June 1896 edit
- Number 1
- (p.2): Illustration of Mowgli fishing
- (p.3): Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - Chapters from a Life, "Reminiscences of Harriet Beecher Stowe"
- (p.12): Stephen Crane - The Little Regiment
- (p.22): Arthur Hugh Clough - Come, Poet, Come!
- (p.23): Rudyard Kipling - "In the Rukh", Mowgli's Introduction to White Men
- (p.39): Gertrude Hall - And Then?
- (p.40): James L. Crane - Grant as a Colonel
- (p.46): Anthony Hope - "Phroso", A Tale of Brave Deeds and Perilous Ventures, continued
- (p.65): Will H. Low - A Century of Painting, continued
- (p.73): Portraits of Mark Twain
- (p.79): Ida M. Tarbell - The Life of Abraham Lincoln, continued
- (p.89): Cy Warman - The Locomotive that Lost Herself
July 1896 edit
- Number 2
- (p.98): E. Kay Robinson - Kipling in India
- (p.110): Portraits of Longfellow
- (p.114): Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - Chapters from a Life, "Longfellow, Whittier, and Holmes"
- (p.122): Virginia Niles Leeds - A Coast and a Capture, A Bicycling Story
- (p.126): Gertrude Hall - Gifts
- (p.127): Annie S. Peck - A Woman's Ascent of the Matterhorn
- (p.136): Robert Barr - "Out of Thun"
- (p.144): E. J. Edwards - Charles H. Taylor of the Boston "Globe"
- (p.148): Gardiner G. Hubbard - The English in South Central Africa
- (p.153): Cleveland Moffett - The Edge of the Future
- (p.161): Will H. Low - A Century of Painting, continued
- (p.171): Ida M. Tarbell - Abraham Lincoln, "Lincoln as a Lawyer"
- (p.182): Anthony Hope - "Phroso", A Tale of Brave Deeds and Perilous Ventures, continued
- (p.191): Literary Notes
August 1896 edit
- Number 3
- (p.194): W. T. Stead - Mr. Gladstone at Eighty-six
- (p.208): Clinton Ross - The Colors of the "Lawrence"
- (p.214): Octave Thanet - The Ladder of Grief
- (p.222): Stephen Crane - The Veteran
- (p.225): Will H. Low - A Century of Painting, continued
- (p.234): Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - Chapters from a Life, "Reminiscences of Literary Boston"
- (p.245): Anthony Hope - "Phroso", A Tale of Brave Deeds and Perilous Ventures, continued
- (p.267): Edward William Thomson - Old Man Savarin
- (p.272): Ida M. Tarbell - Abraham Lincoln, "Lincoln's Importan Law Cases"
- (p.281): Annie Eliot - Hearts Unfortified
- (p.288): John Ernest McCann - The City Sparrow
September 1896 edit
- Number 4
- (p.290): portrait of Lincoln about 1864
- (p.291): Rudyard Kipling - The 'Eathen
- (p.293): Will H. Low - A Century of Painting, continued
- (p.305): Harriet Prescott Spofford - In the Time of the Sweetbrier
- (p.311): Elizabeth Whitman Morton - The Discovery of Anæsthesia
- (p.319): "Lincoln's Lost Speech"
- (p.332): Anthony Hope - "Phroso", A Tale of Brave Deeds and Perilous Ventures, continued
- (p.353): Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - Chapters from a Life, "Among the Gloucester Fisherman"
- (p.362): Morgan Robertson - A Sea Change
- (p.372): John Francis Waller - Kitty Neil
- (p.374): Whistler, Painter and Comedian
- (p.379): Clinton Ross - The Extreme Edge of Hazard
- (p.384): Lincoln in New England: A Correction (re May 1896 issue)
October 1896 edit
- Number 5
- (p.386): Rev. D. M. Ross - Dr. John Watson - "Ian Maclaren"
- (p.401): Ida M. Tarbell - Abraham Lincoln, "The Lincoln-Douglas Debates"
- (p.414): Rudyard Kipling - Cholera Camp
- (p.415): Will H. Low - A Century of Painting, continued
- (p.427): Chester Holcombe: Li Hung Chang
- (p.437): Robert W. Chambers - The Pickets
- (p.440): Gertrude Hall - To a Weed
- (p.441): Anthony Hope - "Phroso", A Tale of Brave Deeds and Perilous Ventures, concluded
- (p.461): Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - Chapters from a Life, "Recollections of a Literary Life"
- (p.469): Morgan Robertson - The Survival of the Fittest
- (p.478): W. Pett Ridge - A Model Crime
- (p.481): The Edge of the Future