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1893-05 Century Magazine Contents Page for May 1893

1893/05 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: The World’s Fair – Looking North from the Lion Fountain
  • At the Fair by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer (1893 Columbian Exposition) – 11 pages loaded with illustrations
  • Decorative Painting at the World’s Fair by W. Lewis Fraser
  • “The White City” by Richard Watson Gilder
  • Sweet Bells out of Tune — Conclusion by Mrs. Burton Harrison with illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson
  • The Knight of Pentecost by Harriet Prescott Spofford
  • Recollections of Lord Tennyson by John Addington Symonds
  • To Alfred Tennyson by Aubrey De Vere
  • An Embassy to Provence — Conclusion by Thomas A. Janvier
  • Benefits Forgot — Part 6 by Wolcott Balestier
  • A Lie by Ellen M. H. Gates
  • Personal Impressions of Nicaragua by Gilbert Gaul
  • The Chevalier de Resseguier by Thomas Bailey Aldrich with picture by Howard Pyle
  • The Lake of the Dead by Henry Morton
  • Joseph Bonaparte in Bordentown by F. Marion Crawford
  • Leaves from the Autobiography of Salvini by Tomasso Salvini
  • “Some Verses Carol” by Henry Jerome Stockard
  • The Reign of Queen Anne. The Queen and the Duchess by M. O. W. Oliphant
  • John Muir by John Swett with portrait – 4 pages
  • Mr. Gadsbury’s Brother by M. Frances Swann Williams
  • Relics of Artemus Ward by Don C. Seitz
  • An Inside View of the Pension Bureau by A. B. Casselman
  • “With the Tread of Marching Columns” by S. R. Elliot
  • Writing to Rosina — Part 1 of 2 by William Henry Bishop

  • Topics of the Time:

  • Two Values of the Silver Dollar
  • Lincoln on the Spoils System
  • Corrupt Practices Laws: Why They Fail
  • American Boys and American Labor

    • Open Letters:

  • What the Phonograph will do for Music by Philip G. Hubert, Jr.
  • Indians who Deserve Pensions by Theodore Roosevelt – Long letter in small text spreads over 2 pages, total about 1 full page of text
  • A Hint in Municipal Reform by Joseph Hatton
  • An American Theater in London
  • “Better United States Senators” by H. Turner Newcomb
  • A Friend of Kindergarten by A. H. P.
  • The Kindergarten in Canada by James L. Hughes
  • California’s Presidential Elections by J. F. Thompson
  • A Psychological Suggestion by H. C. Wood

    • In Lighter Vein:

  • Michael Will Not Be In It by Charles Battell Loomis
  • Reflections on Adversity by Ethelwyn Wetherald
  • The Prig by Edgar Fawcett
  • The Decline of Profanity by Edward Cary
  • The Contributor’s Dream by H. S. Huntington
  • Saints and Sinners by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • Mrs. Fulsom’s Journey by Alice Turner
  • Over the Sea Lies Spain by Charles Washington Coleman

    • 1891-11 Century Magazine Contents November 1891

    1891/11 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Italian Old Masters – Michelangelo Buonarotti by W. J. Stillman
  • Izaak Walton From a Painting by George H. Boughton
  • Southern Womanhood as Affected by the War by Wilbur Fisk Tillett
  • A Great German Artist — Adolf Menzel by Carl Marr
  • Notes by Other American Artists by W. J. Baer and R. Blum
  • The Players by Brander Matthews
  • India by Florence Earle Coates
  • The Naulahka, a Story of East and West — Part 1 by Rudyard Kipling and Wolcott Balestier
  • Sursum Corda by Edith M. Thomas
  • What Are Americans Doing in Art? by Francis D. Millet
  • The Hunger-Strike by Elizabeth W. Fiske
  • How Old Folks Won the Oaks by J. J. Eakins
  • Bronte by Harriet Prescott Spofford
  • The Autobiography of a Justice of the Peace by Edgar Wilson Nye
  • Mazzini’s Letters to an English Family by Joseph Mazzini
  • In the Pauses of Her Song by Orelia Key Bell
  • A Rival of the Yosemite — King’s River Canon by John Muir
  • A Theft Condoned by Gertrude Smith
  • A Song for All Seasons by James Herbert Morse
  • The Food-Supply of the Future by W. O. Atwater
  • Folksong by Sylvester Baxter
  • James Russell Lowell by George E. Woodberry
  • The Sonnet by Edith Wharton
  • Lowell’s Americanism by Joel Benton with a letter from James Russell Lowell
  • The Major’s Appointment by Julia Schayer
  • The Choice by Owen Innsly
  • Music by A. Lampman
  • San Francisco Vigilance Committees by William T. Coleman

    • Topics of the Time:

  • Editorials on Finance. Michigan’s “Wild-Cat” Banks
  • Lowell’s Legacy to his Country
  • Corrupt Practices Legislation in 1891
  • An American Achievement in Art

    • Open Letters:

  • California’s Interest in Yosemite Reform by George G. Mackenzie
  • The Paris Opera by A. Vianesi
  • The Century Series of Pictures by an American Artist. Izaak Walton by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • George H Boughton by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • A Roman Catholic’s View of “Sister Dolorosa” by L. H.

    • In Lighter Vein:

  • Kitty, my Colleen by Patrick J. Coleman
  • The Prophets by C. P. Stetson
  • Brer Fox by Edward A. OIdham
  • Grace After Meat by Margaret Vandegrift
  • Ho for the Desert! by George E. de Steigner
  • My Old Skippers by Charles Henry Webb
  • The New Street-Sweeper by George Towner