1890/05 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of George Washington by James Wright
  • Archibald Robertson, and His Portraits of the Washingtons by Edith Robertson Cleveland with pictures by Archibald Rutledge and Andrew Robertson
  • Some New Washington Relics by William Armstrong and Edmund Law Rogers with pictures by Harry Fenn
  • Original Portraits of Washington by Charles Henry Hart with portrait by John Ramage from an old print
  • "Twilight Song" for Unknown Buried Soldiers, North and South by Walt Whitman
  • Two Views of Marie Bashkirtseff - Pictures
  • The Fallen by John Vance Cheney

  • Friend Olivia -- Part 7 -- by Amelia E. Barr
  • Chickens for Use and Beauty by H.S. Babcock with pictures by James C. Beard and August Will
  • Since Amy Died by Andrew B. Saxton
  • The Fighting Parson by Henry Ames Blood with pictures by G.W. Edwards
  • "Blacked Out" by George Kennan with facsimile of pages blacked out by Russian Censors
  • A Study of Consciousness by H.C. Wood
  • The Women of the French Salons by Amelia Gere Mason with pictures by Kenyon Cox, John A. Frasor, M. Leloir, and August Will
  • Andrea del Verrocchio by W.J. Stillman with engraving by T. Cole
  • Fickle Hope by Harrison S. Morris
  • A Decoration Day Revery by Brander Matthews with tailpiece by R.W. Lockwood
  • The Night Scene by James Herbert Morse
  • Theodore O'Hara by Robert Burns Wilson with pictures by Harry Fenn
  • Institutions for the Arid Lands by Major J.W. Powell

  • The Romance of Two Cameras by Elizabeth W. Champney
  • Travis and Major Jonathan Wilby by Richard Malcolm Johnston with pictures by A.B. Frost

  • "I Vex Me Not with brooding on the Years" by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • The Autobiography of Joseph Jeffersopn -- Part 7 -- by Joseph Jefferson

    • Valor and Skill in the Civil War:

  • Was Either the Better Soldier? by General Theodore Ayrault Dodge
  • Which Was the Better Army? by Charles A. Patch