~Rymbels~: Pictures by Oliver Herford. The Girl and the Raspberry Ice. _Oliver Herford_ 637 The Yellow Vase. _Charles Hanson Towne_ 637 Tragedy. _Theodosia Garrison_ 638 “On Revient toujours à Son Premier Amour”. _Oliver Herford_ 638 A Rymbel of Rhymers. _Carolyn Wells_ 796 The Prudent Lover. _L. Frank Tooker_ 797 On a Portrait of Nancy. _Carolyn Wells_ 797 ~Same Old Lure, The~ _Berton Braley_ 478 ~Scarlet Tanager, To a~ _Grace Hazard Conkling_ 28 ~Sierra Madre.~ _Henry Van Dyke_ 347 ~Socratic Argument.~ _John Carver Alden_ 960 ~Submarine Mountains.~ _Cale Young Rice_ 693 ~Triolet, A~ _Leroy Titus Weeks_ 636 ~Wine of Night, The~ _Louis Untermeyer_ 119 ~Wingèd Victory.~ _Victor Whitlock_ 596 Photograph and decoration. ~Wise Saint, The~ _Herman Da Costa_ 798 Picture by W. T. Benda. ~Young Heart in Age, The~ _Edith M. Thomas_ 78 [Illustration] [Illustration: TIMOTHY COLE’S WOOD ENGRAVINGS OF MASTERPIECES IN AMERICAN GALLERIES UNE DAME ESPAGNOLE BY FORTUNY ] [Illustration: Owned by the Metropolitan Museum, New York UNE DAME ESPAGNOLE. BY FORTUNY (TIMOTHY COLE’S WOOD ENGRAVINGS OF MASTERPIECES IN AMERICAN GALLERIES)] Copyright 1913, by ~The Century Co.~ All rights reserved. ~The Century Magazine~ ~Vol. LXXXVI~ MAY, 1913 ~No. 1~ THE HAYES-TILDEN CONTEST FOR THE PRESIDENCY INSIDE HISTORY OF A GREAT POLITICAL CRISIS (THE CENTURY’S AFTER-THE-WAR SERIES) BY HENRY WATTERSON Editor of the Louisville “Courier-Journal” I The time is coming, if it has not already arrived, when among fair-minded and intelligent Americans there will not be two opinions touching the Hayes-Tilden contest for the Presidency in 1876-77--that both by the popular vote and a fair count of the electoral vote Tilden was elected and Hayes was defeated--but the whole truth underlying the determinate incidents which led to the rejection of Tilden and the seating of Hayes will never be known. “All history is a lie,” observed Sir Robert Walpole, the corruptionist, mindful of what was likely to be written about himself, and, “What is history,” asked Napoleon, the conqueror, “but a fable agreed upon?”