1891/08 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Full-page portraits of the Emperor and Emperoress of Germany

The German Emperor by Poultney Bigelow

Thou Reignest Still by Louise Chandler Moulton

Thumb-Nail Sketches – Moglashen by George Wharton Edwards

A Common Story by Wolcott Balestier

Two Kings by William H. Hayne

On the Study of Tennyson by Henry Van Dyke

The Squirrel Inn — Part 4 — by Frank R. Stockton

The Press as a News-Gatherer — By the Manager of the Associated Press, William Henry Smith

The Eleventh Hour Laborer by L. Gray Noble

Life on the South Shoal Lightship by Gustav Kobbe

Play in Province — The Grand Arrival of the Bulls by Joseph Pennell

Play in Province — The Ferrade by Joseph Pennell

“Alone We Come into the World” by Stuart Sterne

The Little Renault by Mary Hartwell Catherwood

On Elkhorn by Robert Burns Wilson

Our Summer Migration by Edward Hungerford

Twilight by Alexander Harrison

Cape Horn and Cooperative Mining in ’49 by Willard B. Farwell

Gray Rocks and Grayer Sea by Charles G. D. Roberts

The White Crown by Herbert D. Ward

The Faith Doctor — Part 7 — by Edward Eggleston

The Clown and the Missionary by Viola Roseboro

Topics of the Time:

The Argentine Cheap Money Paradise

The Lottery’s Last Ditch

Open Letters:

“Orthodoxy and Liberty”

“Valor and Skill in the Civil War” by J. T. Derry

Vivisection Does it Help? by Edward Berdoe

The Century Series of Pictures by American Artists — Open Letter by William A. Coffin

Alexander Harrison by William A. Coffin

A Denial from the Confederate Diplomatists by Edwin De Leon

The Treatment of Inebriates by L. Edwin Dudley

Bric-a-Brac:

Reflections by J. A. Macon

Cour d’Amour. – Cupid J. by Charles Francis Coburn

Patience Ceased to be a Virtue by Edith M. Thomas

The Thoughtless Thinker by John Kendrick Bangs

Two Seasons by Eva Wilder McGlasson

Observations from the Women’s Quarters by Chloe

Positively Pretty by Eugene Bradford Ripley

Sweet Mistress Nance of Milburn Town by William Page Carter

To an English Sparrow by George Horton

1891/07 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Frontispiece: Portrait of Horace Greeley

A Day at Laguerre’s by F. Hopkinson Smith

Provencal Bull-Fights by Joseph Pennell

Restraint by Margaret Crosby

Mr. Cutting the Night Editor by Ervin Wardman

Italian Old Masters — Fra Bartolommeo and Albertinelli by W. J. Stillman

Chatterton in Holborn by Ernest Rhys

General Miles’s Indian Campaigns by G. W. Baird

July by Henry Tyrrell

Greeley’s Estimate of Lincoln by Horace Greeley

The Squirrel Inn — Part 3 — by Frank R. Stockton

Love Letters by C. P. Cranch

The Faith Doctor — Part 6 — by Edward Eggleston

Across the Plains in the Donner Party (1846) by Virginia Reed Murphy – 18 pages with several illustrations

Arrival of Overland Trains in California by A. C. Ferris

A Fourth Survivor of the Gold Discovery Party

At the Harbor’s Mouth by Walter Learned

The Force of Example by Viola Roseboro

For Helen by Grace H. Duffield

A Lunar Landscape by Edward S. Holden

The Drummer — Pictures by Gilbert Gaul by Henry Ames Blood

Tao: the Way — An Artist’s Letters from Japan — by John La Farge

Paris — the Typical Modern City by Albert Shaw

Topics of the Time:

A Nation for a Mortgage

The New York of the Future

“Journalists and Newsmongers” Again

Open Letters:

Conscience in Journalism by Eugene M. Camp

Alaska and British Columbia Boundary by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore

Similar Musical Phrases in Great Composers by Richard Hoffman

General Miles’s Indian Campaigns by G. W. Baird

Talleyrand Replies to His Accusers by Talleyrand

Bric-a-Brac:

A Ballad of Paper Fans by Annie Steger Winston

Spanish Songs by Jennie E. T. Dowe

Ye Guilelesse Barde

Cupid Rearmed by John Jerome Rooney

“Not Suited to the Purpose” by Margaret Vandegrift

Terry McHayd’n’s Wooing by Daniel Spillane

1891/05 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Frontispiece: Emperor Nicholas I

Game Fishes of the Florida Reef by C. F. Holder

Illusions by Robert Underwood Johnson

French Salons of the Empire and the Restoration by Amelia Gere Mason

The Squirrel Inn by Frank R. Stockton

Poetry by O. C. Auringer

Visible Sound:

Part 1 — Voice Figures by Margaret Watts Hughes

Part 2 — Comment by Sophie Bledsoe Herrick

Of One We Love or Hate by Maurice Francis Egan

The Faith Doctor — Begun in February — by Edward Eggleston

Ballad of an Old Pine by John H. Boner

Louisa May Alcott by Josephine Lazarus

A Bulgarian Opera Bouffe by F. Hopkinson Smith

In Disguise by Frances Louise Bushnell

At the Court of the Czar — Part 1 of 2 — by George Mifflin Dallas

A Heady Maid by Louise Morgan Sill

Exhibition of Artists’ Scraps and Sketches with 30 pictures by the Exhibitors, by William Fraser Fraser

Old Gus Lawson by Richard Malcolm Johnston

The Confederate Diplomatists and Their Shirt of Nessus by John Bigelow

Pioneer Mining in California by E. G. Waite

In Beaver Cove by Matt Crim

Topics of the Time:

International Copyright Accomplished

The National Conference of Charities and Corrections

Editorials on Finance: An American Cheap Money Experiment

Open Letters:

Concerning Criticisms of “Sister Dolorosa” by James Lane Allen

The Negro in Nashville by Charles Forster Smith

Vivisection Does it Help? by Thomas W. Kay

Vivisection Does it Help? by Mary Putnam Jacobi

Bric-a-Brac:

Observations

Vivisection Does it Help? by C. H. Oakes

Ashes by J. C. Miller

Friend and Lover by Mary Ainge De Vere

To a Thermometer by W. D. Ellwanger

Fame by C. H. Crandall

Love’s Young Dream by Grace Denio Litchfield

The Survival of the Fittest by Virginia Frazer Boyle

When Youth Mounts and Folly Guides by Esther Singleton

1891/02 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Frontispiece: Portrait of Talleyrand

