1891/02 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Talleyrand
  • The Georgia Cracker in the Cotton Mills by Clare de Graffenreid
  • A Dead World by Edgar Fawcett
  • Emmy by Mary E. Wilkins
  • The Mirror -- From a Painting by Dennis M. Bunker
  • Penelope's Swains by Mrs. Burton Harrison
  • To George B. Butler by Richard Henry Stoddard
  • Fremont in the Conquest of California by Gen. John Bidwell
  • The Discovery of Gold in California by John S. Hittell
  • Marshall's Own Account of the Gold Discovery by Charles B. Gillespie
  • Confirming the Gold Discovery by E. C. Kemble
  • The Faith Doctor -- Part 1 -- by Edward Eggleston
  • Balaam and his Master by Joel Chandler Harris
  • Theodore Rousseau and the French Landscape School by Charles DeKay
  • A Monody on the Death of Wendell Phillips by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • Sister Dolorosa -- Part 3 -- by James Lane Allen
  • In London Town by Walter Learned
  • Colonel Carter of Cartersville -- Part 4 -- by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • Northern Tibet and the Yellow River by W. Woodville Rockhill
  • The Anglo-Saxon in the Southern Hemisphere: The Working Man in Australia by George R. Parkin
  • The Memoirs of Talleyrand -- With an Introduction by Whitelaw Reid
  • Topics of the Time:

  • Regulating the Lobby
  • The Salary Problem
  • Early Education in Literature
  • Women
  • Open Letters:

  • The Opening of Johns Hopkins Medical School to Women
  • The Artist Bunker by William A. Coffin
  • Bric-a-Brac:

  • Songs of Ireland by Jennie E. T. Dowe
  • A Snow Fancy by Annie Bronson King
  • An Anglomaniac by Edward Irenaeus Stevenson
  • Back From Town by James Whitcomb Riley
  • Our Engine House by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
  • The Poet's Trial by John Kendrick Bangs
  • To a Lady in London