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