This is the April, 1894 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 160 pages, with many interesting stories about Art, Literature, History, and Science.  The following is a partial listing of the contents.

ARTICLES:

MORS BENEFICA - A poem by Edmund Clarence Stedman

FROM THE OLD WORLD TO THE NEW - TOLD IN PICTURES BY ANDRE CASTAIGNE:

            IN THE FIELDS OF OLD EUROPE

            HARD TIMES

            GONE

            ON THE DEEP

            LANDING

            THE LAND OF PROMISE

PUDD’NHEAD WILSON - By Mark Twain – illustration by Louis Loeb

ELLEN TERRY IN “THE MERCHANT OF VENICE” - A poem by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

LINCOLN’S LITERARY EXPERIMENTS, with a lecture and verses hitherto unpublished  - By John G. Nicolay

OLD DUTCH MASTERS - MEYNDERT HOBBEMA - By T. Cole – illustrated (See picture “The Avenue, Middelharnis, Holland”)

MY FIRST AND LAST BALLOON ASCENSION - By Robert V. V. Sewell - illustrated

ANSWERED - A poem by R. H. Stoddard

A COMET-FINDER - By Frank W. Mach – illustrated (See picture “The Brooks Comet of August 28, 1892, Telescopic View)

WILD FLOWERS OF ENGLISH SPEECH IN AMERICA - By Edward Eggleton

THE WRECK – By George Wharton Edwards – illustrated by the author

A SUMMER MONTH IN A WELSH VILLAGE - By Susan Nichols Carter – illustrated by Harry Fenn

THE QUEST OF THE ARBUTUS - A poem by Charles G. D. Roberts

THE SUPPLY AT SAINT AGATHAS’S - By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

THE POET ROSE - A poem by Margaret J. Preston

DRIVEN OUT OF TIBET - AN ATTEMPT TO PASS FROM CHINA THROUGH TIBET INTO INDIA - By W. Woodville Rockhill - illustrated

COEUR D’ALENE - By Mary Hallock Foote – illustrated by the author

MILLET’S LIFE AT BARBIZON - Pierre Millet (Francois Millet’s brother) – illustrated (See picture “The Churner”)

HUNTING AN ABANDONED FARM IN CONNECTICUT - By William Henry Bishop – illustration by Irving Wiles

DAWN AND DEATH - A poem by Stuart Sterne

GODS OF INDIA - By F. Marion Crawford - illustrated

MATTHEW ARNOLD - By Florence Earle Coates with portrait by Sarony

THE RED BOX AT VESEY STREET - A poem by H. C. Bunner

OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND - By George E. Waring, Jr.

TOPICS OF THE TIME

            A LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

            THE LOOK FROM ABOVE DOWNWARD

            VOTING BY MACHINE

OPEN LETTERS

            FORESTRY LEGISLATION IN EUROPE – B.E. Fernow

            GOETHE ON PAPER MONEY – Munroe Smith

            THE HEAD OF SIR WALTER SCOTT – T.T. Munger

            THE UNITY OF THE SECTS – William DeWitt Hyde Pres. Of Bowdoin College

            AMERICAN ARTIST SERIES – W. Lewis Fraser

IN LIGHTERVEIN

THE DEPARTMENT OF ATHLETICS - By Tudor Jenks

            THE LOST FRIEND - A poem by Mary Berri Chapman

            DEVELOPMENT - A poem by Helen Nicolay

            MIRANDA - A poem by Clinton Scollard

            APHORISM - A poem by Dorothea Lummis

            THE WIDDY McGEE - A poem by Jennie E. T. Dowe

            “LOCK IN THY HEART” - A poem by Titus Munson Coan

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