CONTENTS
Abracadabra Affair, The Percie W. Hart 216
Alcatraz Island Clarence L. Cullen 751
"And Other Considerations" Mary Catharine Hews 504
Back-Yard Gardens and Window Boxes Eben E. Rexford 363
Best Gift, The Clinton Dangerfield 638
Billy Baxter's Holiday Seumas MacManus 474
Coals of Fire Alfred Stoddart 356
Conspiracy, The Francis Churchill Williams 600
Dark Night's Ride, A Owen Hall 250
Daughter of the Revolution, A Real. A Novel Caroline Gebhardt 641
Diane, Priestess of Haīti. A Novel John S. Durham 385
Diplomat from Chicago, A Caroline Lockhart 712
Eden: Past and Present 'Dr. Charles C. Abbott 633
Elizabethan Theatre, The Professor Felic E. Schelling 309
"Emma Bovary" George Moore 589
Fair Exchange, A Will N. Harben 115
Finding of Martha, The (A Sequel to "The Strength of Gideon") Paul Laurence Dunbar 375
First Love of Aaron Burr, The Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer 757
Flemish Home of the Trappist Monks, A John Ball Osborne, A.M. 368
Food for Fishes Frank H. Sweet 596
French Academy, The Othon G. Guerlac 611
Garden of Native Plants, A Eben E. Rexford 483
German Influence in America J. G. Rosengarten 501
"Grandes Dames" Buried in Westminster Abbey, Two Mrs. E. T. Murray-Smith 349
Harvest of Knowledge, The Ina Breroort Roberts
Hints to Travellers, Some Advance William Howard Francis 724
Honor of his Wife, For the Charles H. Caffin 227
Humpbacked Mules, The Wolcott LeCleur Beard 621
Immediate Jewel, The Marie Van Vorst 561
Isthmian Canal from the Beginning, The Charles Morris 326
Like Father, Like Son General Charles King 493
Lincoln's Official Habit Leslie J. Perry 200
Mock Caliph and His Wife. A Novel. Edith Robinson 513
Mother, The Louis Zangwill 95
Music of Shakspere's Time (Part I.) Sidney Lanier 106
Music of Shakspere's Time (Part II.) Sidney Lanier 235
Nan, Naughty. A Novel John Luther Long 1
New Atmosphere, The Charles Morris 704
Over the Alps in a Diligence Elizabeth Robins Pennell 553
Passing of the Pope, The Mrs. Belloc-Lowndes 88
Pastoral Players, The Phœbe Lyde 731
Playmate of Patti, A Augusta de Bubua 344
Richardson, Samuel, Why we Read Mary Moss 489
Seal of Silence, The Albert Payson Terhune 125
Sins of the Fathers, The S. Weir Mitchell, M.D. 324
Standings, The. A Novel John Strange Winter 129
Stonewall Jackson. Recollections of Edward M. Alfriend 582
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