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- The First Word, by George Parsons Lathrop
- Mary: Mother and Prophetess, by Julia Schayer
- Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon at the Beginning of the Revolution, by William M. Sloane
- A Christmas Guest, by Ruth McEnery Stuart
- "How to the Singer Comes the Song", by Richard Watson Gilder
- Francesco Crispi, by W. J. Stillman
- Old Dutch Masters. Anthony van Dyck, by Timothy Cole
- Casa Braccio, by F. Marion Crawford
- What Has Science to do with Religion?, by Augustus J. Du Bois
- A Neighbor's Landmark, by Sarah Orne Jewett
- Old Maryland Homes and Ways, by John Williamson Palmer
- Chrysalis, by William Cleaver Wilkinson
- An Errant Wooing, by Mrs. Burton Harrison
- One Woman's Way, by George A. Hibbard
- Azelie, by Kate Chopin
- A Walking Delegate, by Rudyard Kipling
- The Floating Bethel, by Lucy S. Furman
- The American Woman in Politics, by Eleonora Kinnicutt
Topics of the Times
- A New Napoleon
- The World's Supply of Gold
- The Reign of the Bicycle
- No Backward Step in Copyright!
- The Growth of Civil-Service Reform
Open Letters
- About Children, by J. Mark Baldwin
- The Century Series of American Artists. Our Christmas Pictures, by W. Lewis Fraser
- The Tramp and the Reform School, by W. M. Hutt
In Lighter Vein
- The Christmas Goose, by Grace Wilbur Conant
- The Penitent, by Nannie A. Cox
- Her Violin, by James B. Kenyon
- Merlin and Vivien, by Heileman Wilson
- Fancies from the Servian. Paraphrased from the Servian of Zmai Iovan Iovanovich, after literal translation by Nikola Tesla, by Robert Underwood Johnson