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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