1891/12 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • The Century's Christmas Pictures -- The Holy Family by Frank Vincent Du Mond
  • The Christ-Child by Richard Watson Gilder
  • Italian Old Masters -- Raphael by W. J. Stillman
  • At First by Amanda T. Jones
  • The Century's Christmas Pictures -- The Arrival of the Shepherds by H. Lerolle
  • The Shepherds by Edith M. Thomas
  • The Christmas Shadrach by Frank R. Stockton
  • The Midnight Call by Kate Putnam Osgood
  • The Naulahka a Story of East and West -- Part 2 -- by Rudyard Kipling and Wolcott Balestier - 12 pages
  • The Rapture of Hetty by Mary Hallock Foote
  • Queen Elizabeth by Rose Terry Cooke
  • The Century's Christmas Pictures -- The Appearance of the Angel to the Shepherds by P. Lagarde
  • Mozart - After a Hundred Years by Amelia Gere Mason
  • Remembrance by William Sharp
  • A Christmas Fantasy with a Moral by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • The Two Lessons by Thomas W. Higginson
  • The Century's Christmas Pictures -- The Annunciation to the Shepherds by J. Bastien Lepage
  • The Bowery by Julian Ralph
  • Childhood by Viola Roseboro
  • The Century's Christmas Pictures -- Holy Night by Fritz Von Uhde
  • The Ocean from Real Life by John A. Beebe
  • Science and Immortality by Augustus Jay DuBois
  • Frost-Flowers by William Prescott Foster
  • Sympathy by Charles H. Crandall
  • The Golden Age of Pastel by Elizabeth Wells Champney
  • The Long Ago by Julie M. Lippmann
  • The Century's Christmas Pictures by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • Wulfy: A Waif -- A Christmas Sketch by Vida D. Scudder
  • An Offertory by Mary Mapes Dodge
  • The Century's Christmas Pictures -- Madonna by Dagnan-Bouveret
  • The Song of the Brook by Mary Ainge DeVere
  • Characteristics -- Part 1 -- by S. Weir Mitchell
  • Sherman and the San Francisco Vigilantes -- Unpublished Letters by General W. T. Sherman - Just over 13 pages

    • Topics of the Time:

  • The Senate Charities Aid Association
  • The Century Christmas
  • Editorials on Finance. The "Per Capita" Delusion
  • The World's Columbian Exhibition

    • Open Letters:

  • John Boyle O'Reilly as a Poet of Humanity by George Parsons Lathrop
  • The New England Kitchen by Maria Parloa
  • Playgrounds and Parks for Children by Walter Vrooman

    • In Lighter Vein:

  • Smithy Song by George Horton
  • Understood by William B. McVickar
  • The Blue and the Gray by R. W. P. Noble
  • Embarrassing to a Modest Man by John Kendrick Bangs
  • Friends Only by F. H. Curtiss
  • Jack Frost by Esther B. Tiffany
  • The Little Tunker Bonnet by Benjamin S. Parker
  • A Paradox by Lydia C. Heckman
  • Christmas Day by Alice Williams Brotherton
  • A Christmas Toast by John H. Boner
  • To a Southern Girl by James G. Burnett