Contents

• Napoleon's Childhood and Youth, by William M. Sloane
• The Mother Who Died Too, by Edith M. Thomas
• Casa Braccio, by F. Marion Crawford
• A Hallowe'en Reformation, by Hezekiah Butterworth
• In the City of Canton. How the Chinese Work and Live, by Florence O'Driscoll, M.P.
• A Bachelor Maid, by Mrs. Burton Harrison
• The Hawthornes in Lennox (Told in Letters by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophie Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and others), by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
• Dreamland, by William Prescott Foster
• Kitwyk Stories. Josselin, by Anna Eichberg King
• The Making of Thieves in New York, by Jacob A. Riis
• Witch-Hazel, by Elizabeth Akers
• The Churches of Provence, by Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer
• M'Graw, by Francis Lynde
• Renascence, by John H. Boner
• Washington in Lincoln's Time, by Noah Brooks
• An Evening, by Robert Burns Wilson

Topics of the Time

• Good Government in New York
• Congress and the Forestry Question
• What is the Referendum?
• Free Art in America at Last
• The Pictorial Side of the Life of Napoleon

Open Letters

• Sloane's "Napoleon", by Charles Dudley Warner
• A Coincidence in Napoleon's Life, by Guido Biagi, Librarian of the Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana
• The Government of Cities, by Washington Gladden
• Old Dutch Masters. Bartholomeus van der Helst, by Timothy Cole
• Postscript on "Sophie Germain"

In Lighter Vein

• At Candle-Lighting, by John Vance Cheney
• Action, by Charlotte Fiske Bates
• A Puritan Thanksgiving, by Daniel Carter Beard
• "Down the Green Lane She is Coming", by Jennie E. T. Dowe
• Successor to a Paragon, by S. Elgar Benet