1883/09 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Robert Burns, from a miniature which belonged to his sister -- Engraved by T. Johnson
  • Cape Cod by F. Mitchell
  • A Woman's Reason -- Part 8 by William Dean Howells
  • A Musk-Ox Hunt by Frederick Schwatka
  • The Tragedies of the Nests by John Burroughs
  • Will New York Be the Final World Metropolis? by William C. Conant
  • At Castle Hill, Newport, R.I. by Charles de Kay
  • Indian War in the Colonies by Edward Eggleston
  • Ornamental Forms in Nature by Roger Riordan
  • Professor Agassiz's Laboratory by Ernest Ingersoll
  • Wonderland by George Edgar Montgomery
  • The Bread-winners -- Part 2
  • A Burns Pilgrimage by H.H.

  • Love's Power by Josephine Pollard
  • Our Story by Frank R. Stockton
  • Death's First Lesson by Susan Marr Spalding
  • Love in Old Clothes by H.C. Bunner
  • Nights with Uncle Remus -- Part 3 by Joel Chandler Harris

    • Topics of the Time

  • The Temperance Outlook
  • The Reticence of American Politicians
  • "College-Bred" Statesmen

    • Open Letters:

  • New York as a Field for Fiction by H.C. Bunner
  • The Woman's Christian Temperance Union by Frances E. Willard
  • The Massachusetts Experiment in Education by Charles Barnard
  • A Romantic Career by D.C. Gilman
  • The Christian League by Washington Gladden and George K. Dunlop
  • Standard Railway Time by W.F. Allen
  • Reforming the Alfabet by Frederick A. Fernald
  • The Training of Children's Voices by J. Spencer Curwen

    • Bric-a-Brac:

  • In Swimming-Time by James Whitcomb Riley
  • Model Children by Charles H. Turner
  • What's in a Name? by R.K. Munkittrick
  • A Midsummer Day's Dream by William M. Briggs
  • A Bundle of Letters by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • Massachusetts French by Bell F. Hapgood