1893/05 -- Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: The World's Fair - Looking North from the Lion Fountain
  • At the Fair by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer (1893 Columbian Exposition) - 11 pages loaded with illustrations
  • Decorative Painting at the World's Fair by W. Lewis Fraser
  • "The White City" by Richard Watson Gilder
  • Sweet Bells out of Tune -- Conclusion by Mrs. Burton Harrison with illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson
  • The Knight of Pentecost by Harriet Prescott Spofford
  • Recollections of Lord Tennyson by John Addington Symonds
  • To Alfred Tennyson by Aubrey De Vere
  • An Embassy to Provence -- Conclusion by Thomas A. Janvier
  • Benefits Forgot -- Part 6 by Wolcott Balestier
  • A Lie by Ellen M. H. Gates
  • Personal Impressions of Nicaragua by Gilbert Gaul
  • The Chevalier de Resseguier by Thomas Bailey Aldrich with picture by Howard Pyle
  • The Lake of the Dead by Henry Morton
  • Joseph Bonaparte in Bordentown by F. Marion Crawford
  • Leaves from the Autobiography of Salvini by Tomasso Salvini
  • "Some Verses Carol" by Henry Jerome Stockard
  • The Reign of Queen Anne. The Queen and the Duchess by M. O. W. Oliphant
  • John Muir by John Swett with portrait - 4 pages
  • Mr. Gadsbury's Brother by M. Frances Swann Williams
  • Relics of Artemus Ward by Don C. Seitz
  • An Inside View of the Pension Bureau by A. B. Casselman
  • "With the Tread of Marching Columns" by S. R. Elliot
  • Writing to Rosina -- Part 1 of 2 by William Henry Bishop

  • Topics of the Time:

  • Two Values of the Silver Dollar
  • Lincoln on the Spoils System
  • Corrupt Practices Laws: Why They Fail
  • American Boys and American Labor

    • Open Letters:

  • What the Phonograph will do for Music by Philip G. Hubert, Jr.
  • Indians who Deserve Pensions by Theodore Roosevelt - Long letter in small text spreads over 2 pages, total about 1 full page of text
  • A Hint in Municipal Reform by Joseph Hatton
  • An American Theater in London
  • "Better United States Senators" by H. Turner Newcomb
  • A Friend of Kindergarten by A. H. P.
  • The Kindergarten in Canada by James L. Hughes
  • California's Presidential Elections by J. F. Thompson
  • A Psychological Suggestion by H. C. Wood

    • In Lighter Vein:

  • Michael Will Not Be In It by Charles Battell Loomis
  • Reflections on Adversity by Ethelwyn Wetherald
  • The Prig by Edgar Fawcett
  • The Decline of Profanity by Edward Cary
  • The Contributor's Dream by H. S. Huntington
  • Saints and Sinners by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • Mrs. Fulsom's Journey by Alice Turner
  • Over the Sea Lies Spain by Charles Washington Coleman