May 1904
edit- Number 1
- (Frontispiece): Illustration for The Rogues of a Zoo
- (p.3): A. W. Rolker - The Rogues of a Zoo
- (p.13): Sarah Orne Jewett - A Spring Sunday
- (p.19): George Madden Martin - The House of Fulfilment
- (p.34): Joseph Blethen - Ben Zoni's Matinee
- (p.43): Ray Stannard Baker - The Reign of Lawlessness IA
- (p.57): Alvah Milton Kerr - On the Saddle Bow Range
- (p.67): Florence Wilkinson - The Poet Moon
- (p.68): Henry C. Rowland - The Doubting of the Doctor
- (p.76): Joseph M. Rogers - How Hayes Became President
- (p.88): Rex E. Beach - North of Fifty-Three
- (p.96): Thomas Nelson Page - The Negro: The Southerner's Problem
- (p.103): Myra Kelly - H. R. H. The Prince of Hester Street
June 1904
edit- Number 2
- (p.114): P. T. McGrath - The Peril of the Icebergs
- (p.128): Henry C. Rowland - The Folly of Lamar
- (p.136): John McAuley Palmer - The Innoculation of Mr. Skads
- (p.143): Riley H. Allen - For the Under Dog
- (p.147): N. M. W. Woodrow - The New Missioner
- (p.155): George Madden Martin - The House of Fulfilment, continued
- (p.166): Florence Wilkinson - Three Poems
- (p.168): Charles G. D. Roberts - The Truce
- (p.177): R. F. Foster - The Red Ribbon
- (p.186): Ida M. Tarbell - The History of the Standard Oil Company: Part Two, continued
- (p.204): James Hopper - The Past|The Past (Hopper)|The Past
- (p.207): A. E. Housman - Wishing
- (p.207): Mary Stewart Cutting - At the Sign of the Rubber Plant
- (p.215): Samuel Hopkins Adams - Dan Cunningham
- (p.220): Editorial
- William Allen White - On Mr. Steffens's Book, "The Shame of the Cities"
- Various Authors - Do We Care?
July 1904
edit- Number 3
- (p.226): Grover Cleveland - The Government in the Chicago Strike of 1894
- (p.240): Myra Kelly - The Land of Heart's Desire
- (p.253): Harvey J. O'Higgins - Larkin
- (p.261): George Madden Martin - The House of Fulfilment, continued
- (p.271): Henry Wallace Phillips - A Knot and a Slash
- (p.279): Ray Stannard Baker - Organized Capital Challenges Organized Labor
- (p.292): Mary Josephine Mayer - By Way of Loss
- (p.298): John La Farge - One Hundred Masterpieces of Painting, Portraits of Children
- (p.306): Clara Byrnes - Hi Chee's Hlorsee
- (p.315): Richard F. Woods - The Ringing of the Bell
- (p.325): Clara Morris - The Moxa
- (p.331): Florence Wilkinson - The Far Country
- (p.333): Inez Haynes Gillmore - On the Doorstep
- (p.336): Editorial - Miss Tarbell's History of the Standard Oil Company
August 1904
edit- Number 4
- (p.338): Frances Hodgson Burnett - In the Closed Room
- (p.349): O. Henry - A Tempered Wind
- (p.361): James Hopper - The Coming of the Maestra
- (p.372): Gouverneur Morris - Songs|Songs (Morris)|Songs
- (p.374): Alice Brown - A Winter's Courting
- (p.385): Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews - A West Point Regulation
- (p.394): Editorial Announcement - The Author of "The Simple Life" to Visit this Country
- (p.395): Lincoln Steffens - Enemies of the Republic
- (p.409): Samuel Hopkins Adams - King Coal
- (p.416): George Madden Martin - The House of Fulfilment, continued
- (p.428): Witter Bynner - The New Love
- (p.429): Colin McKay - The Loss of the "Leo"
- (p.440): Henry Wallace Phillips - In the Absence of Rules
- (p.449): Florence Wilkinson - The Pilgrim Bell
September 1904
edit- Number 5
- (p.452): Illustration for In the Closed Room
- (p.453): Louise Wigfall Wright - Memories of the Beginning and End if the Southern Confederacy IA
- (p.464): Robert Alexander Wason - Babe Randolph's Turning-Point
- (p.470): Frances Hodgson Burnett - In the Closed Room
- (p.481): George Madden Martin - The House of Fulfilment, continued
- (p.491): John La Farge - One Hundred Masterpieces of Painting, Triumphs—Part One
- (p.498): Henry C. Rowland - The Friendly Fog
- (p.506): William Allen White - Roosevelt and the Postal Frauds
- (p.520): Samuel Hopkins Adams - The Realm of Enchantment
- (p.532): Ida M. Tarbell - The History of the Standard Oil Company: Part Two, continued
- (p.549): Charles Fleming Embree - The Chump
- (p.560): Florence Wilkinson - To a Wood Path
October 1904
edit- Number 6
- (p.562): Bust of George William Curtis
- (p.563): Lincoln Steffens - Enemies of the Republic
- (p.580): Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews - A Good Samaritan
- (p.595): John La Farge - One Hundred Masterpieces of Painting Triumphs—Part Two,
- (p.604): Lloyd Osbourne - Glass-Eyed Bill
- (p.613): A. E. Housman - The World is Round
- (p.614): Carl Schurz - George William Curtis
- (p.623): Marion Hill - A Fruit of the Fair
- (p.630): Margaret E. Sangster - The Child in the Midst
- (p.631): Eugene Wood - The Firemen's Tournament
- (p.641): George Madden Martin - The House of Fulfilment, continued
- (p.649): Leroy Scott - The Prison Days of Billy MacCheeck
- (p.659): Florence Wilkinson - The Forerunners
- (p.660): Ida M. Tarbell - The History of the Standard Oil Company: Part Two, continued
- (p.672): Herminie Templeton - A Serenade in Automn