The Georgia Cracker in the Cotton Mills by Clare de Graffenreid

A Dead World by Edgar Fawcett

Emmy by Mary E. Wilkins

The Mirror — From a Painting by Dennis M. Bunker

Penelope’s Swains by Mrs. Burton Harrison

To George B. Butler by Richard Henry Stoddard

Fremont in the Conquest of California by Gen. John Bidwell

The Discovery of Gold in California by John S. Hittell

Marshall’s Own Account of the Gold Discovery by Charles B. Gillespie

Confirming the Gold Discovery by E. C. Kemble

The Faith Doctor — Part 1 — by Edward Eggleston

Balaam and his Master by Joel Chandler Harris

Theodore Rousseau and the French Landscape School by Charles DeKay

A Monody on the Death of Wendell Phillips by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Sister Dolorosa — Part 3 — by James Lane Allen

In London Town by Walter Learned

Colonel Carter of Cartersville — Part 4 — by F. Hopkinson Smith

Northern Tibet and the Yellow River by W. Woodville Rockhill

The Anglo-Saxon in the Southern Hemisphere: The Working Man in Australia by George R. Parkin

The Memoirs of Talleyrand — With an Introduction by Whitelaw Reid

Topics of the Time:

Regulating the Lobby

The Salary Problem

Early Education in Literature

Women

Open Letters:

The Opening of Johns Hopkins Medical School to Women

The Artist Bunker by William A. Coffin

Bric-a-Brac:

Songs of Ireland by Jennie E. T. Dowe

A Snow Fancy by Annie Bronson King

An Anglomaniac by Edward Irenaeus Stevenson

Back From Town by James Whitcomb Riley

Our Engine House by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop

The Poet’s Trial by John Kendrick Bangs

To a Lady in London

1885/04 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

A Florentine Mosaic — Second Paper by William Dean Howells

Love’s Change by Anna R. Aldrich

Phases of State Legislation by THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Wayside Music by C. H. Crandall

From Puget Sound to Upper Columbia by E. V. Smalley

The Meditations of Mr. Archie Kittrell by Richard Malcolm Johnston

In April by Helen Jackson

The Rise of Silas Lapham — Part 6 by William Dean Howells

The Colonists at Home by Edward Eggleston

The Bostonians — Part 3 by Henry James

In Winter by Louise Chandler Moulton

In Plain Black and White by Henry W. Grady

New Orleans before the Capture by George W. Cable

The Opening of the Lower Mississippi by David D. Porter

Topics of the Time:

Not the American Way

The Difference Between a Painting and a Pound of Sugar

Practical Politics

An Attempt to Save Niagara

Open Letters:

The Solid South by Edward P. Clark

“The School of Dishonesty” by P. H. Felker

Bric-A-Brac:

Atropos vs. Lachesis by Margaret Vandegrift

Changing the Subject by W. H. Hyde

Distance by Berry Benson

Ethiopiomania by Henry Tyrrell

Love’s Seasons by Frank Dempster Sherman

A Waif by Alice Trumbull Learned

1885/02 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

A Florentine Mosaic — Part 1 by William Dean Howells

In the Sierras by Charles Warren Stoddard

Oliver Wendell Holmes by Edmund Clarence Stedman

Canada as a Winter Resort by W. George Beers

Rain in the Night by Willoughby Samuel Duffield

The Bostonians — Part 1 by Henry James

IMPORTANT: Part 3 of 3 of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” — First Printing Anywhere — Part 3 is “Royalty on the Mississippi” by MARK TWAIN

The Knight of the Black Forest — Part 3 of 3 — by Grace Denio Litchfield

Dutch Portraiture by W. J. Stillman

To a Debutante by Henry Tyrrell

The Rise of Silas Lapham — Part 4 by William Dean Howells

Longfellow in Westminster Abbey by Edgar Fawcett

The Battle of Shiloh by ULYSSES S. GRANT

Albert Sidney Johnston and the Shiloh Campaign — By His Son William Preston Johnston

Notes of a Confederate Staff Officer by Thomas Jordan

Memoranda on the Civil War:

The Offer of Union Command to General A. S. Johnston by Fitz John Porter

Gen. Robert Patterson and the Battle of Bull Run by Robert E. Patterson

Uniform of the Highlanders at Bull Run by William Todd

Topics of the Time

Some Practicable Reforms

Three Comments on the Stage

Overmuch Wisdom

“Let Us Have Peace”

Bric-A-Brac

Uncle Esek’s Wisdom by Uncle Esek

The Point of View by E. W. Kemble

Aphorisms from the Quarters by J. A. Macon

Plantation Memories by Joel Chandler Harris

Two Valentines by Frank Dempster Sherman

1906/10 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Frontispiece: Edward H. Sothern as “Petruchio” in “The Taming of the Shrew” – Printed in Color from a Painting by Orlando Rouland

Khiva from the Inside — A Personal Narrative by Langdon Warner with pictures by Jay Hambidge, Corwin K. Linson and from photograph

The Dog Police of European Cities by William G. Fitz-Gerald with pictures from Photographs

Seeing France With Uncle John — Conclusion of A Story — by Anne Warner with pictures by May Wilson Preston

MacDowell by R.W.G.

The Human Side of the Czar by Amalia Kussner Coudert with portraits from miniatures by Mrs. Coudert and photograph

After Reading Thoreau by Emma Bell Miles

Edward H. Sothern in Character from paintings by Orlando Rouland

The Doll Lady — A Story by Edna Kenton with pictures by Orson Lowell

The Japanese Pilgrimage to the Buddhist Holy Land by Count Kosui Otani with pictures from photographs

A Perverse Generation — A Story by Grace Ellery Channing

An Appeal to the Past — A Story by Havey J. O’Higgins with picture by Martin Justice

Examples of American Portraiture, XIV — John H. Finley from the painting by S.J. Woolf

Running Water — part 3 of a Story by A.E.W. Mason with picture by H.S. Potter

Cole’s Engravings of Old Spanish Masters — In the Balcony by Goya — Engraved on Wood by Timothy Cole

The Pasture-Thistle by Elizabeth Akers with decoration by R. Weir Crouch

Justina’s Playmate — A Story by Grace Lathorp Collin with pictures by Ida Dougherty

