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1966-05 Playboy Magazine Contents for May 1966

1966/05 — Vol. 13 No. 5. 230 pages.

Contents include:

  • Playbill
  • Dear Playboy
  • Playboy After Hours
  • The Playboy Advisor
  • Playboy’s International Datebook — travel by Patrick Chase
  • The Playboy Forum
  • The Playboy Philosophy – Editorial by Hugh Hefner
  • Playboy Interview: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
  • “The Roach Powder in the Maple Walnut” – Fiction by Bernard Wolfe
  • Brava Costas! — Travel by Geoffrey Bocca
  • “The Master Copy” — Fiction by Frank Dobinson
  • Why Does My Art Go Boom? — Article by Len Deighton
  • The Case for American Wines — Drink by Thomas Mario
  • “The Eastern Sprints” — Fiction by Tom Mayer
  • Bunny From Britain — Playboy’s Playmate of the Month Dolly Read
  • Playboy’s Party Jokes – Humor
  • Snap Decisions — Modern Living by Vincent T. Tajiri with photos featuring Woody Allen showing off cameras and gear
  • “The Hayloft” — Fiction by Pietro Di Donato
  • Captial Punishment — Article by Michael Disalle
  • Boss Tweed — Attire by Robert L. Green
  • How to Be a Faquir — Article by Daniel P. Mannix
  • Playmate of the Year — Allison Parks Pictorial
  • The Cunning of Khalbas the Cuckold — Ribald Classic
  • Playmate First Class: Jo Collins in Vietname – Pictorial Essay
  • Lord Love a Teevie Jeebie — Satire by Shel Silverstein
  • Little Annie Fanny — Sature by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder
  • Vargas Girl – Two page spread – “I must admit that some undercover assignments are more interesting than others”
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    1919-10 The American Magazine Contents for October 1919

    1919/10 — Cover illustrated by J. Knowles Hare

    Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: “Who’s Who in America” illustrated by Norman Price
  • Your Rent by Abram I. Elkus
  • “Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!” by Irvin S. Cobb
  • “Isn’t That Just Like a Man!” by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • A Wonderful Dog With a Dual Nature — A story by Lewis Parsons and illustrated by F.E. Schoonover
  • Another Country Boy Rises to the Top in New York — An interview with Percy H. Johnston by B.C. Forbes
  • Percy H. Johnston – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Holworthy Hall – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • What Is Wasted Time? by Holworthy Hall
  • The Telegram That Johnny Didn’t See — A story by Frank Lapham and illustrated by Leslie Brown
  • Get Into the Selling End of Your Business by Irving T. Bush
  • “Pep” — A poem by Grace G. Bostwick
  • Who’s Who in America – A love story by Bertha Runkle and illustrated by Norman Price
  • How Animals Act in Aeroplanes by Henry Woodhouse
  • William Cooper Procter – Who Thinks Fast and Straight by Merle Crowell
  • How We Divide With Our Men by William Cooper Procter
  • William Cooper Procter – Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Minnie Maddern Fiske – Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • A Great Actress Talks About Life on Both Sides of the Footlights by Mary B. Mullett about Minnie Maddern Fiske
  • Human Beings – As Seen by a Waiter by William Kidd
  • Scattergood Matches Wits With a Pair of Sharpers — A story by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Paul Meylan
  • Prize Contest Announcement: What I Think Is the Matter–And What I Would Do About It
  • Ten Good Resolutions by Dr. Frank Crane
  • We Marry 15,000 Couples A Year by P.J. Scully
  • His Masterpiece — A story by P.J. Scully
  • The Bain Twins and the Detectative — A story by Elizabeth Irons Folsom and illustrated by Norman Price
  • What Prayer Has Done for Me by the author of “Finding God in Millersville”
  • Cheaters I Have Known
  • Sid Says: If you haven’t got one of these little machines you’re the human wonder of the world
  • What Shall It Profit a Man — A serialized novel (continued) by Bruce Barton and illustrated by Paul Stahr
  • Queer Things That People Swallow–And Still Live by Philip B. Hawk
  • The Swelled Head — Stories of men who have suffered from it — by Grantland Rice
  • Interesting People:

  • Lewis Nowlan by Edgar White
  • Frank C. Bancroft by Norman Beasley
  • Joseph C. Butler by William Bruce Hart
  • Mrs. Grace W. Lawson by Bertha Snow Adams
  • We All Should Realize That We Must Be Servants by C.L.
  • Is This Success? by L.N.
  • Prize Winners: The Lonesomest Time I Ever Had
  • How I Got A Better Job by N.T.
  • The Family’s Money by John J. Pulleyn
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    1925-10 The American Magazine Contents for October 1925

