Contents
edit- Mrs. Cameron, Her Friends, and Her Photographs, by V. C. Scott O'Connor
- Edward Drinker Cope: A Great Naturalist, by Henry Fairfield Osborn
- Strange Creatures of the Past, by William H. Ballou
- Gallops, by David Gray
- The Last Days of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, by Anna L. Bicknell
- "From the Young Orchards", by George Edward Woodberry
- Good Americans, by Mrs. Burton Harrison
- Lines to a Portrait, by a Superior Person, by Bret Harte
- The Cherub among the Gods, by Chester Bailey Fernald
- The Growth of Great Cities, by Roger S. Tracy, M.D.
- Andrée's Flight into the Unknown, by Jonas Stadling
- The Story of Chitral, by Charles Lowe
- Rubáiyát of Doc Sifers, by James Whitcomb Riley
- An Imperial Dream, by Sara Y. Stevenson
- The Romance of a Mule-Car, by Frank R. Stockton
- An Interview with Sulton Abdul Hamid, by A. W. Terrell
- "He Bringeth them unto their Desired Haven", by L. Frank Tooker
- Mozart, by Edvard Grieg
- On the Re-Reading of Books, by John Burroughs
- Gilbert Stuart's Portraits of Women. Elizabeth Bordley, by Charles Henry Hart
Topics of the Time
Open Letters
- James Hammond Trumbull, by S. L. Clemens
- Herr Andrée at the Congress of 1895, by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore
- Another University at Washington and How to Secure It, by Daniel C. Gilman
- "Washington Portraits", by Charles Henry Hart
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