- Brumaire—The Overthrow Of The French Directory,[9]
- How the Son of Equality Became King of France,[14]
- The Coup d'Etat of 1851,[19]
- The Chartist Agitation in England,[23]
- The Abolition of Human Bondage,[27]
- The Peril of Our Centennial Year,[35]
- The Double Fête in France and Germany,[40]
GREAT BATTLES.
- Trafalgar,[44]
- Campaign of Austerlitz,[50]
- "Friedland—1807",[55]
- Under the Russian Snows,[59]
- Waterloo,[63]
- Sebastopol,[71]
- Sadowa,[77]
- Capture of Mexico,[84]
- Vicksburg,[89]
- Gettysburg,[95]
- Spottsylvania,[104]
- Appomattox,[112]
- Sedan, by Victor Hugo,[118]
- Bazaine and Metz,[129]
- The Century of the Asteroids,[136]
- The Story of Neptune,[146]
- Evolution of the Telescope,[156]
- The New Astronomy,[165]
- What the Worlds Are Made Of,[175]
PROGRESS IN DISCOVERY AND INVENTION.
- The First Steamboat and its Maker,[184]
- Telegraphing before Morse,[196]
- The New Light of Men,[205]
- The Telephone,[216]
- The Machine That Talks Back,[225]
- Evolution of the Dynamo, by Professor Joseph P. Naylor,[235]
- The Unknown Ray and Entography,[244]
STAGES IN BIOLOGICAL INQUIRY.