1893/03 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Napoleon
  • The Violincello of Jufrow Rozenboom by Anna Eichberg King
  • An Embassy to Provence -- Part 2 by Thomas A. Janvier
  • Silence by Maria Bowen Chapin
  • Napoleon's Deportation to Elba -- By the Officer in Charge by Thomas Ussher, R.N.
  • Jamaica by Gilbert Gaul
  • Sherman - Letters of Two Brothers: Passages from the Correspondence of General and Senator Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman and John Sherman -- 11 pages
  • Caprice by N.
  • Westminster Abbey by Henry B. Fuller
  • The Rousing of Mrs. Potter by Gertrude Smith
  • The Present State of Old Testament Criticism by Edward Lewis Curtis
  • Chicago by Marion Couthouy Smith
  • Camille Saint-Saens by H. E. Krehbiel
  • Meridian by Charles T. Dazey
  • Have ye Niver Heerd tell o' Rose Creagan? by Jennie E. T. Dowe
  • My Sister Lydia -- From a painting by Edmund C. Tarbell
  • Sweet Bells Out of Tune -- Part 5 by Mrs. Burton Harrison with illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson
  • The Dead King by George Horton
  • Artist Life by the North Sea by H. W. Ranger
  • One Touch of Nature by Edgar Fawcett
  • At the Keith Ranch by Anna Fuller
  • Benefits Forgot -- Part 4 by Wolcott Balestier
  • The Cosmopolis City Club -- Part 3 by Washington Gladden

    • Topics of the Time:

  • How Can We Secure Better United States Senators?
  • Direct Presidential Voting
  • A General Free Library Movement

    • Open Letters:

  • The Kindergarten Movement in Chicago by Alice H. Putnam
  • The Kindergarten in Turkey by Carrie P Farnsworth Fowle

    • In Lighter Vein:

  • The United States Poetry Company, Limited by John Kendrick Bangs
  • A Struggle for Life by Alice Turner
  • Observations by C. O. Stevens
  • The Ballade of the Spoons by Alice Williams Brotherton
  • The Century Series of Pictures by American Artists. Sunset - Coast of Etretat by George Inness