This is the July, 1891 issue of THE CENTURY ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY MAGAZINE.  This issue has the original front cover.  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 160 pages of text and illustrations in addition to many pages of advertising, with many interesting stories about Art, Literature, History, and Science.  The following is a partial listing of the contents.

ARTICLES:

A DAY AT LAGUERRE’S:  by F. Hopkinson Smith.  Illustrated by the author.

PROVENCAL BULL FIGHTS:  by Joseph Pennell.  Illustrated by the author.

RESTRAINT:  A poem by Margaret Crosby

MR. CUTTING THE NIGHT EDITOR:  by Ervin Wardman

ITALIAN OLD MASTERS – FRA BARTOLOMMEO DELLA PORTA (1475 – 1517)

MARIOTTO ALBERTINELLI (1474 – 1515)

Illustrations include:  Mary Magdalene, Detail from the painting by Bartolommeo (See picture); engraved by T. Cole.  The Visitation, by Albertinelli, engraved by T.Cole.

CHATTERTON IN HOLBORN:  A poem by Ernest Rhys.

GENERAL MILES INDIAN CAMPAIGNS:  by Major G.W. Baird, illustrated by Frederick Remington. (See picture "A Reconnaissance"; and "On The March - The Advance Guard")

JULY:  A poem by Henry Tyrrell.

GREELY’S ESTIMATE OF LINCOLN – AN UNPUBLISHED ADDRESS BY HORACE GREELEY, with a portrait of Horace Greeley (See portrait) from a photograph by Sarony.

THE SQUIRREL INN:  by Frank R. Stockton

LOVE LETTERS:  A poem by C.P. Cranch

THE FAITH DOCTOR:  by Edward Eggleston

ACROSS THE PLAINS IN THE DONNER PARTY (1846) – A PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF THE OVERLAND TRIP TO CALIFORNIA:  by Virginia Reed Murphy, with illustrations by W. Taber, Frederick Remington, H. Fenn, Gilbert Gaul, A.P. Hill and Charles Nahl.

AT THE HARBOR’S MOUTH: BY Walter Learned

THE FORCE OF EXAMPLE:  by Viola Roseboro

FOR HELEN:  A poem by Grace H. Duffield

A LUNAR LANDSCAPE – CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE LICK OBERVATORY:  by Edward S. Holden - illustrated

THE DRUMMER:  A poem by Henry Ames Blood, illustrated by Gilbert Gaul (See picture)

TAO:  THE WAY – AN ARTIST’S LETTERS FROM JAPAN: by John La Farge

PARIS – THE TYPICAL MODERN CITY:  by Albert Shaw

CALIFORNIA – ARRIVAL OF THE OVERLAND TRAIN IN 1849:  by A.C. Ferris

TOPICS OF THE TIME

            A NATION FOR A MORTGAGE

            THE NEW YORK OF THE FUTURE

            “JOURNALISTS AND NEWSMONGERS” AGAIN

OPEN LETTERS

            CONSCIENCE IN JOURALISM – Eugene M. Camp

THE DISPUTED BOUNDARY BETWEEN ALASKA AND BRITISH COLUMBIA – Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore

SIMILAR MUSICAL PHRASES IN GEAT COMPOSERS – Richard Hoffman

BRIC-A BRAC

            A BALLAD OF PAPER FANS – A poem by Annie Steger Winston

            SPANISH SONGS – Jennie E.T. Dowe

            TERRY McHAYD’N WOOING – Daniel Spillane

            CUPID REARMED – John Jerome Rooney

            “NOT SUITED TO THE PURPOSE” – Margaret Vandegrift

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