1893/01 -- Contents taken from the index are as follows:

  • Frontispiece -- Portrait of John Greenleaf Whittier

  • Balcony Stories. La Grande Demoiselle by Grace King with pictures by A.E. Sterner
  • The Great Wall of China by Romyn Hitchcock
  • A Winter Ride to the Great Wall of China by N. B. Dennys
  • The Million Pound Bank Note by Mark Twain
  • The Reward of the Unrighteous by George Grantham Bain with pictures by A.B. Wenzell
  • The Lights o' London by Louise Imogen Guiney
  • The Reward of the Unrighteous by George Grantham Bain with pictures by A.B. Wenzell
  • Crusty Christopher by Henry A. Beers with portrait of John Wilson
  • Whittier by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
  • The Kindergarten Movement by Talcott Williams
  • The Child-Garden by Richard Watson Gilder
  • The Story of Jean Francois Millet's Younger Life by Pierre Millet
  • An Illustrator of Dickens by Arthur Allchin with pictures by Hablot Knight Brown ("Phiz") and portrait
  • A Bridal Measure by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • The Cosmopolis City Club - Part 1 - by Washington Gladden
  • Benefits Forgot - Part 2 - by Wolcott Balestier
  • To Gipsyland by Elizabeth Robins Pennell with pictures by Joseph Pennell
  • Sherman - Letters of Two Brothers: Passages from the Correspondence of General and Senator Sherman, by William Tecumseh Sherman, John Sherman
  • Personal Studies of Indian Life by Alice C. Fletcher with pictures by A. Castaigne
  • Sweet Bells Out of Tune - Part 3 - by Mrs. Burton Harrison with pictures by Charles Dana Gibson
  • Lethe by Louise Chandler Moulton
  • New Day by Charles Washington Coleman
  • The Century Series of Pictures by American Artists. The Mother by Alice D. Kellogg
  • Notable Women: Dorothea Dix by Mary S. Robinson

    • Topics of the Time:

  • The Proposed Recession of the Yosemite Valley - Editorial
  • Columbian Exposition: New York and the World's Fair - Editorial
  • Finance, Legal tenders and Bimetallism - Editorial
  • The Kindergarten Movement: The Kindergarten not a Fad - Editorial

    • Open Letters:

  • The Kindergarten in a Nutshell by W. T. Harris
  • The Possibilities of a Kindergarten by Angeline Brooks
  • The Philanthropic Side of Kindergarten Work by Mary Katharine Young
  • Columbian Exposition: The Eye and Ear at Chicago by Daniel C. Gilman
  • American Artists Series - Alice D. Kellogg by W. Lewis Fraser

    • In Lighter Vein:

  • An Unconscious Diplomat by Alice Turner with picture by E.W. Kemble