This is the February, 1882 issue of THE CENTURY ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY MAGAZINE.  This issue was once bound, as was common for library copies.  This publication competed with Harper’s Monthly Magazine, and Frank Leslie Popular Monthly in the late 1800’s.  The pages are clean and very readable.  This issue contains 159 pages, with many interesting stories about Art, Literature, History, and Science.  The following is a partial listing of the contents.

ARTICLES:

THE TILE CLUB ASHORE - By W. Mackay Laffan - illustrated

BROTHER STOLZ'S BEAT - by H. H. – illustrated (See picture “Brother Stolz’s Beat”)

TO A DEAD WOMAN - A poem by H.C. Bunner

ESMERALDA - A play by Francis Hodgson Burnett and W.H. Gillette

HERMES TRISMEGISTUS - A poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

THE SUPERLATIVE - By Ralph Waldo Emerson

DANIEL WEBSTER - By W.C. Wilkinson

LOVERS IN THE TROPICS, WEST INDIAN IDYL - A poem by Edmund Clarence Stedman

THE PHIDIAN AGE OF SCULPTURE - By Lucy M. Mitchell – illustrated (See picture Statuette of Athene Parthenos, Athens”)

FREDERICK W. ROBERTSON - By Arthur Penrhyn Stanley – illustrated (See portrait)

THE NIGHT-WIND - A poem by Edith M. Thomas

SIGNIFICANT ASPECTS OF THE ATLANTA COTTON EXPOSITION - By Edward Atkinson

IN EXILE - A poem by Maurice Thompson

A MODERN INSTANCE - By W.D. Howells

INVOCATION (FROM THE GAELIC) - A poem by Roger Riordan

THE PROPOSED NATIONAL LIBRARY BUILDING

REGRET - A poem by Andew B. Saxton

THROUGH ONE ADMINISTRATION - By Frances Hodgson Burnett

GEORGE W. CABLE - By George E. Waring, Jr.

EUPHEMIA AMONG THE PELICANS - By Frank R. Stockton

TOPICS OF THE TIME

            PUBLIC ERVICE AND PRIVATE BUSINESS

            THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE SCHOOL-MASTER

            THE SITUATION IN IRELAND

            GEORGE ELIOT AND EMERSON

COMMUNICATIONS

            THE EXHIBITION OF AMERICAN WOOD-ENGRAVING

LITERATURE

            RALPH WALDO EMERSON

            MULFORD'S "THE REPULIC OF GOD"

            CAMPAIGNS OF THE CIVIL WAR

            MISS HUTCHINSON'S "SONGS AND LYRICS"

            De FOREST'S "BLOOODY CHASM"

HOME AND SOCIETY

            LAWN TENNIS - By Benjamin Hardwick

THE WORLD'S WORK

            PROTECTION FOR WORKMEN

            NEW MATERIAL FOR WALL DECORATION

            MECHANICAL REFRIGERATOR

            NOVEL METHOD OF MOLDING PLASTIC MATERIAL

            NEW GAS-MOTOR

            THE HYDROMOTOR

            NOVEL AIR AND WATER PUMP

            ECONOMY OF HEAT

BRIC-A-BRAC

            MASKWELL'S COMPENDIUM, FOR THE MIDDLE-AGED AND THE             DISTINGUISHED

            THE GARLAND OF RACHEL

            A LITERARY SUCCESS

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