Volume 8

November 1896

• 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

• 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  • (p.112): Charles Henry Hart - An Unpublished Life Portrait of Washington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

• 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

• 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  • (p.313): An Unpublished Letter by Lincoln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

    The King of Boyville

    The Home-coming of Colonel Hucks

  • (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

• 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

• 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

    The General Manager and the Ghost Train

    A Railroad Dog

    A Wild Night at Woodriver

  • (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