1931/02 -- Contents as follows:

  • Hard Winter by Jack Conroy
  • Evacuation Hospital by Louis Gold
  • A Pioneer Captain by H.L. Davis
  • Editorials
  • A Pretty Cute Little Stunt by George Milburn
  • Lydia Pinkham by Robert Collyer Washburn
  • The Case for Foreign Missions by Henry A. Perkins
  • Career of a Public Servant by W.A.S. Douglas
  • Americana
  • Wanted: A World Language by Edward Sapir
  • Grandma Gingersnap by Charles Sampson
  • The Arts and Sciences:
    Farmer Jones Goes to Law by Fred B. Morrill

  • Jules Pascin by Dorothy Adlow
  • The Stakes of '32 by Arthur Krock
  • Hooraw for Vance! by Phillips Russell
  • Music: The "Hammerklavier" Sonata for Orchestra by Ernest Newman
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Check List of New Books
  • Editorial Notes