1885/10 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:
Frontispiece: Portrait of Samuel Bowles — Engraved by Henry Velten from a photograph
The Great River of Alaska — Part 2: Exploring the Upper and Lower Yukon by Frederick Schwatka
A Study in Independent Journalism by George S. Merriam
A Poet’s Soliloquy by Christopher P. Cranch
“Love at First Sight” by Brander Matthews
The Summer Haunts of American Artists by Lizzie W. Champney
The Gray Gull’s Wing by Mary Allen
The Bostonians — Part 9 by Henry James
The Canada Pacific Railway by George M. Grant
Tuscan Cities by William Dean Howells
March in Janiveer by H. C. Bunner
Riverside Park by William A. Stiles
The Last Days of General Grant by General Adam Badeau — Just over 20 pages with illustrations
Lincoln and Grant by Gen. Horace Porter
Reminiscences of General Grant by Gen. James Harrison Wilson
The Dead Comrade by Richard Watson Gilder
“Taps.” August 8, 1885 by F. M. Newton
Bigotry by Edgar Fawcett
Zweibak: Being Notes of a Professional Exile
Memoranda on the Civil War:
A “Famous Saying” Contradicted by Gen. D. C. Buell
General Heintzelman in the Peninsula Campaign by Mary L. Heintzelman
National Memorials of the Civil War by Charles W. Eldridge
General Grant’s Premonition by M. E. Seawell
Topics of the Time:
North and South
Prejudice and Progress
Civic Rivers
Open Letters:
The Connecticut Training School for Nurses
In the Chilcat Country by Mrs. Eugene S. Willard
Police Reform by L. Edwin Dudley
“Hunting the Rocky Mountain Goat”
Bric-A-Brac:
Accepted by Robertson Trowbridge
Madrigal by Frank Dempster Sherman
The Wood-Sprite by Roger Riordan
Compensations by J. A. Macon
Hobson’s Choice by Francis E. Leupp
My Rival by Bessie Chandler
The Race by Charles G. Blanden