November 1899 edit
- Number 1
- (p.2): portrait of Sir Henry Irving
- (p.3): Dr. Frederick A. Cook - Two Thousand Miles in the Antarctic Ice
- (p.19): Shan F. Bullock - The Planters
- (p.30): George S. Boutwell - Black Friday - September 24, 1869
- (p.38): William Allen White - "The Herb Called Heart's-Ease"
- (p.40): Sarah Barnwell Elliott - Progress|Progress (Elliott)|Progress
- (p.47): H. J. W. Dam - Sir Henry Irving
- (p.55): Helen Watterson Moody - A Child's Letters to Her Husband
- (p.62): Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady - Decatur and the "Philadelphia"
- (p.68): Alexander Hume Ford - The Chinese Eastern Railway
- (p.80): Rudyard Kipling - The King
- (p.81): H. J. W. Dam - Monsieur Bibi's Boom-Boom
- (p.88): W. A. Fraser - The Revolt of the Blackfoot
December 1899 edit
- Number 2
- (p.98): Rev. John Watson - The Life of the Master (with colour illustrations)
- (p.109): James Barnes - The Man for the Hour
- (p.122): Edwin Markham - Song of the Muse of Labor
- (p.124): Ray Stannard Baker - The Movement of Wheat
- (p.138): O. Henry - Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking
- (p.147): Frank H. Spearman - Bucks. A Story from the Train-Despatcher's Office
- (p.153): Ray Stannard Baker - The Adventure of Tillerman McDermott
- (p.156): Elizabeth W. Mainwaring - The Coronation
- (p.158): Booth Tarkington - Monsieur Beaucaire
- (p.171): George S. Boutwell - The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
- (p.183): Mary Stewart Cutting - Their Second Marriage
- (p.189): Gertrude Roscoe - A Paying Concern. A True Story of American Factory Life
January 1900 edit
- Number 3
- (p.198): Rev. John Watson - The Life of the Master, continued (with colour illustrations)
- (p.213): Sturgis B. Rand - Hottest Heat and Electrical Furnaces
- (p.222): W. A. Fraser - The Infatuation of Ackerly
- (p.230): Alvah Milton Kerr - The Luck of the Northern Mail
- (p.235): Robert E. Peary - Peary's Latest Work in the Arctic, with an introduction by Herbert L. Bridgman
- (p.241): Ray Stannard Baker - Getting Captain Cameron
- (p.247): Booth Tarkington - Monsieur Beaucaire, concluded
- (p.255): Harriet A. Nash - An Old Story
- (p.263): Frank B. Tracy - The Blizzard at Imogene
- (p.272): Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady - The "Constellation" in the War with France. 1798-1800
- (p.281): George S. Boutwell - Blaine and Conkling and the Republican Convention of 1880
- (p.286): Mark Twain - My Boyhood Dreams
- (p.290): Prof. Simon Newcomb - How the Planets are Weighed
February 1900 edit
- Number 4
- (p.294): Rev. John Watson - The Life of the Master, continued (with colour illustrations)
- (p.309): Phil More - Tom Tail-Rope's Exploit
- (p.318): Walter Wellman - The Race for the North Pole
- (p.329): Tighe Hopkins - The Master-Key of Newgate
- (p.334): Alleyne Ireland - A Few Facts about the Colonies of the Great Powers
- (p.339): Elmore Elliott Peake - The Captain of the 'Aphrodite"
- (p.349): Frederic A. Lucas - The Truth About the Mammoth
- (p.355): George S. Boutwell - General Grant's Administration
- (p.363): Cleveland Moffett - The Inside of the Earth
- (p.368): Ray Stannard Baker - General Leonard Wood, A Character Sketch
- (p.380): Frank H. Spearman - The Million-Dollar Freight Train
- (p.387): Editorial notes.
March 1900 edit
- Number 5
- (p.390): Rev. John Watson - The Life of the Master, continued (with colour illustrations)
- (p.405): Walter Wellman - Sledging Toward the Pole
- (p.414): M. Grace Pope - A Trip Deferred
- (p.419): Cy Warman - Building a Railroad into the Klondike
- (p.427): Tighe Hopkins - As It Fell Out
- (p.437): Cleveland Moffett - The Author of "Cyrano"
- (p.445): Captain Joshua Slocum - The Voyage of the "Destroyer" from New York to Brazil
- (p.456): Frank H. Spearman - Sankey's Double-Header
- (p.461): George Reno - When the Light Failed
- (p.469): Susan Buell Hale - The Alamo - March 6, 1836
- (p.473): Shan F. Bullock - The Reapers
April 1900 edit
- Number 6
- (p.486): Rev. John Watson - The Life of the Master, continued (with colour illustrations)
- (p.499): William Barclay Parsons - The American Invasion of China
- (p.511): Alvah Milton Kerr - In Front of the Stampede
- (p.520): Tighe Hopkins - "A Tale of a Tub"
- (p.525): Charlesa Warren - A Manufacturer of History
- (p.537): Earl Mayo - The Ice-Breaker "Ermack"
- (p.545): Robert Barr - Within an Ace of the End of the World
- (p.555): Walter Wellman - An Arctic Day and Night
- (p.564): Leonard Huxley - Professor Huxley's Start in Life
- (p.573): William McLeod Raine - The Winning of the Trans-Continental
- (p.579): Editorial Notes
- (p.580): Cy Warman - The Search for Gold
- (p.580): William R. Lighton - A Man-Song