1889/09 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Chief Justice Marshall engraved by J.H.E. Whitney after a crayon drawing by Saint Memin
  • Winged Botanists by W. Hamilton Gibson
  • Italian Old Masters Masaccio by W. J. Stillman
  • Napoleon in Exile - Unpublished Letters by British Officers - by Eleanor C. Price
  • A Forest River - Love after Life by Langdon Elwyn Mitchell
  • An American Artist in Japan by Theodore Wores
  • In the Orchard by James B. Kenyon
  • Abraham Lincoln A History - Cabinet Changes - Lincoln Reelected - Chase as Chief Justice by J.G. Nicolay and John Hay
  • To George Kennan by Nathan Haskell Dole
  • Life by Louise Morgan-Smith
  • The Pharaoh of the Exodus and His Son, in the Light of their Monuments by John A. Paine
  • "Albemarle" Cushing by James Jeffrey Roche
  • The Poet by Richard E. Burton
  • The History of the Kara Political Prison by George Kennan
  • Attalie Brouillard by George W. Cable
  • Jufrow van Steen by Anna Eichberg King
  • The Old Bascom Place - Part 2 of 3 - by Joel Chandler Harris
  • Saint-Memin's Portrait of Marshall by Joseph P. Bradley
  • Telegraphing in Battle by J. Emmet O'Brien

    • Topics of the Time:

  • Ballot Reform Progress
  • Eight Hours a Day

    • Open Letters:

  • The Centenary of Fenimore Cooper by Brander Matthews
  • Strange True Stories of Louisiana. Salome Muller by George W. Cable

    • Bric-A-Brac:

  • Reflections by J. A. Macon
  • The Apple by George Birdseye
  • Chloris and Corydon by Scollard Clinton
  • The Dog Stealer's Story by Maria Bowen Chapin
  • Song of a Blue-Bird's Egg by Eli Shepperd