This is the July 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 159 pages, with many interesting stories about Art, Literature, History, and Science.  The following is a partial listing of the contents.

ARTICLES:

ST. PETER’S (CHURCH IN ROME) - By Marion Crawford – illustrated by A. Castaigne

BECALMED - A poem by L. Frank Tooker

OLD LADY LAZENBERRY - By Richard Malcolm Johnson

NIGHT IN THE REDWOODS – A poem by Clarence Urmy

AN OPEN-EYED CONSPIRACY - AN IDYL OF SARATOGA - By W. D. Howells – illustrated by Irving R. Wiles

GLIMPSES OF VENEZUELA AND GUIANA - By W. Nephew King - illustrated

ROSEMARY - A poem by Edmund Gosse

THE POT OF FRIGHTFUL DOOM - By Chester Bailey Fernald

LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE – THE WESTERN EMPEROR ON THE DEFENSIVE - By William M. Sloane - illustrated

MINE ENEMY - A poem by Clinton Scollard

AN ARCTIC STUDIO - By Frank Wilbert Stokes – illustrated by the author (See picture “Eskimos at Inglefield Gulf Making Stoneware”)

CAPTIVE - A poem by Harriet Prescott Spofford

A FAMILY RECORD OF NEY’S EXECUTION - By George Clinton Genet - illustrated

SIR GEORGE TRESSADY - By Mrs. Humphry Ward

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

“I JOURNEYED SOUTH TO MEET THE SPRING”- A poem by Robert Underwood Johnson

A COMEDY OF WAR - By Frank Pope Humphrey

RECOLLECTIONS AND ANECDOTES OF BULOW - By Bernard Boekelman – illustrated (See portrait “Hans Von Bulow” by Joseph Aibl)

THE VALLEY CHILDISH THINGS, AND OTHER EMBLEMS - By Edith Wharton

TOPICS OF THE TIME:

            THE FOLLY OF BIMETALLISM

            PRESEDENT CLEVELAND’S EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

            FEARS FOR DEMOCRACY

            THE ATTEMPT TO REVIVE INTELLECTUAL PIRACY

OPEN LETTERS:

            AMERICAN MUSICAL AUTHORITIES AGAINST THE TRELOAR BILL

                        Harvard University Professor John K. Paine

                        Columbia University Professor E. A. McDowell

            THE FAILURE OF THE HAMPTON CONFERENCE – Unpublished letters by Jefferson Davis and R. M. T. Hunter

IN LIGHTER VEIN:

            A COQUETTE CONQUERED - A poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar

            OUTLINES - By Berry Benson

            APHORISMS - By Junius Henry Browne

            WHEN FLOSSIE DUSTS HER ROOM –A poem by Charles de Kay

            A TRIFLE PESSIMISTIC - By Lois Neal

            MOTHER GOOSE – Inscription in Granary Burying Ground, Boston By Ednah Proctor Clarke

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