November 1901 edit
- Number 1
- (p.2): Illustration for Colonel Joslyn
- (p.3): Ray Stannard Baker - What the U. S. Steel Corporation is, and How It Works
- (p.14): M. Quad - Colonel Joslyn, U. S. A.
- (p.21): Walter Wellman - Faster than the Express-Train, The Automobile Race from Paris to Berlin
- (p.33): Joseph M. Rogers - With His Back to the Wall
- (p.40): William Allen White - Theodore Roosevelt
- (p.47): T. E. Brown - The Intercepted Salute
- (p.48): Chauncey Thomas - Why the Hot Sulphur Mail Was Late
- (p.58): Winifred Webb - Thoughts
- (p.59): N. V. McClelland - Nancy and I and the Girl
- (p.62): Mary Celestia Bell - To Nora Mavourneen
- (p.64): Sturgis B. Rand - The Romance of Christmas Island
- (p.71): Edwin Lefèvre - The Tipster
- (p.82): Mary Stewart Cutting - For Ease I Pray Not
- (p.83): George B. Waldron - Marvels of Modern Production
- (p.88): Kate M. Cleary - The Mission of Kitty Malone
December 1901 edit
- Number 2
- (p.98): John La Farge - Michelangelo
- (p.113): Stewart Edward White - The Forest Runner
- (p.124): Herminie Templeton - Darby Gill and the Good People
- (p.133): John Swain - An Independent Boy
- (p.136): Theodore Dreiser - A True Patriarch
- (p.145): William Allen White - Platt
- (p.153): Agustus Bridle and J. K. Macdonald - Lost in the Land of the Midnight Sun
- (p.160): Ray Stannard Baker - At the Tunnel's End
- (p.167): George Madden Martin - The Shadow of a Tragedy
- (p.174): Clara Morris - Tommaso Salvini
- (p.180): Adachi Kinnosuke - A Mendicant
- (p.184): H. A. Crowell - The Pictures and the Pineapple
January 1902 edit
- Number 3
- (p.194): Illustration for The Forest Runner
- (p.195): W. J. Carney and Chauncey Thomas - Army Jack
- (p.205): Stewart Edward White - The Forest Runner, continued
- (p.216): George W. Smalley - Personal Reminiscences of Famous Men and Women, English Statesmen and Rulers
- (p.227): L. C. Hall - Telegraph Talk and Talkers
- (p.232): Robert Barr - A Deputation to the King
- (p.240): Cleveland Moffett - In and Around the Great Pyramid
- (p.252): Cyrus Townsend Brady - David Crockett and the Most Desperate Defense in American History
- (p.261): William H. Hayne - Individualism
- (p.262): Josephine Dodge Daskam - Edgar, the Choir Boy Uncelestial
- (p.271): James Barnes - The One Who Thought
- (p.281): Henry Wallace Phillips - The Demon in the Canon
- (p.288): Paul Kester - Magic of the Past
February 1902 edit
- Number 4
- (p.290): Ray Stannard Baker - Marconi's Achievement
- (p.300): Alfred Ollivant - The Lord and the Lady's Glove
- (p.309): John La Farge - Raphael
- (p.322): William Allen White - Cleveland
- (p.331): Josephine Dodge Daskam - Ardelia in Arcady
- (p.340): Hamlin Garland - Delmar of Pima
- (p.348): Paul Kester - The Vanquished
- (p.349): Sir Harry H. Johnston - The Pygmies of the Great Congo Forest
- (p.354): Sturgis B. Rand - Robert E. Peary and His Campaign for the Pole
- (p.364): Luella Lathrop - A Paternal Government
- (p.370): Stewart Edward White - The Forest Runner, concluded
- (p.378): Mary Stewart Cutting - A Good Dinner
March 1902 edit
- Number 5
- (p.386): Carl Snyder - Bordering the Mysteries of Life and Mind. Dr. Loeb's Researches and Discoveries
- (p.396): William Aspenwall Bradley - Marconi
- (p.397): Chauncey Thomas - Kiowa's Revival
- (p.404): Ida M. Tarbell - The Trial of Aaron Burr
- (p.414): Clara Morris - Riddle of the Nineteenth Century: Mr. Henry Bergh
- (p.423): Martha McCulloch-Williams - Next to the Ground, Stories and Scenes of Farm Life, The Cow
- (p.429): Julian Ralph - Conan Doyle's Work of Love
- (p.433): Norman Duncan - The Raging of the Sea
- (p.442): Carrie Hunt Latta - Barndoor's Romance
- (p.449): William Davenport Hulbert - The Canada Lynx
- (p.458): George Hadden Martin - All the Winds of Doctrine
- (p.464): Julian Hinckley - Requiescam
- (p.465): Maurice Sherman Porter - Denis Mulvihill, Stoker and Mayor
- (p.472): Josephine Dodge Daskam - Verses for a Child
- (p.476): Mary Stewart Cutting - Mrs. Atwood's Outer Raiment
April 1902 edit
- Number 6
- (p.482): Portrait of writer John La Farge
- (p.483): Lincoln Steffens - The Overworked President
- (p.493): Franklin Clarkin - "Thirty Cents"
- (p.499): Henry van Dyke - A Legend of Service
- (p.502): John La Farge - Rembrandt
- (p.515): Edwin Oviatt - Introducing Thacher
- (p.525): Henry Herbert McClure - Messages to Mid-Ocean. Marconi's Own Story of His Latest Triumph
- (p.528): I. K. Friedman - The Lock Step
- (p.536): William Davenport Hulbert - A Tale of the Trout Stream
- (p.546): Stewart Edward White - Billy's Tenderfoot
- (p.553): Herminie Templeton - A Song|A Song (Templeton)|A Song
- (p.554): Cyrus Townsend Brady - Sam Houston and His Battles
- (p.564): Captain W. R. Prentice - On the Dry Tortugas
- (p.570): Evelyn Magruder De Jarnette - How She Saved the General