pp. 1-24 (ads), pp. 529-660, pp. 25-88 (ads). Small tears and chipping and folding at edge of wraps, soiling near spine, rubbing at top and bottom of spine, else fine. Contents: ''A Corner in the Market'' (frontispiece) painted by Jules Muenier, Engrave by H. W. Peckwell; Some Episodes of Engineering, by a Casual Amateur--Edwin Lord Weeks, Illustration s by the Author; John March, Southerner, Chapters 30-34--George W. Cable; The Provincials. Sketches of American Types--Octave Thanet, Illustrations by A. B. Frost; A Pound of Cure, A Story of Monte Carlo, Chapters 5-6--William Henry Bishop; A Corner in the Market, Painted by Jules Muenier--Philip Gilbert Hamerton, with a portrait of Muenier; The American Congo--John G. Bourke, Illustrations from drawings made in the Rio Grande region by Gilbert Gaul; Womanliness as a Profession--Aline Gorren; Afoot--Charles G. D. Roberts; A New Portrait of Franklin--Paul Leicester Ford, Illustration from the recently discovered terra-cotta medallion modelled from life; Working-Girl's Clubs--Clara Sidney Davidge, Illustrations by Herbert Denman, engraving by Chadwick; Alone--Melvin Upton; That Good May Come--Edith Wharton; Two Sonnets: A Talking Race--To One Who Sleeps--Edith M. Thomas; Climbing for White Goats--George Bird Grinnell, Illustrations by Ernest E. Thompson, engravings by Van Ness and Chadwick; The Ethics of Democracy--Liberty--F. J. Stimson; The Point of View--Science and Song--The Passing of Man--Truth and Stage-Truth--Objections to Cleverness.