Contents

• The First Word, by George Parsons Lathrop
• Mary: Mother and Prophetess, by Julia Schayer
• Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon at the Beginning of the Revolution, by William M. Sloane
• A Christmas Guest, by Ruth McEnery Stuart
• "How to the Singer Comes the Song", by Richard Watson Gilder
• Francesco Crispi, by W. J. Stillman
• Old Dutch Masters. Anthony van Dyck, by Timothy Cole
• Casa Braccio, by F. Marion Crawford
• What Has Science to do with Religion?, by Augustus J. Du Bois
• A Neighbor's Landmark, by Sarah Orne Jewett
• Old Maryland Homes and Ways, by John Williamson Palmer
• Chrysalis, by William Cleaver Wilkinson
• An Errant Wooing, by Mrs. Burton Harrison
• One Woman's Way, by George A. Hibbard
• Azelie, by Kate Chopin
• A Walking Delegate, by Rudyard Kipling
• The Floating Bethel, by Lucy S. Furman
• The American Woman in Politics, by Eleonora Kinnicutt

Topics of the Times

• A New Napoleon
• The World's Supply of Gold
• The Reign of the Bicycle
• No Backward Step in Copyright!
• The Growth of Civil-Service Reform

Open Letters

• About Children, by J. Mark Baldwin
• The Century Series of American Artists. Our Christmas Pictures, by W. Lewis Fraser
• The Tramp and the Reform School, by W. M. Hutt

In Lighter Vein

• The Christmas Goose, by Grace Wilbur Conant
• The Penitent, by Nannie A. Cox
• Her Violin, by James B. Kenyon
• Merlin and Vivien, by Heileman Wilson
• Fancies from the Servian. Paraphrased from the Servian of Zmai Iovan Iovanovich, after literal translation by Nikola Tesla, by Robert Underwood Johnson
  • A Fairy from the Sun-Shower
  • Quid pro Quo
  • Why the Army Became Quiet