1929/04 -- Contents as follows:

  • The Progressives of the Senate by A Washington Correspondent
  • The Will of the People by James M. Cain
  • Sapping Day by Jim Tully
  • Mrs. Kemper by Ruth Suckow
  • Editorial
  • The Discipline of Sex by Edward Sapir
  • Learning How to be Black by Albon L. Holsey
  • Americana
  • Renaissance in Hollywood by (R.E.) Robert Sherwood
  • Trial by Jury, or by Judge? by Sterline E. Edmunds
  • Horse-Car Days by Raymond S. Tompkins

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Modernism for Sale by Lewis Mumford
  • Literary Currents in Cuba by Isaac Goldberg
  • Walt Whitman's Politics by Clifton Joseph Furness
  • An American Wrestles With God by Benjamin DeCasseres
  • Old Tuck by Meritt Wimberly
  • Nocturne at Noon--1605 by Thomas Hornsby Ferril
  • The Land of Laughs by Louis Adamic
  • Public School Mamas by Margaret Cobb
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Index to Volume XVI
  • Check List of New Books
  • Editorial Notes
  • Book Value by Rudolph L. Weissman