1931/09 -- Contents as follows:

  • The Worst American State: Part I -- by Charles Angoff & H.L. Mencken
  • Ohio Town by Hugh Hanley
  • A City Editor's Testament by Stanley Walker
  • Editorials
  • American Folk Art by Holger Cahill
  • Laura Jean Libbey by Louis Gold
  • The Assassination of McKinley by Emma Goldman
  • Americana
  • A Jeeter Wedding by Dorothy Thomas
  • Yorktown, 1781 by Hoffman Nickerson

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • The Inventiveness of the American Indian by Robert H. Lowie
  • Continents Adrift by H.E. McKinstry
  • A Kentucky Crusader by Edwin Rogers Embree
  • Rio Grande -- Part V. The Common Folk of the Valley by Harvey Fergusson

    • Music:

  • The Uses of Amateur Playing by Isaac Goldberg
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Check List of New Books
  • Editorial Notes
  • Lucky Strikes ad on back cover features Hazel Bofinger