| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Natural History of the Elephant | 1 |
| II. | Habits and Ways of Elephants | 12 |
| III. | The Intelligence of the Elephant | 27 |
| IV. | The Mammoth | 36 |
| V. | Three and Four Tusked Elephants (Mastodons) | 49 |
| VI. | Jumbo | 64 |
| VII. | How Asiatic Elephants are captured alive | 77 |
| VIII. | Asiatic Elephants in Captivity | 91 |
| IX. | Hunting the Asiatic Elephant | 97 |
| X. | The White Elephant | 117 |
| XI. | Elephants in Ceylon | 137 |
| XII. | Rogue Elephants | 148 |
| XIII. | Hunting the African Elephant | 164 |
| XIV. | Baby Elephants | 179 |
| XV. | Trick Elephants | 184 |
| XVI. | Elephants and their Friends | 192 |
| XVII. | Tuskers at Work | 195 |
| XVIII. | Ivory | 217 |
| XIX. | The Elephant in the Arts | 231 |
| XX. | Elephants in the Amphitheatre | 241 |
| XXI. | The Elephant in Pageantry | 249 |
| XXII. | War Elephants of Modern Asia | 255 |
| XXIII. | War Elephants of Alexander the Great and his Successors | 277 |
| XXIV. | War Elephants of the Romans and Carthaginians | 293 |
| XXV. | Proboscidian Fictions | 309 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 317 | |
| INDEX | 325 | |