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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

    • 1893-09 Century Magazine Contents Page for September 1893

    1893/09 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Daniel Webster
  • Sights at the Fair by Gustav Kobbe
  • Storm-Voices by Archibald Lampman
  • William James Stillman by Wendell P. Garrison
  • Six Bulls to Die by Mrs. Norman Cutter
  • Moonlight Song of Mocking-Bird by William H. Hayne
  • The Taormina Note-Book by George E. Woodberry
  • The Angel with the Flaming Sword — Painting by Edwin H. Blashfield
  • Benefits Forgot — Part 10 by Wolcott Balestier
  • A Glance at Daniel Webster by Mellen Chamberlain
  • A Woman in the African Diggings by Annie Russell
  • A Glimpse of the Sea by William Prescott Foster
  • When Polly Takes the Air by Lizette Woodworth Reese
  • Balcony Stories – Grandmother’s Grandmother by Grace King
  • Balcony Stories – The Old Lady’s Restoration by Grace King
  • In Her First Youth — Painting by by Lydia F. Emmet
  • The White Islander — Conclusion by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
  • The Horizon Line by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • The Census and Immigration by Henry Cabot Lodge
  • The Heavenly Cherubs by John J. Shutterly, Jr.
  • The Author of “Robinson Crusoe” by M. O.W. Oliphant
  • Philips Brooks’s Letters from India
  • The Heir of the McHulishes Part 1 of 2 by Bret Harte
  • The Test by Mary Thacher Higginson
  • The Hiltons’ Holiday by Sarah Orne Jewett
  • In Life’s Tunnel by Grace Denio Litchfield
  • Leaves from the Autobiography of Salvini by Tomasso Salvini

  • Topics of the Time:

  • Idleness and Crime
  • A Word Further as to Gold and Silver

    • Open Letters:

  • The Use and Abuse of Executive Clemency by Charles Robinson
  • Our New National Forest Reserves by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore
  • Christianity Outside of the Churches by William Chauncy Langdon
  • Money and a Day’s Work by Doane Robinson

    • In Lighter Vein:

  • At the Sign of the Skull byTheodore C. Williams
  • Sayings for the Sexes by Junius Henri Browne
  • Poetic License by W. D. Ellwanger
  • The Poverty-Party at Papineau’s Hall by Nathan Haskell Dole
  • The Voice of Dreams by Edith M. Thomas
  • “What Shall We Name the Baby?” by Jennie E. T. Dowe

    • 1938-05-29 Life Magazine Contents Page for May 29, 1938

    1939/05/29 — Cover featuring Eleanor Roosevelt is credited to Mark Kauffman

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • The King and Queen Sit on an American Throne
  • The British Ambassador Holds His First Press Conference
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the Wolrd
  • Peru’s Unbelievable Mother and Baby
  • Bayonets Gleam in Bloody Harlan County
  • Doctors Put Patients in “Frozen Sleep”
  • Rochester Gets Tryout of Federal Stamp Plan for Giving food to Needy
  • Navy Searchlights Play for New York as Sailors Take in Coney Island
  • Mr. Woodward Sees His Johnstown Lose Preakness to Maryland’s Favorite Horse
  • The Shah of Iran Shows Off His Capital at Son’s Wedding

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Franco – A Dictator in Spite of Himself
  • … and His Generals Who Won the Spanish War

    • THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Hyde Park – The President’s Estate

    • THEATER:

  • Amateur Theater – U.S. Drama Flourishes Far From Broadway

    • ART:

  • Old Masters Worth $30,000,000 Go to New York Fair

    • SPORTS:

  • Maryland Schoolboys Crack Skulls and Shins at Lacrosse Game

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • A Stork Family Rears Its Young

    • MOVIE:

  • “The Puritan” – French Murder Film Runs into Censor Trouble

    • WORLD’S FAIR:

  • Soviet Worker Towers Over Fair
  • Expensive WPA Building Causes Ruckus

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures — Cobina Wright is the “Most” Girl
  • People
  • LIFE Goes to a Children’s Dancing Class
  • Pictures to the Editors