This is the August, 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 159 pages, with many interesting stories about Art, Literature, History, and Science. The following is a partial listing of the contents.
ARTICLES:
WASHINGTON AS A SPECTACLE - By F. Marion Crawford – Illustrated by A Castaigne (See picture “Under The Dome”)
A CUMBERLAND VENDETTA - By John Fox, Jr. – illustrated by Louis Loeb
P’TIT MATINIC’ MONOTONES - By George Wharton Edwards
DRUSIL’S FAIRF
THE NEW JUSTICE
THE HEAD OF OL’ GULL
THE WOOING OF HISE
OLD ‘BIAS’S VISION - By Virginia Frazer Boyle – illustrated by E.W. Kemble
THE CLOSING CENTURY - A poem by Henry Jerome Stockard
ACROSS ASIA ON A BICYCLE - THE JOURNEY FROM SAMARKAND TO KULDJA - By Thomas Gaskell Allen, Jr. and William Lewis Sachtleben - illustrated
WALKING AS A PASTIME - By Eugene Lamb Richards - illustrated
DOCTOR AND PRIEST - A poem by Dora Read Goodale
MAVERICK - By Mary Hallock Foote
“HOME AG’IN.” - A poem by James Witcomb Riley
THE COLEMAN COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE GLASS - By Russell Sturgis - illustrated
LOVE IN MASQUERADE – A poem by Edgar Fawcett
A BACHELOR MAID - By Constance Cary Harrison illustrations by Irving R. Wiles
POE IN THE SOUTH - SELECTIONS FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE OF EDGAR ALLAN POE – Edited by George E. Woodberry – illustrated (See portrait “Edgar Allen Poe”)
Dr. MORTON’S DISCOVERY OF ANESTHESIA - By E. L. Snell - illustrated
OLD DUTCH MASTERS - QUINTEN MASSYS - By T. Cole – illustrated (See picture “Portrait of Massy’s Second Wife, In The Uffizi”)
LOVE IN IDLENESS - A FORTNIGHT AT BAR HARBOR - By F. Marion Crawford
THE DAY’S SHROUD - A poem by Frank Dempster Sherman
THE RIGHT AND EXPEDIENCY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE - By George F. Hoar
THE WRONGS AND PERILS OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE - J. M. Buckley
POSTSCRIPT BY SENATOR HOAR - George F. Hoar
POSTSCRIPT BY DR. BUCKLEY - J M. Buckley
CONVERSATION IN FRANCE - By Th. Bentzon
TOPICS OF THE TIME
INTELLIGENT CITIZENSHIP
LEGAL TENDER MONEY IN HISTORY
OPEN LETTERS
THE SENATE AND THE CONSTITUTION - Cephas Brainerd
IN LIGHTER VEIN
BROTHER ROLLY’S DRAWBACK - By Lucy S. Furman
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