1887/08 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Julia Ward Howe
  • Snubbin' Through Jersey -- Part 1 of 2 -- by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • The Hundredth Man -- Part 10 -- by Frank R. Stockton
  • Sunken Graves by Andrew B. Saxton
  • Abraham Lincoln: A History -- Lincoln's Cooper Institute Speech -- by John G. Nicolay and John Hay
  • Is It a Piece of a Comet? by William Earl Hidden
  • I Shall Find Rest by Robert Burns Wilson
  • Virgo by R. J. Philbrick
  • Azalia -- Part 1 of 3 -- by Joel Chandler Harris
  • Nothin' to Say by James Whitcomb Riley
  • Our Kivigtok -- An Episode of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition -- by A. W. Greely
  • Notes of a Professional Exile by E. S. Nadal
  • Low Prices, High Wages, Small Profits; What Makes Them? by Edward Atkinson
  • Opposing Sherman's Advance to Atlanta by General Joseph E. Johnston
  • Hood's Invasion of Tennessee by Colonel Henry Stone
  • Memoranda on the Civil War:

  • General Donaldson's Fortunate Mistake by R. H. Eddy
  • General Grant on the Terms at Vicksburg by General U. S. Grant
  • The Cause of a Silent Battle by John B. DeMotte
  • A Reply to Colonel Mosby by General B. H. Robertson
  • The Songs of the War by Brander Matthews and With Notes on the Battle-Hymn of the Republic by Julia Ward Howe
  • Topics of the Time:

  • An Urgent Measure of National Defense
  • The Niagara Reservation
  • Open Letters:

  • Education of the Blind -- Part 1: As Children by E. B. Perry
  • Ministerial Bureaux by Washington Gladden
  • Landscape Gardening by John Thorpe
  • Bric-a-Brac:

  • Untangling the Family Yarn by Eva M. D. Jarnette
  • In the Cafe by T. R. Sullivan
  • The Hundredth Man by G. J. Wilbur