1890/04 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Madonna and Child by Giovanni Bellini -- Engraved by T. Cole
  • The Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson -- Part 6 -- by Joseph Jefferson
  • Friend Olivia by Amelia E. Barr
  • The Slave-Trade in the Congo Basin by E. J. Glave
  • The Herr Maestro by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
  • Suggestions for the Next World's Fair by Georges Berger
  • The Harbor of Dreams by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • The Furrow by Charles G. D. Roberts
  • Old Italian Masters -- Giovanni Bellini -- by W. J. Stillman
  • The Shrines of Iyeyasu and Iyemitsu -- An Artist's Letters by John La Farge
  • Tolstoi by Margaret Crosby
  • A Friendship by Ellen Burroughs
  • A Mystery by Helen Gray Cone
  • The Serpent Mound of Ohio by F. W. Putnam
  • The Latest Siberian Tragedy by George Kennan
  • Daffodils by Lizette Woodworth Reese
  • The Old Poetic Guild in Ireland by Charles de Kay
  • Robert Browning by Aubrey de Vere
  • On the Fur Seal Islands by Charles Bryant
  • "And His Will is Our Peace" by Celia Thaxter
  • A Dusky Genius by Maurice Thompson
  • The Non-Irrigable Lands of the Arid Region by Major J. W. Powell
  • A World-Literature by T. W. Higginson
  • The Shoshone Falls by John Codman
  • "The Little Man in the Tinshop" by James Whitcomb Riley
  • That Yank from New York by John Heard, Jr.
  • The Ideal by Katherine Lee Bates
  • Present-Day Papers -- A Programme for Labor Reform by Richard T. Ely

    • Topics of the Time:

  • Longer Terms and Less Rotation
  • "The People"
  • Loyalty in Employment

    • Open Letters:

  • Judge Holt and the Lincoln Conspirators by Horatio King
  • Boston Corbett by Austin Potter
  • An Anecdote of the Blairs by Eliza Clagett Allen
  • "The White League of New Orleans" by F. R. Southmayd, G. W. Cable
  • Congo by Herbert Probert

    • Bric-a-Brac:

  • Drawings by E. W. Kemble
  • Whar Dem Axes Use to Ring by William Page Carter
  • Leigh Hunt, My Bird by Orelia Key Bell
  • Poems versus Peanuts by DeWitt C. Lockwood
  • Aladdin by Brainerd Prescott Emery