Contents

• Mors Benefica, by Edmund Clarence Stedman
• From the Old World to the New, by Andre Castaigne
• Pudd'nhead Wilson, by Mark Twain
• Ellen Terry in the "Merchant of Venice", by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln's Literary Experiments, by John G. Nicolay
• Old Dutch Masters. Meyndert Hobbema, by Timothy Cole
• Artist's Adventures. My First and Last Balloon Ascension, by Robert V. V. Sewell
• Answered, by Richard Henry Stoddard
• A Comet-Finder, by Frank W. Mack
• Wild Flowers in English Speech in America, by Edward Eggleston
• P'tit Matinic' Monotones. The Wreck, by George Wharton Edwards
• A Summer Month in a Welsh Village, by Susan Nichols Carter
• The Quest of the Arbutus, by Charles G. D. Roberts
• The Supply at St. Agatha's, by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
• The Poet's Rose, by Edmund Waller
• "Walking one morning in the garden-close", by Margaret J. Preston
• Driven out of Tibet, by W. Woodville Rockhill
• Coeur D'Alene, by Mary Hallock Foote
• Jean Francois Millet's Life at Barbizon, by Pierre Millet
• Hunting an Abandoned Farm in Connecticut, by William Henry Bishop
• Dawn and Death, by Stuart Sterne
• Gods of India, by F. Marion Crawford

Portrait of Matthew Arnold as it appears in this issue of The Century Magazine.

• Matthew Arnold,^[1] by Florence Earle Coates
• The Red Box in Vesey Street, by H. C. Bunner
• Out of Sight, Out of Mind, by George E. Waring, Jr.

Topics of our Times

• Bonaparte. A Life of Napoleon Bonaparte
• The Look from Above Downward
• Voting by Machine

Open Letters

• Forestry Legislation in Europe, by B. E. Fernow
• Goethe on Paper Money, by Munroe Smith
• The Head of Sir Walter Scott, by T. T. Munger
• The Unity of the Sect, by William DeWitt Hyde
• The Century Series of American Artists. John Donoghue, by W. Lewis Fraser
• Origin of the Name "Stonewall" Jackson
• A Sharpless Portrait of Washington

In Lighter Vein

• The Department of Athletics, by Tudor Jenks
• The Lost Friend, by Mary Berri Chapman
• Development, by Helen Nicolay
• Miranda, by Clinton Scollard
• Aphorisms, by Dorothea Lummis
• Irish Songs. "The Widdy McGee", by Jennie E. T. Dowe
• "Look in thy Heart", by Titus Munson Coan

References