This is the December, 1893 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:

OLD DUTCH MASTERS - REMBRANDT - By M. G. Van Rensselaer – illustrated (See picture “Portrait Of A Woman”)

A PICTURE BY REMBRANDT, (“The Supper at Emmaus”) - A poem by R. W. G. - illustrated

REMBRANDT AND “THE NIGHT-WATCH” - By T. Cole - illustrated

JAN STEEN - By T. Cole - illustrated

THE POETS - A poem by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

A CHRISTMAS SERMON - By Phillips Brooks

THE CLOSING YEAR - A poem by Marion Couthouy Smith - illustrated

THE LUTE-PLAYER’S HOUSE - A poem by R. H. Stoddard - illustrated

CHATS WITH FAMOUS PAINTERS - By Wallace Wood - illustrated

FLEUR-DE-LIS - By Kate Douglas Wiggin - illustrated

TO A PILGRIM - A poem by Henry van Dyke - illustrated

BAADER - ARTIST’S ADVENTURES SERIES - By F. Hopkinson Smith -illustrated

SIX SKETCHES - By Howard Pyle, with text by Pyle - illustrated

THE CURIOUS VEHICLE - A MIDNIGHT STORY - By Alexander W. Drake

THE FIVE INDISPENSABLE AUTHORS (Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Goethe, Shakespeare) - By James Russell Lowell

THE SINGULAR CLEVERNESS OF TOBY VAN LOO (KITWYK STORIES) - By Anna Eichberg King – illustrated by George Wharton Edwards

WHILE MARY SLEPT – A poem by Alice Archer Sewall – illustrated (See picture of Child Jesus with Mary)

PUDD’NHEAD WILSON - By Mark Twain

MEMORIES AND LETTERS OF EDWIN BOOTH - By William Bispham

BY THE WATERS OF CHESAPEAKE - By John Williamson Palmer – illustrated by Howard Helmick (See picture She Bounced on a Pillion Behind The Liveried Footman)

THE CASTING VOTE - By Charles Egbert Craddock – illustrated by Louis Loeb

THE BABY’S CHRISTMAS - By Joel Chandler Harris

THE GENTLER SIDE OF TWO GREAT SOUTHERNERS - By G. W. Cable

“TEXAS.” - By Nellie Mackubin, with illustration by Zogbaum

CITY SONNETS - Two poems by John H. Boner

            BROADWAY AT NOON

            SOLITUDE

HECTOR BERLIOZ (Biographical Notes and Personal Reminiscences)- By Ernest Reyer

TOPICS OF THE TIME

OPEN LETTERS

IN LIGHTER VEIN

A SHEAF OF FARM SUPERSTITIONS - A poem by Doane Robinson

THE TESTS - A poem by Alice W. Rollins

EXIT POETRY - A poem by Alice Williams Brotherton

DOLLY SONG – a poem by Clinton Scollard

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