Brother-Singers by Charlotte Wilson

What American Museums Are Doing for Native Art by Annie Nathan Meyer — Pictures from Paintings by John W. Alexander, Winslow Homer, Edwin A. Abbey, George Innes, John S. Sargent, Douglas Volk and from sculpture-group by Gutzon Borglum (four in tint)

The Perfect Woman — A Story by Edith Wyatt

The Training of the Negro by Robert Bennett Bean

A Voice from the Dark — A Story by Charles Bryant Howard

A Song of Youth by Frank Dempster Sherman

DEPARTMENTS:

Topics of the Time

Open Letters

In Lighter Vein

1906/09 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Frontispiece: A “Vendue” or Country Auction, in the Forties – Drawing in Color by Charles D. Hubbard

Getting Into Khiva — Part 1 by Langdon Warner with pictures by Jay Hambidge and Otto H. Bacher, and map

The Gates of the Hudson by Charles M. Skinner with pictures made from paintings by Van Dearing Perrine

“Down on the Labrador” by Gustav Kobbe with pictures by M.J. Burns

“The Gladiators” — A Story — by Dorothea Deakin with picture by C.F. Underwood

Leave-Taking of a Happy Day by Louise Imogen Guiney

A Religion Nearly Three Thousand Years Old — The So-Called Fire Worshipers of Yezd by A.V. Williams Jackson with pictures by Jay Hambridge

On the Prairies by Gootfried Hult

A Romance of the Cheshire Cheese — A Story by Alice B. Morrison

Behind the Scenes — Pictures in tint, Troy and Margaret Kinney

the Descent of Blanche — A “Sexton Maginnis” Story — by Maurice Francis Egan with pictures by Arthur I. Keller

The Poet by Katharine Lee Bates

In the Anthracite Region — Pictures by Thornton Oakley

Twilight by Ada Foster Murray

The “Haystack Prayer-Meeting” and What Followed by Henry R. Elliot with picture from photograph

The Agricultural College and the Farm-Youth by L.H. Bailey

The Workers by Lily A Long

Seeing France with Uncle John — Part 4 of a Story — by Anne Warner with pictures by May Wilson Preston

Noon by John Vance Cheyney

Running Water — Part 2 of a Story — by A.E.W. Mason with picture by H.S. Potter

Hey-Day by Witter Bynner

Cole’s Engravings of Old Spanish Masters — The Spinners by Velasquez — Engraved on Wood by Timothy Cole

“Third Edition” — A Story by Grace S.H. Tytus with figure by Robb DeP. Tytus

The Negro Brain with Diagrams by Robert Bennett Bean

The Resurgent Mysteries –A Story — by Edgar Jepson

DEPARTMENTS:

Topics of the Time

Open Letters

In Lighter Vein

1906/08 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Frontispiece: The Sweet Girl Graduate – Drawing in Color by Howard Chandler Christy

The Catching of the Cod by William J. Henderson with pictures by M.J. Burns

the Doubtful Age — Part 2 of a Story by Annie C. Muirhead with pictures by Clarence F. Underwood

When Capital “Took Holt” — A Story — by Caroline Lockhart

French Cathedrals — Notre Dame, Paris – Cathedral of St. denis – St. Etienne du Mont — by Elizabeth Robins Pennell with Pictures by Joseph Pennell

Running Water — Part 1 of a Story — by A.E.W. Mason with picture by H.S. Potter

Two Poems: 1. For a Guest-Book 2. Innogen by S. Weir Mitchell

Seeing France With Uncle John — Part 3 of a Story — by Anne Warner

Hand-Of-Love — A Story by Rose Young

Vesuvius in Fury — Causes and Characteristics of the Great Eruption of April, 1906 by William P. Andrews with pictures from pastels by Charles Caryl Coleman (two in color) and from photographs, and map

Heroic San Francisco — A Woman’s Story of the Pluck and Heroism of the People of the Striken City — by Louise Herrick Wall with Drawings in pastel by C. Dormon Robinson (one in color)

The Humorist — A Story — by Dorothea Deakin with pictures by Clarence F. Underwood

Gilbert Stuart’s Portraits of Men — John Trumbull by Charles Henry Hart

A Mass on the Matterhorn — Pictures from Photographs

Why Some Boys Take to Farming by L.H. Bailey

The Smoky City Is My Nest by Anita Fitch

Sketch Plans for Outing Cottages
I. A Summer Cottage by Michael Stillman
II. Log-House with plans by Thomas Tryon
III. A Forest Hunting Lodge by Joseph henry Freedlander

Cole’s Engravings of Old Spanish Masters — A Spanish Flower-Girl by Murillo — Engraved on Wood by Timothy Cole

Mrs. Dunkin’s Morning Call — A Story by Edith M. Willett

Arbutus by Lorraine Roosevelt

The Future of San Francisco — Plan of the Proposed New City — by Benjamin Ide Wheeler

To San Francisco by S.J. Alexander

DEPARTMENTS:

Topics of the Time

Open Letters

In Lighter Vein

1906/07 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Frontispiece: Harpooning a Porpoise from the Martingale-stay of a Whaler – Drawing in Color by Clifford W. Ashley

The Wild Oats of a Spinster — A Story by Alice Hegan Rice with pictures by H.S. Potter

“Love Laughs at Lions” — A Story by Edna Kenton with pictures by Leon Guipon

The Strange Case of Robert Louis Stevenson and Jules Simoneau by Julia Scott Vrooman with pictures by Harry Fenn

The Shadow of a Tragedy — A Story — by Grace Eleanore Towndrow with pictures by Jay Hambidge

The Doubtful Age — Part 1 — by Annie C. Muirhead with pictures by Clarence F. Underwood

Senator Hoar — In Memoriam — by Canon Rawnsley

What Was Expected of Miss Constantine — A Story — by Anthony Hope

In Chinatown — San Francisco 1904 — by grace S.H. Tytus

China Awakened — A Miracle of Natural Resuscitation — by Joseph Franklin Griggs

Fountain of the Great Lakes — Photograph of design for sculpture by Lorado Taft

Overproof — A Story by W. Albert Hickman with pictures by Leon Guipon

Manhood by William Aspenwall Bradley

Why Do the Boys Leave the Farm? by L.H. Bailey

Cole’s Engravings of Old Spanish Masters — Don Olivarez by Velasquez — Engraved on Wood by Timothy Cole

One of Them — A Story — by George S. Chappell with pictures by C. Ewing

Wilkinson’s Chance — A Story by Lawrence Mott with picture by F.E. Schoonover

Dry Farming — The Hope of the West — by John L. Cowan with pictures from photographs

The Funeral of Rat Brooks — A Story by Harry Stillwell Edwards

Seeing France With Uncel John — Part 2 of a Story by Anne Warner

A Forest Fane by Harris Merton Lyon

DEPARTMENTS:

Topics of the Time

Open Letters

In Lighter Vein

1906/06 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Frontispiece: A Sunset Rainbow Near Jerusalem – Drawing in Color by Corwin Knapp Linson

Tatra — A Mountain Region Between Galicia and Hungary by Wladyslaw T. Benda (W.T. Benda) with pictures by the author — 11 pages article includes 7 illustrations by W.T. Benda

The Monument by John Vance Cheney

The Golden Whistle — A Story — by H.C. Bailey

A French River — The Lovely Marne from its Source to Paris — by Elizabeth Robins Pennell with pictures by Joseph Pennell

The Colonel’s Collection — A Story — by Arthur E. McFarlane with pictures by Arthur I. Keller

Cole’s Engravings of Old Spanish Masters — Dona Isabel Corbo de Porcel by Goya — Engraved on wood by Timothy Cole

By Stages — A Story — by Gouverneur Morris

The Negro and the South — by Harry Stillwell Edwards

National Monuments by Henry van Dyke

The London Bus — Pictures by Thornton Oakley

Fenwick’s Career — Part 8 of a Novel — by Mrs. Humphrey Ward

The Jay-Bird by Le Roy T. Weeks

Superstitions of the Past — Part 1: The grove of Dodona — by Andre Saglio

To the Jungfrau Peak by Trolley — A Wonderful Alpine Railway — by Ernst von Hessee Wartegg

Browning by Jeanie Peet

The American Hero of Kimberley by T.J. Gordon Gardiner with pictures by C.M. Relyea and diagrams

O Yuri San: A Memory — A Story by Charles Lorimer

Historic Palaces of Paris — The Elysee Palce by Camille Gronkowski with pictures by Jules Guerin, Andre Castainge, and from photographs

Seeing France with Uncle John by Anne Warner

Manhattan by Hamlin Garland

Her Character by George Hibbard

European Museums of Security by William H. Tolman with picture by Harry Fenn and pictures from photographs

The Spelling Problem — And the Present Aims of the Reformers by Benjamin E. Smith

DEPARTMENTS:

Topics of the Time: A Danger to American Democracy

Open Letters

In Lighter Vein

1908/01 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Frontispiece: Facsimille of a Photograph in Color of Alfred Stieglitz by Edward Steichen

The New Color Photography by J. Nilsen Laurvik — With facsimile of a photograph in color of Mrs. Gertrude Kasebier by Edward J. Steichen, printed in color, and photographs of Mr. and Mrs. Steichen and of M. Antoine Lumiere

“Under the Joshua Tree” — A Story by David Gray

The Workingman’s Pay-Day in New York — Pictures by G.W. Peters

“The Red City” — Part 1 of a Novel by S. Weir Mitchell

“The Dompteur and the Damsels” — A Story by Frances Trumbull Lea

From a Nativity Play by Mabel Earle with picture of Violet Oakley printed in color

Home Life of the California Condor by William L. Finley with photos

“Come and Find Me” — Part 10 of a Novel by Elizabeth Robins with picture by Ernest L. Blumenschein

“Muldoon’s Last Fight” — A Story by Roger Alden Derby with pictures by Thornton Oakley

Madame Emma Calve as “Carmen” — Printed in color from a painting from life made for The Century by Sigismond de Ivanowski

“The Battle of the San Gabriel” — A Story by Charles D. Stewart with picture by Frank Stick

“The Revival of Lucia” — A Story by Katharine Metcalf Roof

Two Sonnets: 1) Unanswered 2) Summons — by Maud Scofield Beeson

The Reminiscences of Lady Randolph Churchill — Part 3 by Mrs. George Cornwallis-West

Cole’s Engravings of French Masters – “Dante and Vergil Crossing the Stygian Lake” by Eugene Delacroix — Engraved on wood by Timothy Cole

“Trust” — A Story by Jack London

“If Swart Death be a Gipsy” by Gottfried Hult

Beatrice Cenci by F. Marion Crawford

“The Fault” — A Story — by May Sinclair

Departments:

Topics of the Time

Open Letters

In Lighter Vein

Beautiful color illustrated automobile ad on the back cover for “The Great Arrow” from The George N. Pierce

1906/05 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Frontispiece: Nelly Custis in the Mount Vernon Garden – Drawing in Color by Anna Whelan Betts

The Gardens of Cornish – Pictures from photographs – by Frances Duncan

Imperialism by Julia Boynton Green

The Roping Match at Antelope — A Story by Alice MacGowan with picture by J.N. Marchand

The Strenuous Referee — A Story by Elliott Flower

The Architectural Treatment of a Small Garden by Roger Riordan and Frances Duncan

The Garden of the Sun — Part 2: Route Notes in Sicily — by William Sharp with pictures by Jay Hambidge

Fenwick’s Career — Part 7 of a Novel — by Mrs. Humphry Ward with picture by Albert Sterner

The Old Garden at Mount Vernon by Francis E. Leupp with pictures by Jules Guerrin

To John La Farge by Titus Munson Coan

A Question of Command — A Story — by Harvey J. O’Higgins with pictures by Martin Justice

“I Sought Me Symbols of Eternity” by Gottfried Hult

Where to Plant What by George W. Cable with pictures from photographs

Cole’s Engravings of Old Spanish Masters — The Prodigal Son Feasting by Murillo — Engraved on wood by Timothy Cole

Reflex Light from Africa by Charles Francis Adams

An Ancient Garden by Helen Evertson Smith with pictures by Jules Guerin

The Royal School of Embroideries in Athens by Anna Bowman Dodd with pictures from photographs

What is the Mighty All? by Langdon Mitchell

Prayer by Goerge Sylvester Viereck

The Training of the Human Plant by Luther Burbank

The Service-Tree by John Finlay

Lincoln the Lawyer — Part 6 of 6 — by Frederick Trevor Hill with pictures from photographs, documents, and ambrotype

The Garden by Hildegarde Hawthorne

DEPARTMENTS:

Topics of the Time: The Negro in Africa – Saving Niagara

Open Letters

In Lighter Vein

1889/05 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Cinching Up — Pictures of the Far West — by Mary Hallock Foote

Italian Old Masters — Orcagna — by W. J. Stillman

Samoa: The Isles of the Navigators by Harvey W. Whitaker

Our Relations to Samoa by George H. Bates

The Tuscarora’s Mission to Samoa by Captain Henry Erben

Roby’s Christian Charity by James T. McKay

Round about Jerusalem by Edward L. Wilson

Salome Muller — A Strange True Story of Louisiana — by George W. Cable

A Ride Through the Trans-Baikal by George Kennan

Tom’s Strategy by Harry Stillwell Edwards with illustration by Charles Dana Gibson

At Break of Day by Dora Read Goodale

Recollections of Jean Francois Millet by Wyatt Eaton

Unhindered by Charlotte Fiske Bates

The Last Assembly Ball — Part 3 — by Mary Hallock Foote

The Monasteries of Ireland by Charles de Kay

The Lamentable Ballad of the Bloody Brook by Edward Everett Hale

Abraham Lincoln: A History — The President and the Draft — Vallandigham — The Peace Party at the Polls — by John G. Nicolay and John Hay

The Western Soldier by Henry King

Topics of the Time:

No New Sectional Division

Office Seeking the Man

Soldiers’ Memorial Services

Open Letters:

Fraternization – The Blue and the Gray by George L. Kilmer

Gen. McClellan’s Baggage Destroying Orders by Gen. James F. Rusling and George E. Corson

The Abuse of Applause by Philip G. Hubert, Jr.

Bric-a-Brac:

Arcady by Harrison S. Morris

At the Sign of the Blind Cupid by Walter Learned

The Toast by Margaret Crosby

Paragraphs from the German of Friedrich Nietzsche by Helen Watterson – This is just a paragraph of 12 2-line quotes translater from Nietzsche

Ad Astra by Frank Dempster Sherman

1889/06 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Frontispiece: Portrait of Corot the Artist

The Convict Mines of Kara by George Kennan

The Last Assembly Ball — Conclusion — by Mary Hallock Foote

The Bloodhound by Edwin Brough

Early Heroes of Ireland by Charles de Kay

The Woman in the Case by George A. Hibbard

Certain Forms of Woman’s Work for Woman by Helen Campbell

Italian Old Masters — Spinello — by W. J. Stillman

Bird Music by Simeon Pease Cheney

Decoration Day by Langdon Elwyn Mitchell

The Relations of the United States and Canada. — A Canadian View by Charles H. Lugrin

King Solomon of Kentucky by James Lane Allen

Corot the Artist by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer

General Robert E. Lee after the War by Margaret J. Preston

Can the Emperor Forget? by Louise Morgan-Smith

Abraham Lincoln: The Pomeroy Circular – The Cleveland Convention – The Resignation of Chase – by John G. Nicolay and John Hay

The Water-Seeker by Edith M. Thomas

The Irrigating Ditch — Pictures of the Far West, Part 7 — by Mary Hallock Foote

An American Amateur Astronomer by John Fraser

Memoranda on the Civil War:

The Canal at Island No. 10 by Gen. Schuyler Hamilton

An Early Suggestion to Arm Negroes for the Confederacy by General Daniel Ruggles

Strength of the Confederate Army at Gettysburg by Col. E. C. Dawes

Stonewall Jackson’s Intentions at Harper’s Ferry by William A. Smith

A Question of Command at Franklin

Topics of the Time:

John Bright

The New States

How to Preserve the Forests

The Dark Continent

Open Letters:

American Literature by Henry A. Beers

Buchanan, Lincoln, and Duff Green by Benjamin E. Green

Sea-Coast and Lake Defenses by R. H. Thurston

“The Place Called Calvary” by Charles S. Robinson

Bric-a-Brac:

A Villanelle by Charles Henry Webb

Reflections by J. A. Macon

A May Idyl by M. L. Murdock

Shortest and Longest by George Birdseye

Neighbors by R. T. W. Duke, Jr.

A L’Empire by M. E. W.

My Muse by Annie D. Hanks

1890/04 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Frontispiece: Madonna and Child by Giovanni Bellini — Engraved by T. Cole

The Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson — Part 6 — by Joseph Jefferson

Friend Olivia by Amelia E. Barr

The Slave-Trade in the Congo Basin by E. J. Glave

The Herr Maestro by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

Suggestions for the Next World’s Fair by Georges Berger

The Harbor of Dreams by Frank Dempster Sherman

The Furrow by Charles G. D. Roberts

Old Italian Masters — Giovanni Bellini — by W. J. Stillman

The Shrines of Iyeyasu and Iyemitsu — An Artist’s Letters by John La Farge

Tolstoi by Margaret Crosby

A Friendship by Ellen Burroughs

A Mystery by Helen Gray Cone

The Serpent Mound of Ohio by F. W. Putnam

The Latest Siberian Tragedy by George Kennan

Daffodils by Lizette Woodworth Reese

The Old Poetic Guild in Ireland by Charles de Kay

Robert Browning by Aubrey de Vere

On the Fur Seal Islands by Charles Bryant

“And His Will is Our Peace” by Celia Thaxter

A Dusky Genius by Maurice Thompson

The Non-Irrigable Lands of the Arid Region by Major J. W. Powell

A World-Literature by T. W. Higginson

The Shoshone Falls by John Codman

“The Little Man in the Tinshop” by James Whitcomb Riley

That Yank from New York by John Heard, Jr.