    1925/10 — Cover illustrated by Walter Beach Humphrey

    Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • What My Religion Means to Me by Edgar A. Guest
  • The Squarehead — A story by R. de S. Horn and illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer
  • I’m the Champion Free-Rider of the World by Ellis Parker Butler and illustrated by Tony Sarg
  • A Gust of Wind Played a Curious Part in MacEvoy’s Career by Helen Christine Bennett
  • Clifford F. MacEvoy – A picture in photogravure
  • Chester T. Crowell and Family – Pictures in photogravure
  • It’s a Wise Father Who Can Answer His Own Child by Chester T. Crowell
  • The Hills of Home — A story by Nelis Gardner White and illustrated by Frederic Anderson
  • Do People Get On Your Nerves? by William S. Sadler, M.D.
  • Why I Stick to the Sticks by Robert Quillen
  • “In Such a Night” — A story by Agnes Sligh Turnbull
  • He Had to Build His Ladder Before He Could Climb It by George W. Gray
  • John Murray Anderson Has Been a Jack of All Trades by Mary B. Mullett
  • John Murray Anderson – A Portrait in Photogravure
  • James M. Kurn – A portrait in photogravure
  • The Puff of a Locomotive Is Music to His Ears by Edward Hungerford is about James M. Kurn
  • They Love Their Homes as Much as You Love Yours by Archibald Rutledge
  • How Uncle Sam Coins the Money You Spend by John T. Flynn
  • The Lost Tower of Rodondo — A story by Helen Topping Miller and illustrated by George Giguere
  • Behind the Scenes at WOR by Allan Harding
  • “The Way to Lift a Hundred Tons Is to Lift It With Your Head!” by Charles G. Muller
  • Such a Nice Old Man! — A story by Marion Poschman Valensi and illustrated by Herman Pfeifer
  • Seven Sides of Human Nature as a Great Detective Sees Them by William S. Dutton
  • The Closest Calls I Ever Had by E. Alexander Powell
  • You Can’t Travel Far by Treading on People’s Toes by Orline D. Foster
  • Discarded — A serialized novel (continued) by Inez Haynes Irwin and illustrated by J. Simont
  • Interesting People:

  • Mrs. Kate Walker by Jean Piper
  • Tom Grant by Mrs. Tom Grant
  • Thomas J. Shinners by Katherine Edelman
  • Mrs. Madeline Snyder by Nina S. Purdy
  • John L. Hanna by Robert H. Denehey
  • Prize winners: Things I Wish My Wife (Or Husband) Wouldn’t Do
  • Prize Contest Announcement: My Pet Peeve
  • The Family’s Money by C.C.J.
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    1925-09 The American Magazine Contents for September 1925

    1925/09 — Cover illustrated by Penrhyn Stanlaws

    Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Imagination by Clarence Budington Kelland
  • He Couldn’t Get a Raise in Pay and So He Bought the Bank by Frank B. Copley
  • James H. Paul – A Portrait in Photogravure
  • Louis H. Tolhurst – Pictures in Photogravure
  • A Drop of Water Is His Movie Studio by John Monk Saunders about Louis H. Tolhurst
  • Will Deals with the Trouble-Maker — A Story by Fannie Kilbourne and illustrated by T.K. Hanna
  • Why Captain Neatherry Is Never Lonely by James C. Derieux
  • “Walk Right This Way, Ladies and Gentlemen!” by Helen Christine Bennett
  • Did You Ever Send a Letter and Wish You Had It Back?
  • Something Different — A story by Blanche Brace and illustrated by Norman Price
  • Why I Am Not Afraid to Die by Irving Bacheller
  • Irving Becheller – A portrait in photogravure
  • Rose Falls Bres – A portrait in photogravure
  • I Learned About Women from Law by Rose Falls Bres
  • The Wonders of Compressed Air by Harold Howland
  • What Your Finger Nails Tell the Manicure Girl by Susie Sexton
  • The Boy Who Jumped the Fence — A story by Florence Bingham Livingston and illustrated by Hanson Booth
  • Going Fast Does Not Always Mean Going Far by Neil M. Clark
  • “Captains Courageous” by George W. Gray is about deep-sea fisherman Daniel MacDonald
  • If Signs Meant Anything I Wouldn’t Be Writing This Now! by J. Frank Davis
  • The Water Bucket Baby — A baseball romance story by Jonathan Brooks and illustrated by Ray C. Strang
  • Dickey Made His Money Out of Mud by Harry A. Stewart
  • Are You the Master of Your Forks, The Captain of Your Spoons? by H.I. Phillips
  • Discarded — A serialized novel (continued) by Inez Haynes Irwin and illustrated by J. Simont
  • How Wild Animals Act in Tight Places by Archibald Rutledge
  • Interesting People:
    Ernest Newton Bagg by Eva Joy Betterley

