"Ten o'clock", by J.M. Whistler.--Tact, by Sir J. Lubbock, lord Avebury.--Book-buying, by A. Birrell.--Alexander Hamilton, by F. Harrison.--Salad, by C.S. Baldwin.--Words that laugh and cry, by C.A. Dana.--National characteristics as moulding public opinion, by J. Bryce.--American manners, by Wu Tingfang.--Franklin, by H.C. Lodge.--The serious Pepys, by W.C. Abbott.--What the ten-year sergeant of police tells, by H.H. Curran.--The powers of the President, by W.H. Taft.--John Greenleaf Whittier, by G.E. Woodberry.--Thackeray's centenary, by H.A. Beers.--Tennyson, by P.E. More.--Realism and reality in fiction, by W.L. Phelps.--Teaching English, by H.S. Canby.--Edward Gibbon, by J.F. Rhodes.--The mildness of the yellow press, by G.K. Chesterton.--What is education? by C.M. Flandrau.--Why a classic is a classic, by A. Bennett.--Homer and the study of Greek, by A. Lang.--Homer and humbug, an academic discussion, by S. Leacock.--On the case of a certain man who is never thought of, by W.G. Sumner.--The training of intellect, by W. Wilson.--The responsibility of authors, by Sir O. Lodge.--Filial relations, by J. Addams.--The irony of nature, by R. Burton.--On seeing ten bad plays, by F.M. Colby.--A stepdaughter of the prairie, by Margaret Lynn.--Yosemite, by A. Colton.--The Bowery and Bohemia, by H.C. Bunner.--Evolution, by J. Galsworthy.--Biographical index