December 1893
edit- Number 1
- (p.2): Portrait of Frederic Farrar
- (p.3): Arthur Warren - Archdeacon Farrar
- (p.17): Human Documents, photographs of
- William T. Stead
- Whitelaw Reid
- William McKinley
- (p.27): Mrs. Oliphant - A Visitor and his Opinions
- (p.52): Gertrude Hall - The Weather of the World
- (p.54): Edwin C. Martin - Tennyson's Friendships
- (p.61): Octave Thanet - Was It the Good Bears?
- (p.67): Paul Verlaine - Mon Dieu m'a dit:...
- (p.68): Henry Drummond - Manliness in Boys - By a New Process
- (p.78): Cy Warman - The Bull Team
- (p.80): E. Jay Edwards - Governor William McKinley
- (p.86): Charles A. Dana - Jerusalem. Some Notes of a Recent Journey
- (p.99): A. Conan Doyle - The Adventure of the Final Problem
- (p.112): Mortimer Collins - To My Wife|To My Wife (Collins)|To My Wife
January 1894
edit- Number 2
- (p.114): Portrait of Francis Parkman
- (p.115): R. H. Sherard - Jules Verne at Home
- (p.125): Charlotte Fiske Bates - Glimpses of Whittier's Faith and Character
- (p.129): Arthur Hugh Clough - "With Whom There Is No Variableness, Neither Shadow of Turning"
- (p.130): Gilbert Parker - The Great White Chief
- {p.134): Human Documents, photographs of
- Henry Rider Haggard
- Jean Martin Charcot
- Francis Parkman
- (p.141): Louise Chandler Moulton - When She Was Thirty
- (p.147): Walter Savage Landor - Why Repine?
- (p.148): H. J. W. Dam - The Maxim Air-Ship
- (p.159): I. Zangwill - The Sabbath-Breaker
- (p.163): Ben Jonson - The Noble Nature
- (p.164): Cy Warman - A Thousand Mile Ride on the Engine of the Swiftest Train in the World
- (p.185): Julius H. Ward - Francis Parkman
- (p.199): various - The Edge of the Future
February 1894
edit- Number 3
- (p.218): Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson
- (p.219): Hamlin Garland - A Dialogue between James Whitcomb Riley and Hamlin Garland
- (p.234): Augusta de Gruchy - The Seasons
- (p.235): Human Documents, photographs of
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Hamlin Garland
- Philip D. Armour
- (p.243): Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne - The Ebb Tide, Part I
- (p.259): Thomas Lovell Beddoes - Sailors' Song
- (p.260): Arthur Warren - Philip D. Armour
- (p.281): Mrs. E. V. Wilson - Barbary
- (p.289): Ida M. Tarbell - The Oservatory on Top of Mt. Blanc
- (p.301): Matthew Arnold - Revolutions
- (p.302): Edward Wakefield - Nervousness: The National Disease of America
- (p.307): William Oldys - On a Fly Drinking out of His Cup
- (p.308): Robert Barr - "Held Up"
- (p.312): Anonymous - All in the Day
March 1894
edit- Number 4
- (p.314): Portrait of Herbert Spencer
- (p.315): M. H. Spielmann - John Ruskin at Home
- (p.329): Walter Savage Landor - On His Seventy-fifth Birthday
- (p.330): Octave Thanet - Town Lot Number 1303
- (p.341): Human Documents, photographs of
- Andrew Lang
- John Townsend Trowbridge
- Joseph Ernest Renan
- (p.347): Rudyard Kipling - The Legs of Sister Ursula
- (p.355): Ida M. Tarbell - Identification of Criminals
- (p.370): "Ironquill of Kansas" - Prairie Children
- (p.371): Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne - The Ebb Tide, Part I continued
- (p.391): A. Conan Doyle - The Glamour of the Arctic
- (p.401): Herbert Spencer - The Late Professor Tyndall
April 1894
edit- Number 5
- (p.410): R. H. Sherard - Emile Zola at Home
- (p.426): W. Clark Russell - Captain Jones of "The Rose"
- (p.435): Human Documents, photographs of
- Henry Drummond
- Andrew Carnegie
- Ellen Alice Terry
- (p.445): Robert Barr - The Typewritten Letter
- (p.451): Frederic W. Farrar - Christianity - True or False
- (p.457): Ethel Mackenzie McKenna - Ellen Terry
- (p.466): E. C. Cotes - The Poisonous Snakes of India
- (p.475): E. Jay Edwards - The Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst
- (p.486): James R. Wilson - An Actual Experience Under Fire
- (p.489): Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne - The Ebb Tide, Part II
May 1894
edit- Number 6
- (p.506): Horace Porter - Personal Traits of General Grant
- (p.515): A. E. Watrous - Grant as His Son Saw Him
- (p.532): O. O. Howard and Ely S. Parker - Some Reminiscences of Grant
- (p.535): T. C. Crawford - General Grant's Greatest Year
- (p.542): Jesse R. Grant - A Letter of General Grant's Father
- (p.544): Cleveland Moffett - Wild Beasts and Their Keepers
- (p.562): Mary T. Earle - The Governor's Prerogatives
- (p.569): R. H. Sherard - Flammarion the Astronomer
- (p.578): Bret Harte - The Sheriff of Siskyou
- (p.593}: Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne - The Ebb Tide, Part II continued