Contents

• School Excursions in Germany, by J. M. Rice
• Playgrounds for City Schools, by Jacob Riis
• Political Reform. "The Price of Peace", by Joseph B. Bishop
• Jake Stanwood's Gal, by Anna Fuller
• Time's Lapidary, by Anna C. Brackett
• Across Asia on a Bicycle. Over the Gobi Desert and through the Western Gate of the Great Wall, by Thomas Gaskell Allen, Jr., et al.
• Addison, the Humorist, by M. O. W. Oliphant
• A Bachelor Maid, by Mrs. Burton Harrison
• Color at the Far North, by Frederick Wilbert Stokes
• In Mid Ocean, by Charlotte Fiske Bates
• Selections from the Correspondence of Poe, by Edgar Allan Poe, et al.
• "The Whirligig of Time", by George A. Hibbard
• Old Dutch Masters. Gabriel Metsu, by Timothy Cole
• A Hero of Peace (Robert Ross), by Richard Watson Gilder
• A Jaunt to Corsica, by Charles H. Adams
• At Rest, by Louise Chandler Moulton
• Recollections of Aubrey De Vere, by Aubrey de Vere
• A Gentleman Vagabond, by F. Hopkinson Smith
• Sorrow, by Lilla Cabot Perry
• Love in Idleness, by F. Marion Crawford
• Political Reform. The Senate
• The Senate
• Political Reform. Home Rule for Cities
• The Memory of George William Curtis
• Abandoned Farms Again, by Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye
• Charles H. Parkhurst
• Political Reform. A Good Minister and a Good Citizen (Charles H. Parkhurst)
• Political Reform. An Instance of Organized Public Spirit, by Evans Woollen
• Political Reform. One Cause of Apathy in Municipal Politics, by James G. Cutler
• What to do with the Tramp, by Josiah Flynt
• The College Gymnasium, by Eugene Lamb Richards
• The Century Series of American Artists. Cecilia Beaux, by H.
• Aphorisms, by Junius Henri Browne
• The "Helping Hand" of Chicago
• Washington's Account of his Table Supplies, by William F. Havemeyer
• At the Author's Congress, by Dorothea Lummis
• A Boy's Way, by Dorothea Lummis
• The Humming-Buird's Nest, by Starr Hoyt Nichols
• Two Songs, by Charles G. D. Roberts