1906/08 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: The Sweet Girl Graduate - Drawing in Color by Howard Chandler Christy
  • The Catching of the Cod by William J. Henderson with pictures by M.J. Burns
  • the Doubtful Age -- Part 2 of a Story by Annie C. Muirhead with pictures by Clarence F. Underwood
  • When Capital "Took Holt" -- A Story -- by Caroline Lockhart
  • French Cathedrals -- Notre Dame, Paris - Cathedral of St. denis - St. Etienne du Mont -- by Elizabeth Robins Pennell with Pictures by Joseph Pennell
  • Running Water -- Part 1 of a Story -- by A.E.W. Mason with picture by H.S. Potter
  • Two Poems: 1. For a Guest-Book 2. Innogen by S. Weir Mitchell
  • Seeing France With Uncle John -- Part 3 of a Story -- by Anne Warner
  • Hand-Of-Love -- A Story by Rose Young
  • Vesuvius in Fury -- Causes and Characteristics of the Great Eruption of April, 1906 by William P. Andrews with pictures from pastels by Charles Caryl Coleman (two in color) and from photographs, and map
  • Heroic San Francisco -- A Woman's Story of the Pluck and Heroism of the People of the Striken City -- by Louise Herrick Wall with Drawings in pastel by C. Dormon Robinson (one in color)
  • The Humorist -- A Story -- by Dorothea Deakin with pictures by Clarence F. Underwood

  • Gilbert Stuart's Portraits of Men -- John Trumbull by Charles Henry Hart
  • A Mass on the Matterhorn --- Pictures from Photographs
  • Why Some Boys Take to Farming by L.H. Bailey
  • The Smoky City Is My Nest by Anita Fitch
  • Sketch Plans for Outing Cottages
    I. A Summer Cottage by Michael Stillman
    II. Log-House with plans by Thomas Tryon
    III. A Forest Hunting Lodge by Joseph henry Freedlander
  • Cole's Engravings of Old Spanish Masters -- A Spanish Flower-Girl by Murillo -- Engraved on Wood by Timothy Cole
  • Mrs. Dunkin's Morning Call -- A Story by Edith M. Willett
  • Arbutus by Lorraine Roosevelt
  • The Future of San Francisco -- Plan of the Proposed New City -- by Benjamin Ide Wheeler
  • To San Francisco by S.J. Alexander
  • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Topics of the Time
  • Open Letters
  • In Lighter Vein