Contents

• Merry Christmas in the Tenements, by Jacob A. Riis
• Fritz von Uhde. A Religious Painter, by W. Lewis Fraser
• Good Americans, by Mrs. Burton Harrison
• The Old Year to the New, by Clinton Scollard
• The Author of "A Visit from St. Nicholas", by Clarence Cook
• Old English Masters. Thomas Gainsborough, by John C. Van Dyke
• The Tourney's Queen, by Ednah Proctor Clarke
• The Causes of Poverty, by Francis A. Walker
• Rubáiyát of Doc Sifers, by James Whitcomb Riley
• Gallops, by David Gray
• Fate, by Philip Gerry
• Pat Mullarkey's Reformation, by Henry van Dyke
• Tennyson and his Friends at Freshwater, by V. C. Scott O'Connor
• A New York Nocturne, by Charles G. D. Roberts
• Edwin Booth in London, by E. H. House
• A Ballad of Poverty Row, by Helen Gray Cone
• The Wonderful Morning-Glories of Japan, by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore
• Hepzibah's Mothering, by Marion Manville Pope
• The Picture of Agnes, by Hayden Carruth
• Hawthorne in Berkshire, by Richard Watson Gilder
• A Little Episode with Youth, by Lillie Hamilton French
• Flowers in the Pate, by Charles M. Skinner

Topics of the Time

• Citizenship in the Tenements
• International Relations of Authors
• Letter-writing not a Lost Art
• «The Century's Prizes» for College Graduates

Open Letters

• A City's Small Pleasure-grounds, by Sylvester Baxter
• Conscious False Vision, by H. C. Wood, M.D.
• The Portrait of Clement C. Moore
• The Repulse of the Confederate Ironclads near Dutch Gap, by Charles W. Greene
• Traitors, by L. McK. G.
• Miss Scidmore's Articles on Java

In Lighter Vein

• Outlines, by Berry Benson
• O Tempora! O Mores!, by Maud Taylor
• The Wheel in Art, by Mary A. Lathbury
• Heart to Heart, by C. H. Crandall
• Mere Opinion, by Dorothea Moore
• A Fin-de-Siècle Mama, by Alice Ames Winter
• A Georgia Philosopher, by Harry Stillwell Edwards