June 1893 edit
- Number 1
- (p.3): Real Conversations: A Dialogue between William Dean Howells and Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
- (p.12): Gilbert Parker - Parables of a Province I. The Nymph of the Eddy
- (p.16): Sarah Orne Jewett - Human Documents. An Introduction (a collection of photographs)
- (p.26): Raymond Blathwayt - Wild Animals I. How they are Captured, Transported, Trained, and Sold
- (p.32): Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson - Under Sentence of the Law
- (p.37): E. J. Edwards - Unsolved Problems that Edison is Studying
- (p.39): Cleveland Moffett - An Interview with Professor Alexander Graham Bell
- (p.43): Alfred Tennyson - from Locksley Hall
- (p.44): H. W. Massingham - A Day with Gladstone
- (p.52): Henry Drummond - Where Man Got his Ears
- (p.59): James Parton - James Parton's Rules of Biography
- (p.63): Henri de Blowitz - Europe at the Present Moment
- (p.69): Joel Chandler Harris - The Comedy of War
- (p.82): Gertrude Hall - The Rose is Such a Lady
- (p.83): R. H. Sherard - The Count de Lesseps of To-day
July 1893 edit
- Number 2
- (p.98): Edward E. Hale - An Afternoon with Oliver Wendell Holmes
- (p.110): Stanley J. Weyman - In the Name of the Law
- (p.119): Human Documents photographs of
- Edward Everett Hale
- Henri de Blowitz
- Daniel Vierge Urrabieta
- Thomas Alva Edison
- (p.126): Raymond Blathwayt - Wild Beasts - How they are Transported and Trained
- (p.136): Thomas Hardy - Master John Horseleigh, Knyght
- (p.147): The Race to the North Pole
- (p.159): W. H. Gilder - An Expedition to the North Magnetic Pole
- (p.163): Rudyard Kipling - The Merchantman
- (p.166): W. Morton Fullerton - Monsieur de Blowitz
- (p.174): William Wright - On the Track of the Reviewer
- (p.181): Announcement. Romantic Stories from the Family History of the Brontës
- (p.182): Lizzie Hyer Neff - The Lost Years
August 1893 edit
- Number 3
- (p.194): Hamlin Garland - Real Conversations - A Dialogue Between Eugene Field and Hamlin Garland
- (p.205): Bliss Carman - The Shadow Boatswain
- (p.206): Conan Doyle - The Slapping Sal
- (p.213): Human Documents, photographs of
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- John James Ingalls
- Jules Verne
- (p.219): Raymond Blathwayt - Some Professional Adventures of Karl Hagenbeck
- (p.224): Mrs. E. V. Wilson - The Story I Heard on the Cars
- (p.235): Mary G. Burnett - Mrs. Gladstone and her Good Works
- (p.242): Alfred Balch - A Boys' Republic
- (p.254): Sir Henry Wotton - The Happy Life
- (p.255): Adam Badeay - Edwin Booth. On and Off Stage
- (p.268): James Harvey Smith - Burglars Three
- (p.277): William Wright - Stranger Than Fiction. Unpublished Chapters from "The Brontës in Ireland"
September 1893 edit
- Number 4
- (p.290): Illustration for At the Throttle
- (p.291): Herbert D. Ward - Edward E. Hale - The Man with a Country
- (p.301): Annie Howells Fréchette - How Cassie Saved the Spoons
- (p.308): Gertrude Hall - Surrender
- (p.309): Human Documents, photographs of
- William II of Germany
- Eugene Field
- Albert A. Pope
- (p.318): George H. Jessop - Dreams Go by Contraries
- (p.326): William Wordsworth - The Tables Turned
- (p.327): Ida M. Tarbell - Pasteur at Home
- (p.341): William Wright - Stranger Than Fiction. Unpublished Chapters from "The Brontës in Ireland"
- (p.350): Hugh Brontë - Alice and Hugh
- (p.351): Henry M. Stanley - The Legend of the Elephant and the Lion
- (p.355): Thomas Carew - Song
- (p.356): Cleveland Moffett - At the Throttle
- (p.364): R. L. Garner - Among the Gorillas
October 1893 edit
- Number 5
- (p.374): Robert B. Porter - Thomas B. Reed, of Maine
- (p.387): Human Documents, photographs of
- Thomas B. Reed
- Frances E. Willard
- Edgar Wilson Nye
- George W. Cable
- (p.394): Annie Howells Fréchette - The Joneses' Telephone
- (p.399): Herbert Nichols - The Psychological Laboratory at Harvard
- (p.410): Emma W. Demeritt - The Spire of St. Stephens
- (p.417): Francis Gribble - Mountaineering Adventure
- (p.428): George MacDonald - The Smoke
- (p.429): C. Kinloch Cooke - The Earl of Dunraven
- (p.439): Augusta de Gruchy - At a Dance and Dulces Amaryllidis Iræ
- (p.440): Walter Besant - A Splendid Time - Ahead
- (p.450): Anonymous - An Old Song
- (p.451): William Wright - Stranger Than Fiction. Stories of the Brontë Family in Ireland
November 1893 edit
- Number 6
- (p.466): Edith M. Thomas - Real Conversations - A Dialogue between Frank R. Stockton and Edith M. Thomas
- (p.478): I. Zangwill - "Incurable". A Ghetto Tragedy
- (p.487): Human Documents, photographs of
- A. Conan Doyle
- R. E. Peary
- Camille Flammarion
- F. Hopkinson Smith
- (p.493): E. Jay Edwards - Cleveland|The Personal Force of Grover Cleveland|Cleveland
- (p.501): Arthur Warren - Patti at Craig-y-Nos
- (p.515): "Q" - Once Aboard the Lugger
- (p.523): Thomas Lovell Beddoes - Song|Song (Beddoes)|Song
- (p.524): Henry J. W. Dam - Four Hundred Degrees Below Zero. An Interview with Professor James Dewar
- (p.533): Gilbert Parker - The House with the Tall Porch
- (p.535): William Wright - Stranger Than Fiction. The Brontës ...
- (p.547): R. H. Sherard - The Hypnotic Experiments of Luys
- (p.555): Joseph Kirkland - The Surgeon's Miracle