1888/08 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of George Kennan - Engraved by T. Johnson
  • A Home of the Silent Brotherhood -- The Abbey of La Trappe in Kentucky by James Lane Allen
  • A Man's Reproach by Arlo Bates
  • Home Culture Clubs by George W. Cable
  • The Cricket by Charles Edwin Markham
  • My Meeting with Political Exiles by George Kennan
  • Death by Florence Earle Coates
  • The Graysons -- A Story of Illinois -- Conclusion by Edward Eggleston
  • A Mexican Campaign -- Part 1 of 3 by Thomas A. Janvier
  • The Crying Bog -- A Legend of Narragansett by Caroline Hazard
  • The Experiments of Miss Sally Cash by Richard Malcolm Johnston
  • The Knight in the Silver Mail by Minna Irving
  • Abraham Lincoln -- A History -- Tennessee and Kentucky by J. G. Nicolay, John Hay
  • Lincoln Cathedral by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • Sidereal Astronomy -- Old and New by Edward S. Holden
  • Still Days and Stormy by Richard E. Burton
  • The Heart of the Southern Catskills by John Burroughs
  • The Pulpit for To-Day by Lyman Abbott
  • George Kennan by Anna Laurens Dawes
  • The Only Foe by Celia Thaxter

    • Memoranda on the Civil War

  • General Lee's Views on Enlisting the Negroes by Andrew Hunter
  • Some Errors in General Sherman's "Grand Strategy" by W. Allen

    • Topics of the Time:

  • An Administrative Novelty
  • Modern Science in its Relations to Pain
  • Socialism and the "Trusts"

    • Open Letters:

  • The Teacher's Vacation by H. W. Compton
  • More Anecdotes of Father Taylor by John Codman
  • Extend the Merit System by P. F. Hallock
  • Abolition of Slavery by the Cherokees byGeorge E. Foster

    • Bric-A-Brac:

  • Observations by Ivan Panin
  • Consolation by M. E. W.
  • Divided by C. E. S.
  • The Friend of Ages Ago by Charles Henry Webb
  • The Ladies of Manhattan by G. F. Jones
  • Love in Leap-Year by Kemper Bocock
  • The Tale of the Tiger by M. S. Hopson