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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

    • 1885-01 Century Magazine Contents

    1885/01 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Edward Everett Hale — Engraved by T. Johnson after after a photograph by G.C. Cox
  • Recent Architecture in America — Part IV: Churches — by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • Edward Everett Hale by William Sloane Kennedy
  • The Knight of the Black Forest — Part 2 — by Grace Denio Litchfield
  • The Making of a Museum by Ernest Ingersoll
  • Mariana by Stuart Sterne
  • The Rise of Silas Lapham — Part 3 — by W. D. Howells
  • Christianity and Popular Amusements by Washington Gladden
  • How Squire Coyote Brought Fire to the Cahrocs by John Vance Cheney
  • To a Face at a Concert by E. R. Sill
  • Orpiment and Gamboge by Ivory Black
  • Unlooked-For Return by Charlotte Fiske Bates
  • The Freedman’s Case in Equity by George W. Cable
  • Recollections of Foote and the Gun-Boats by James B. Eads
  • Longing by William M Briggs
  • Operations of the Western Flotilla by Henry Walke
  • The Kalispel Country by Eugene V. Smalley
  • Retrospect by Mary A. Leonard
  • IMPORTANT: Part 2 of 3 of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” — First Printing Anywhere — Part 2 is “Jim’s Investments and King Sollermun” by MARK TWAIN
  • An Autumn Meditation by Richard Watson Gilder

    • Topics of the Time:

  • The Degradation of Politics
  • The Newspaper and the Organ
  • A Grave Responsibility

    • Open Letters:

  • The Trouble with the Stage by J. Ranken Towse
  • Natural Gas Wells by J. D. Dougherty
  • Political Work for Young Men by John H. Wigmore
  • A Great Historical Enterprise by Noah Brooks
  • Old Questions and New by A Southern Democrat
  • Our Church Club by Julia C. R. Door
  • Another Plan for Women’s Clubs by M. L. N.
  • Cooperative Studies
  • Church Music by Edward Witherspoon
  • The Recent Legal-Tender Decision by Harry H. Neill
  • The Recent Legal-Tender Decision by Isaac L. Rice
  • “Anachronism” by William Dean Howells
  • Death of Tecumseh by Benjamin B. Griswold
  • The Apathy of Women by C. P. W.

    • Bric-a-Brac:

  • Uncle Esek’s Wisdom by Uncle Esek
  • The Fair Physiologist by J. Harper Benson
  • Literal by W. H. Hyde
  • Her Waiting by Emma C. Dowd
  • Here by My Fire by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • A Hen on an Eggs by Cupid Jones
  • Bessie Brown, M. D. by Samuel Minturn Peck

    • 1884-10 Century Magazine Contents

    1884/10 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Austin Dobson — Engraved by T. Johnson after the painting by Frederick Watts
  • Lights and Shadows of Army Life by George F. Williams
  • Dr. Sevier — Part 12 of 12 — by George W. Cable
  • A Child’s Grave by W. P. Foster
  • Rosa Bonheur by Henry Bacon
  • Growing Old by Mary Lowe Dickinson
  • The Coeur D’Alene Stampede by Eugene V. Smalley
  • Social Conditions in the Colonies by Edward Eggleston
  • Braxton’s New Art by William Henry Bishop
  • “The Odyssey” and its Epoch by W. J. Stillman
  • A Problematic Character — Part 3 — by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
  • Christianity and Wealth by Washington Gladden
  • Austin Dobson by Brander Matthews
  • To the Modern Cynic by Harold E. Boulton
  • The Flight of the Red Horse by H. E. Warner
  • The New Astronomy — Part 2 — by S. P. Langley
  • The Heart of the City by William H. Hayne
  • The Price I Paid for a Set of Ruskin by Grace Denio Litchfield
  • In Fancy’s Field by John Vance Cheney

    • Topics of the Time:

  • Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
  • Tips and Their Takers
  • The Danger of Delaying Reforms

    • Open Letters:

  • Lake Moeris and the Greeks by James Herbert Morse
  • The Ku Klux Klan — Comments by R. C. Mackall and an Ex-Member of the Union League (a little over 1 full-page of text)
  • Congregational Singing by Eugene Thayer
  • Is Arctic Exploration Worth its Cost? by J. E. Nourse
  • The Bombardment of Alexandria — Rejoinder by Stone Pasha — by Charles P. Stone
  • The Bombardment of Alexandria — Comment by the Commander of the Galena — by O. A. Batcheller
  • The Original Ned Myers by Benjamin B. Griswold
  • “Dr. Sevier”: A Protest by Malcolm McKay

    • Bric-a-Brac:

  • Uncle Esek’s Wisdom by Uncle Esek
  • Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder by John A. Fraser, Jr.
  • To a Singer by Ben Wood Davis
  • Translations from the Spanish of A. Bequer by Mary Ainge De Vere
  • An Old Vote for Young Master by Eva M. De Jarnette
  • The Silenced Choir by D. D.
  • Faynte Hearte by F. Marshall White
  • An Avowal by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • A Theosophic Marriage by Henry J. Dam
  • For Her Mirror by Alice Trumbull Learned

