1890/09 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of the Princess de Conti
  • The Women of the French Salons - Part 5 - by Amelia Gere Mason with portraits, and with drawing and decorative borders by G.W. Edwards
  • Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park by John Muir with pictures by J.A. Fraser, Thomas Moran, William Keith, A.B. Davies, by sketches and from photographs by George Fiske
  • Our New Naval Guns by Commander C.F. Goodrich with pictures by W. Taber, August Will, D. Comins. Diagrams by Jacob Wells
  • The Anglomaniacs - Conclusion - Pictures by Charles Dana Gibson (3 Gibson illustrations)
  • Present-Day Papers - The Social Problems of Church Unity - by Charles W. Shields, D.D.
  • Louis Benson's Love Story by Anne Page
  • Souvenirs by Lloyd McKim Garrison
  • The Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson -- Part 11 -- by Joseph Jefferson with portraits and drawings
  • Wells Cathedral by M.G. van Rensselaer with pictures by Joseph Pennell
  • In the Marble Hills by Rowland E. Robinson with pictures by J.A.S. Monks
  • An Artist's Letters from Japan by John La Farge with pictures by the author
  • September by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Friend Olivia -- Part 11 -- by Amelia E. Barr
  • Love's Dream by John Hay
  • How California Came into the Union by George Hamlin Fitch