- July 1891
- (p.1): II - The Pearl of Hafiz
- (p.25): M. G. Hopkins - The Pleasures of Farming
- (p.33): E. Sidney Hartland - The Folk-Tales of Sardinia
- (p.44): Arthur Ransom - A Competitive Utopia
- (p.50): A Country Parson - From a Country Parsonage
- (p.65): James Hutton - "The Incident"
- (p.78): Alexander Gordon - Life in the North Sea
- (p.93): George Holmes - A Pauper's Burial
- (p.94): Sarah Wilson - Odd Items in Old Churches
- (p.100): Justin Huntly McCarthy - Pages on Plays
- (p.107): Sylvanus Urban - Table Talk
- August 1891
- (p.109): Lillias Wassermann - Captain Kitty: A Salvationist Sketch
- (p.124): George Radford - A Moorland Sheep-Farm
- (p.137): H. P. Roberts - Vernon and the Jenkins' Ear War
- (p.153): N. E. Yorke-Davies - Summer Beverages for Fat People
- (p.164): J. E. Taylor - Life in an Algerian Hill-Town
- (p.171): Spencer Moore - Flowers and the Poets
- (p.180): John Sansome - A Great Railway Centre
- (p.192): Thomas H. B. Graham - Some English Expletives
- (p.202): M. A. Curtois - The Cry of the Saxon
- (p.204): Justin Huntly McCarthy - Pages on Plays
- (p.211): Sylvanus Urban - Table Talk
- September 1891
- (p.213): Philip Sinclair - The Troubles of an Oxford Beauty
- (p.232): Annie E. Ireland - On Some Extracts from Harriet Shelley's Letters
- (p.246): H. G. Wells - Zoological Retrogression
- (p.254): J. A. Farrer - Was Lord Beaconsfield the Sun?
- (p.260): H. D. Rawnsley - A Day at the Meydoum Pyramid
- (p.279): R. G. Johns - John Aubrey of Wilts
- (p.292): C. Parkinson - Notes on the Lias and Trias of the Severn
- (p.300): E. K. Pearce - Some London Streets
- (p.310): C. E. Meetkerke - Jean Chouan: A Tale of la Vendée
- (p.312): Justin Huntly McCarthy - Pages on Plays
- (p.319): Sylvanus Urban - Table Talk
- October 1891
- (p.321): J. Lawson - Nameless
- (p.329): C. N. Barham - The Customs of Australian Aborigines
- (p.341): E. Perronet Thompson - The True History of Foulon and Berthier
- (p.359): J. Ellard Gore - The Grindstone Theory of the Milky Way
- (p.364): Arthur Gaye - William Shakespeare, Naturalist
- (p.384): W. G. Waters - Jerome Cardan
- (p.398): John Watson, Charles Whitehead, Theodore Wood and G. W. Murdoch - The English Sparrow
- (p.416): H. Schütz Wilson - The Ballad of the Hulk
- (p.420): Justin Huntly McCarthy - Pages on Plays
- (p.427): Sylvanus Urban - Table Talk
- November 1891
- (p.429): T. Sparrow - A Spiritual Failure
- (p.440): Martin A. S. Hume - The Journal of Richard Bere
- (p.459): Robert Shindler - The Theology of Mr. Swinburne's Poems
- (p.472): J. E. Taylor - Among the Algerian Hills
- (p.478): W. H. Davenport Adams - The Great Talkers of the French Revolution/Part I
- (p.499): G. Laurence Gomme - Two Primitive Relics of London History
- (p.504): Frank Finn - Kingfishers
- (p.509): Cecilia E. Meetkerke - Victor Hugo's Lyrics
- (p.519): Fleetwood H. Pellew - The Cutting-out of the "Hermione"
- (p.526): George Holmes - A Song of David
- (p.528): Justin Huntly McCarthy - Pages on Plays
- (p.535): Sylvanus Urban - Table Talk
- December 1891
- (p.537): M. F. W. Cross - Mrs. Hibbert
- (p.560): C. F. Gordon Cumming - Anuradhapura: a pre-Christian City
- (p.575): Patrick Maxwell - A Commonplace-Book
- (p.590): Joseph Strauss - Goethe's Mother
- (p.606): W. H. Davenport Adams - The Great Talkers of the French Revolution/Part II
- (p.623): W. Wheater - The Naming of Our Forefathers
- (p.631): Isa J. Postgate - The Suppliant
- (p.632): Justin Huntly McCarthy - Pages on Plays
- (p.639): Sylvanus Urban - Table Talk
