Volume 7

• June 1896
  • (p.2): Illustration of Mowgli fishing
  • (p.3): Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - Chapters from a Life, "Reminiscences of Harriet Beecher Stowe"
  • (p.12): Stephen Crane - The Little Regiment
  • (p.22): Arthur Hugh Clough - Come, Poet, Come!
  • (p.23): Rudyard Kipling - "In the Rukh", Mowgli's Introduction to White Men
  • (p.39): Gertrude Hall - And Then?
  • (p.40): James L. Crane - Grant as a Colonel
  • (p.46): Anthony Hope - "Phroso", A Tale of Brave Deeds and Perilous Ventures, continued
  • (p.65): Will H. Low - A Century of Painting, continued
  • (p.73): Portraits of Mark Twain
  • (p.79): Ida M. Tarbell - The Life of Abraham Lincoln, continued
  • (p.89): Cy Warman - The Locomotive that Lost Herself
• July 1896
  • (p.98): E. Kay Robinson - Kipling in India
  • (p.110): Portraits of Longfellow
  • (p.114): Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - Chapters from a Life, "Longfellow, Whittier, and Holmes"
  • (p.122): Virginia Niles Leeds - A Coast and a Capture, A Bicycling Story
  • (p.126): Gertrude Hall - Gifts
  • (p.127): Annie S. Peck - A Woman's Ascent of the Matterhorn
  • (p.136): Robert Barr - "Out of Thun"
  • (p.144): E. J. Edwards - Charles H. Taylor of the Boston "Globe"
  • (p.148): Gardiner G. Hubbard - The English in South Central Africa
  • (p.153): Cleveland Moffett - The Edge of the Future
  • (p.161): Will H. Low - A Century of Painting, continued
  • (p.171): Ida M. Tarbell - Abraham Lincoln, "Lincoln as a Lawyer"
  • (p.182): Anthony Hope - "Phroso", A Tale of Brave Deeds and Perilous Ventures, continued
  • (p.191): Literary Notes
• August 1896
  • (p.194): W. T. Stead - Mr. Gladstone at Eighty-six
  • (p.208): Clinton Ross - The Colors of the "Lawrence"
  • (p.214): Octave Thanet - The Ladder of Grief
  • (p.222): Stephen Crane - The Veteran
  • (p.225): Will H. Low - A Century of Painting, continued
  • (p.234): Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - Chapters from a Life, "Reminiscences of Literary Boston"
  • (p.245): Anthony Hope - "Phroso", A Tale of Brave Deeds and Perilous Ventures, continued
  • (p.267): Edward William Thomson - Old Man Savarin
  • (p.272): Ida M. Tarbell - Abraham Lincoln, "Lincoln's Importan Law Cases"
  • (p.281): Annie Eliot - Hearts Unfortified
  • (p.288): John Ernest McCann - The City Sparrow
• September 1896
  • (p.290): portrait of Lincoln about 1864
  • (p.291): Rudyard Kipling - The 'Eathen
  • (p.293): Will H. Low - A Century of Painting, continued
  • (p.305): Harriet Prescott Spofford - In the Time of the Sweetbrier
  • (p.311): Elizabeth Whitman Morton - The Discovery of Anæsthesia
  • (p.319): "Lincoln's Lost Speech"

    H. C. Whitney - Now First Published from the Unique Report

    Joseph Medill - The Circumstances and Effect of its Delivery

  • (p.332): Anthony Hope - "Phroso", A Tale of Brave Deeds and Perilous Ventures, continued
  • (p.353): Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - Chapters from a Life, "Among the Gloucester Fisherman"
  • (p.362): Morgan Robertson - A Sea Change
  • (p.372): John Francis Waller - Kitty Neil
  • (p.374): Whistler, Painter and Comedian
  • (p.379): Clinton Ross - The Extreme Edge of Hazard
  • (p.384): Lincoln in New England: A Correction (re May 1896 issue)
• October 1896
  • (p.386): Rev. D. M. Ross - Dr. John Watson - "Ian Maclaren"
  • (p.401): Ida M. Tarbell - Abraham Lincoln, "The Lincoln-Douglas Debates"
  • (p.414): Rudyard Kipling - Cholera Camp
  • (p.415): Will H. Low - A Century of Painting, continued
  • (p.427): Chester Holcombe: Li Hung Chang
  • (p.437): Robert W. Chambers - The Pickets
  • (p.440): Gertrude Hall - To a Weed
  • (p.441): Anthony Hope - "Phroso", A Tale of Brave Deeds and Perilous Ventures, concluded
  • (p.461): Elizabeth Stuart Phelps - Chapters from a Life, "Recollections of a Literary Life"
  • (p.469): Morgan Robertson - The Survival of the Fittest
  • (p.478): W. Pett Ridge - A Model Crime
  • (p.481): The Edge of the Future