Volume 12
November 1898 edit
- Number 1
- (p.2) Photograph of Theodore Roosevelt
- (p.3) H. J. W. Dam - The Mystery of Vesuvius
- (p.16) George B. Waldron - The World's Bill of Fare
- (p.19) Ray Stannard Baker - A Story of the Fire Patrol
- (p.23) Ray Stannard Baker - Theodore Roosevelt. A Character Sketch
- (p.33) Robert Barr - The Actress of the Chateau
- (p.40) W. A. Fraser - Raja Singh and Other Elephants
- (p.44) Jasper Ewing Brady - Adventures of a Train-Despatcher
- (p.49) Harriet A. Nash - A Twenty-Dollar Bill
- (p.54) Stephen Crane - His New Mittens
- (p.62) Frederick W. Ramsden - Diary of the British Consul at Santiago/Conclusion
- (p.71) E. A. Fitzgerald - On Top of Aconcagua and Tupungato
- (p.79) Marshall Putnam Thompson - The Disbandment of the Army of Northern Virginia
- (p.82) W. A. M. Goode - The Inner History of Admiral Sampson's Campaign
- (p.96) Editorial Notes
December 1898 edit
- Number 2
- (p.98) Illustration of "shepherds abiding in the fields"
- (p.99) Rudyard Kipling - "Stalky"
- (p.110) Alfred T. Mahan - The War on the Sea and its Lessons/Part I
- (p.118) Stephen Bonsal - The Night after San Juan
- (p.129) John A. Hill - An Engineer's Christmas Story
- (p.136) Cleveland Moffett - Hunting on Elephants
- (p.147) Jasper Ewing Brady - Running Trains by Telegraph
- (p.154) Frank Norris - Miracle Joyeux
- (p.161) Ida M. Tarbell - The Later Life of Lincoln/Part I
- (p.176) W. A. Fraser - A Tiger of the Tea Gardens
- (p.178) Ray Stannard Baker - Walt Bowie
- (p.185) George B. Waldron - Five Hundred Years of the Anglo-Saxon
- (p.189) Mortimer O. Wilcox - Forerunners of Empire
January 1899 edit
- Number 3
- (p.194) Portrait of Captain Alfred T. Mahan
- (p.195) Simon Lake - The Submarine Boat "Argonaut" and her Achievements
- (p.203) Ray Stannard Baker - A Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
- (p.210) Rudyard Kipling - Stalky and Co./Part II
- (p.223) Stephen Bonsal - The Day of Battle
- (p.231) Alfred T. Mahan - The War on the Sea and its Lessons/Part II
- (p.241) Hamlin Garland - Rising Wolf—Ghost Dancer
- (p.249) E. Nesbit - The Parrot and the Melodrama
- (p.259) Ida M. Tarbell - The Later Life of Lincoln/Part II
- (p.269) F. W. Hewes - From War to War. The Sweeping out of Spain
- (p.273) Stephen Crane - The Scotch Express
- (p.284) W. A. Fraser - His Passport
February 1899 edit
- Number 4
- (p.290) Rudyard Kipling - The White Man's Burden
- (p.291) Franklin Matthews - Under Water in the "Holland"
- (p.298) Hamlin Garland - Hitting the Trail
- (p.305) James Ewing Brady - Adventures of a Train-Despatcher
- (p.311) Rudyard Kipling - Stalky and Co./Part III
- (p.323) Ida M. Tarbell - Lincoln Gathering an Army
- (p.332) Stephen Crane - Marines Signaling Under Fire at Guantanamo
- (p.337) Charles Henry Hart - Life Masks of Great Americans
- (p.345) Ellen Glasgow - Between Two Shores
- (p.353) Alfred T. Mahan - The War on the Sea and its Lessons/Part III
- (p.362) Walter Barr - In the Third House
- (p.369) Edward W. Harden - Dewey at Manila
March 1899 edit
- Number 5
- (p.386) Cleveland Moffett - J. J. Tissot and his Paintings of the Life of Christ
- (p.397) Ray Stannard Baker - Liquid Air
- (p.409) C. D. Gibson - Sketches in Egypt/Part I
- (p.417) Robert E. Peary - Moving on the North Pole.—Outlines of My Arctic Campaign
- (p.427) Rudyard Kipling - Stalky and Co./Part IV
- (p.438) Frank Norris - "This Animal of a Buldy Jones"
- (p.442) Ida M. Tarbell - Lincoln's Method of Dealing with Men
- (p.455) Louise Herrick Wall - The Accolade
- (p.460) Henry Harrison Lewis - General Wood at Santiago
- (p.470) Alfred T. Mahan - The War on the Sea and its Lessons/Part IV
- (p.480) S. S. McClure - "Out of Print"
April 1899 edit
- Number 6
- (p.482) Illustration for Stalky and Co.
- (p.483) Cleveland Moffett - At Ninety Miles an Hour
- (p.497) Charles Dana Gibson - Sketches in Egypt/Part II
- (p.505) Hamlin Garland - The Trail to the Golden North
- (p.508) Sarah Orne Jewett - Bold Words at the Bridge
- (p.514) Ida M. Tarbell - Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation
- (p.527) Alfred T. Mahan - The War on the Sea and its Lessons/Part V
- (p.535) Walter Barr - A Woman Who Hesitated
- (p.543) B. Baden-Powel - The War Kite
- (p.549) George Adam Smith - Henry Drummond as his Friends Knew Him
- (p.556) Chauncey Thomas - Sheriff of Elbert
- (p.558) Brooks Adams - The New Struggle for Life among Nations
- (p.564) Rudyard Kipling - Stalky and Co./Part V