The Ideal by Katherine Lee Bates

Present-Day Papers — A Programme for Labor Reform by Richard T. Ely

Topics of the Time:

Longer Terms and Less Rotation

“The People”

Loyalty in Employment

Open Letters:

Judge Holt and the Lincoln Conspirators by Horatio King

Boston Corbett by Austin Potter

An Anecdote of the Blairs by Eliza Clagett Allen

“The White League of New Orleans” by F. R. Southmayd, G. W. Cable

Congo by Herbert Probert

Bric-a-Brac:

Drawings by E. W. Kemble

Whar Dem Axes Use to Ring by William Page Carter

Leigh Hunt, My Bird by Orelia Key Bell

Poems versus Peanuts by DeWitt C. Lockwood

Aladdin by Brainerd Prescott Emery

1890/05 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Frontispiece: Portrait of George Washington by James Wright

Archibald Robertson, and His Portraits of the Washingtons by Edith Robertson Cleveland with pictures by Archibald Rutledge and Andrew Robertson

Some New Washington Relics by William Armstrong and Edmund Law Rogers with pictures by Harry Fenn

Original Portraits of Washington by Charles Henry Hart with portrait by John Ramage from an old print

“Twilight Song” for Unknown Buried Soldiers, North and South by Walt Whitman

Two Views of Marie Bashkirtseff – Pictures

The Fallen by John Vance Cheney

Friend Olivia — Part 7 — by Amelia E. Barr

Chickens for Use and Beauty by H.S. Babcock with pictures by James C. Beard and August Will

Since Amy Died by Andrew B. Saxton

The Fighting Parson by Henry Ames Blood with pictures by G.W. Edwards

“Blacked Out” by George Kennan with facsimile of pages blacked out by Russian Censors

A Study of Consciousness by H.C. Wood

The Women of the French Salons by Amelia Gere Mason with pictures by Kenyon Cox, John A. Frasor, M. Leloir, and August Will

Andrea del Verrocchio by W.J. Stillman with engraving by T. Cole

Fickle Hope by Harrison S. Morris

A Decoration Day Revery by Brander Matthews with tailpiece by R.W. Lockwood

The Night Scene by James Herbert Morse

Theodore O’Hara by Robert Burns Wilson with pictures by Harry Fenn

Institutions for the Arid Lands by Major J.W. Powell

The Romance of Two Cameras by Elizabeth W. Champney

Travis and Major Jonathan Wilby by Richard Malcolm Johnston with pictures by A.B. Frost

“I Vex Me Not with brooding on the Years” by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The Autobiography of Joseph Jeffersopn — Part 7 — by Joseph Jefferson

Valor and Skill in the Civil War:

Was Either the Better Soldier? by General Theodore Ayrault Dodge

Which Was the Better Army? by Charles A. Patch

1890/08 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Frontispiece: Madonna and Child by Sandro Botticelli, engraved by T. Cole

The Treasures of the Yosemite by John Muir with pictures by J.A. Fraser, Harry Fenn, W.H. Shelton, and A.B. Davies after photographs by George Fiske. Maps by Jacob Wells.

The Making of the Pearl by Harriet Prescott Spofford

Italian Old Masters – Sandro Botticelli – by W.J. Stillman with engravings by T. Cole

The Perils and the Romance of Whaling by Gustav Kobbe with pictures by W. Taber, J.O. Davidson, and Howard Helmick

The Emancipation of Joseph Peloubet by John Elliott Curran with pictures by H. Pennington

The Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson — Part 10 – by Joseph Jefferson with portraits

The Forgotten Millions by President Charles W. Eliot

Poems by Frank Dempster Sherman

An Artist’s Letters from Japan by John La Farge with pictures by the author

(They Said.) by Edith M. Thomas

The Anglomaniacs – Part 3 – with Pictures by Charles Dana Gibson – 4 illustrations by Gibson

A Provencal Pilgrimage — Part 2 — by Harriet W. Preston with pictures by Joseph Pennell

Marian Drurie by Bliss Carmen

The Women of the French Salons by Amelia Gere Mason with portraits and pictures by A. Brennan

A Song of Growth by Charles G.D. Roberts

A Yankee in Andersonville — Part 2 — by T.H. Mann, M.D. with pictures by W. Taber

Friend Olivia — Part 10 — by Amelia E. Barr

Guilielmus Rex by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

1890/09 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Frontispiece: Portrait of the Princess de Conti

The Women of the French Salons – Part 5 – by Amelia Gere Mason with portraits, and with drawing and decorative borders by G.W. Edwards

Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park by John Muir with pictures by J.A. Fraser, Thomas Moran, William Keith, A.B. Davies, by sketches and from photographs by George Fiske

Our New Naval Guns by Commander C.F. Goodrich with pictures by W. Taber, August Will, D. Comins. Diagrams by Jacob Wells

The Anglomaniacs – Conclusion – Pictures by Charles Dana Gibson (3 Gibson illustrations)

Present-Day Papers – The Social Problems of Church Unity – by Charles W. Shields, D.D.

Louis Benson’s Love Story by Anne Page

Souvenirs by Lloyd McKim Garrison

The Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson — Part 11 — by Joseph Jefferson with portraits and drawings

Wells Cathedral by M.G. van Rensselaer with pictures by Joseph Pennell

In the Marble Hills by Rowland E. Robinson with pictures by J.A.S. Monks

An Artist’s Letters from Japan by John La Farge with pictures by the author

September by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Friend Olivia — Part 11 — by Amelia E. Barr

Love’s Dream by John Hay

How California Came into the Union by George Hamlin Fitch

1891/04 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Frontispiece: Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci — Engraved from the original by T. Cole

Salons of the Revolution and the Empire by Amelia Gere Mason

Light by R. K. Munkittrick

Poems: The Four Winds; Under the Breaker; Rain on the Peaks; A Day in June — by Charles Henry Luders

Charles Henry Luders (Died January 21st, 1891) by Frank Dempster Sherman

“There were Ninety and Nine” by Richard Harding Davis

Fetishism in Congo Land by E. J. Glave

An Inflated Currency Act by David Dodge

Leonardo Da Vinci — Italian Old Masters by W. J. Stillman

Cold Cheer at Camp Morton by John A. Wyeth

Early Intercourse of the Wordsworths and De Quincy

Two Expeditions to Mount St. Elias:

The Expedition of “The New York Times” (1886) by Frederick Schwatka

The Expedition of the National Geographic Society and the United States Geological Survey (1890) by Israel C. Russell (12 pages)

The Twenty-Third of April by Richard Watson Gilder

Colonel Carter of Cartersville by F. Hopkinson Smith

Herr Von Striempfell’s Experiment by Allan McLane Hamilton

A Race Romance by Maurice Thompson

To California, by Panama in ’49, by Julius H. Pratt

The Conquest of California by John Charles Fremont

The Official Policy for the Acquisition of California

Hardships of the Isthmus in ’49 by A. C. Ferris

Spanish Jealousy of Vancouver by John T. Doyle

The Faith Doctor (Begun in February) by Edward Eggleston

And After by Arlo Bates

Washington and Frederick the Great by Moncure D. Conway

Topics of the Time:

