1891/09 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Full-page portraits of the Emperor and Emperoress of Germany
  • The German Emperor by Poultney Bigelow
  • Thou Reignest Still by Louise Chandler Moulton
  • Thumb-Nail Sketches - Moglashen by George Wharton Edwards
  • A Common Story by Wolcott Balestier
  • Two Kings by William H. Hayne
  • On the Study of Tennyson by Henry Van Dyke
  • The Squirrel Inn -- Part 4 -- by Frank R. Stockton
  • The Press as a News-Gatherer -- By the Manager of the Associated Press, William Henry Smith
  • The Eleventh Hour Laborer by L. Gray Noble
  • Life on the South Shoal Lightship by Gustav Kobbe
  • Play in Province -- The Grand Arrival of the Bulls by Joseph Pennell
  • Play in Province -- The Ferrade by Joseph Pennell
  • "Alone We Come into the World" by Stuart Sterne
  • The Little Renault by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
  • On Elkhorn by Robert Burns Wilson
  • Our Summer Migration by Edward Hungerford
  • Twilight by Alexander Harrison
  • Cape Horn and Cooperative Mining in '49 by Willard B. Farwell
  • Gray Rocks and Grayer Sea by Charles G. D. Roberts
  • The White Crown by Herbert D. Ward
  • The Faith Doctor -- Part 7 -- by Edward Eggleston
  • The Clown and the Missionary by Viola Roseboro

    • Topics of the Time:

  • The Argentine Cheap Money Paradise
  • The Lottery's Last Ditch

    • Open Letters:

  • "Orthodoxy and Liberty"
  • "Valor and Skill in the Civil War" by J. T. Derry
  • Vivisection Does it Help? by Edward Berdoe
  • The Century Series of Pictures by American Artists -- Open Letter by William A. Coffin
  • Alexander Harrison by William A. Coffin
  • A Denial from the Confederate Diplomatists by Edwin De Leon
  • The Treatment of Inebriates by L. Edwin Dudley

    • Bric-a-Brac:

  • Reflections by J. A. Macon
  • Cour d'Amour. - Cupid J. by Charles Francis Coburn
  • Patience Ceased to be a Virtue by Edith M. Thomas
  • The Thoughtless Thinker by John Kendrick Bangs
  • Two Seasons by Eva Wilder McGlasson
  • Observations from the Women's Quarters by Chloe
  • Positively Pretty by Eugene Bradford Ripley
  • Sweet Mistress Nance of Milburn Town by William Page Carter
  • To an English Sparrow by George Horton