  • Irish Estates by George W. Ruxton

    • Bric-A-Brac:

  • By the Sea by E. W. Kemble
  • Reflections by J. A. Macon
  • The Elder Galvanism by Dora Read Goodale
  • When Polly Goes By by M. E. W.
  • The Direct Tale by Margaret Vandegrift
  • Ol’ Pickett’s Nell by Mather Dean Kimball
  • Teddy by William Zachary Gladwin