Century Magazine/Volume 49/Issue 2

Contents
Topics of the Times Open Letters In Lighter Vein
 * The First Word, by George Parsons Lathrop
 * Mary: Mother and Prophetess, by Julia Schayer
 * Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon at the Beginning of the Revolution, by William M. Sloane
 * A Christmas Guest, by Ruth McEnery Stuart
 * "How to the Singer Comes the Song", by Richard Watson Gilder
 * Francesco Crispi, by W. J. Stillman
 * Old Dutch Masters. Anthony van Dyck, by Timothy Cole
 * Casa Braccio, by F. Marion Crawford
 * What Has Science to do with Religion?, by Augustus J. Du Bois
 * A Neighbor's Landmark, by Sarah Orne Jewett
 * Old Maryland Homes and Ways, by John Williamson Palmer
 * Chrysalis, by William Cleaver Wilkinson
 * An Errant Wooing, by Mrs. Burton Harrison
 * One Woman's Way, by George A. Hibbard
 * Azelie, by Kate Chopin
 * A Walking Delegate, by Rudyard Kipling
 * The Floating Bethel, by Lucy S. Furman
 * The American Woman in Politics, by Eleonora Kinnicutt
 * A New Napoleon
 * The World's Supply of Gold
 * The Reign of the Bicycle
 * No Backward Step in Copyright!
 * The Growth of Civil-Service Reform
 * About Children, by J. Mark Baldwin
 * The Century Series of American Artists. Our Christmas Pictures, by W. Lewis Fraser
 * The Tramp and the Reform School, by W. M. Hutt
 * The Christmas Goose, by Grace Wilbur Conant
 * The Penitent, by Nannie A. Cox
 * Her Violin, by James B. Kenyon
 * Merlin and Vivien, by Heileman Wilson
 * Fancies from the Servian. Paraphrased from the Servian of Zmai Iovan Iovanovich, after literal translation by Nikola Tesla, by Robert Underwood Johnson
 * A Fairy from the Sun-Shower
 * Quid pro Quo
 * Why the Army Became Quiet