This is the December, 1892 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:

A MADONNA OF DAGNAN-BOUVERET – A poem by Robert Underwood Johnson with picture of the painting by Dadnan-Bouveret

PICTURESQUE NEW YORK – by M.G. Van Rensselaer – illustrated

MADONNA – A poem by Harrison S. Morris with picture drawn by Francis Vincent Du Mond

MY COUSIN FANNY – By Thomas Nelson Page – illustrated

THE NEW CASHIER – By Edward Eggleston – illustrated

SEEMING FAILURE – A poem by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

BENEFITS FORGOT – By Wolcott Balestier with portrait of Mr. Balestier by G.C. Cox

JENNY LIND – By J. McNeill with portrait of Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt from a photograph at Cannes, France 1866

NOEL – A poem by R. W. Gilder

CID RUY THE CAMPEADOR – A poem by John Malone – illustrated

SWEET BELLS OUT OF TUNE – By Constance Cary Harrison – illustrated by C.D. Gibson

COMPENSATION – A poem by John Hay

A KNIGHT OF THE LEGION OF HONOR – By F. Hopkinson Smith

LEAVES FROM THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SALVINI – By Tommaso Salvini

IMPRESSIONS OF BROWNING AND HIS ART – By Stopford A. Brooke with two portraits of Robert Browning

THE PROBLEM OF POVERTY – By Washington Gladden

TO GIPSYLAND – By Elizabeth Robins Pennell with illustrations by Joseph Pennell

AFTER THE RAIN – A poem by Mary E. Wilkins

THE EFFECT OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY UPON RELIGIOUS BELIEFS – By H. S. Williams

THE GIPSY TRAIL – A poem by Rudyard Kipling

BALCONY STORIES – By Grace King

SERENE’S RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE: AN ISLAND STORY – By Cornelia Atwood Pratt

WAR CORRESPONDENCE AS A FINE ART – By Archibald Forbes – illustrated

THEIR CHRISTMAS MEETING – By Florence Watters Snedeker

TOPICS OF THE TIME:

            THE FIRST DUTY OF CONGRESS

            IMMIGRATION PROBLEMS

            GOVERNMENT ARCHITECTURE IN AMERICA

OPEN LETTERS:

            AMERICAN PAINTERS: By W. Lewis Fraser, all paintings illustrated

                        Abbott Henderson Thayer – “The Virgin Enthroned”

                        Edwin Howland Blashfield – “Ringing the Christmas Bells”

                        Miss Mary L. Macomber – “The Annunciation”

                        Edward Emerson Simmons – “The Mother”

THE PERSONS DESIRING TO CULTIVATE A TASTE OF MUSIC – By W. J. Henderson

            SOME TENEMENT-HOUSE EVILS – By Lillian W. Betts

THE PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS IN INFANTS – By Swan M. Burnett

IN LIGHTER VEIN:

SOME MORE BOYS – A poem by James Whitcomb Riley with illustrations by E.W. Kemble

YOU DEAR OLD GOTHAM – A poem by William Bard McVickar

OBSERVATIONS – A poem by Manley H. Pike

OPPORTUNITY – A poem by Margaret Vandegrift

BEAUTY – A poem by Frank Dempster Sherman

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