1884/01 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of General Sherman -- Engraved by T. Johnson after a photograph by George M. Bell
  • Edinboro Old Town by Andrew Land
  • The Bread-Winners -- Part 6 of 6
  • Aurora by Henry Tyrrell
  • Log of an Ocean Studio by Clarence Clough Buel
  • Early Morn by Caroline May
  • Toru Dutt
  • An Average Man -- Part 2 -- by Robert Grant
  • More Life by Henry Gillman
  • "The Forty Immortals" by Y. D.
  • Garfield in London -- Extracts from the Journal of a Trip to Europe in 1867 -- by James A. Garfield
  • In Wordsworth's Country by John Burroughs
  • Dum Vivamus, Vivimus by E. D. R. Bianciardi
  • Dr. Sevier -- Part 3 -- by George W. Cable
  • Husbandry in Colony Times by Edward Eggleston
  • Some Old Considerations by James Herbert Morse
  • General Sherman by E. V. Smalley
  • Her Choice by Eliza Calvert Hall
  • "His Wife's Deceased Sister" by Frank R. Stockton
  • Topics of the Time:

  • The Difficulty of Political Reform
  • "Minister and Citizen"
  • Religious Snobbery
  • Open Letters:

  • "New York as a Field for Fiction" by William Henry Bishop
  • Our Jury System by Eugene Lewis
  • Some New Inventions by Charles Barnard
  • Free Trade with China by J. Fred Harley
  • Joseph Jefferson as "Charles Plummer" by J. Ranken Towse
  • Jefferson Davis and General Holt by Loyalist
  • The Influence of Christ by George P. Fisher
  • Bric-a-Brac:

  • An Evening with Burns by Agnes Maule Machar
  • The Summer Girl by W. H. A.
  • Aphorisms from the Quarters by J. A. Macon
  • I Wonder what Maud Will Say! by Samuel Minturn Peck
  • Good-Bye by Grace Denio Litchfield
  • Strephon and Sardon by Richard Watson Gilder
  • The Way of It by John Vance Cheney