Volume 8
November 1896
edit- Number 1
- (p.2): Mrs. D. T. Davis - The Daguerreotype in America
- (p.17): Rudyard Kipling - Captains Courageous, (Chapter I, Chapter II)
- (p.32): Ethel Mackenzie McKenna - Alma-Tadema and His Home and Pictures
- (p.43): Ida M. Tarbell - The Story of Lincoln's Nomination in 1860
- (p.57): Herbert Keen - Herr Dolle's Diamonds
- (p.69): James F. McKay - Two Modern Prodigals
- (p.77): Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - A Novelist's Views of Novel-Writing
- (p.85): Anthony Hope - Aspirations - Explanations
- (p.92): Cy Warman - The Battle of the Snow-Plows
- (p.96): Hamlin Garland - Home from the City
December 1896
edit- Number 2
- (p.98): portrait of Grant at 21
- (p.99): Cyrus C. Adams - The Farthest North, An Account of Dr. Nansen's Adventures and Achievements
- (p.110): William Canton - A Carol
- (p.111): Josephine Wood Colby - painting of Madonna and Child
- (p.112): Charles Henry Hart - An Unpublished Life Portrait of Washington
- (p.114): Ian Maclaren - How Dr. Davidson Kept his Last Christmas at Drumtochty
- (p.121): Harriet Prescott Spofford - In the First Christmastide with reproductions of paintings by Melozzo da Forli
- (p.125): Hamlin Garland - The Early Life of Ulysses Grant
- (p.140): Rudyard Kipling - "Bread Upon the Waters"
- (p.154): Frank R. Stockton - My Unwilling Neighbor
- (p.165): Rudyard Kipling - Captains Courageous, (Chapter III)
- (p.175): Henry Seton Merriman - Of This Generation
- (p.181): William Canton - The Inquisition
- (p.182): Virgin and Child painting by Sandro Botticelli
- (p.183): S. S. McClure - Bethlehem
- (p.192): Editorial Notes
January 1897
edit- Number 3
- (p.194): Hamlin Garland - Grant at West Point
- (p.211): Mrs. J. H. Riddell - The Pity of It
- (p.222): Rudyard Kipling - Captains Courageous, (Chapter IV, Chapter V)
- (p.236): Lida Rose McCabe - The "Martha Washington" Case
- (p.245): Captain Musgrove Davis - In a Bowery Regiment
- (p.255): Henry Muir - The Making and Laying of an Atlantic Cable
- (p.263): Charles Henry Hart - Life Portraits of Great Americans, Benjamin Franklin
- (p.273): W. P. Trent - The Makers of the Union, Benjamin Franklin
- (p.278): Morgan Robertson - The Derelict "Neptune"
February 1897
edit- Number 4
- (p.289): Charles Henry Hart - Life Portraits of Great Americans, George Washington
- (p.309): W. P. Trent - The Makers of the Union, George Washington
- (p.313): An Unpublished Letter by Lincoln
- (p.314): Ira Seymour - The Song of the Rappahannock
- (p.321): William Allen White - Kansas Stories
- (p.331): H. J. W. Dam - The Making of the Bible
- (p.341): Rudyard Kipling - Captains Courageous, (Chapter VI, Chapter VII, Chapter VIII, started)
- (p.355): Will Allen Dromgoole - Engineer Connor's Son
- (p.361): S. J. Adair Fitz-Gerald - Robin Adair: The Story of a Famous Song
- (p.362): Clifton Harby Ley - A New Rhythmic Version of the Psalms
- (p.364): Rudyard Kipling - The Bell-Buoy
- (p.366): Hamlin Garland - Grant in the Mexican War
March 1897
edit- Number 5
- (p.381): Decorative panel from a painting by Charles Chaplin
- (p.382): Portrait of Mark Twain
- (p.383): H. J. W. Dam - Telegraphing Without Wires
- (p.393): Robert Louis Stevenson - St. Ives
- (p.401): Robert Browning - Appearances
- (p.402): Hamlin Garland - Grant's Quiet Years at Northern Posts
- (p.413): August F. Jaccaci - Daniel Vierge, The Master Illustrator
- (p.424): Rudyard Kipling - Captains Courageous, (Chapter VIII, concluded, Chapter IX, started)
- (p.431): Clinton Ross - The Lady in the Box
- (p.438): General John M. Thayer - A Night with Stanton in the War Office, An Episode of the War between President Johnson and Congress in 1867
- (p.442): Gertrude Hall - What Will Time Give?
- (p.443): Cy Warman - Huerfano Bill, the Bandit
- (p.453): W. D. Howells - The Laureate of the Larger England
- (p.456): Portraits of William McKinley and his mother
- (p.458): John Codman - A Note on Skipper Ireson
- (p.459): Charles Henry Hart - An Unpublished Life Portrait of Franklin
- (p.460): A. Conan Doyle - Life on a Greenland Whaler
April 1897
edit- Number 6
- (p.469): Decorative panel from a painting by Elie Delaunay
- (p.470): Paul Verlaine - "Son, Thou Must Love Me!". Translated by Gertrude Hall
- (p.472): Will H. Low - A Century of Painting, continued
- (p.483): Andrew Hussey Allen - The Strange Story of the "Emily Brand" Brigantine
- (p.493): Robert Louis Stevenson - St. Ives, continued
- (p.501): Alfred M. Fuller - Grant's Horsemanship
- (p.502): Henry Cabot Lodge - The Makers of the Union, Alexander Hamilton
- (p.507): Charles Henry Hart - Life Portraits of Alexander Hamilton
- (p.514): Hamlin Garland - Grant's Life in Missouri
- (p.521): Rudyard Kipling - Captains Courageous, (Chapter IX, concluded, Chapter X, started)
- (p.529): Octave Thanet - The Spellbinder
- (p.537): Major Philip Douglas - The Men in the Ranks
- (p.539): Cy Warman - True Railroad Stories
- (p.546): Ella Fraser Weller - Stranger Than Fiction, A True Short Story Told Mainly in a Series of Unpublished Letters by General Sherman
- (p.550): Ian Maclaren - The Retiring of Domsie
- (p.556): Walt Whitman - A Clear Midnight