1893/04 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Sunset - Coast of Etretat -- Painted by George Inness
  • The Chicago Anarchists of 1886 - The Crime, The Trial, and the Punishment by Joseph E. Gary - 29 pages
  • The Cash Capital of Sunset City by Hayden Carruth
  • The Heart of the Tree by H. C. Bunner
  • The Angel of Death Staying the Hand of the Sculptor by Daniel Chester French
  • An Embassy to Provence -- Part 3 by Thomas A. Janvier
  • Aspiration by Edith Willis Linn
  • Sweet Bells Out of Tune -- Part 6 by Mrs. Burton Harrison and illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson
  • A Song of Farewell by Edith Vernon Mann
  • A Tree Museum by M. C. Robbins
  • Idy by Margaret Collier Graham
  • Allegory by Edgar Fawcett
  • Sherman - Letters of Two Brothers: Passages from the Correspondence of General and Senator Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman and John Sherman - 8 pages
  • Consolation by Lisette Woodworth Reese
  • In Extremity by John White Chadwick
  • The Princess Anne by M. O. W. Oliphant
  • To-Morrow by Walter Learned
  • Margaret Fuller by Josephine Lazarus
  • I's Niver 'Feared for my Ould Man by Jennie E. T. Dowe
  • Benefits Forgot -- Part 5 by Wolcott Balestier
  • Topics of the Time:

  • A Memorable Advance in Forest-Preservation
  • Words are Deeds, and May be Crimes
  • The Proposed Recession of the Yosemite Valley
  • Parks in and Near Large Cities - Editorial
  • The World's Fair and Landscape-Gardening
  • Arbor Day
  • Open Letters:

  • Governmental Care for Working-Women by C. C. Johnston
  • Governmental Care for Working-Women by M. Carey Lea
  • In Lighter Vein

  • Not a Boston Girl by James G. Burnett
  • "One White May Morning" by Charles Winfred Douglas
  • The Singer's Excuse by Mary Russell Bartlett
  • Bruddeh Isaac's Discourse by Charles Battell Loomis
  • The Homesick Westerner by Minna Smith
  • A Problem for the Scientists by Charlotte W. Thurston
  • Crumbs from Dinner Parties by Alice Wellington Rollins
  • Conjecture by Eva Wilder McGlasson
  • E Pluribus Unum by Unum
  • Good-By to the Cradle - A 3 stanza poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Two Friends by Charles Henry Webb