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- Merry Christmas in the Tenements, by Jacob A. Riis
- Fritz von Uhde. A Religious Painter, by W. Lewis Fraser
- Good Americans, by Mrs. Burton Harrison
- The Old Year to the New, by Clinton Scollard
- The Author of "A Visit from St. Nicholas", by Clarence Cook
- Old English Masters. Thomas Gainsborough, by John C. Van Dyke
- The Tourney's Queen, by Ednah Proctor Clarke
- The Causes of Poverty, by Francis A. Walker
- Rubáiyát of Doc Sifers, by James Whitcomb Riley
- Gallops, by David Gray
- Fate, by Philip Gerry
- Pat Mullarkey's Reformation, by Henry van Dyke
- Tennyson and his Friends at Freshwater, by V. C. Scott O'Connor
- A New York Nocturne, by Charles G. D. Roberts
- Edwin Booth in London, by E. H. House
- A Ballad of Poverty Row, by Helen Gray Cone
- The Wonderful Morning-Glories of Japan, by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore
- Hepzibah's Mothering, by Marion Manville Pope
- The Picture of Agnes, by Hayden Carruth
- Hawthorne in Berkshire, by Richard Watson Gilder
- A Little Episode with Youth, by Lillie Hamilton French
- Flowers in the Pate, by Charles M. Skinner
Topics of the Time
- Citizenship in the Tenements
- International Relations of Authors
- Letter-writing not a Lost Art
- «The Century's Prizes» for College Graduates
Open Letters
- A City's Small Pleasure-grounds, by Sylvester Baxter
- Conscious False Vision, by H. C. Wood, M.D.
- The Portrait of Clement C. Moore
- The Repulse of the Confederate Ironclads near Dutch Gap, by Charles W. Greene
- Traitors, by L. McK. G.
- Miss Scidmore's Articles on Java
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