This is the June 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:

JOHN SINGER SARGENT AND HIS PAINTING – WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO HIS DECORATIONS IN THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY - By William A. Coffin – illustrated (See pictures “Ceiling Astarte”, in the Boston Public Library; and “Portrait of Miss Beatrice Goelet”)

SIR GEORGE TRESSADY - By Mrs. Humphry Ward

THE RETURN - A poem by L. Frank Tooker

LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF THE ALHAMBRA - By Elizabeth Robins Pennell – illustrated by Joseph Pennell (See picture “The Court of Lions”)

MR. KEEGAN’S ELOPEMENT - By Winston Churchill – illustrated by B. West Clinedinst

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

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

NOTES ON CITY GOVERNMENT IN ST. LOUIS - By Albert Shaw

JUDITH - A poem by William Young

LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE – THE STRUGGLE FOR MAINTENANCE By William M. Sloane – illustrated (See picture “Napoleon Learning to Waltz” by Lucius Rossi)

SAYINGS AND DOINGS OF THE TODDS - By Viola Roseboro

HUMOR AND PATHOS OF PRESIDENTIAL CONVENTIONS - By Joseph B. Bishop

TOPICS OF THE TIME:

            GOLD THE MONEY OF CIVILIZATION

            THE UNAVAILABILITY OF TRIMMERS

            A DUTY OF ENGLISHMEN TO AMERICA

            A PLEA FOR THE POETS

OPEN LETTERS:

            PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND THE WIDOW OF GENERAL HELM by Emily Todd Helm

            REMINGTON’S “BRONCO BUSTER” by William A Coffin (See picture “The Bronco Buster” by Frederic Remington)

            THE BETHON NAPOLEON by H.F. Mackintosh

IN LIGHTER VEIN:

            A SECRET - A poem by Madeline S. Bridges

            DISCOVERED - A poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar

            THE WAR OF THE ROSES - A poem by Emily Shaw Forman

            THE PASSING OF ABRAHAM SHIVERS - A poem by John Fox. Jr.

            TRACINGS - A poem by E. Scott O’Conner

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