[The entire contents of this Magazine are covered by the general copyright, and articles must not be reprinted without special permission.] THE CENTURY MAGAZINE. CONTENTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1890. The "Merry Chanter" With pictures by C. D. Gibson. Old Age's Ship and Crafty Death's. A Side Light on Greek Art. . With pictures of terra-cotta groups. Abraham Lincoln: The Capture of Jefferson Davis; The End of Rebellion; Lincoln's Fame With a picture of the Review of the Union Troops at the Close of the War. Abraham Lincoln: I. The Life Mask. . II. The Cenotaph How Sal Came Through With pictures by E. W. Kemble. Smiles and Tears. Pursuit and Capture of Jefferson Davis. With a facsimile of a poster. A Corner of Old Paris With eighteen facsimiles, portraits, etc. "The Realm of Congo": I. By the Commissioner of the U. S. II. By One of Stanley's Former Officers With pictures by F. H. Lungren from photographs. Emerson's Talks with a College Boy.. With a frontispiece portrait. The Merit System versus The Patronage System. TOPICS OF THE TIME. 633 The Fire-Risk Further Electoral Reform . . Was Swedenborg Insane ? OPEN LETTERS. . George S. Burleigh The New An Anecdote of Jefferson Davis A Valentine.. My Grandmother's Turkey-tail Fan "By de Massysippi Sho'" Tardy Wit BRIC-A-BRAC. Theodore Roosevelt. 57 6 62 Terms:-$4.00 a year in advance: 35 cents a number. Bound volumes (containing the numbers for six months) in old gold or green cloth top, each $3.00, or without gilt top, $2.75. The same in half-russia, gilt top, $4.00. Booksellers and Postmasters receive subscriptions. Stuben may remit to us in P. O. or express money orders, or in bank checks, drafts, or registered letters. Money in letters is at sender's risk. Back numbers will be exchanged, if in good condition, for corresponding bound volumes in gold cloth, with gilt top, for $1.00 per s (six numbers); half-russia for $2.25; olive-green cloth, plain top, 75 cents each; subscribers paying charges both ways. Postage on THE CENTE umes, 35 cents. All numbers sent for binding should be marked with owner's name. We cannot bind or exchange copies the edges of which kare trimmed by machine. Cloth covers for binding THE CENTURY, 50 cents. Leather backs and corners, for binding in half-russia, 65 cents. LL SMITH, Prest. CHESTER, Ass't Treas. THE CENTURY CO. 33 East 17th Street (Union Square), New-York, N. F. FEB 3 1890 LIBRARY My Dear Adams: Without you I should not have seen the place, without you I should not have seen the things of which these notes are impressions. If anything worth repeating has been said by me in these letters, it has probably come from you, or has been suggested by being with you - perhaps even in the way of contradiction. And you may be amused by the lighter talk of the artist that merely describes appearances and envelops things monotonous and confused in a covering of dreams. And you alone will know how much has been withheld that might have been indiscreetly said. If only we had found Nirvana but he was right who warned us that we were late in this season of the world. J. L. F. AND YOU TOO, OKAKURA SAN: I wish to put your name before these notes, written at the time when I first met you, because the memories of your talks are connected with my liking of your country and of its story, and because for a time you were Japan to me. I hope, too, that some thoughts of yours will be detected in what I write, as a stream runs through grass-hidden, perhaps, but always there. We are separated by many things besides distance, but you know that the blossoms scattered by the waters of the torrent shall meet at its end. YOKOHAMA, July 3, 1886.- Arrived smooth like the brilliant blank paper of the yesterday. On the cover of the letter which I mailed from our steamer I had but time to write: "We are coming in; it is like the picture books. Anything that I can add will only be a filling in of detail." We were in the great bay when I came up on deck in the early morning. The sea was prints; a vast surface of water reflecting the light of the sky as if it were thicker air. Far off streaks of blue light, like finest washes of the brush, determined distances. Beyond, in a white haze, the square white sails spotted the white horizon and floated above it. The slackened beat of the engine made a Copyright, 1890, by THE CENTURY Co. All rights reserved. |