    • 1884-09 Century Magazine Contents

    1884/09 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Pancha — Drawn by Mary Hallock Foote and engraved by T. Johnson
  • From Coventry to Chester on Wheels
  • In Servitude by E. J. McPhelim
  • Pancha: A Story of Monterey by Thomas A. Janvier
  • Legends of the Passamaquoddy by Charles G. Leland
  • The Black Dawn by John Vance Cheney
  • The Brief Embarrassment of Mr. Iverson Blount by R. M. Johnston
  • Drifting Among the Thousand Islands by Agnes Maude Machar
  • On the Track of Ulysses — Part 2 — by W. J. Stillman
  • Dr. Sevier — Part 11 — by George W. Cable
  • The New Astronomy by S. P. Langley
  • Emile Littre by Y. D.
  • A New England Winter — Part 2 of 2 — by Henry James
  • Reply by Susan Coolidge
  • A Problematic Character — Part 2 — by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
  • Periwinkle by Julia C. R. Dorr
  • The Foreign Elements in Our Population by Joseph Edgar Chamberlin
  • A Tropical Hurricane by Horace D. Warner
  • The Late Dr. Dorner and the “New Theology” by Newman Smyth
  • The First Step by Andrew B. Saxton

    • Topics of the Time:

  • The Political Education of the People
  • Sheep and Goats
  • Art and Congressmen
  • “The New Astronomy”

    • Open Letters:

  • The Clergy and Political Reform by William J. R. Taylor
  • The Rescue of Chinese Gordon by R. E. Colston
  • The Appeal of the Harvard Annex by Catherine Baldwin
  • More Words with Countrywomen by Julia C. R. Dorr
  • “A Burns Pilgrimage” by Albert S. Gallup
  • “The Christian League” by Mary H. Villars
  • Workingmen’s Clubs and Coffee-houses by Charles Barnard
  • Educational Value of Summer Resorts by Henry James Ten Eyck

    • Bric-a-Brac:

  • #So Wags the World by Raja
    A Kiss in the Rain by Samuel Minturn Peck
  • Private Theatricals by Margaret Veley
  • Virtue its Own Reward by Stanley Wood
  • Marry Me, Darlint, To-night by W. W. Fink
  • Madrigal by Alice K. Sawyer
  • Equivocation by C. Sooysmith
  • The Reason by Robertson Trowbridge
  • Not Long Ago by Sydney Herbet Pierson
  • Uncle Esek’s Wisdom by Uncle Esek

    • 1884-03 Century Magazine Contents

    1884/03 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Von Moltke — Engraved by T. Johnson from a photograph by F.C. Schaarwachter
  • The New Washington
  • Henry Irving by J. Ranken Towse
  • The Ideal by Constantina E. Brooks
  • The Next Presidency by Wayne MacVeagh
  • Old Public Buildings in America by Richard Grant White — Includes illustrations of St. Paul’s Church in New York – St. John’s in New York – Old State House in Boston – The Boston State House – Church at Wilmington, Delaware – Eglise de Notre Dame de Bonsecours in Montreal – Old South Church in Boston – Christ Church in Boston – King’s Chapel in Boston
  • Song by Mary L. Ritter
  • Count Von Moltke by Helen Zimmern
  • The Voyager by L. Frank Tooker
  • The Suppression of Pauperism by D. McG Means
  • Byron at the Cell of Tasso by Mary Stacy Withington
  • An Average Man — Part 4 — by Robert Grant
  • The Cruise of Alice May — Part 2 — by S. G. W. Benjamin
  • In Primeval Wood by John Vance Cheney
  • How Love Looked for Hell by Sidney Lanier
  • Notes on the Exile of Dante by Sarah Freeman Clarke
  • Visions by James Herbert Morse
  • Dr. Sevier — Part 5 — by George W. Cable
  • Mrs. Finlay’s Elizabethan Chair by Octave Thanet
  • A Hunt for the Nightingale by John Burroughs

    • Topics of the Time:

  • A Chinese Wall for American Art
  • “The Christian League of Connecticut”
  • The Independent Voter in the Next Campaign
  • “The American Copyright League”

    • Open Letters:

  • Organs and Orchestras in Church by Charles S. Robinson
  • National Aid to Education by J. B. Peterson
  • Suggestions Regarding Temperance Work by J. C. Shaffer
  • High License by Mary B. Willard

    • Prohibition in Kansas by S.K. Strother

  • “The Bread-Winners” — A Letter from the Author, by Author of the Bread-Winners
  • The Lorilland-Charnay Collection of Central American Antiquities by Frederick W. True

    • Bric-a-Brac:

