Download or read book The Best Years of the Century written by Arthur John and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study is basically the story of a great American magazine in its greatest years - the magazine that began as Scribner's Monthly in 1870 and became the Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine in 1881." -- Preface.