1889/05 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Cinching Up -- Pictures of the Far West -- by Mary Hallock Foote
  • Italian Old Masters -- Orcagna -- by W. J. Stillman
  • Samoa: The Isles of the Navigators by Harvey W. Whitaker
  • Our Relations to Samoa by George H. Bates
  • The Tuscarora's Mission to Samoa by Captain Henry Erben
  • Roby's Christian Charity by James T. McKay
  • Round about Jerusalem by Edward L. Wilson
  • Salome Muller -- A Strange True Story of Louisiana -- by George W. Cable
  • A Ride Through the Trans-Baikal by George Kennan
  • Tom's Strategy by Harry Stillwell Edwards with illustration by Charles Dana Gibson
  • At Break of Day by Dora Read Goodale
  • Recollections of Jean Francois Millet by Wyatt Eaton
  • Unhindered by Charlotte Fiske Bates
  • The Last Assembly Ball -- Part 3 -- by Mary Hallock Foote
  • The Monasteries of Ireland by Charles de Kay
  • The Lamentable Ballad of the Bloody Brook by Edward Everett Hale
  • Abraham Lincoln: A History -- The President and the Draft -- Vallandigham -- The Peace Party at the Polls -- by John G. Nicolay and John Hay
  • The Western Soldier by Henry King
  • Topics of the Time:

  • No New Sectional Division
  • Office Seeking the Man
  • Soldiers' Memorial Services
  • Open Letters:

  • Fraternization - The Blue and the Gray by George L. Kilmer
  • Gen. McClellan's Baggage Destroying Orders by Gen. James F. Rusling and George E. Corson
  • The Abuse of Applause by Philip G. Hubert, Jr.
  • Bric-a-Brac:

  • Arcady by Harrison S. Morris
  • At the Sign of the Blind Cupid by Walter Learned
  • The Toast by Margaret Crosby
  • Paragraphs from the German of Friedrich Nietzsche by Helen Watterson - This is just a paragraph of 12 2-line quotes translater from Nietzsche
  • Ad Astra by Frank Dempster Sherman