November 1903 edit
- Number 1
- (p.2) Cleveland Moffett - The Wonders of Radium
- (p.15) E. W. Fowler - A Strenuous Courtship
- (p.28) Josephine Daskam - Children's poems
- (p.30) Ray Stannard Baker - The Trust's New Tool-The Labor Boss
- (p.44) Norman Duncan - Breath of the North
- (p.53) Henry Harland - My Friend Prospero, Part sixth
- (p.65) E. W. Hurlbut - A Rush Order for Lamps
- (p.75) Eugene Wood - The Sabbath-School
- (p.84) Lincoln Steffens - New York: Good Government in Danger
- (p.93) Rex E. Beach - The Mule Driver and the Garrulous Mute
- (p.100) Grace S. Richmond - The Supreme Test
- (p.108) Editorial Announcement of Miss Tarbell's History of the Standard Oil Company-Part Second
December 1903 edit
- Number 2
- (p.114) Illustration for When Elizabeth Went Home
- (p.115) Florence Wilkinson - The Song of the Saw-Mill
- (p.118) Colin McKay - Coming on the Coast
- (p.126) Arthur Stringer - In the Open
- (p.127) Ida M. Tarbell - The History of the Standard Oil Company: Part Two
- (p.140) Emery Pottle - The Power and the Glory
- (p.141) O. Henry - The Pimienta Pancakes
- (P.148) John La Farge - One Hundred Masterpieces of Painting
- (p.163) Sidney C. Kendall - On the Trail of a Serpent
- (p.174) Margaret Cameron - A Christmas Chime
- (p.184) Mary Talbot Campbell - A Celestial Garment
- (p.194) Ray Stannard Baker - The Lone Fighter
- (p.197) Ralph Tennal - On the Heart and the Evidence
- (p.200) James Hopper - The Call
- (p.203) A. E. Housman - Song from 'A Shropshire Lad'
- (p.204) Clara Morris - The Dressing-Room Reception
- (p.212) Helen Reimensnyder Martin - Ellie's Furnishing
- (p.221) Ethel Bowman Ronald - When Elizabeth Went Home
January 1904 edit
- Number 3
- (p.226) Photograph of Carl Schurz
- (p.227) Henry Wallace Phips - Red Saunders at Big Bend
- (p.235) A. W. Rolker - The Wild-Animal Surgeon and His Patients
- (p.245) Musgrove Davis - Hoch: Charlie Manderfeld!
- (p.249) Myra Kelly - The Touch of Nature
- (p.259) Carl Schurz - Can the South Solve the Negro Problem?
- (p.276) Eden Phillpotts - "A Pickaxe, and a Spade, a Spade"
- (p.287) Harvey J. O'Higgins - Lieut. Connors' Cowardice
- (p.294) Ida M. Tarbell - The History of the Standard Oil Company: Part Two, continued
- (p.306) S. H. Kemper - And Ministered unto Him
- (p.307) James Hopper - The Failure
- (p.317) James M. Wells - Tunneling out of Libby Prison
- (p.327) Alice Brown - The Tree of a Thousand Leaves
February 1904 edit
- Number 4
- (p.338) Turner painting, "The Death of Nelson"
- (p.339) Miriam Michelson - Prince Roseleaf and a Girl from Kansas
- (p.351) John La Farge - One Hundred Masterpieces of Painting, continued
- (p.357) Florence Wilkinson - The Prophet
- (p.358) Rex E. Beach - The Shyness of Shorty
- (p.365) A. E. Housman - Song
- (p.366) Ray Stannard Baker - A Corner in Labor
- (p.379) Lloyd Osbourne - The Fugitives of Pleasure
- (p.389) Booth Tarkington - The Aliens
- (p.404) R. F. Foster - The Forger
- (p.413) Elliott Flower - The Elusive Ten Dollar Bill
- (p.418) Frank H. Schell - Sketching under Fire at Antietam
- (p.429) Clara Morris - Beneath the Wrinkle
- (p.435) Ida M. Tarbell - The History of the Standard Oil Company: Part Two, continued
March 1904 edit
- Number 5
- (p.450) Illustration for The Negro: The Southerner's Problem
- (p.451) Charles G. D. Roberts - The Alien of the Wild
- (p.460) W. H. Boardman - A Kind of Hero
- (p.465) Samuel Hopkins Adams - The State of Kentucky vs. Caleb Powers
- (p.477) Anthony Hope - The Riddle of Countess Runa
- (p.484) Edward Cummings - The Coward
- (p.492) Ida M. Tarbell - The History of the Standard Oil Company: Part Two, continued
- (p.505) Jeanette Cooper - A Candid Violet
- (p.517) Myra Kelly - When a Man's Widowed
- (p.526) Mary Stewart Cutting - The Terminal
- (p.533) Gouverneur Morris - Song
- (p.534) Joseph Stickney - The Run of the "Altamaha"
- (p.543) Henry Smith Pritchett - A Hundred Miles an Hour
- (p.547) Florence Wilkinson - Genius
- (p.548) Thomas Nelson Page - The Negro: The Southerner's Problem
- (p.554) Rex E. Beach - The Colonel and the Horse-Thief
April 1904 edit
- Number 6
- (p.562) Ellis Parker Butler - Miss Milly's Crèche
- (p.573) Justus Miles Forman - Andrea Del Sarto
- (p.579) John La Farge - One Hundred Masterpieces of Painting, continued
- (p.587) Lincoln Steffens - Enemies of the Republic
- (p.600) F. J. Stimson - A Modern Adam
- (p.611) O. Henry - Holding up a Train
- (p.619) Thomas Nelson Page - The Negro: The Southerner's Problem continued
- (p.627) George Hibbard - The Way It Was
- (p.638) Ida M. Tarbell - The History of the Standard Oil Company: Part Two, continued
- (p.652) Samuel Hopkins Adams - The Little Fat Fiddler
- (p.659) H. R. Durant - The Unknown
- (p.672) Harriet Prescott Spofford - The First Watch