This is the January 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:

LA GRANDE DEMOISELLE, A BALCONY STORY – By Grace King – illustrated by A.E. Sterner

THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA – By Romyn Hitchcock – illustrated by Harry Fenn

A WINTER RIDE TO THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA – By N.B. Dennys – illustrated by Harry Fenn

THE L1,000,000 BANK NOTE – By Mark Twain

THE LIGHTS O’ LONDON – A poem by Louise Imogen Guiney

THE REWARD OF THE UNRIGHTEOUS – By George Grantham Bain – illustrated by A.B. Wenzell

“CRUSTY CHRISTOPHER” (JOHN WILSON) – By Henry A. Beers – with portrait of Wilson by T. Johnson

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTER – By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps – with portrait by Lamson of Portland, Maine

THE KINDERGARTEN MOVEMENT (FRIEDRICH FROEBEL) – By Talcott Williams – illustrated and a special portrait of Froebel printed with permission of Milton Bradley & Co. (See picture "Making Cylinders in Clay" by Otto Bacher)

THE CHILD-GARDEN – A poem by Richard Watson Gilder

THE STORY OF JEAN FRANCOIS MILLET’S EARLY LIFE – By Pierre Millet his younger brother – illustrated with an engraving of the painting “The Sheep-Shearers” (See picture)

AN ILLUSTRATOR OF DICKENS, HABLOT KNIGHT BROWNE – By Arthur Allchin – illustrated

A BRIAL MEASURE – A poem by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

THE COSMOPOLIS CITY CLUB, WHY AND HOW THE CLUB WAS ORGANIZED – By Washington Gladden

BENEFITS FORGOT – By Wolcott Balestier

TO GIPSYLAND – By Elizabeth Robins Pennell – illustrated by Joseph Pennell

LETTERS OF TWO BROTHERS – PASSAGES FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE OF GENERAL AND SENATOR SHERMAN – By W.T. Sherman

PERSONAL STUDIES OF INDIAN LIFE, POLITICS AND “PIPE-DANCING” – By Alice C. Fletcher – illustrated by A. Castaigne (See picture "The Mark of Honor")

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

LETHE – A poem by Louise Chandler Moulton

NEW DAY – A poem by Charles Washington Coleman

DOROTHEA DIX – By Mary S. Robinson with portrait of Dorothea Dix

TOPICS OF THE TIME:

            THE PROPOSED RECESSION OF THE YOSEMITE VALLEY

            NEW YORK AND THE WORLD’S FAIR

            LEGAL TENDERS AND BIMETALLISM

            THE KINDERGARTEN NOT A FAD

OPEN LETTERS:

THE KINDERGARTEN IN A NUTSHELL – By W.T. Harris U.S. Commissioner of education

THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE KINDERGARTEN – By Angeline Brooks

THE PHILANTHROPIC SIDE OF KINDERGARTEN WORK – By Mary Katherine Young

THE EYE AND EAR AT CHICAGO – By Daniel C. Gilman

AMERICAN ARTISTS SERIES – W. Lewis Fraser (See painting "The Mother" by Alice D. Kellogg)

IN LIGHTER VEIN:

            AN UNCONSCIOUS DIPLOMAT – By Alice Turner

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