Volume 5
June 1895 edit
- Number 1
- (p.2): Prud'hon's portrait of Josephine at Malmaison
- (p.3): Cleveland Moffett - Life and Work in the Powder Mills
- (p.18): Rudyard Kipling - My Sunday at Home
- (p.24): Ida M. Tarbell - Napoleon's Relations with the United States
- (p.38): E. J. Edwards - Before Grant Won his Stars
- (p.45): Robert Barr - The Hour and the Man
- (p.49): Cleveland Moffett - How the Circus is Put Up and Taken Down
- (p.62): Stanley J. Weyman - The Governor of Guèret
- (p.69): Human documents, portraits of Madame Adam
- (p.71): Ange Galdemar - Sardou. His Manner of Life - How he Writes his Plays
- (p.80): Archibald Forbes - After Sedan
- (p.89): P. H. Sheridan - General Sheridan's Observations at Sedan
- (p.90): John Ernest McCann - My Jenny
- (p.91): A. K. McClure - The Night at Harrisburg. A Reminiscence of Lincoln's Journey to Washington in 1861
July 1895 edit
- Number 2
- (p.98): Henry Muir - The Telegraph Systems of the World
- (p.113): Stanley J. Weyman - The Man of Monceaux
- (p,120): Hamlin Garland - Edward Kemeys. A Sculptor of Frontier Life and Wild Animals
- (p.132): E. J. Edwards - The Rise and Overthrow of the Tweed Ring
- (p.145): Mrs. E. V. Wilson - A Flash of Daring
- (p.147): Rovert Ball - Possibility of Life on Other Worlds
- (p.156): Cy Warman - On the Engine of a London and Paris Express
- (p.163): "Q." - The Roll-Call of the Reef
- (p.170): Edmund Gosse - To Tusitala in Vailima
- (p.173): Robert Louis Stevenson - Robert Louis Stevenson's Address to the Samoan Chiefs
- (p.176): Robert Louis Stevenson - The Will of Robert Louis Stevenson
- (p.179): Cleveland Moffett - The American Exchange Bank Robbery
- (p.192): Mclure's Magazine at Ten Cents
August 1895 edit
- Number 3
- (p.194): Illustration for "The Heart of the Princess Osra"
- (p.195): Rudyard Kipling - "Good Hunting"
- (p.209): Archibald Forbes - Moltke in War
- (p.219): Anthony Hope - The Heart of the Princess Osra
- (p.235): Bret Harte - A Yellow Dog
- (p.239): Ascribed to James Anthony Froude - Together
- (p.240): Ida M. Tarbell - Bishop Vincent and his Work
- (p.255): Human documents, portraits of John H. Vincent
- (p.257): Cleveland Moffett - The Great Northampton Bank Robbery
- (p.269): Stanley J. Weyman - Farming the Taxes
- (p.277): Cleveland Moffett - Behind the Scenes at the Circus
- (p.287): Cheap Magazines
September 4895 edit
- Number 4
- (p.289): Cleveland Moffett - Will H. Low and his Work
- (p.313): Anthony Hope - The Courtesy of Christian the Highwayman
- (p.325): E. J. Edwards - Tammany under John Kelly
- (p.329): Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - "Afterwards"
- (p.332): Gertrude Hall - Verses
- (p.333): Ian Maclaren - Past Redemption
- (p.338): Garrett P. Serviss - Climbing the Matterhorn
- (p.349): Stanley J. Weyman - The Lost Cipher
- (p.356): The Life of Napoleon.—Second Edition
- (p.357): James R. Gilmore - Garfield's Ride at Chickamauga
- (p.361): Robert Louis Stevenson - Fables
- I. "The Persons of the Tale", II. "The Sinking Ship", III. "The Two Matches", IV. "The Sick Man and the Fireman", V. "The Four Reformers", VI. "The Reader", VII. "The Citizen and the Traveller", VIII. "The Distinguished Stranger", IX. "The Carthorses and the Saddlehorse"
- (P.365): Human Documents
- (p.366): Cleveland Moffett - The Susquehanna Express Robbery
- (p.373): W. J. Henderson - The Defence of the America's Cup
- (p.381): E. L. Snell - The Cup Challenger "Valkyrie"
- (p.383): The Ten-Cent Magazine Again
October 1895 edit
- Number 5
- (p.386): Nelson A. Miles portrait
- (p.387): James Creelman - The London "Times"
- (p.398): Human documents, portraits of General Nelson A. Miles
- (p.401): Anthony Hope - The Crime of Count Nikolas of Festenburg
- (p.415): Cy Warman - Railroading over an Earthquake
- (p.419): Cleveland Moffett - Grant and Lincoln in Bronze
- (p.433): John M. Thayer - Grant at Pilot Knob
- (p.437): Mrs. T. H. Huxley - The Glacier Stream
- (p.438): Stanley J. Weyman - The Cat and the King
- (p.445): James R. Gilmore - The New York "Tribune" in the Draft Riots
- (p.455): Robert Louis Stevenson - Fables
- I. "The Yellow Paint", II. "The House of Eld"
- (p.458): John Gilmer Speed - The Real John Keats
- (p.470): Ian Maclaren - A Master of Deceit
- (p.475): Theodore Roosevelt - Closing the New York Saloons on Sunday
- (p.480): The McClure's Life of Abraham Lincoln
November 1895 edit
- Number 6
- (p.481): Ida M. Tarbell, editor - Abraham Lincoln
- (p.513): Human documents, portraits of John G. Whittier
- (p.515): Octave Thanet - The Merry Thanksgiving of the Burglar and Plumber
- (p.522): Robert Louis Stevenson and Sidney Colvin - Vailima Letters
- (p.533): Anthony Hope - The Indifference of the Miller of Hofbau
- (p.542): E. J. Edwards - Richard Croker as "Boss" of Tammany
- (p.550): N. Macdonald - Rhind's Heroic Statue of Calhoun
- (p.552): Rudyard Kipling - Quiquern
- (p.562): George E. Pond - Major-General Nelson A. Miles
- (p.575): The New McClure's