This is the March 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:

THE VIOLONCELLO OF JUFROW ROZENBOOM - By Anna Eichberb King – illustrated by George Wharton Edwards

AN EMBASY TO PROVENCE - By Thomas A. Janvier – illustrated by A. Castaigne

SILENCE - A Poem by Maria Bowen Chapin

NAPOLEON DEPORTATION TO ELBA - By Thomas Ussher, Captain R. N

JAMAICA - By Gilbert Gaul with illustrations by the author (See nautical picture "The Pilot")

LETTERS OF TWO BROTHERS - Passage from the Correspondence of General and Senator Sherman

CAPRICE - A poem

WESTMINSTER ABBEY - By Henry B. Fuller

THE ROUSING OF MRS. POTTER - By Gertrude Smith – illustrated by Irving R. Wiles

THE PRESENT STATE OF OLD TESTAMENT CRITICISM - By Edward Lewis Curtis

CHICAGO - A Poem by Marion Couthouy Smith

MERIDIAN - A Poem by Charles T. Dazey

CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS - By E. H. Krehbiel – with portrait by Paul Mathey

HE YE NIVER TELL O’ ROSE CREAGAN - A Poem by Jennie E. T. Dowe - illustrated

SWEET BELLS OUT OF TUNE - By Mrs. Burton Harrison – illustrated by C.D. Gibson

THYE DEAD KING - A Poem by George Horton

ARTIST LIFE BY THE NORTH SEA - By H. W. Ranger with illustrations by the author

ONE TOUCH OF NATURE - A Poem by Edgar Fawcett

AT THE KEITH RANCH - By Anna Fuller – illustrated by A. Castaigne (See picture "The Dance")

BENEFITS FORGOT - - By Wolcott Balestier

THE COSMOPOLIS CITY CLUB - By Washington Gladden

TOPICS OF THE TIME:

            HOW CAN WE SECURE BETTER, UNITED STATES SENATORS?

            DIRECT PRESIDENTIAL VOTING

            A GENERAL FREE LIBRARY MOVEMENT

OPEN LETTERS:

            THE KINDERGARTEN MOVEMENT IN CHICAGO by Alice H. Putman

            THE KINDERGARTEN IN TURKEY by Carrie P. Farnsworth Fowle

EDMUND C. TARBELL – AMERICAN ARTIST SERIES by W. Lewis Fraser (See portrait "My Sister Lydia")

IN LIGHTER VEIN:

            THE UNITED STATES POETRY COMPANY by John Kendrick Bangs

            A STRUGGLE FOR LIFE by Alice Turner

            THE BALLADE OF THE SPOONS by Alice Williams Brotherton

            OBSERVATIONS by C. O. Stevens

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