1886/05 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne - Engraved by T. Johnson after a daguerreotype taken about 1848
  • Recent Architecture in America -- Part 1 by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • The Minister's Charge -- Part 4 by William Dean Howells
  • The Flour Mills of Minneapolis by Eugene V. Smalley
  • To the Memory of H. H. by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Iduna by George A. Hibbard
  • A Betrothal by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • A Californian's Gift to Science: Lick Observatory by Taliesin Evans
  • Control by Sidney Lanier
  • To Will H. Low -- A Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson - A half page
  • Perturbed Spirits by Brander Matthews
  • Reunion (Regimental Officers, 1885) by David L. Proudfit
  • Hawthorne's Philosophy by Julian Hawthorne
  • The Breeding of Fancy Pigeons by E. S. Starr
  • Evolution and the Faith by T. T. Munger
  • Zweibak; or, Notes of a Professional Exile -- Part 3
  • Two Views of It by Anthony Morehead
  • The Helmet of Mambrino by Clarence King
  • From the Peninsula to Antietam

  • Posthumous Notes by Gen. George B. McClellan -- 9 pages including illustrations
  • With an Introduction by Literary Executor by William C. Prime
  • Recollections of a Private -- Part 7: McClellan at the Head of the Grand Army by Warren Lee Goss
  • The Battle of South Mountain or Boonsboro by Gen. D. H. Hill
  • Memoranda on the Civil War

  • In Reply to General Grant by Gen. William Farrar Smith
  • Topics of the Time

  • George Bancroft on the Legal-Tender Decision
  • Copyright
  • James Russell Lowell's Bible Argument
  • The American Opera Company
  • A Readjustment of the Industrial Order
  • Labor Question
  • Open Letters

  • The True South vs the Silent South by John W. Johnston
  • The True South vs the Silent South by George W. Cable
  • On the South Kensington School for Cookery by Mary B. Welch
  • Bric-A-Brac:

  • An Easter Lay by David Rorty
  • Spring by Bessie Chandler
  • Time and Love by Harold van Santvoord