Table of Contents:
  • [Part 1] Essays on French literature
  • The reminiscences of Ernest Renan
  • Renan's Dialogues and philosophic fragments
  • Taine's Italy
  • Taine's Notes on England
  • Taine's English literature
  • Taine's Notes on Paris
  • Taine's Ancient regime
  • Sainte-Beuve's Portraits
  • Sainte-Beuve's first articles
  • Sainte-Beuve's English portraits
  • Gautier's Winter in Russia
  • Constantinople by Gautier
  • Gautier's posthumous works
  • Maurice de Guérin
  • Dumas fils and Goethe
  • Scherer's literary studies
  • George Sand's Mademoiselle Merquem
  • Last gleanings from George Sand's writings
  • George Sand
  • Hugo's Légende des siècles
  • Victor Hugo's Ninety-three
  • Flaubert's Temptation of St. Anthony
  • Henry Beyle
  • Minor French novelists: the Goncourts, etc.
  • Edmond de Goncourt's La fille Elisa
  • Mérimée's Letters to another unknown
  • Mérimée's last tales
  • Octave Feuillet's Camors
  • Octave Feuillet's Les amours de Philippe
  • Alphonse Daudet
  • Ivan Turgenev's Virgin soil
  • [Part 2] Essays on American and English literature
  • Howells's Italian journeys
  • Howells's A foregone conclusion
  • Howells's A foregone conclusion (second article)
  • Howells's poems
  • Francis Parkman: the Jesuits of North America
  • Later lyrics by Julia Ward Howe; Poems by Elizabeth Akers (Florence Percy); Poems by Amanda T. Jones; Women of the gospels: the three wakings and other poems by the author of The Schonberg-Cotta family
  • The prophet: a tragedy by Bayard Taylor
  • Nero: an historical play by W.W. Story
  • Honest John Vane: a story by J.W. De Forest
  • We and our neighbors: records of an unfashionable street by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Eight cousins, or The aunt-hill by Louisa M. Alcott
  • Idolatry by Julian Hawthorne
  • Garth by Julian Hawthorne
  • Saxon studies by Julian Hawthorne
  • Charles Nordhoff's communistic societies
  • Carlyle's translation of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister
  • Mr. Froude's short studies
  • Historical novels: The household of Sir Thomas More; Jacques Bonneval, or The days of the dragonnades by the author of Mary Powell (Anne Manning)
  • The Spanish gypsy by George Eliot
  • George Eliot's Lifted veil; and Brother Jacob
  • Hardy's Far from the madding crowd
  • Charles Kingsley's life and letters
  • Lothair by Lord Beaconsfield
  • Tyndall's Hours of exercise in the Alps
  • Stopford Brooke's Theology in the English poets
  • Professor David Masson's "Three devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's with other essays"
  • Mrs. Browning's letters to R.H. Horne
  • George Barnett Smith's Poets and novelists
  • Thackerayana
  • Rev. Francis Hodgson, a friend of Lord Byron
  • Matthew Arnold.