Contents

• Portrait of Thomas William Parsons, by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• Coasting by Sorrento and Amalfi, by F. Marion Crawford
• The Highroad from Salerno to Sorrento, by J. Howe Adams
• Franz Schubert, by Antonin Dvorak
• Where Goest Thou?, by Edith M. Thomas
• The Evolution of a Battle Ship, by Albert Franklin Matthews
• Susanna, by Nannie A. Cox
• "The Star-Spangled Banner", by John C. Carpenter
• Old Dutch Masters. Jacob Van Ruisdael, by Timothy Cole
• Where Goest Thou?, by Edith M. Thomas
• A Cumberland Vendetta, by John Fox, Jr.
• A Dream, by Hildegarde Hawthorne
• The Attack on the Senate, by Charles Dudley Warner
• The Government of German Cities, by Albert Shaw
• Across Asia on a Bicycle. Through Persia to Samarkand, by Thomas Gaskell Allen, Jr. and William L. Sachtleben
• Love in Idleness, by F. Marion Crawford
• An Unexpected Legacy, by Alice Turner
• Superstitions of the Sea, by J. D. Jerrold Kelley
• The Passing of the Day, by John Vance Cheney
• A Bachelor Maid, by Mrs. Burton Harrison
• Painting at the Fair, by John C. Van Dyke
• A German Comic Paper, "Fliegende Blätter", by William D. Ellwanger
• Artists' Adventures. Celebrating the Fourth in Antwerp, by George Wharton Edwards
• Her Mother's Success, by Viola Roseboro
• Sleep and Death, by Henry Tyrrell

Topics of the Time

• The New Woman-Suffrage Movement
• A Martyr of To-day
• The Latest Cheap-Money Experiment

Open Letters

• The Anti-Catholic Crusade. Reply, by Adam Fawcett
• The Anti-Catholic Crusade. Rejoinder, by Washington Gladden
• A Recent Phase of Relief Work, by Laurence Veiller
• The Public Milk-Supply, by H. W. Conn
• Stonewall Jackson's Eccentricity, by W. M. Taliaferro
• Voting by Machinery, by Herbert Browne Ames

In Lighter Vein

• A Game of Whist, by James G. Burnett
• Transformation, by Richard Burton
• Outlines, by Berry Benson
• Confirmation of Pudd'nhead Wilson's Views on Valor, by H. K. D.
• When the Heart's in its Prime, by Mary Berri Chapman