1891/04 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci -- Engraved from the original by T. Cole
  • Salons of the Revolution and the Empire by Amelia Gere Mason
  • Light by R. K. Munkittrick
  • Poems: The Four Winds; Under the Breaker; Rain on the Peaks; A Day in June -- by Charles Henry Luders
  • Charles Henry Luders (Died January 21st, 1891) by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • "There were Ninety and Nine" by Richard Harding Davis
  • Fetishism in Congo Land by E. J. Glave
  • An Inflated Currency Act by David Dodge
  • Leonardo Da Vinci -- Italian Old Masters by W. J. Stillman
  • Cold Cheer at Camp Morton by John A. Wyeth
  • Early Intercourse of the Wordsworths and De Quincy

    • Two Expeditions to Mount St. Elias:

  • The Expedition of "The New York Times" (1886) by Frederick Schwatka
  • The Expedition of the National Geographic Society and the United States Geological Survey (1890) by Israel C. Russell (12 pages)
  • The Twenty-Third of April by Richard Watson Gilder
  • Colonel Carter of Cartersville by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • Herr Von Striempfell's Experiment by Allan McLane Hamilton
  • A Race Romance by Maurice Thompson
  • To California, by Panama in '49, by Julius H. Pratt
  • The Conquest of California by John Charles Fremont
  • The Official Policy for the Acquisition of California
  • Hardships of the Isthmus in '49 by A. C. Ferris
  • Spanish Jealousy of Vancouver by John T. Doyle
  • The Faith Doctor (Begun in February) by Edward Eggleston
  • And After by Arlo Bates
  • Washington and Frederick the Great by Moncure D. Conway

    • Topics of the Time:

  • A "Cheap Money" Lesson
  • The Effect of Christian Science and Mind Cure
  • Country Roads

    • Open Letters:

  • A Play and an Actor by L. Clarke Davis
  • The Discoveries of Koch, Pasteur, and Others by Mary Putnam Jacobi
  • The Builders of the First "Monitor"

    • Bric-a-Brac:

  • "Literary Clog-Dancing" by Margaret Janvier
  • The Riding School by Bemis Fuller Gill
  • One of the Palls by Doane Robinson
  • "Castagne Italiane" by Henrietta Stuart
  • Green Mountain Philosophy by Arthur F. Rice
  • Bookish Quatrains: Wise and Otherwise by John Kendrick Bangs
  • Fit Weeds by James Herbert Morse
  • Dora's Eyes by Irving S. Underhill
  • A Revised Fable by Caroline Evans
  • "W'en de Silk on de Ros'n Ears Turn" by Edward A. Oldham