THE CENTURY MAGAZINE (Cover title " The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine"): February 1884.

The Century Magazine was the successor to Scribner's Magazine, and was published from 1881 to 1930.

Published by The Century Company.

Stapled magazine with light chipping to front cover, spine paper chipped, lacking rear cover. Well bound, unmarked with lightly age-toned paper. Graded Good or better. 

Notable articles / stories / illustrators in this issue:

  • “Gustave Courbet, Artist and Communist" by Titus Munson Coan. Illustrated.
  • "Lieut.-General Sheridan" by Adam Badeau
  • “Merinos in America" by Rowland Robinson. 10 pages, illustrated.
  • “How Edwin Drood was Illustrated" by Alice Maynell. With illustrations by Luke Fildes and Charles Collins.
  • “The Cruise of the 'Alice May.'" by S. G. W. Benjamin (To be continued). Illustrated
  • “Dante" and "Portraits of Dante" by Christina G. Rossetti and Sarah Freeman Clarke. 
  • “The Convict Lease System in the Southern States: A Model Prison" by George W. Cable. 17 pages, no illus.
  • Much more…

An excellent issue. 

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