1891/05 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Emperor Nicholas I
  • Game Fishes of the Florida Reef by C. F. Holder
  • Illusions by Robert Underwood Johnson
  • French Salons of the Empire and the Restoration by Amelia Gere Mason
  • The Squirrel Inn by Frank R. Stockton
  • Poetry by O. C. Auringer
  • Visible Sound:

  • Part 1 -- Voice Figures by Margaret Watts Hughes
  • Part 2 -- Comment by Sophie Bledsoe Herrick
  • Of One We Love or Hate by Maurice Francis Egan
  • The Faith Doctor -- Begun in February -- by Edward Eggleston
  • Ballad of an Old Pine by John H. Boner
  • Louisa May Alcott by Josephine Lazarus
  • A Bulgarian Opera Bouffe by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • In Disguise by Frances Louise Bushnell
  • At the Court of the Czar -- Part 1 of 2 -- by George Mifflin Dallas
  • A Heady Maid by Louise Morgan Sill
  • Exhibition of Artists' Scraps and Sketches with 30 pictures by the Exhibitors, by William Fraser Fraser
  • Old Gus Lawson by Richard Malcolm Johnston
  • The Confederate Diplomatists and Their Shirt of Nessus by John Bigelow
  • Pioneer Mining in California by E. G. Waite
  • In Beaver Cove by Matt Crim
  • Topics of the Time:

  • International Copyright Accomplished
  • The National Conference of Charities and Corrections
  • Editorials on Finance: An American Cheap Money Experiment
  • Open Letters:

  • Concerning Criticisms of "Sister Dolorosa" by James Lane Allen
  • The Negro in Nashville by Charles Forster Smith
  • Vivisection Does it Help? by Thomas W. Kay
  • Vivisection Does it Help? by Mary Putnam Jacobi
  • Bric-a-Brac:

  • Observations
  • Vivisection Does it Help? by C. H. Oakes
  • Ashes by J. C. Miller
  • Friend and Lover by Mary Ainge De Vere
  • To a Thermometer by W. D. Ellwanger
  • Fame by C. H. Crandall
  • Love's Young Dream by Grace Denio Litchfield
  • The Survival of the Fittest by Virginia Frazer Boyle
  • When Youth Mounts and Folly Guides by Esther Singleton