1891/10 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Portrait of Rudyard Kipling
  • My Last Days in Siberia by George Kennan
  • Was it an Exceptional Case? by Matt Crim
  • Aerial Navigation -- The Power Required -- by Hiram S. Maxim -- 8 page article includes 6 illustrations
  • Besieged by the Utes - The Massacre of 1879 by E. V. Sumner
  • Ona Blank Leaf in "The Marble Faun" by Elia W. Peattie
  • Play in Province. A Water Tournament by Joseph Pennell
  • In Answer to a Question by Lilla Cabot Perry
  • The Press and Public Men by Henry V. Boynton
  • An Escapade in Cordova by F. Hopkinson Smith
  • Masks by Richard E. Burton
  • Pro Patria by R. W. Gilder
  • The Story of a Story by Brander Matthews
  • The Wood-Maid by Helen Thayer Hutcheson
  • Who Was Eldorado by H. R. Lemly with 26 illustrations
  • The Robber by James B. Kenyon
  • Italian Old Masters. Lorenzo di Credi - Perugino by W. J. Stillman
  • Rudyard Kipling by Edmund Gosse - 10 pages, all text
  • Love by William Wilfred Campbell
  • Tarrying in Nicaragua -- To California in 1849 -- by Roger S. Baldwin Jr.
  • The Personal Appearance of Lincoln by John G. Nicolay
  • The Summer Pool by Charles G. D. Roberts
  • The Faith Doctor -- Conclusion -- by Edward Eggleston

    • Topics of the Time:

  • The Century a National Magazine
  • Editorials on Finance: A Cheap Money Retrospect
  • Presidential Voting Methods
  • The Key to Municipal Reform
  • James Russell Lowell Poet and Citizen

    • Open Letters:

  • "Laurels of the American Tar in 1812"
  • Reply to Criticisms by George Kennan

    • Bric-a-Brac:

  • "Deserving Poor" by George Horton
  • The Poet Paradox by John Kendrick Bangs
  • To the St. Lawrence River in Autumn by Douglas Sladen
  • What My Clock Says by Nelly Marshall McAfee
  • Lowell (August 14th 1891) by R. W. Gilder