1890/08 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Madonna and Child by Sandro Botticelli, engraved by T. Cole
  • The Treasures of the Yosemite by John Muir with pictures by J.A. Fraser, Harry Fenn, W.H. Shelton, and A.B. Davies after photographs by George Fiske. Maps by Jacob Wells.
  • The Making of the Pearl by Harriet Prescott Spofford
  • Italian Old Masters - Sandro Botticelli - by W.J. Stillman with engravings by T. Cole
  • The Perils and the Romance of Whaling by Gustav Kobbe with pictures by W. Taber, J.O. Davidson, and Howard Helmick
  • The Emancipation of Joseph Peloubet by John Elliott Curran with pictures by H. Pennington
  • The Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson -- Part 10 - by Joseph Jefferson with portraits
  • The Forgotten Millions by President Charles W. Eliot
  • Poems by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • An Artist's Letters from Japan by John La Farge with pictures by the author
  • (They Said.) by Edith M. Thomas
  • The Anglomaniacs - Part 3 - with Pictures by Charles Dana Gibson - 4 illustrations by Gibson
  • A Provencal Pilgrimage -- Part 2 -- by Harriet W. Preston with pictures by Joseph Pennell
  • Marian Drurie by Bliss Carmen
  • The Women of the French Salons by Amelia Gere Mason with portraits and pictures by A. Brennan
  • A Song of Growth by Charles G.D. Roberts
  • A Yankee in Andersonville -- Part 2 -- by T.H. Mann, M.D. with pictures by W. Taber
  • Friend Olivia -- Part 10 -- by Amelia E. Barr
  • Guilielmus Rex by Thomas Bailey Aldrich