1891/03 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of William Cullen Bryant
  • General Crook in the Indian Country by Captain John G. Bourke
  • The Faith Doctor --Part 2 -- by Edward Eggleston
  • The Century Club by A. R. Macdonough
  • Australian Cities by George R. Parkin
  • Moonlight by Celia Thaxter
  • Aux Invalides by Edgar Fawcett
  • The Memoirs of Talleyrand by Talleyrand
  • Plain Living at Johnson's Island by Horace Carpenter
  • A Mystery of the Sea by Edwin K. Buttolph
  • Through Eastern Tibet and Central China by W. Woodville Rockhill
  • The Utopian Pointer by David Dodge
  • Give Me Not Tears by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
  • Colonel Carter of Cartersville -- Part 5 -- by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • Penhallow by Edith Robinson
  • Resume of Fremont's Expedition by M. N. O.
  • The Origin of the Fremont Explorations by Jessie Benton Fremont
  • Rough Times in Rough Places by Micajah McGehee
  • Montgomery and Fremont by Josiah Royce
  • Three Gold Dust Stories by J. F. B. Marshall
  • Topics of the Time:

  • The People and Finance
  • Organized Municipal Reform
  • Unregarded Literary Standards
  • Success With Honor
  • Walter Howe
  • Open Letters:

  • Mr. Lodge on Civil Service Reform by William B. Aiken
  • Working Girls' Clubs by Florence Lockwood
  • Two Monuments by Horace F. Cutter
  • Two Interviews with Robert E. Lee by W. W. Page
  • Madame de Remusat on Talleyrand and Bonaparte
  • What of the Desert by J. W. Gregory
  • Washington and Talleyrand by Cephas Brainerd
  • Bric-a-Brac:

  • To Her Quill Pen by Frederick A. Stokes
  • The Looked-For Man by Margaret Gilman George
  • Reflections by Charles D. Stewart
  • I Kilt Er Cat by Virginia Frazer Boyle
  • The Poet Undone by John Kendrick Bangs
  • Hans's Hundred Dollars by Doane Robinson
  • The White, White Rose by William Page Carter
  • The Smoker in a Tunnel by Charles Henry Luders