[2] The first issue of the newly formed periodical was published in November of that year.

The names of the magazine and the company were retooled, dropping mention of 'Scribner'; Scribner's Monthly was changed to The Century Magazine and Scribner & Co. was changed to Century Company.

Charles Scribner II was unable to launch a competing magazine for five years.

[1] In 1886, Scribner announced to a Times reporter that they would make a new monthly publication "as soon as the necessary arrangements could be perfected".

[3] Notable contributors have included Charles Barnard,[4] Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen,[5] Truman C. Everts,[6] Edmund Gosse,[7] Frances Hodgson Burnett,[8] Sidney Lanier,[9] John Muir[10] and others.