1889/04 -- Washington's Inauguration -- Centennial Number

Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • The Inauguration of Washington by Clarence Winthrop Bowen -- 31 pages
  • Washington at Mount Vernon after the Revolution by Mrs. Burton Harrison -- 16 pages
  • Washington in New York in 1789 by Mrs. Burton Harrison -- 10 pages
  • Original Portraits of Washington by Charles Henry Hart
  • A Century of Constitutional Interpretation by John Bach McMaster
  • Sixty and Six; or, A Fountain of Youth by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • The Last Assembly Ball by Mary Hallock Foote
  • The Russian Police by George Kennan
  • A Scout with the Buffalo-Soldiers by Frederic Remington and illustrated by the author - 13 pages with 12 illustrations
  • A Born Inventor by Harry Stillwell Edwards
  • Music in Heaven by Christopher P. Cranch
  • Abraham Lincoln: A History -- Retaliation -- The Enrollment and the Draft -- by John G. Nicolay and John Hay
  • A Jest Fate by Viola Roseboro
  • Italian Old Masters -- Ambrogio Lorenzetti -- by W. J. Stillman
  • Some Aspects of the Samoan Question by George H. Bates
  • Topics of the Time:

  • The First Inauguration
  • Constitutional Amendments
  • The Coast and the Navy
  • Republicanism in France
  • Open Letters:

  • A Trained Military Reserve by several
  • Railway Relief Associations by L. O. Goddard
  • "The University and the Bible" by John B. Daish
  • Imperial Federation by Charles H. Lugrin
  • Bric-a-Brac:

    That Poet of the Future by Charles Henry Webb

  • The Prime of Life by Walter Learned
  • Spring by Louise Morgan Smith
  • Cupid Hath Wings by Kemper Bocock
  • De Jingle ob de Bells on de Cows by Edwards A. Oldham
  • April by William Zachary Gladwin
  • Wampum by Arthur Penn