The Sky
The sky is a drinking-cup, That was overturned of old, And it pours in the eyes of men Its wines of airy gold.
We drink that wine all day, Till the last drop is drained up, And are lighted off to bed By the jewels in the cup!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
No. 1
| Editorials | 1-4 | |
| The Artist's Secret | Olive Schreiner | 5 |
| The History Lesson from L'Aiglon | Edmund Rostand | 6 |
| Dawn | Paul Laurence Dunbar | 11 |
| Bill, the Lokil Editor | Eugene Field | 12 |
| Arena Scene from Quo Vadis | Henry Sienkiewicz | 15 |
| The Cushville Hop | Ben King | 21 |
| Sonny's Christening | Ruth McEnery Stuart | 22 |
| How She Went into Business | Joel Chandler Harris | 28 |
| The Leadership of Educated Men | George William Curtis | 34 |
| Jean Valjean and the Bishop | Victor Hugo | 38 |
| Coom, Lassie, Be Good to Me | Charles McIlvaine | 43 |
| A Bird in the Hand | F. S. Weatherby | 44 |
| The Slow Man | Ernest Poole | 45 |
| Emmy Lou | George Madden Martin | 49 |
| Glory | John Luther Long | 53 |
| The Rose and the Gardener | Austin Dobson | 57 |
| The Cap that Fits | Austin Dobson | 58 |
| The Cure's Progress | Austin Dobson | 60 |
| The Philosopher in the Apple Orchard | Anthony Hope | 61 |
| The Photograph | Paul Laurence Dunbar | 67 |
| A Message to Garcia | Elbert Hubbard | 68 |
| Lovey-Loves | Ben King | 69 |
| The Fall of the House of Usher | Edgar Allan Poe | 70 |
| Nini, Ninette, Ninon | Frederick S. Weatherby | 77 |
| With Any Amazement | Rudyard Kipling | 78 |
| One, Two, Three | H. C. Bunner | 83 |
| Mr. Dooley, on the Grip | 85 |