1892/12 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Madonna and Child -- From a painting by Dagnan-Bouveret
  • Madonna of Dagnan-Bouveret by Robert Underwood Johnson
  • Picturesque New York by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer -- 11 page article with 12 illustrations by F.W. Mielatz and T.R. Manly - Shown are The Battery - Coenties Slip - On the East River - A Rainy Night, Madison Square - East River at Grand Steet - The Tombs - Elevated Railroad Station - Two Bridges on the Harlem - In Central Park - An Old Lane, Boulevard Near 94th Street - Boulevard Near 95th Street - In Shantytown
  • Madonna by Harrison S. Morris
  • My Cousin Fanny by Thomas Nelson Page
  • Ringing the Christmas Bells from a painting by Edwin H. Blashfield
  • The New Cashier by Edward Eggleston with picture by Charles Dana Gibson
  • Seeming Failure by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • Benefits Forgot -- Part 1 -- by Wolcott Balestier
  • Notable Women: I: Jenny Lind by Ronald J. McNeill
  • Noel by Richard Watson Gilder
  • Cid Ruy the Campeador by John Malone
  • Sweet Bells Out of Tune -- Part 2 -- by Mrs. Burton Harrison
  • Compensation by John Hay
  • A Knight of the Legion of Honor by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • Leaves from the Autobiography of Tommaso Salvini
  • Impressions of Browning and his Art by Stopford A. Brooke
  • Present-Day Papers: The Problem of Poverty by Washington Gladden
  • The Mother from a painting by Edward E. Simmons
  • To Gipsyland by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
  • After the Rain by Mary E. Wilkins
  • The Effect of Scientific Study upon Religious Belief by H. S. Williams
  • The Gipsy Trail -- A poem by Rudyard Kipling
  • Balcony Stories. A Drama of Three by Grace King
  • The Annunciation from a painting by Mary L. Macomber
  • Serene's Religious Experience: An Inland Story by Cornelia Atwood Pratt
  • War Correspondence as a Fine Art by Archibald Forbes
  • Their Christmas Meeting by Florence Watters Snedeker

    • Topics of the Time:

  • The First Duty of Congress by Editorial
  • Government Architecture in America by Editorial
  • Immigration Problems by Editorial

    • Open Letters:

  • American Painters in the Christmas Century by W. Lewis Fraser
  • To Persons Desiring to Cultivate a Taste in Music by W. J. Henderson
  • Some Tenement-House Evils by Lilliam W. Betts
  • The Prevention of Blindness in Infants by Swan M. Burnett

    • In Lighter Vein:

  • Some More Boys -- Poems by James Whitcomb Riley
  • Dear Old Gotham by William Bard McVickar
  • Observations by Manley H. Pike
  • Opportunity by Margaret Vandegrift
  • Beauty by Frank Dempster Sherman