1885/04 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • A Florentine Mosaic -- Second Paper by William Dean Howells
  • Love's Change by Anna R. Aldrich
  • Phases of State Legislation by THEODORE ROOSEVELT
  • Wayside Music by C. H. Crandall
  • From Puget Sound to Upper Columbia by E. V. Smalley
  • The Meditations of Mr. Archie Kittrell by Richard Malcolm Johnston
  • In April by Helen Jackson
  • The Rise of Silas Lapham -- Part 6 by William Dean Howells
  • The Colonists at Home by Edward Eggleston
  • The Bostonians -- Part 3 by Henry James
  • In Winter by Louise Chandler Moulton
  • In Plain Black and White by Henry W. Grady
  • New Orleans before the Capture by George W. Cable
  • The Opening of the Lower Mississippi by David D. Porter

    • Topics of the Time:

  • Not the American Way
  • The Difference Between a Painting and a Pound of Sugar
  • Practical Politics
  • An Attempt to Save Niagara

    • Open Letters:

  • The Solid South by Edward P. Clark
  • "The School of Dishonesty" by P. H. Felker

    • Bric-A-Brac:

  • Atropos vs. Lachesis by Margaret Vandegrift
  • Changing the Subject by W. H. Hyde
  • Distance by Berry Benson
  • Ethiopiomania by Henry Tyrrell
  • Love's Seasons by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • A Waif by Alice Trumbull Learned