A “Cheap Money” Lesson

The Effect of Christian Science and Mind Cure

Country Roads

Open Letters:

A Play and an Actor by L. Clarke Davis

The Discoveries of Koch, Pasteur, and Others by Mary Putnam Jacobi

The Builders of the First “Monitor”

Bric-a-Brac:

“Literary Clog-Dancing” by Margaret Janvier

The Riding School by Bemis Fuller Gill

One of the Palls by Doane Robinson

“Castagne Italiane” by Henrietta Stuart

Green Mountain Philosophy by Arthur F. Rice

Bookish Quatrains: Wise and Otherwise by John Kendrick Bangs

Fit Weeds by James Herbert Morse

Dora’s Eyes by Irving S. Underhill

A Revised Fable by Caroline Evans

“W’en de Silk on de Ros’n Ears Turn” by Edward A. Oldham

1891/06 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Frontispiece: Portrait of George Mifflin Dallas

Colonel William Byrd of Westover, Virginia by Mrs. Burton Harrison

Pensions and Socialism by William M. Sloane

General Sherman’s Last Speech: “The Old Army” given January 31 by William Tecumseh Sherman (Sherman died soonafter, February 14, 1891)

Sherman — A Poem — by R. W. Gilder plus a full-page photo of a bust of Sherman

Play and Work in the Alps by Joseph Pennell and E.R. Pennell

In Shadow by L. Frank Tooker

A Girl without Sentiment by Eugene Bradford Ripley

Ad Astra (A. C. L. B.) by Edith M. Thomas

Haroun the Caliph, and Others by Ferid el din Attar

The House with the Cross by Florence Watters Snedeker

Ab Astris by Anne C. L. Botta

Springtime, from a Painting by Ernest L. Major

The Squirrel Inn — Part 2 — by Frank R. Stockton

A Summer Song by Clinton Scollard

The Faith Doctor — Part 5 — by Edward Eggleston

A Miner’s Sunday in Coloma by Charles B. Gillespie

Anecdotes of the Mines by Hubert Burgess

The Cry of Russia by Laura E. Richards

At the Court of the Czar — Part 2 of 2 — by George Mifflin Dallas

Love and the Witches by Mary E. Wilkins

Women at an English University by Eleanor Field

Notes on the Health of Women by Catherine Baldwin

A Spring Romance by Hamlin Garland

Talleyrand Replies to His Accusers by Talleyrand with Introduction by Whitelaw Reid

The Starry Host by J. L. Spalding

Topics of the Time:

Modern Cheap Money Panaceas

Judicial Control of Contested Election Cases

Law or Lynching?

Open Letters:

Female Education in Germany by Countess von Krockow

Gettysburg and Waterloo by Theodore Roosevelt – Totals about 1 full page of text

Ernest L. Major by William Lewis Fraser

Bric-a-Brac:

De Bugle on de Hill by Bow Hackley

Parnassus by Rail by M. M. Miller

The March of a Company by Kate Putnam Osgood

The Point of View — Drawing by E.W. Kemble

A Day in June by Charles H. Truax

Observations

To My Only Child by Douglas Sladen

1892/12 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Frontispiece: Madonna and Child — From a painting by Dagnan-Bouveret

Madonna of Dagnan-Bouveret by Robert Underwood Johnson

Picturesque New York by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer — 11 page article with 12 illustrations by F.W. Mielatz and T.R. Manly – Shown are The Battery – Coenties Slip – On the East River – A Rainy Night, Madison Square – East River at Grand Steet – The Tombs – Elevated Railroad Station – Two Bridges on the Harlem – In Central Park – An Old Lane, Boulevard Near 94th Street – Boulevard Near 95th Street – In Shantytown

Madonna by Harrison S. Morris

My Cousin Fanny by Thomas Nelson Page

Ringing the Christmas Bells from a painting by Edwin H. Blashfield

The New Cashier by Edward Eggleston with picture by Charles Dana Gibson

Seeming Failure by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Benefits Forgot — Part 1 — by Wolcott Balestier

Notable Women: I: Jenny Lind by Ronald J. McNeill

Noel by Richard Watson Gilder

Cid Ruy the Campeador by John Malone

Sweet Bells Out of Tune — Part 2 — by Mrs. Burton Harrison

Compensation by John Hay

A Knight of the Legion of Honor by F. Hopkinson Smith

Leaves from the Autobiography of Tommaso Salvini

Impressions of Browning and his Art by Stopford A. Brooke

Present-Day Papers: The Problem of Poverty by Washington Gladden

The Mother from a painting by Edward E. Simmons

To Gipsyland by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

After the Rain by Mary E. Wilkins

The Effect of Scientific Study upon Religious Belief by H. S. Williams

The Gipsy Trail — A poem by Rudyard Kipling

Balcony Stories. A Drama of Three by Grace King

The Annunciation from a painting by Mary L. Macomber

Serene’s Religious Experience: An Inland Story by Cornelia Atwood Pratt

War Correspondence as a Fine Art by Archibald Forbes

Their Christmas Meeting by Florence Watters Snedeker

Topics of the Time:

The First Duty of Congress by Editorial

Government Architecture in America by Editorial

Immigration Problems by Editorial

Open Letters:

American Painters in the Christmas Century by W. Lewis Fraser

To Persons Desiring to Cultivate a Taste in Music by W. J. Henderson

Some Tenement-House Evils by Lilliam W. Betts

The Prevention of Blindness in Infants by Swan M. Burnett

In Lighter Vein:

Some More Boys — Poems by James Whitcomb Riley

Dear Old Gotham by William Bard McVickar

Observations by Manley H. Pike

Opportunity by Margaret Vandegrift

Beauty by Frank Dempster Sherman

1893/01 — Contents taken from the index are as follows:

Frontispiece — Portrait of John Greenleaf Whittier

Balcony Stories. La Grande Demoiselle by Grace King with pictures by A.E. Sterner

The Great Wall of China by Romyn Hitchcock

A Winter Ride to the Great Wall of China by N. B. Dennys

The Million Pound Bank Note by Mark Twain

The Reward of the Unrighteous by George Grantham Bain with pictures by A.B. Wenzell

The Lights o’ London by Louise Imogen Guiney

The Reward of the Unrighteous by George Grantham Bain with pictures by A.B. Wenzell

