This is the May 1896 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:

THE PAINTER DIAZ - By Royal Cortissoz  - illustrated (See picture “The Lovers”, by Diaz)

THE CROWING OF A CZAR - JOURNAL OF AN EYEWITNESS OF THE CORONATION OF ALEXANDER III - By Mary Grace Thornton - illustrated

THE LOST CHILDREN OF THE CITY (A SCENE AT THE STATION HOUSE) - A poem by Edith M. Thomas

SIR GEORGE TRESSADY - By Mrs. Humphry Ward

IMPRESSIONS OF SOUTH AFRICA - By James Brice, M. P.

AN ENDED SONG - By Mary Ainge De Vere

LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE - THE PINNACLE OF EARTHLY GRANDEUR - By William M. Sloane – illustrated (See picture “The Battle of Wagram” by Vernet)

THE MORN’S MORN – A poem by Harriet Boyer

MAS’ CRAFFUD’S FREEDOM - By Harry Stillwell Edwards

THE HARSHOW BRIDE - By Mary Hallock Foote – illustrated by the author

A BALLAD OF MARJORIE - A poem by Dora Sigerson

IN BOHEMIA WITH DU MAURIER - By Du Maurier – illustrated by the author

PHOTOGRAPHING THE UNSEEN – A SYMPOSIUM ON THE ROENTGEN RAYS with articles by Thomas Commerford Martin, R. W. Wood, Elihu Thomson, Silvanus P. Thomson, J. C. Mc. Lennan, William James, Morton, Thomas A. Edison – illustrated (See Cathodograph of a persons hand by R. W. Wood)

THE GOOSE FEATHER – An American Indian Song - submitted by Charles A. Collmann

CINDERELLA UP TO DATE - A ROMANCE OF ETNA - By Elizabeth Pullen

A WINTER TWILIGHT IN PROVENCE - A poem by R. W. Gilder

THE ELECTION OF A POPE - By William Roscoe Thayer

NIGHTFALL – A poem by John Vance Cheney

THE ALASKA BOUNDARY QUESTION - By Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore

ARE NERVOUS DISEASES INCREASING? - By Philip Coombs Knapp

AN ACCOUNT - A poem by Arlo Bates

TOPICS OF THE TIME

            THE COUNTRY FOR THE GOLD STANDARD

            THE GROWING IMPUDENCE OF THE BOSSES

            THE MISCHIEF OF THE A.P.A.

            A MODEL FORESTRY COMMISSION

OPEN LETTERS

RECENT AMERICAN SCULPTURE - By John C. Van Dyke (See sculpture “Group for the John Boyle O’Reilly Memorial, Boston” by Daniel Chester French)

IN LIGHTERVEIN

THE PROTEGE - By Annie Steger Winston

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