Contents

• A Cumberland Vendetta, by John Fox, Jr.
• A Rose Rhyme to Juliet, by Frank Dempster Sherman
• Across Asia on a Bicycle. The Ascent of Mount Ararat, by Thomas Gaskell Allen, Jr. and William L. Sachtleben
• Apollo and Daphne, by Sara King Wiley
• Field Notes, by John Burroughs
• The Loosened Cord, by Alexander W. Drake
• Edison's Invention of the Kineto-Phonograph. Introduction, by Thomas A. Edison
• Edison's Invention of the Kineto-Phonograph, by Antonia Dickson and W. K. L. Dickson
• Old Dutch Masters. Adriaan Van Ostade, by Timothy Cole
• Visible Sound, by Ellen Knight Bradford
• A Loan of Half-Orphans, by Thomas A. Janvier
• Icebergs, by William Prescott Foster
• Pudd'nhead Wilson, by Mark Twain
• Huntington House, by Edmund Clarence Stedman
• Tissot's Illustrations of the Gospels, by Theodore Stanton
• The Mother of Ivan Tourgueneff, by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
• Maurice Boutet de Monvel, by Will H. Low
• On a Mission for Kossuth, by W. J. Stillman
• The Nesting-Place, by Edith M. Thomas
• Notes of a Book-lover. Bookbindings of the Present, by Brander Matthews
• The Magic Egg, by Frank R. Stockton
• The Government of German Cities, by Albert Shaw
• The Consular Service and the Spoils System, by Twelve ex-Ministers of the United States, James B. Angell, J. L. M. Curry, Edward Burd Grubb, John A. Kasson, Robert T. Lincoln, T. W. Palmer, William Walter Phelps, William L. Scruggs, Charles Emory Smith, Oscar S. Straus, John Russell Young

Topics of the Time

• A National Injury and Idiocy
• Bosses
• Hard Times and Business Methods

Open Letters

• The Reform of Secondary Education, by Nicholas Murray Butler
• An Honest Election Machine, by Herbert Browne Ames
• Military Drill in the Schools, by Benjamin F. Trueblood
• The Century Series of American Artists. Charles H. Davis, by W. Lewis Fraser

In Lighter Vein

• En Route, by M. S. Woodbury
• What Not to Do, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox