The Gentleman's Magazine/Volume 253

July
- p.1: H. R. Fox Bourne - Garibaldi
- p.13: J. A. Farrer - The Laws of War
- p.28: Andrew Wilson - The Problems of Distribution and Their Solution/Part I
- p.59: Louis Barbé - The War of the Wartburg
- p.77: James Mew - The Buscapié
- p.90: M. G. Watkins - In the Deer Forest
- p.105: Ouida - The System of Mezzadria
- p.112: W. Mattieu Williams - Science Notes
- p.122: Sylvanus Urban - Table Talk
August
- p.129: Julian Hawthorne - Dust: A Novel/Chapter 17
- p.138: Julian Hawthorne - Dust: A Novel/Chapter 18
- p.145: C. F. Gordon Cumming - Alexandria
- p.166: Dutton Cook - Mrs. Elizabeth Barry
- p.179: Grant Allen - The Welsh in the West Country
- p.198: Walter Besant - Charles Reade's Novels
- p.215: J. A. Farrer - Naval Warfare
- p.231: Robert Aitken - Books and Their Authors
- p.242: W. Mattieu Williams - Science Notes
  - "The Utility of Drunkenness"
  - "A Visit to the Goodwin Sands"
  - "Shell Ness"
  - "Regelation and Welding"
  - "The Voice of Waters"
- p.253: Sylvanus Urban - Table Talk
September
- p.257: Julian Hawthorne - Dust: A Novel/Chapter 19
- p.264: Julian Hawthorne - Dust: A Novel/Chapter 20
- p.271: C. F. Gordon Cumming - A Glimpse of Cairo
- p.306: Justin H. McCarthy - Metastasio
- p.316: Phil Robinson - The Birds of Poetry
- p.336: Andrew Wilson - The Problems of Distribution and Their Solution/Part II
- p.360: W. Lynd - An Author at Home
- p.373: W. Mattieu Williams - Science Notes
  - "Warming Houses from Below"
  - "Monkey-Pigs"
  - "The Effects of Strong Winds on Trees"
  - "The Expansion of Solidifying Metals"
  - "Fish Supply and the London Ship Canal"
  - "Magnetic and Chemical Action"
- p.381: Sylvanus Urban - Table Talk
October
- p.385: Julian Hawthorne - Dust: A Novel/Chapter 21
- p.392: Julian Hawthorne - Dust: A Novel/Chapter 22
- p.398: Julian Hawthorne - Dust: A Novel/Chapter 23
- p.406: Richard A. Proctor - Pyramid Prophecies and Egyptian Events
- p.420: Phil Robinson - Birds in Poetry, from Chaucer to Wordsworth
- p.436: H. F. Brown - Notes of an Istrian Journey
- p.447: J. A. Bermingham - Mirabeau
- p.463: C. F. Gordon Cumming - A Californian Forest
- p.480: Louis Barbé - Walther von der Wogelweide
- p.494: Ouida - Charles Reade
- p.498: W. Mattieu Williams - Science Notes
  - "Perpetual Motion"
  - "Electricity from Carriage Wheels"
  - "A Prophecy"
  - "Flameless Gas Burning"
  - "The Internal Heating in the Bessemer Process"
  - "Meteoric Hailstones at the British Association"
  - "Water, water everywhere"
  - "The Voice of Lizards and Frogs"
- p.508: Sylvanus Urban - Table Talk
November
- p.513: Julian Hawthorne - Dust: A Novel/Chapter 24
- p.520: Julian Hawthorne - Dust: A Novel/Chapter 25
- p.528: Julian Hawthorne - Dust: A Novel/Chapter 26
- p.535: Julian Hawthorne - Dust: A Novel/Chapter 27
- p.542: C. F. Gordon Cumming - Egyptian Dervishes
- p.562: Redspinner - Winter Angling
- p.573: Richard A. Proctor - Star-clouds and Star-mist
- p.591: Phil Robinson - Birds of Beauty and of Song
- p.618: Alex H. Japp - A Gift from Emerson
- p.629: W. Mattieu Williams - Science Notes
  - "The Menacing Comet"
  - "Our Gigantic Ancestors"
  - "Gigantic Cuttlefishes"
- p.638: Sylvanus Urban - Table Talk
December
- p.641: Julian Hawthorne - Dust: A Novel/Chapter 28
- p.648: Julian Hawthorne - Dust: A Novel/Chapter 29
- p.655: Julian Hawthorne - Dust: A Novel/Chapter 30
- p.663: Richard A. Proctor - Transits of Venue
- p.674: C. F. Gordon Cumming - Sugar-Fields versus Lava-Plains
- p.696: T. F. Thiselton Dyer - Dreams and their Folk-lore
- p.708: Percy Fitzgerald - The Story of L. E. L.
- p.720: W. Mattieu Williams - Science Notes
  - "A Persecuted Fellow-creature"
  - "New Zealand Coal-seams"
  - "The Extension of the Corona"
  - "The Path of the Comet"
- p.729: Sylvanus Urban - Table Talk