1889/08 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Alfred Lord Tennyson engraved by T. Johnson from a photograph by Mrs. Cameron
  • The Stream of Pleasure - The River Thames by Elizabeth Robins Pennell
  • Afternoon at the Ranch - Part 9 of Pictures of the Far West by Mary Hallock Foote
  • The Poison of Serpents by S. Weir Mitchell
  • The Bible in Tennyson by Henry van Dyke
  • State Criminals at the Kara Mines by George Kennan
  • Artist Wanderings Among the Cheyennes by Frederic Remington - 10 pages inlcuding 10 illustrations of varying sizes by the author
  • Across the Fields to Anne by Richard E. Burton
  • Something Wrong by Julia G. Skinner
  • Abraham Lincoln A History: The Chicago Surrender - Conspiracies in the North - Lincoln and the Churches by J. G. Nicolay and John Hay
  • To a Painter by Celia Thaxter
  • Wood-engravers in Camp by Frank French
  • Originality in Wood-engraving by Elbridge Kingsley
  • Painter-engraving by W. B. Closson
  • The New School of Engraving by John P. Davis
  • Brook Song by James Herbert Morse
  • The Peter-Bird by Henry Thompson Stanton
  • The "Haunted House" in Royal Street by George W. Cable
  • How Man's Messenger Outran the Moon by David P. Todd
  • Security by Alice Wellington Rollins
  • The Old Bascom Place -- Part 1 of 3 -- by Joel Chandler Harris
  • Uncalendared by Charlotte Fiske Bates
  • Italian Old Masters. Fra Angelico by W. J. Stillman
  • A Positive Romance by Edward Bellamy
  • A Song of the Woodland Spirit by Robert Burns Wilson

    • Topics of the Time

  • The Lessons of Summer Travel
  • Tipping
  • Editorial
  • The Washington Memorial Arch

    • Open Letters:

  • Union Veterans and their Pensions by George L. Kilmer
  • "The Use of Oil to Still the Waves" by George Gladstone

    • Bric-A-Brac:

  • A Fence Corner Oration by Harry Stillwell Edwards
  • The Sensitive Visitor by Orelia Key Bell
  • Constancy by George Birdseye
  • Forgotten Books by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • An Unpublished Song by Thomas Moore
  • To Rose Mistress by Louise Chandler Moulton
  • Two Loves by Cora Stuart Wheeler