1886/06 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Benjamin Franklin -- Engraved by J.H.E. Whitney after the drawing by Kenyon Cox
  • A Literary Ramble -- Along the Thames from Fulham to Chiswick -- by Austin Dobson
  • The Two Bells by Bessie Chandler
  • Meh Lady: A Story of the War by Thomas Nelson Page
  • American Country Dwellings -- Part 2 -- by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • The Queen's Bead by Harriet Prescott Spofford
  • Faith-Healing and Kindred Phenomena by J. M. Buckley - 16 pages of solid text
  • A Sonnet by Amelie Rives
  • Harvard's Botanic Garden and its Botanists by Ernest Ingersoll
  • To John G. Saxe by C. S. Percival
  • The Minister's Charge -- Part 5 -- by William Dean Howells
  • Circling Fancies by Edmund Gosse
  • Unpublished Letters of Benjamin Franklin by John Bigelow
  • Birds' Eggs by John Burroughs
  • The Hotel Experience of Mr. Pink Fluker by Richard M. Johnston
  • Stonewall Jackson in Maryland by Col. Henry Kyd Douglas
  • Harper's Ferry and Sharpsburg by Gen. John G. Walker
  • The Invasion of Maryland by Gen. James Longstreet
  • Antietam Scenes by Charles Carleton Coffin
  • Topics of the Time:

  • A Word of Sympathy and Caution
  • Two Kinds of Boycotting
  • Who are the Guiltier
  • Open Letters:

  • Christian Union by Samuel M. Hopkins
  • Shall Women Go To College? by E. R. Sill
  • The Labor Question by Washington Gladden
  • Found: "A Universal Tinker"
  • Bric-a-Brac:

  • Urashima: A Japanese Rip Van Winkle by translated by Masayuki Kataoka
  • A Knot of Blue by Samuel Minturn Peck
  • A Warning by Arthur Lovell
  • Two Heads Better Than One by Charlotte Fiske Bates
  • The Golden Bridge by George T. Lanigan