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Scribner's Magazine, Jan-June 1887, Vol 1 (new series), Paris Commune, Stevenson
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"Scribner's Published Monthly With Illustrations",January - June 1887, Volume 1 (new series), Charles Scribner Sons, New York - F. Warne & Co., London.
This hard-bound book consists of six months of Scribner's Monthly Magazine, which has always been noted for its literary content, and beginning with this new series, they abandoned its prior format. The new magazine, leans more towards topical articles, biographies, fiction, and editorial comment in article format.
Each monthly installment contains approximately 120 pages, there are numerous within text, as well as full page illustrations throughout.
This book contains such articles and stories as:
The Babylonian Seals (with illustrations from the author's collection)
Aunt Fountain's Prisoner
The Bayeux Tapestry
The Likenesses of Caesar
Our Defenseless Coasts (with maps, sketches & diagrams)
M. Coquelin by Brander Matthews
"Cordon!"
The Ducharmes of the Baskatonge
The Stability of the Earth by N.S. Shaler
American Elephant Myths
The Ethics of Democracy
Father Andrei; The Story of a Russian Priest
Magic Flight In Folk-Lore
Forests of North America by N.S. Shaler
Half a Curse in Mexico
What is an Instinct?
The Manse; A Fragment by Robert Louis Stevenson
Miss Pringle's Neighbors by Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson
Some Illustrations of Napoleon and His Times
Our Naval Policy; A Lesson from 1861
An Ocean Graveyard
The Residuary Legatee; or, The Posthumous Jest of the Late Jane Austin
Reminiscences of the Siege and Commune of Paris (large article)
Socialism
The Development of the Steam Ship, and the Liverpool Exhibition of 1886 by Commander F.E. Chadwick, U.S. Navy
The Stone-cutter
The Story of a New York House - with illustrations by Smith Edwards and A.B. Frost
Modern Aggressive Torpedoes
Two Russians
An Uncommercial Republic
A Violin Obligato
many others.
Some of the contributing artists are:
Julia C.R. Dorr, Arlo Bates, Susan Coolidge, Andrew Lane, Louise Chandler Moulton, Austin Dobson, F.D. Millet, Nora Perry, E.B. Washburne, Harold Frederic, Thomas Nelson Page, Annie Cary Morris, Sarah Orne Jewett, Thomas A. Janvier, M.J. Burns, A.B. Frost, Octave Thanet, E.J. Meeker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, Joel Chandler Harris, John C. Ropes, N.S. Shaler, George Gibson, and others.