1888/04 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • From Dan to Beersheba by Edward L. Wilson with illustrations by Irving R. Wiles, J.D. Woodward, G.W. Edwards, H.W. Hall, Otto H. Bacher and Henry Fenn
  • Motherhood by Abby S. Hinckley

  • The Graysons (Serial begun in November) by Edward Eggleston

  • Bird Music: The Bluebird and the Robin by Simeon Pease Cheney
  • The Realm of Reverie by Louise Vickroy Boyd
  • The Round-Up by Theodore Roosevelt and illustrated by Frederic Remington - includes 12 Remington illustrations of various sizes with the largest being a full page
  • Robert Louis Stevenson by Henry James with portrait by J.W. Alexander - 10-1/2 pages of text plus the Stevenson portrait which is another full page
  • Surprises by Julia C.R. Dorr

  • The Russian Penal Code by George Kennan
  • A Song of Life by Richard E. Burton

  • Thefts of the Morning by Edith M. Thomas
  • The Works of Elisha Mulford by T.T. Munger

  • Marse Phil by Thomas Nelson Page and illustrated by E.W. Kemble

  • Abraham Lincoln: The National Uprising by John G. Nicolay and John Hay with illustrations from photographs and maps by DeLancy Gill and Jacob Wells

  • Love's Imagining by Hopestill Goodwin
  • To Carmen Sylva by Emma Lazarus
  • The American Inventors of the Telegraph by Franklin Leonard Pope with illustrations from photographs, daguerrotypes and drawins by S.F.B. Morse, A.M. Turner, Harry Fenn, H.C. Edwards, and others
  • The Struggle by Danske Dandridge
  • Two Kentucky Gentlemen of the Old School by James Lane Allen with illustrations by E.W. Kemble
  • Memoranda of the Civil War