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| A Dialogue between William Dean Howells and Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen. Recorded By Mr. Boyesen. | [3] |
| The Nymph of the Eddy. By Gilbert Parker. | [12] |
| Human Documents. An Introduction by Sarah Orne Jewett. | [16] |
| How They Are Captured, Transported, Trained, and Sold. By Raymond Blathwayt. | [26] |
| Under Sentence of the Law. By Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson. | [34] |
| Unsolved Problems that Edison Is Studying. By E. J. Edwards. | [37] |
| From “Locksley Hall”. By Alfred, Lord Tennyson. | [43] |
| A Day With Gladstone. By H. W. Massingham. | [44] |
| Where Man Got His Ears. By Henry Drummond. | [52] |
| James Parton’s Rules of Biography. | [59] |
| Europe at the Present Moment. By Mr. De Blowitz. | [63] |
| The Comedy of War. By Joel Chandler Harris. | [69] |
| The Rose Is Such a Lady. By Gertrude Hall. | [82] |
| The Count de Lesseps of To-day. By R. H. Sherard. | [83] |