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- Reminiscence, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Dagnan-Bouveret, by William A. Coffin
- Minorchord, by Edgar Fawcett
- Pudd'nhead Wilson, by Mark Twain
- Fragments, by James Russell Lowell
- Contrasts of English and American Scenery, by E. S. Nadal
- Hunting an Abandoned Farm in Upper New England, by William Henry Bishop
- The Heart of the World, by William Prescott Foster
- A Loan of Half-Orphans, by Thomas A. Janvier
- Old Dutch Masters. Aelbert Cuyp, by Timothy Cole
- Notes of a Book-lover. Bookbindings of the Past, by Brander Matthews
- The Kearsarge, by James Jeffrey Roche
- "Their Exits and Their Entrances", by George A. Hibbard
- Love and May-Time, by Nathan Haskell Dole
- Across Asia on a Bicycle. Beyond the Bosporus, by Thomas Gaskell Allen, Jr., and William L. Sachtleben
- Witherle's Freedom, by Cornelia Atwood Pratt
- Coeur D'Alene, by Mary Hallock Foote
- Capture of the Slave-Ship "Cora", by Wilburn Hall
- Zmai Iovan Iovanovich, by Nikola Tesla
- Paraphrases from the Servian Translations after Translations by Nikola Tesla, by Robert Underwood Johnson
- Mr. Pate's Only Infirmity, by Richard Malcolm Johnston
- The Imitative Functions and their Place in Human Nature, by Josiah Royce
- Flash-Lights, by Lester Raynor
Topics of the Time
Open Letters
- The Common Sense of Civil Service Reform, by Theodore Roosevelt
- General Hill's Article on Stonewall Jackson, by Thomas L. Preston
- Stonewall Jackson at Port Republic, by R. S. Forston
- The Depletion of American Forests, by W. T. Elwell
- The English Language in America, by W. J. Stillman
- The Century Series of American Artists. Frederick W. Freer, by W. Lewis Fraser
In Lighter Vein