This is the December 1888 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 listing of the contents.

ARTICLES:

THE COMING OF WINTER – illustrated by Mary Hallock Foote (See picture “The Coming of Winter”)

DUCCIO – OLD ITALIAN MASTER - by W. J. Stillman – illustrated with engravings by Timothy Cole (See picture “The Three Mary’s – He is Not Here”)

LIFE ON THE GREAT SIBERIAN ROAD - by George Kennan - illustrated

THE REORGANIZATION OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE - by George Parkin

FROM SINAI TO SHECHEM - by Edward L. Wilson - illustrated

THE THIRD OF MARCH - by Julian Hawthorne

“LAST CHRISTMAS WAS A YEAR AGO” - A Poem by James Whitcomb Riley

LONDON - by Henry James - illustrated by Joseph Pennell (See picture “Charing Cross Station”)

TO A CRITIC - A Poem by James Herbert Morse

HENRY WARDBEECHER AT LIVERPOOL - by J. M. Buckley

COURAGE! - A Poem by James T. McKay

A WHITE UMBRELLA IN MEXICO - by F. Hopkinson Smith, with illustration by the author.

STRANGE TRUE STORIES OF LOUISIANA. II - FRANCOISE IN LOUISIANA - by George Cable

ATTRACTION - A Poem by Elyot Weld

THE ROMANCE OF DOLLARD - by Mary Hartwell Catherwood - illustrated

AD ASTRA - A Poem by Henry Ames Blood

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: A HISTORY - FIRST PLANS FOR EMANCIPATION - by John G. Nicolay and John Hay

“MINC” - A PLOT - H. S. Edwards

“ONCE, WHEN A CHILD.” - A Poem by Mary Murdoch Mason

THE RISE AND FALL OF “IRISH AIGLE.” - by George H. Jessop - illustrated

A LYRIC - A Poem by R. H. Stoddard

THE LAST MANUSCRIPT OF HENRY WARD BEECHER - by Henry Ward Beecher

TOPICS OF THE TIME:

            CHRISTMAS

            PROGRESS OF BALLOT REFORM

            SHOULD THERE BE AN “ARISTOCRACY OF CRIMINALS”?

            A CONFUSION IN AMERICAN PARTY NAMES

OPEN LETTERS:

            POLITICAL CORRUPTION by Ernest H. Crosby

            ANOTHER SIDE OF THE WOMAN’S WORK QUESTION by L.E. Holman

            HOME RULE AND CULTURE by Margaret F. Sullivan

            THE HOLT METHOD OF TEACHING MUSIC by Mary L. Lewis

            HERBERT SPENCER by M. H.

BRIC-A-BRAC:

            NOBLESSE OBLIGE - by Louise Imogen Guiney

            JOY DOUBLED - by Julia Anna Welcott

            THE SONG OF SONGS - by Eva Wilder McGlasson

            ANTI-CLIMAX - by Margaret Vandegrift

            TO J. W. R. - by C. H. Crandall

            APHORISM FROM THE STUDY - by Xenos Clark

            A BAKER’S DUZZEN UV WIZE SAWZ - by E. R. Sill

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