November 1907
edit- Number 1
- (facing p.1): Illustration for A Holiday
- (p.1): Ellen Terry - Portia: The End of My Apprenticeship
- (p.18): James Hopper - The Bit of Calico
- (p.26): Lucy Pratt - Ezekiel in Exile
- (p.33): Burton J. Hendrick - Great American Fortunes and Their Making
- (p.49): Perceval Gibbon - The Meagre Life, Chapters 4, 5 and 6
- (p.60): George Kennan - Criminal Government and the Private Citizen
- (p.72): Joseph Conrad - The Brute
- (p.85): Carl Schurz - Reminiscences of a Long Life
- (p.99): Ada Melvin - A Holiday
- (p.106): Willa Siebert Cather - Autumn Melody
- (p.107): Harris Merton Lyon - The Father
- (p.113): Harry Orchard - The Confession and Autobiography of Harry Orchard
- (p.130): Editorial Announcement - The Moral Cost of Robber Government
December 1907
edit- Number 2
- (facing p.131): Portrait of Henry Irving
- (p.131): Ellen Terry - Recollections of Henry Irving
- (p.148): Arthur Stringer - Morning in the Northwest
- (p.149): Charles W. Eliot - The Canadian Act
- (p.157): Augusta Kortrecht - Charley-F'om-the-Orphum-House
- (p.163): Cleveland Moffett - The Edge of the Future in Science
- (p.174): Henry Smith Williams - The Gyroscope and Ocean Travel
- (p.177): Mary S. Watts - The Voodoo-Woman
- (p.187): Mary Stewart Cutting - The Wayfarers
- (p.202): Willa Sibert Cather - The Star Dial
- (p.203): Cameron Mackenzie - Some American College Boys
- (p.210): Florence Wilkinson - The Milliner's Apprentice
- (p.211): Herminie Templeton - Patrick of the Bells
- (p.223): Percival Lowell - The Planet Mars
- (p.228): Charles Buxton Going - Dominion
- (p.229): Perceval Gibbon - The Idealist
- (p.236): Burton J. Hendrick - Great American Fortunes and Their Making continued
January 1908
edit- Number 3
- (facing p.251): Illustration for The Commodore
- (p.251): Henry Reuterdahl - The Needs of our Navy
- (p.264): Fielding Ball - The Elopement
- (p.275): Marion Hamilton Carter - One Man and His Town
- (p.287): Anna E. Finn - The Commodore
- (p.302): George P. Floyd - Abraham Lincoln's Rum Sweat
- (p.309): Lucy Pratt - The Color-Bearer
- (p.317): Hugo Münsterberg - Hypnotism and Crime
- (p.321): Burton J. Hendrick - Great American Fortunes and Their Making continued
- (p.338): Louise Imogen Guiney - His Angel to His Mother
- (p.339): John La Farge - One Hundred Masterpieces of Painting
- (p.346): Mary Stewart Cutting - The Wayfarers continued
- (p.360): Rosalie M. Jonas - A Sermon in Black and White
- (p.361): Ellen Terry - First Years at the Lyceum
- (p.379): F. J. Louriet - South of the Line
- (p.386): Editorials
February 1908
edit- Number 4
- (facing p.387): Portrait of Ellen Terry
- (p.387): Georgine Milmine - Mary Baker G. Eddy
- (p.402): Mary Stewart Cutting - The Wayfarers continued
- (p.419): William James - The Social Value of the College-Bred
- (p.422): Homer E. Woodbridge - The Demand Perilous
- (p.423): Edith Macvane - The Twisted Cord
- (p.436): Will Adams - A Pair of Diamonds
- (p.443): George Kibbe Turner - The Men Who Learned to Fly
- (p.453): Willa Sibert Cather - Lament for Marsyas
- (p.454): May Sincair - Wilkinson's Wife
- (p.460): Marion Hill - The Night Nan Grew Up
- (p.468): Theodosia Garrison - The Call of Home
- (p.469): William T. Hornaday - The Psychology of Wild Animals
- (p.480): Mary Heaton Vorse - Mrs. McClanahan, the Chinese Laundry, and Beller
- (p.489): Ellen Terry - Great First Nights at the Lyceum
- (p.502): Lucy Pratt - "A Book for Mothers"
- (p.508): Frederick Walworth - The Pomp and Panoply of War
- (p.512): Frances Bent Dillingham - The Force of Example
- (p.516): Editorials
March 1908
edit- Number 5
- (p.521): Burton J. Hendrick - Governor Hughes
- (p.537): Grace MacGowan Cooke and Caroline Wood Morrison - The Clanging Hours
- (p.545): Ellen Terry - Memories of Booth and Sarah Bernhardt
- (p.557): Lucy Pratt - Ezekiel Promises
- (p.562): Florence Wilkinson - The Statues in the Museum
- (p.563): LaSalle Corbell Pickett - My Soldier
- (p.571): A. E. Housman - Verses
- (p.572): James Hopper - The Hate That Saved
- (p.577): Georgine Milmine - Mary Baker G. Eddy continued
- (p.590): Floyd Dell - Waifs
- (p.591): Chauncey Thomas - A Bank Clerk's Tale
- (p.596): Fielding Ball - Emmeline
- (p.609): Mary Stewart Cutting - The Wayfarers continued
- (p.628): Edward Johnstone - How Jones Earned the V. C.
- (p.632): Ruthello Anshutz - In the Morning
- (p.633): Austin Adams - For All There Was in It
- (p.639): George Kennan - The Cost of Living
April 1908
edit- Number 6
- (p.651): Carl Schurz - The South after the War
- (p.662): Perceval Gibbon - The Unknown Factor
- (p.669): Louise Imogen Guiney - Orate
- (p.670): Burton J. Hendrick - Governor Hughes continued
- (p.682): Mary Heaton Vorse - Teeth
- (p.690): Colin McKay - The Bucko Mate
- (p.699): Georgine Milmine - Mary Baker G. Eddy continued
- (p.713): Michael Williams - The Deliverance
- (p.721): Mary Stewart Cutting - The Wayfarers continued
- (p.739): Ellen Terry - Some of My Associates of the Stage
- (p.750): Hugo Münsterberg - The Preention of Crime
- (p.757): Caroline K. Herrick - In the Babies' Ward
- (p.759): Francis Lynde - The Kidnapping of Cassandra
- (p.767): Albert Benton Reeves - The Blind Goddess at Dodge
- (p.773): Berton Braley - The Wander Trail
- (p.774): Editorial - "One Man and His Town"