1889/05 - Contents as taken from the front cover and contents page inside are as follows:

  • The Annexation of Mexico by M. Romero, Mexican Minister to the United States
  • An English View of the Civil War -- Part 1 by Viscount Wolseley
  • The Tree of Political Knowledge by The Reverend Dr. Edward Everett Hale

  • Early Days of a Dramatist by Dion Boucicault
  • The Hero in Fiction by H.H. Boyesen
  • A Persistent Nationality by Grant Allen
  • Use and Abuse of Civil-Service Reform by R.R. McMahon
  • In Josephine's House by Gail Hamilton

    • Are Women to Blame?:

  • Rebecca Harding Davis
  • Rose Terry Cooke
  • Marion Harland
  • Catherine Owen
  • Amelia F. Barr
  • Coffee-Drinking in Eastern Europe by C.K. Tuckerman
  • Christianity Becoming Materialized by The Reverend J.B. Wasson
  • Dipsomania and Original Sin by John Cotton Dana
  • Two Needed New Words Philo H. Slyvester
  • Statehood for the Indians by W.M. Fishback
  • Mr. Gladstone's Over-Estimate by Felix L. Oswald
  • Tree-Planting and Arbor Day by James R. Austen
  • Spite in Text-Books by Oliver H. Russell
  • Women and War-Policies by Louise S. Houghton