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- Portrait of Thomas William Parsons, 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
- Where Goest Thou?, by Edith M. Thomas
- A Cumberland Vendetta, by John Fox, Jr.
- A Dream, by Hildegarde Hawthorne
- The Attack on the Senate, by Charles Dudley Warner
- The Government of German Cities, by Albert Shaw
- Across Asia on a Bicycle. Through Persia to Samarkand, by Thomas Gaskell Allen, Jr. and William L. Sachtleben
- 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 Cheney
- A Bachelor Maid, by Mrs. Burton Harrison
- Painting at the Fair, by John C. Van Dyke
- A German Comic Paper, "Fliegende Blätter", by William D. Ellwanger
- Artists' Adventures. Celebrating the Fourth in Antwerp, by George Wharton Edwards
- Her Mother's Success, by Viola Roseboro
- Sleep and Death, by Henry Tyrrell
Topics of the Time
Open Letters
- The Anti-Catholic Crusade. Reply, by Adam Fawcett
- The Anti-Catholic Crusade. Rejoinder, by Washington Gladden
- A Recent Phase of Relief Work, by Laurence Veiller
- The Public Milk-Supply, by H. W. Conn
- Stonewall Jackson's Eccentricity, by W. M. Taliaferro
- Voting by Machinery, by Herbert Browne Ames
In Lighter Vein