| August, 1897 |
| [Evolution: What It Is and What It Is Not] | Dr. David Starr Jordan |
| [Has Wealth a Limitation?] | Robert N. Reeves |
| [The Battle of the Money Metals:] |
| [I. Bimetallism Simplified] | George H. Lepper |
| [II. Bimetallism Extinguished] | John Clark Ridpath |
| [The Segregation and Permanent Isolation of Criminals] | Norman Robinson |
| [How to Increase National Wealth by the Employment of Paralyzed Industry] | B. O. Flower |
| [Open Letter to Eastern Capitalists] | Charles C. Millard |
| [The Telegraph Monopoly: Part XIII.] | Prof. Frank Parsons |
| [The Provisional Government of the Cubans] | Thomas W. Steep |
| [A Noted American Preacher] | Duncan MacDermid, M. A. |
| [The Civic Outlook] | Henry Randall Waite, Ph. D. |
| [“The Tempest” the Sequel to “Hamlet”] | Emily Dickey Beery |
| [The Creative Man] | Stinson Jarvis |
| [Plaza of the Poets:] |
| [The New Woman] | Miles Menander Dawson |
| [Under the Stars] | Coates Kinney |
| [The Cry of the Valley] | Charles Melvin Wilkinson |
| [A Radical] | Robert F. Gibson |
| [The Editor’s Evening: Our Totem; Vive La France! Le Siècle (a Sonnet)] |
| [Book Reviews] |
| [The Arena for September] |