Crusty Christopher by Henry A. Beers with portrait of John Wilson

Whittier by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

The Kindergarten Movement by Talcott Williams

The Child-Garden by Richard Watson Gilder

The Story of Jean Francois Millet’s Younger Life by Pierre Millet

An Illustrator of Dickens by Arthur Allchin with pictures by Hablot Knight Brown (“Phiz”) and portrait

A Bridal Measure by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The Cosmopolis City Club – Part 1 – by Washington Gladden

Benefits Forgot – Part 2 – by Wolcott Balestier

To Gipsyland by Elizabeth Robins Pennell with pictures by Joseph Pennell

Sherman – Letters of Two Brothers: Passages from the Correspondence of General and Senator Sherman, by William Tecumseh Sherman, John Sherman

Personal Studies of Indian Life by Alice C. Fletcher with pictures by A. Castaigne

Sweet Bells Out of Tune – Part 3 – by Mrs. Burton Harrison with pictures by Charles Dana Gibson

Lethe by Louise Chandler Moulton

New Day by Charles Washington Coleman

The Century Series of Pictures by American Artists. The Mother by Alice D. Kellogg

Notable Women: Dorothea Dix by Mary S. Robinson

Topics of the Time:

The Proposed Recession of the Yosemite Valley – Editorial

Columbian Exposition: New York and the World’s Fair – Editorial

Finance, Legal tenders and Bimetallism – Editorial

The Kindergarten Movement: The Kindergarten not a Fad – Editorial

Open Letters:

The Kindergarten in a Nutshell by W. T. Harris

The Possibilities of a Kindergarten by Angeline Brooks

The Philanthropic Side of Kindergarten Work by Mary Katharine Young

Columbian Exposition: The Eye and Ear at Chicago by Daniel C. Gilman

American Artists Series – Alice D. Kellogg by W. Lewis Fraser

In Lighter Vein:

An Unconscious Diplomat by Alice Turner with picture by E.W. Kemble

1893/02 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Frontispiece: Portrait of Alfred, Lord Tennyson

An Embassy to Provence — Part 1 — by Thomas A. Janvier

Balcony Stories — I. Mimi’s Marriage II. The Miracle Chapel — by Grace King

Sweet Bells Out of Tune — Part 4 — by Mrs. Burton Harrison with pictures by Charles Dana Gibson

Stray Leaves from a Whaleman’s Log by James Temple Brown

Franz Liszt by Camille Saint-Saens

Benefits Forgot — Part 3 — by Wolcott Balestier

From Dawn to Sunrise by Esther Bernon Carpenter

The Voice of Tennyson by Henry Van Dyke

Spring Songs — “The Mournig Dove” — Drawn by Mary Hallock Foote

An Art Impetus in Turkey by John P. Peters

Genesis by John Hall Ingham

Purity — Painted by William Thorne

Goliath by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Lovers in London by Violet Hunt

The Cosmopolis City Club — Part 2 — by Washington Gladden

On a Head of Christ by Quentin Matsys by Bessie Chandler

Life in the Malay Peninsula by John Fairlie

Leaves from the Autobiography of Tommaso Salvini

The Professor’s Aberration by Florence Watters Snedeker

The Lustigs by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer

A Voice for Russia by the Secretary of the Russian Legation, Pierre Botkine

Preliminary Glimpses of the Fair (Columbian Exposition) by Clarence Clough Buel

Topics of the Time:

A Word from Russia

Efficiency of Ballot Reform

Free Art, A National Necessity

Responsibility for the Spoils System

Reform in Contested Election Cases

Open Letters:

How Pianists May Be Different and Yet Each Be Great by Fanny Morris Smith

Columbus Relics, The Question of Genuineness by X. Y. Z.

The First Account of the Grand Falls of Labrador by A. H. Whitcher

William Thorne (The Century’s American Artists Series) by W. Lewis Fraser

Abraham Lincoln’s Last Hours by Charles Sabin Taft, M.D.

In Lighter Vein:

The General Opinion by Alice Turner

Counter Thoughts by Mary Mapes Dodge

Uncle Ben and Old Henry by Harry Stillwell Edwards

A Counter by Edith M. Thomas

1894/07 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

Frontispiece: Portrait of Thomas William Parsons with a footnote by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Coasting by Sorrento and Amalfi by F. Marion Crawford

The Highroad from Salerno to Sorrento by J. Howe Adams

Franz Schubert by Antonin Dvorak

Where Goest Thou? by Edith M. Thomas

The Evolution of a Battle Ship by Albert Franklin Matthews

Susanna by Nannie A. Cox

“The Star-Spangled Banner” by John C. Carpenter

Old Dutch Masters: Jacob Van Ruisdael by Timothy Cole

A Cumberland Vendetta — Part 3 — by John Fox, Jr.

A Dream by Hildegarde Hawthorne

Present Day Papers: The Attack on the Senate by Charles Dudley Warner

What German Cities Do For Their Citizens by Albert Shaw

Across Asia on a Bicycle — Part 3: Through Persia to Samarkand by Thomas Gaskell Allen, Jr.

Love in Idleness by F. Marion Crawford

An Unexpected Legacy by Alice Turner

Superstitions of the Sea by J. D. Jerrold Kelley

The Passing of the Day by John Vance CheneyA Bachelor Maid — Part 1 — by Mrs. Burton Harrison

Painting at the Fair (Columbian Exposition) by John C. Van Dyke

A German Comic Paper “Fliegende Blatter” by William D. Ellwanger

Celebrating the Fourth in Antwerp — Artists’ Adventures — by George Wharton Edwards

Her Mother’s Success by Viola Roseboro

Sleep and Death by Henry Tyrrell

Topics of the Time:

The New Woman-Suffrage Movement by Editorial

A Martyr of To-day

The Latest Cheap-Money Experiment by Editorial

Open Letters:

“The Anti-Catholic Crusade” — A Reply by Adam Fawcett — A Rejoinder by Washington Gladden

A Recent Phase of Relief Work by Laurence Veiller

The Public Milk-Supply by H. W. Conn

Voting by Machinery

Stonewall Jackson’s Eccentricity by W. M. Taliaferro

In Lighter Vein:

A Game of Whist by James G. Burnett

Transformation by Richard Burton

Outlines by Berry Benson

Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Valor by H. K. D.

When the Heart’s in its Prime by Mary Berri Chapman