This is the March 1885 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.  This issue is in very good condition the pages are clean and very readable.  This issue contains 159 pages, with many interesting stories about Art, Literature, History, and Science, and a special section concerning events of the Civil War. 

ARTICLES:

THE LAND OF THE FALSE PROPHET – by R.E. Colston – illustrated

THE RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM – by W.D. Howells

A VIGIL – A poem by Edmund Clarence Stedman

HODSON’S HIDEOUT – by Maurice Thompson – illustrated

THE BOSTONIANS – by Henry James

THE NEW ATRONOMY, THE PLANETS AND THE MOON – by S.P. Langley – illustrated (See picture “Saturn” from a drawing by Trouvelot)

REMINISCENCES OF DANIEL WEBSTER – by Stephen M. Allen (See portrait of Daniel Webster)

SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF CHARLES O’CONOR – by John Bigelow – illustration, portrait of Charles O’Conor

GROWN OLD WITH NATURE – A poem by John Vance Cheney

THE FIRST FIGHT OF IRON-CLADS, March 9, 1862 – by John Taylor Wood - illustrated (See picture - "The Fight at Close Hand")

IN THE “MONITOR” TURRET – by S.D. Greene, Commander U. S. Navy - illustrated

WATCHING THE “MERRIMAC” – by R.E. Colston – illustrated

RECOLLECTIONS OF A PRIVATE, Up the Peninsula with McClellan – by Warren Lee Goss – illustrated

MEMORANDA ON THE CIVIL WAR – Unpublished letters of Generals Fitzhugh Lee, Ewell, and Beauregard

THE WORSHIP OF SHAKESPERE – by O.B. Frothingham

TOPICS OF THE TIME:

            THE “CENTURY WAR SERIES

            AN UNDESIRED GUEST

            FREEDOM OF DISCUSSION

OPEN LETTERS:

            THE CLAIMS OF CHICAGO by George M. Higginson

            COURBET, THE ARTIST by M.G. van Rensselaer

            PROGRESS IN FORESTRY by B.G. Northrop

            ABOUT PEOPLE by Kate Gannett Wells

            THE BLUE AND THE GRAY by C.N. Jenkins

            THE BOMBARDMENT OF ALEXANDRIA by C.F. Goodrich, Lieut.-Commander U.S.N.

            MAKING LIGHT OF IT by John Stone Pardee

BRIC-A-BRAC

            UNCLE ESEK’S WISDOM by Uncle Esek

            A BOOK OF NATURE by R.K. Munkittrick

            TULIPS BLOOMING IN THE SNOW by R. R.

            THE TENDER HEART by Helen Gray Cone

            AN UNTUTOED MIND by frank Dempster Sherman

            THE TRYST by Walter Learned