This is the August, 1892 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 158 pages, with many interesting stories about Art, Literature, History, and Science.  The following is a partial listing of the contents.

ARTICLES:

AN ASCENT OF FUJI THE PEERLESS – by Mabel Loomis Todd and David P. Todd – illustrated

SEA LONGINGS – A poem by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

LA CHASSE GALERIE – by Honore Beaugrand - illustrated by Henri Julien (See picture "The Dance at Batissette Auge's")

A SERVIAN SONG – A poem by R. H. Stoddard

A SEA CHANGE – A poem by Edmund Clarence Stedman – illustrated

THE COLONEL’S LAST CAMPAIGN – by Ervin Wardman – illustrated by C.D. Gibson

LET THE DREAM GO – A poem by Anne Reeve Aldrich

IN GLOUCESTER HARBOR – by R. Cleveland Coxe – with illustrations by the author

SONGS – “BECAUSE THE ROSE MUST FADE” and “FADES THE ROSE” – by R. W. Gilder

THE CHOSEN VALLEY – by Mary Hallock Foote – with illustrations by the author

SONNET – A poem by Celia Thaxter

MY SHELL – A poem by Theodore C. Williams

THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELATIVE EXISTENCES – by Frank R. Stockton

TEARS – A poem by John Vance Cheney

BEACHED – A poem by Virginia Frazer Boyle – illustrated

ARCHITECTURE AT THE WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION – by Henry Van Brunt – illustrated

THE CHATELAINE OF LA TRINITE – by Henry B. Fuller – illustrated

GLIMPSES OF WILD LIFE – by John Burroughs

THE GREAT PLAINS OF CANADA – by C. A. Kenaston - with illustrations by Frederic Remington (See picture “A Blackfoot Indian”)

ITALIAN OLD MASTERS – PAUL VERONESE – by W. J. Stillman – illustrated (See picture “Venice Enthroned”)

STORM – A poem by Frank Dempster Sherman

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS – THE GREAT VOYAGE – by Emilio Castelar – illustrated (See picture “The Embarkation of Columbus At Palos” by A. Gisbert)

WHEN ANGRY, COUNT A HUNDRED – by E. Cavazza – illustrated

THE APOTHEOSIS OF GOLF – by W. E. Norris (See map “Plan of a Golfing Course St. Andrews, Scotland”)

THE NATURE AND ELEMENTS OF POETRY – by Edmund Clarence Stedman

SHELLEY’S WORK – by George E. Woodberry

TOPICS OF THE TIME

            POPULAR CRAZES

            TRADE SCHOOLS

OPEN LETTERS

            CAMPING OUT FOR THE POOR – Philip G. Hubert, Jr.

            A SEARCH FOR SHELLEY’S AMERICAN ANCESTOR – Charles F. Deems

            THE STEERING OF YACHTS – Lewis Herreshoff

            THE BATTLE OF THE “WYOMING” IN JAPAN – Walter Pearce

IN LIGHTERVEIN

            ALONG IN JUNE – A poem by Doane Robinson, illustrated by E. W. Kemble

            LOVE SONG – A poem by Charles Henry Phelps

            THE OLD COVERED BRIDGE – A poem by Richard Lew Dawson

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