| 1881 | The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine. A renamed Scribner's Monthly, edited from 1881 to 1909 by Richard Watson Gilder, appears. It serialized John George Nicolay and John Hay's biography of Lincoln (1887-1890), William Dean Howells's A Modern Instance and The Rise of Silas Lapham, Henry James's The Bostonians, and Jack London's The Sea-Wolf. |




