Volume 9 NOTE: This volume continued the pagination begun with volume 8.

May 1897

• Issue 1
  • (p.558): Ida M. Tarbell - A Great Photographer
  • (p.565): A. Conan Doyle - The Governor of Saint Kitts
  • (p.573): Mrs. T. H. Huxley - May
  • (p.574): Ray Stannard Baker - The Capture, Death, and Burial of J. Wilkes Booth
  • (p.586): Robert Louis Stevenson - St. Ives, chapters V, VI, VII
  • (p.597): Cy Warman - A Locomotive as a War Chariot
  • (p.600): Walt Whitman - Ah Poverties, Wincings, and Sulky Retreats
  • (p.601): Hamlin Garland - Grant at the Outbreak of the War
  • (p.610): Rudyard Kipling - "Captains Courageous", Chapter X (part), conclusion
  • (p.618): Mr. Kipling's Truth to Fact in "Captains Courageous"
  • (p.619): Charles Henry Hart - Life Portraits of Daniel Webster
  • (p.631): Musgrove Davis - A Loyal Comrade
  • (p.632): Carl Schurz - Grover Cleveland's Second Administration

June 1897

• Issue 2
  • (p.646): S. P. Langley - The "Flying-Machine"
  • (p.661): Musgrove Davis - Some Personal Experiences I the War
  • (p.664): George W. Rose - A Great Game of Checkers
  • (p.667): Thomas Sharp - Col. Dent of Whitehaven, the Father-in-law of General Grant
  • (p.668): Robert Louis Stevenson - St. Ives, chapters VIII, IX, X
  • (p.685): Life Portraits of Queen Victoria
  • (p.701): William Allen White - A Recent Confederate Victory
  • (p.709): John Stuart Bonner - A Master Sold by a Slave
  • (p.710): Th. Bentzon - The Revue des Deux Mondes
  • (p.717): Cy Warman - The Vicissitudes of Engine 107
  • (p.721): Hamlin Garland - Grant's First Great Work in the War
  • (p.727): Belle Moses - At the Turn of the Road

July 1897

• Issue 3 (transcription project)
  • (p.734): Portrait of Henry Drummond
  • (p.735): Mary Gay Humphreys - The Smallest Republic in the World
  • (p.748): Robert Barr - The Grindstone Question
  • (p.759): D. M. Ross - Professor Henry Drummond
  • (p.769): A. Conan Doyle - The Two Barks
  • (p.775): William Bradford - The Log of the "Mayflower", Chapters 9 and 10
  • (p.778): Robert Louis Stevenson - St. Ives, chapters XII, XIII, XIV, XV
  • (p.792): Rachel Jackson Lawrence - Andrew Jackson at Home
  • (p.795): Charles Henry Hart - Life Portraits of Andrew Jackson
  • (p.805): Hamlin Garland - Grant in a Great Campaign
  • (p.812): Anthony Hope - Uncle John and the Rubies

August 1897

• Issue 4 (transcription project)
  • (p.822): Illustration for The Paris Gamin
  • (p.823): H. J. W. Dam - The Great Dynamite Factory at Ardeer
  • (p.837): Rudyard Kipling - Slaves of the Lamp
  • (p.860): Cy Warman - Will the Lights be White
  • (p.862): A. Conan Doyle - The Voyage of Copley Banks
  • (p.869): Anthony Hope - Mr. C. D. Gibson on Love and Life
  • (p.876): Robert Barr - "Gentlemen, the King!"
  • (p.883): James Whitcomb Riley - Our Queer Old World
  • (p.884): William Canton - W. V.—Her Violets
  • (p.890): Th. Bentzen - The Paris Gamin
  • (p.892): Hamlin Garland - The First Meeting of Lincoln and Grant
  • (p.896): Robert Louis Stevenson - St. Ives, chapters XV (cont'd), XVI
  • (p.904): John Kendrick Bangs - The Talented Miss Hope
  • (p.906): Ann Devoore - The Whip Hand
  • (p.908): Albert Bigelow Paine - The Shadow of the Mosque

September 1897

• Issue 5 (transcription project)
  • (p.910): Bust of Henry Clay
  • (p.911): George E. Waring, Jr. - The Cleaning of a Great City
  • (p.925): Rudyard Kipling - Pharaoh and the Sergeant
  • (p.928): Robert Barr - A Man Fights Best in His Own Township
  • (p.939): Charles Henry Hart - Life Portraits of Henry Clay
  • (p.949): John J. a'Becket - "Badness"
  • (p.956): J. Lincoln Steffens - Life in the Klondike Gold Fields
  • (p.968): William Allen White - The Martyrdom of "Mealy" Jones
  • (p.974): Musgrove Davis - One of God's Fools
  • (p.975): Robert Louis Stevenson - St. Ives, chapters XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI, XXII
  • (p.999): Walt Whitman - Camps of Green
  • (p.1000): F. G. Kenyon - When Were the Gospels Written?

October 1897

• Issue 6 (transcription project)
  • (p.1006): Portrait of Anthony Hope
  • (p.1007): T. Cockcroft - An Elephant Round-up in Siam
  • (p.1014): Shan F. Bullock - The Turf-Cutters
  • (p.1022): Bernard P. Grenfell - The Oldest Record of Christ's Life, with introduction by F. G. Kenyon
  • (p.1031): Ira Seymour - The Making of a Regiment
  • (p.1045): Stephen Crane - Flanagan and His Short Filibustering Adventure
  • (p.1052): Walt Whitman - When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
  • (p.1053): Charles Henry Hart - Unknown Life Masks of Great Americans
  • (p.1061): Robert Louis Stevenson - St. Ives, chapters XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII
  • (p.1085): Ida M. Tarbell - Charles A. Dana in the Civil War
  • (p.1089): Octave Thanet - The Grateful Reporter
  • (p.1097): George B. Waldron - Certain Wonders of the Greater New York
  • (p.1101): Editorial Notes
  • (p.1104): Rudyard Kipling - Recessional