This is the February1889 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:

GEROME (AMERICAN ARTIST) - by Fanny Field Hering – illustrated (See picture “Napoleon Before the Sphinx”)

THE ORCHARD WIND-BREAK – illustrated by Mary Hallock Foote (See picture “The Orchard Wind-break”)

EXILES AT IRKUTSK - by George Kennan - illustrated

STRANGE TRUE STORIES OF LOUISIANA – Francoise in Louisiana - by George Cable

FRUITION - A Poem by Kate Putnam Osgood

REVIVAL OF HAND SPINNING AND WEAVING IN WESTMORELAND - by Albert Fleming - illustrated

THE ROMANCE OF DOLLARD - by Mary Hartwell Catherwood - illustrated

SIMONE NEMMI (MARTINI) - by W. J. Stillman – with engraved illustrations by Timothy Cole (See picture “St. Catherine of Alexandria” in the library of the Seminario at Pisa)

THE ALL-KIND MOTHER - A Poem by James Whitcomb Riley

ABRAHAM LINCOLN; A HISTORY - THE REMOVAL OF McCLELLAN - FINANCIAL MEASURES - SEWARD AND CHASE - by John Nicolay and John Hay, private secretaries to the President

SLOW-BURNING CONSTRUCTION by Edward Atkinson - illustrated

TWO NEGATIVES - by Mary Spear Tiernan

ESTRANGEMENT - by Langdon Elwyn Mitchell

FAIRIES AND DRUIDS OF IRELAND - by Charles de Kay - illustrated

UNDER THE REDWOOD TREE - by George H. Jessop - illustrated

PEAKED ROCK – A LEGEND OF NARRAGANSETT - A Poem by Caroline Hazard

THE PORTRAITS OF MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS - by Laurence Hutton – illustrated (See picture “The Fraser-Tytler Portrait”)

SAFEGUARDS OF THE SUFFRAGE - by Washington Gladden

MEMORANDA ON THE CIVIL WAR 

TOPICS OF THE TIME:

            THE IMPERFECTION OF AMERICAN LAW PROCEDURE

            LYNCH LAW AS AN ARGUMENT FOR LAW REFORM

            A CENTENNIAL HISTORICAL EXHIBITION

            FRENCH MASTERS AND AMERICAN ART STUDENTS

OPEN LETTERS:

            AMERICAN ARTISTS ON GEROME – By Various Artitst

            MACHINE GUNS – The Gatling Gun Company, Fredk W. Prince, Secretary

BRIC-A-BRAC:

            COMING FROM THE FIELDS - by H. S. Edward – illustrated

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