| | An Explanation |
| | An Introduction of Two Persons |
| I. | The First Days in America |
| II. | The First Job: Fifty Cents a Week |
| III. | The Hunger for Self-Education |
| IV. | A Presidential Friend and a Boston Pilgrimage |
| V. | Going to the Theatre with Longfellow |
| VI. | Phillips Brooks's Books and Emerson's Mental Mist |
| VII. | A Plunge into Wall Street |
| VIII. | Starting a Newspaper Syndicate |
| IX. | Association with Henry Ward Beecher |
| X. | The First "Woman's Page," "Literary Leaves," and Entering Scribner's |
| XI. | The Chances for Success |
| XII. | Baptism Under Fire |
| XIII. | Publishing Incidents and Anecdotes |
| XIV. | Last Years in New York |
| XV. | Successful Editorship |
| XVI. | First Years as a Woman's Editor |
| XVII. | Eugene Field's Practical Jokes |
| XVIII. | Building Up a Magazine |
| XIX. | Personality Letters |
| XX. | Meeting a Reverse or Two |
| XXI. | A Signal Piece of Constructive Work |
| XXII. | An Adventure in Civic and Private Art |
| XXIII. | Theodore Roosevelt's Influence |
| XXIV. | Theodore Roosevelt's Anonymous Editorial Work |
| XXV. | The President and the Boy |
| XXVI. | The Literary Back-Stairs |
| XXVII. | Women's Clubs and Woman Suffrage |
| XXVIII. | Going Home with Kipling, and as a Lecturer |
| XXIX. | An Excursion into the Feminine Nature |
| XXX. | Cleaning Up the Patent-Medicine and Other Evils |
| XXXI. | Adventures in Civics |
| XXXII. | A Bewildered Bok |
| XXXIII. | How Millions of People Are Reached |
| XXXIV. | A War Magazine and War Activities |
| XXXV. | At the Battle-Fronts in the Great War |
| XXXVI. | The End of Thirty Years' Editorship |
| XXXVII. | The Third Period |
| XXXVIII. | Where America Fell Short with Me |
| XXXIX. | What I Owe to America |
| | Edward William Bok: Biographical Data |
| | The Expression of a Personal Pleasure |
