Volume 9 NOTE: This volume continued the pagination begun with volume 8.
May 1897 edit
- Issue 1
- (p.558): Ida M. Tarbell - A Great Photographer
- (p.565): A. Conan Doyle - The Governor of Saint Kitts
- (p.573): Mrs. T. H. Huxley - May
- (p.574): Ray Stannard Baker - The Capture, Death, and Burial of J. Wilkes Booth
- (p.586): Robert Louis Stevenson - St. Ives, chapters V, VI, VII
- (p.597): Cy Warman - A Locomotive as a War Chariot
- (p.600): Walt Whitman - Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats
- (p.601): Hamlin Garland - Grant at the Outbreak of the War
- (p.610): Rudyard Kipling - "Captains Courageous", Chapter X (part), conclusion
- (p.618): Mr. Kipling's Truth to Fact in "Captains Courageous"
- (p.619): Charles Henry Hart - Life Portraits of Daniel Webster
- (p.631): Musgrove Davis - A Loyal Comrade
- (p.632): Carl Schurz - Grover Cleveland's Second Administration
June 1897 edit
- Issue 2
- (p.646): S. P. Langley - The "Flying-Machine"
- (p.661): Musgrove Davis - Some Personal Experiences I the War
- (p.664): George W. Rose - A Great Game of Checkers
- (p.667): Thomas Sharp - Col. Dent of Whitehaven, the Father-in-law of General Grant
- (p.668): Robert Louis Stevenson - St. Ives, chapters VIII, IX, X
- (p.685): Life Portraits of Queen Victoria
- (p.701): William Allen White - A Recent Confederate Victory
- (p.709): John Stuart Bonner - A Master Sold by a Slave
- (p.710): Th. Bentzon - The Revue des Deux Mondes
- (p.717): Cy Warman - The Vicissitudes of Engine 107
- (p.721): Hamlin Garland - Grant's First Great Work in the War
- (p.727): Belle Moses - At the Turn of the Road
July 1897 edit
- Issue 3 (transcription project)
- (p.734): Portrait of Henry Drummond
- (p.735): Mary Gay Humphreys - The Smallest Republic in the World
- (p.748): Robert Barr - The Grindstone Question
- (p.759): D. M. Ross - Professor Henry Drummond
- (p.769): A. Conan Doyle - The Two Barks
- (p.775): William Bradford - The Log of the "Mayflower", Chapters 9 and 10
- (p.778): Robert Louis Stevenson - St. Ives, chapters XII, XIII, XIV, XV
- (p.792): Rachel Jackson Lawrence - Andrew Jackson at Home
- (p.795): Charles Henry Hart - Life Portraits of Andrew Jackson
- (p.805): Hamlin Garland - Grant in a Great Campaign
- (p.812): Anthony Hope - Uncle John and the Rubies
August 1897 edit
- Issue 4 (transcription project)
- (p.822): Illustration for The Paris Gamin
- (p.823): H. J. W. Dam - The Great Dynamite Factory at Ardeer
- (p.837): Rudyard Kipling - Slaves of the Lamp
- (p.860): Cy Warman - Will the Lights be White
- (p.862): A. Conan Doyle - The Voyage of Copley Banks
- (p.869): Anthony Hope - Mr. C. D. Gibson on Love and Life
- (p.876): Robert Barr - "Gentlemen, the King!"
- (p.883): James Whitcomb Riley - Our Queer Old World
- (p.884): William Canton - W. V.—Her Violets
- (p.890): Th. Bentzen - The Paris Gamin
- (p.892): Hamlin Garland - The First Meeting of Lincoln and Grant
- (p.896): Robert Louis Stevenson - St. Ives, chapters XV (cont'd), XVI
- (p.904): John Kendrick Bangs - The Talented Miss Hope
- (p.906): Ann Devoore - The Whip Hand
- (p.908): Albert Bigelow Paine - The Shadow of the Mosque
September 1897 edit
- Issue 5 (transcription project)
- (p.910): Bust of Henry Clay
- (p.911): George E. Waring, Jr. - The Cleaning of a Great City
- (p.925): Rudyard Kipling - Pharaoh and the Sergeant
- (p.928): Robert Barr - A Man Fights Best in His Own Township
- (p.939): Charles Henry Hart - Life Portraits of Henry Clay
- (p.949): John J. a'Becket - "Badness"
- (p.956): J. Lincoln Steffens - Life in the Klondike Gold Fields
- (p.968): William Allen White - The Martyrdom of "Mealy" Jones
- (p.974): Musgrove Davis - One of God's Fools
- (p.975): Robert Louis Stevenson - St. Ives, chapters XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI, XXII
- (p.999): Walt Whitman - Camps of Green
- (p.1000): F. G. Kenyon - When Were the Gospels Written?
October 1897 edit
- Issue 6 (transcription project)
- (p.1006): Portrait of Anthony Hope
- (p.1007): T. Cockcroft - An Elephant Round-up in Siam
- (p.1014): Shan F. Bullock - The Turf-Cutters
- (p.1022): Bernard P. Grenfell - The Oldest Record of Christ's Life, with introduction by F. G. Kenyon
- (p.1031): Ira Seymour - The Making of a Regiment
- (p.1045): Stephen Crane - Flanagan and His Short Filibustering Adventure
- (p.1052): Walt Whitman - When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
- (p.1053): Charles Henry Hart - Unknown Life Masks of Great Americans
- (p.1061): Robert Louis Stevenson - St. Ives, chapters XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII
- (p.1085): Ida M. Tarbell - Charles A. Dana in the Civil War
- (p.1089): Octave Thanet - The Grateful Reporter
- (p.1097): George B. Waldron - Certain Wonders of the Greater New York
- (p.1101): Editorial Notes
- (p.1104): Rudyard Kipling - Recessional