| Preface, | [ix] |
| I | Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: The Cat, | [1] |
| II | Guy Wetmore Carryl: Zut, | [11] |
| III | Algernon Blackwood: A Psychical Invasion, | [29] |
| IV | Honoré de Balzac: The Afflictions of an English Cat | [103] |
| (translated from the French by Carl Van Vechten) |
| V | Booth Tarkington: Gipsy, | [124] |
| VI | G. H. Powell: The Blue Dryad, | [131] |
| VII | Mark Twain: Dick Baker's Cat, | [144] |
| VIII | Edgar Allan Poe: The Black Cat, | [149] |
| IX | Thomas A. Janvier: Madame Jolicœur's Cat, | [163] |
| X | W. H. Hudson: A Friendly Rat, | [198] |
| XI | William Livingston Alden: Monty's Friend, | [203] |
| XII | Peggy Bacon: The Queen's Cat, | [220] |
| XIII | Charles Dudley Warner: Calvin, | [226] |