1887/05 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Washington Irving -- Engraved by T. Johnson from a daguerreotype
  • Finding Pharaoh by Edward L. Wilson
  • Pharaoh the Oppressor, and His Daughter, In the Light of Their Monuments by John A. Paine
  • Zweibek; Or Notes of a Professional Exile by E. S. Nadal
  • The Hundredth Man -- Part 7 -- by Frank R. Stockton
  • Amiel -- The "Journal Intime" -- by Robert Underwood Johnson
  • Among the Apaches by Frederick Schwatka
  • From an Ancient Irish Mound by Sarah M. B. Piatt
  • A Glimpse of Washington Irving at Home by Clarence Cook
  • The Deserter by Anthony Morehead
  • The Chemistry of Foods and Nutrition -- Part 1 -- by W. O. Atwater
  • If by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • A Song of Fleeting Love by Alice Williams Brotherton
  • Personal Recollections of Louis Blanc -- With Notes Concerning Alsace and Lorraine -- by Karl Blind
  • Abraham Lincoln: A History -- The Border Conflict -- by John G. Nicolay, John Hay -- 28 pages and heavily illustrated
  • Keats by Robert Burns Wilson
  • Whitsun Harp, Regulator by Octave Thanet
  • Israel --A Poem by John Hay
  • The Campaign for Chattanooga by General W. S. Rosecrans
  • The Army of the Cumberland at Chattanooga by General J. S. Fullerton

    • Memoranda on the Civil War:

  • "Lee's Invasion of Pennsylvania"
  • A Reply to General Longstreet by Colonel W. Allan
  • Stuart's Ride Around the Union Army in the Gettysburg Campaign by Colonel John S. Mosby

    • Topics of the Time:

  • Executive Responsibility
  • The Nation's Recent Debt to the South
  • The Problem of Government by Guilds
  • Food

    • Open Letters:

  • City Government by Guilds by John D. Cutter
  • Toynbee Hall, London by R. R. Bowker
  • Notes

    • Bric-a-Brac:

  • The Agile Sonneteer by Anthony Morehead
  • Wait a Bit, by Jennie E. T. Dowe
  • The April-Face, or the Stub-Tail Mule by Thomas Nelson Page
  • Uncle Esek's Wisdom