Century Magazine/Volume 55/Issue 1

• Mrs. Cameron, Her Friends, and Her Photographs, by V. C. Scott O'Connor
• Edward Drinker Cope: A Great Naturalist, by Henry Fairfield Osborn
• Strange Creatures of the Past, by William H. Ballou
• Gallops, by David Gray
• The Last Days of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, by Anna L. Bicknell
• "From the Young Orchards", by George Edward Woodberry
• Good Americans, by Mrs. Burton Harrison
• Lines to a Portrait, by a Superior Person, by Bret Harte
• The Cherub among the Gods, by Chester Bailey Fernald
• The Growth of Great Cities, by Roger S. Tracy, M.D.
• Andrée's Flight into the Unknown, by Jonas Stadling
• The Story of Chitral, by Charles Lowe
• Rubáiyát of Doc Sifers, by James Whitcomb Riley
• An Imperial Dream, by Sara Y. Stevenson
• The Romance of a Mule-Car, by Frank R. Stockton
• An Interview with Sulton Abdul Hamid, by A. W. Terrell
• "He Bringeth them unto their Desired Haven", by L. Frank Tooker
• Mozart, by Edvard Grieg
• On the Re-Reading of Books, by John Burroughs
• Gilbert Stuart's Portraits of Women. Elizabeth Bordley, by Charles Henry Hart

Topics of the Time

• The Sultan Speaks
• Tennyson
• Some Good Literary Advice
• A Historic Warning

Open Letters

• James Hammond Trumbull, by S. L. Clemens
• Herr Andrée at the Congress of 1895, by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore
• Another University at Washington and How to Secure It, by Daniel C. Gilman
• "Washington Portraits", by Charles Henry Hart

In Lighter Vein

• Abbie's Accounts, by Tudor Jenks
• The Paradox, by George Meason Whicher
• Vaudeville, by Madeline Bridges
• To Jessica, Gone Back to the City, by Ellis Parker Butler
• "All 'at 's out 's in Free", by L. T. Weeks
• An Irish Love-Song, by Robert Underwood Johnson