1888/07 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Louis Pasteur and Granddaughter - Engraved by T. Johnson, after a painting by Bonnat
  • Sinai and the Wilderness by Edward L. Wilson
  • The Graysons -- A Story of Illinois -- Part 9 by Edward Eggleston
  • The Steppes of the Irtish by George Kennan
  • Disease Germs and How To Combat Them by Lucius Pitkin
  • Cathedrals. Lichfield by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • Abraham Lincoln -- A History -- Lincoln and McClellan by J. G. Nicolay, John Hay
  • Bird Music. Sparrows by Simeon Pease Cheney
  • Matthew Arnold by William P. Andrews
  • The High Tide at Gettysburg by Will H. Thompson
  • Waiting for the Bugle by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

    • The Career of the Confederate Ram "Albemarle"

  • 1. Her Construction and Service. By her Builder by Gilbert Elliott
  • 2. The "Albermarle" and the "Sassacus" by Edgar Holden
  • 3. The Destruction of the "Albermarle" by Commander W. B. Cushing
  • 4. Note by her Captain by A. F. Warley
  • A Note of Peace -- Reunions of the "Blue and the Gray" by George L. Kilmer
  • Dreams, Nightmare, and Somnambulism by J. M. Buckley
  • On the Battle-Field by Brander Matthews

    • Topics of the Time:

  • A Lay Sermon to the Clergy
  • Selfishness and Self-Interest
  • A New Branch of an Old Profession
  • The Independence of Literature

    • Open Letters:

  • The Ethics of Copyright by Washington Gladden
  • The Story of the First News Message by Telegraph by S. V.
  • The Postal Service
  • The Prohibition of Railway Pools by Thomas L. Greene
  • Matthew Arnold and Franklin by John Bigelow
  • Mary Magdalene
  • "We-uns" and "You-uns" by L. C. Catlett
  • Lincoln and Secession by M. C. Roseboro

    • Bric-A-Brac:

  • Folly Land by Danske Danbridge
  • Uncle Esek's Wisdom by Uncle Esek
  • Mac's Old Horse by M. G. McClellan
  • To J. W. R. by Patty Caryl
  • Gladness by James Whitcomb Riley
  • Minnie versus Minerva by Henry W. Austin
  • The Way To Win by Samuel Minturn Peck