  • A Seville Love Song by Hamilton Aide
  • Nocturne by Clarence Clough Buel
  • The Fault-Demon by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
  • Uncle Esek’s Wisdom
  • Aphorisms from the Quarters by J. A. Macon
  • Rosa No Mar! by Herbert H. Smith
  • “Something Humorous” by Margaret Vandegrift
  • The Rhyme of the Hercules Club by Helen Gray Cone
  • To My Love by Frank Dempster Sherman

    • 1884-02 Century Magazine Contents

    1884/02 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Head of a Man by Rembrandt — Engraved by T. Johnson
  • Gustave Courbet, Artist and Communist by Titus Munson Coan
  • Lieutenant-General Sheridan by Adam Badeau
  • A Shadow by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Merinos in America by Rowland E. Robinson
  • Edwin Drood — How it was Illustrated — by Alice Meynell
  • Dr. Sevier — Part 4 — by George W. Cable
  • A First Love-Letter by J. S., of Dale
  • The Cruise of Alice May — Part 1 — by S. G. W. Benjamin
  • The Hermitage by Richard Whiteing
  • A Song of Love by Sidney Lanier
  • The Phoebe-Bird by George Parsons Lathrop
  • Impressions of Shakspeare’s “Lear” by Tommaso Salvini
  • The Butcher’s Row by Edmund W. Gosse
  • Dante — The Poet Illustrated out of the Poem — by Christina G. Rossetti
  • The Portraits of Dante by Sarah Freeman Clarke
  • A Song of Hope by Celia Thaxter
  • The Convict Lease System in the Southern States by George W. Cable
  • Keats by Edmund C. Stedman
  • Snow-Born by Henry R. Howland
  • Love Songs by John Vance Cheney
  • An Average Man — Part 3 — by Robert Grant
  • The Princes of the House of Orleans by George B. McClellan
  • Summer Hours by Helen Gray Cone

    • Topics of the Time:

  • The Uses and Abuses of the Trades Unions
  • Modern Catholicism
  • The Proposed Library Building in Washington
  • On the Reading of Dante

    • Open Letters:

  • The Silver Dollar — Comment by John A. Grier
  • The Silver Dollar by Horace White
  • Artistic Help in Divine Service by Charles S. Robinson
  • Henry Fielding by T. R. Lounsbury
  • Petrography and the Microscope by William Sloane Kennedy
  • Trades Unions by J. H. Loomis

    • Bric-a-Brac:

  • The Indicator of the Gold and Stock Telegraph Company by David L. Proudfit
  • Valentine to an Anonymous Miss by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • Valentine to a Man of Worth by Edward A. Church
  • Aphorisms from the Quarters by J. A. Macon
  • Dat Fretful Tilda Strong by Rev. Plato Johnson
  • The Sequel by Margaret Vandegrift
  • A Sonnet by Browning by Robert Browning
  • Leisure Lines by Austin Dobson
  • The Wooing O’t by William Howard Carpenter

    • 1884-01 Century Magazine Contents

    1884/01 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of General Sherman — Engraved by T. Johnson after a photograph by George M. Bell
  • Edinboro Old Town by Andrew Land
  • The Bread-Winners — Part 6 of 6
  • Aurora by Henry Tyrrell
  • Log of an Ocean Studio by Clarence Clough Buel
  • Early Morn by Caroline May
  • Toru Dutt
  • An Average Man — Part 2 — by Robert Grant
  • More Life by Henry Gillman
  • “The Forty Immortals” by Y. D.
  • Garfield in London — Extracts from the Journal of a Trip to Europe in 1867 — by James A. Garfield
  • In Wordsworth’s Country by John Burroughs
  • Dum Vivamus, Vivimus by E. D. R. Bianciardi
  • Dr. Sevier — Part 3 — by George W. Cable
  • Husbandry in Colony Times by Edward Eggleston
  • Some Old Considerations by James Herbert Morse
  • General Sherman by E. V. Smalley
  • Her Choice by Eliza Calvert Hall
  • “His Wife’s Deceased Sister” by Frank R. Stockton

    • Topics of the Time:

  • The Difficulty of Political Reform
  • “Minister and Citizen”
  • Religious Snobbery

    • Open Letters:

  • “New York as a Field for Fiction” by William Henry Bishop
  • Our Jury System by Eugene Lewis
  • Some New Inventions by Charles Barnard
  • Free Trade with China by J. Fred Harley
  • Joseph Jefferson as “Charles Plummer” by J. Ranken Towse
  • Jefferson Davis and General Holt by Loyalist
  • The Influence of Christ by George P. Fisher

    • Bric-a-Brac:

  • An Evening with Burns by Agnes Maule Machar
  • The Summer Girl by W. H. A.
  • Aphorisms from the Quarters by J. A. Macon
  • I Wonder what Maud Will Say! by Samuel Minturn Peck
  • Good-Bye by Grace Denio Litchfield
  • Strephon and Sardon by Richard Watson Gilder
  • The Way of It by John Vance Cheney