1886/03 -- Contents taken from the index are as follows:

  • Frontispiece -- Portrait of Emilio Castelas - Engraved by H. Velten from a Photograph by J. Laurent
  • Italy, from a Tricycle by Elizabeth Robins Pennell and illustrated by Joseph Pennell
  • In Exile by L. Frank Tooker
  • John Bodewin's Testimony - Part 5 - by Mary Hallock Foote
  • Recent Architecture in America by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • One Touch of Nature by Anthony Morehead
  • John Toner's Experiment by Margaretta Wetherill Kernan and illustrated by E.W. Kemble
  • Mountaineering in Persia by S. G. W. Benjamin with illustrations by Harry Fenn and I.R. Wiles
  • The Minister's Charge -- Part 2 -- by William Dean Howells
  • Premonition by Charles Warren Stoddard
  • A Borrowed Month -- Conclusion -- by Frank R. Stockton

  • The Maid of Thrace by Fanny Foster Clark
  • The Strength and Weakness of Socialism by Washington Gladden
  • In a Volume oif Aldrich's Poems by W. Bliss Carmen
  • Castelar, the Orator by William Jackson Armstrong
  • Reminiscences of Castelar by Alvey A. Adee
  • Shiloh Reviewed by Gen. D. C. Buell

    • Memoranda on the Civil War:
    Controversies in Regard to Shiloh:

  • A Staff-Officer's Account of the Attack and Withdrawal by Col. S. H. Lockett
  • The Plan of Battle and the Withdrawal of the First Day by Lieut-Col. A. R. Chisholm
  • The Fourth Regular Infantry at Gaines's Mill by Maj. William H. Powell
  • A Correction of "Our March Against the Pope" by Gen. James Longstreet

    • The Topics of the Time:

  • The Outlook for our Cities
  • Cheap Books under International Copyright

    • Open Letters:

  • Christian Union by Howard Crosby
  • Christian Union by A. A. Hodge
  • Timber Famine and a Forest School by S. W. Powell
  • What Shall Be Done With Our Ex-Presidents?, by H. L. Singleton

    • Bric-A-Brac:

  • Hog-Killin' Time by Duvva Morgan Smith
  • Uncle Esek's Wisdom by Uncle Esek
  • peerits - A Drawing by E.W. Kemble
  • Banished Love by Virginia B. Harrison
  • The Music-Stool by Margaret Vandegrift
  • A Rhyme for Priscilla by Frank Dempster Sherman