1886/01 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Guiseppe Verdi -- Engraved by H. Velton from a photograph by F. Mulinier
  • The City of Teheran -- Part 2 of 2 -- by S.G.W. Benjamin
  • The Crickets in the Fields by Anthony Morehead
  • The Bostonians -- Picking up at Chapter 38 -- by Henry James
  • A Rose of Joy by Celia Thaxter
  • Feathered Forms of Other Days by R. W. Shufeldt
  • Love that Lives by George Parsons Lathrop
  • Typical Dogs - Pointers by John S. Wise and John W. Munson
  • A French Painter and His Pupils by Carolus Duran
  • John Bodewin's Testimony -- Part 3 -- by Mary Hallock Foote
  • A Second Thought by Florence Wilkinson
  • The Cloverfields Carriage by Frank R. Stockton
  • The Song He Never Wrote by Helen Jackson
  • The Lesson of Greek Art by Charles Waldstein
  • Canada by Charles G. D. Roberts
  • Some European Republicans by William J. Linton
  • Verdi the Composer by Frederick A. Schwab
  • Trouble on Lost Mountain by Joel Chandler Harris
  • Spiritual Preaching for our Times by Edward Hungerford
  • The Second Battle of Bull Run by Gen. John Pope
  • Recollections of a Private -- Two Days of the Second Battle of Bull Run by Warren Lee Goss

    • Topics of the Time:

  • A Broad View of Art
  • The New Political Economy

    • Open Letters:

  • Some Recent Experiments in Hybridization by Charles Barnard
  • A National Conservatory of Music, by G.
  • A Brave Candidate by C. E. W. Dobbs
  • Southern Women as Teachers of Colored Children by E. M. G.
  • Mrs. Helen Jackson's "King Redwald's Altars"

    • Bric-a-Brac:

  • "We Have Seen better Days" -- Drawing
  • Uncle Esek's Wisdom by Uncle Esek
  • A Protest by Arthur Lovell
  • In Advance by Bessie Chandler
  • Beneath the Mistletoe by Jennie E. T. Dowe
  • The Uhlan's Return by C. E. S.
  • Two Negatives by F. E. Wright