Contents

• 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

• What is Political Economy?
• The Foreign Element in Trades-Unions
• Popular Education in Citizenship

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

• Sleepy Man, by Charles G. D. Roberts
• Outlines, by Berry Benson
• Men and Women, by Junius Henri Browne
• The Evolution of a "Name", by Charles Battell Loomis
• The Tests, by Alice Wellington Rollins