THE CENTURY MAGAZINE VOL XLV Nov 1892 - Apr 1893, Jenny Lind, Gen Sherman, etc

Description: Original bond copies of The Century Magazine for November 1892 to April 1893, volume XLV (new series vol XXIII). Very good condition bound in cloth with red leather spine and corners. Gilt to spine clean and bright. Page edges marbelled as are inner boards and pages (see photos). Bookplate of Charles Henry, Lord Hillingdon with crest, but otherwise no markings or inscriptions. All pages complete and tight to binding. 960 pages with hundreds of illustrations. Contents include : A Russian National Artist; What I saw of the Paris Commune by Archibald Forbes; What an American girl saw of the Paris Commune; Road Coaching up to date; Letters of two brothers - passages from the correspondence of General and Senator Sherman; Autobiographical notes by the composer Massenet; Does the Bible contain scientific errors?; Reminiscences of Brook Farm by a member of the community; In lighter vein, autobiography of an editor; Picturesque New York; Letters from the Autobiography of Salvini; Impressions of Browning and his art; The problem of poverty; The effect of scientific study upon religious beliefs; War correspondence as a fine art; The great wall of China; 'Crusty Christopher' (John Wilson; The Kindergarten movement; The story of Millet's early life; An illistrator of Dickens - Herbert Knight Brown ('Phiz'); Personal studies of Indian life; Dorothea Dix; An Embassy to Provence; Stray leaves from a whaleman's log; Franz Liszt; The voice of Tennyson; An art impetus in Turkey; Life in the Malay peninsular; Preliminary glimpses of the Fair (Chicago Great Fair); Napoleon's deportation to Elba; Jamaica; Jenny Lind; Camille Saint Saens; Westminster Abbey; The Chicage anarchists of 1886 - the crime, the trial and the punishment; A tree museum,; The princess Anne; Margaret Fuller; etc, etc The Century Magazine was an illustrated monthly magazine first published in the United States in 1881 by The Century Company of New York City, which had been bought in that year by Roswell Smith and renamed by him after the Century Association. It was the successor of Scribner's Monthly Magazine. It was merged into The Forum in 1930. Heavy book at over 2kg

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