This is the May, 1895 issue of THE CENTURY ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY MAGAZINE.  This issue was once bound, as was common for library copies.  The pages are clean and very readable. This issue contains 158 pages, with many interesting stories about literature, art, and history.  The following is a partial listing of the contents:

ARTICLES:

THE PRINCESS SONIA. - by Julia Magruder, with illustrations by C. D Gibson. (See picture)

THE CLOSE OF LINCOLN’S CAREER. - by Noah Brooks.

UNANSWERED. - by Charles Buxton Going.

RUBINSTEIN: THE MAN AND THE MUSICIAN. - by Alexander McArthur. (See portrait drawn by Eric Pape)

LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. - by William M. Sloane.(See portrait from the painting by Jean-Baptiste-Paulin Guerin)

LUCINDA. - by Langdon Elwyn Mitchel. (See picture by Louis Loeb)

A NORSE CHILD’S REQUIEM. - by Bliss Carman.

THE CONQUEST OF ARID AMERICA. - by William E. Smythe.

THE HEART OF DR. LIVINGSTONE. - by the editor.

THE LAND OF LOST HOPES. - by Edith M. Thomas.

CASA BRACCIO. - by F. Marion Crawford (See picture drawn by A. Castaigne)

BEYOND THE ADRIATIC. - THE OUTPOST OF THE ORIENT. - by Harriet W. Preston.

AN ERRANT WOOING. - by Mrs. Burton Harrison.

THE SHADOWY RIVALS. - by Richard Malcolm Johnston.

REGRET. - Y Kate Chopin.

A CHAPTER OF MUNICIPAL FOLLY.- THE SQUANDERING OF NEW YORK’S PUBLIC FRANCHISES. - by A. C. Bernheim.

TOPICS OF THE TIME.

OPEN LETTERS.

IN LIGHTER VEIN.

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