  • Mrs. R.C. Talbot-Perkins by Margaret Norris
  • Franz Kotrba by John A. Kuder
  • Prize Contest Announcement: The Most Embarrassing Thing That Ever Happened To Me

  • Prize winners: The Biggest “White Elephant” in My Collection
  • The Family’s Money
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    1925-07 The American Magazine Contents for July 1925

    1925/07 — Cover illustrated by Davis

    Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • The Ten Marks of an Educated Man by Albert Edward Wiggam
  • Thrilling Days in Dawson When the Klondike Rush Was On by Barrett Willoughby
  • “I Believe in Shooting Square With Man and God” by Harry A. Stewart
  • Charles Page – Photo in photogravure
  • Mrs. Kelly and Family – Pictures in photogravure
  • Oh, for a Million Mothers Like Mary Kelly! by William A. McGarry
  • Three Old-Timers — A story by Wilbur Hall and illustrated by Stockton Mulford
  • Give the Man You’d Like to Be a Look at the Man You Are by Edgar A. Guest
  • “It Was Me That Needed Tamin’–Not the Birds!” by William S. Dutton
  • Things I Wish My Wife Wouldn’t Do by H.B.D.
  • Scattergood Sums Up the Evidence — A story by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by Paul Meylan
  • How Cecil B. DeMille Works and What He Knows About Us by Mary B. Mullett
  • Cecil De Mille and Family – Picture on Photogravure
  • A.A. Schantz – Portrait in Photogravure
  • It Took Him 25 Years to Travel 150 Feet by Sherman Gwinn
  • Will Keeps His Eye on the Ball — A story by Fannie Kilbourne and illustrated by T.K. Hanna
  • I’m Still on the Sucker List But I Don’t Bite Any More by H.I. Phillips
  • What a Psychoanalyst Knows About You and Your Troubles by Keene Sumner
  • Blue Hyacinths — A story by Alice Garland Steele and illustrated by W.B. King
  • Obstacles Are the Biggest Bluffers in the World by Neil M. Clark
  • Adventures in Understanding: 11 – The Man Afraid David Grayson and illustrated by Thomas Fogarty
  • Babies and Bathing Girls Are the Favorites of Camera Fans by George W. Gray
  • Discarded – A serialized novel — Continued by Inez Haynes Irwin and illustrated by J. Simont
  • Interesting People:

  • William A. Hadley by Neil M. Clark
  • Freda Bliss by Henry Irving Shumway
  • Reverend Harry Caldwell by Betty Ross
  • Agnes Neylon by M.P. Clifford
  • Charles H. Grakelow by Sherman Gwinn
  • Prize winners: The Best Stroke of Luck I Ever Had
  • Prize Contest Announcement: Things I Wish My Wife (Or Husband) Wouldn’t Do
  • The Family’s Money by Mrs. W.J.M.
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    1918-03 The American Magazine Contents for March 1918

    1918/03 — Cover illustrated by J. Knowles Hare

    Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Illustrating “Julie–the Unconquerable” by Paul Julien Meylan
  • Why We Come Smiling Out of Hell by Private Peat
  • Sid Says: Moths don’t detroy treasures like these
  • Private Peat – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • William Dudley Pelley – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Wanted–A Younger and More Practical Man — A story by William Dudley Pelley and illustrated by F.M. Gruger
  • Not for the Genius-But for the Average Man by Frederick W. Taylor with a note by Frank Barkley Copley
  • Peter Breaks Through His Shell – A love story by Holworthy Hall and illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood
  • How I Cured Myself of Being too Sensitive with illustration by Lejaren a Hiller
  • Why I Believe in Deciding Things Quickly by Al H. Woods
  • Elsie Ferguson – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • E.P. Ripley – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Ripley’s Recipe: “Get a good wife–and win men’s loyalty” by B.C. Forbes
  • Jule–The Unconquerable — A love story by Howard Markle Hoke and illustrated by Paul Julien Meylan
  • The Joy of the Job by Edna Ferber
  • The Making of George Groton – A novel (continued) by Bruce Barton with illustrations by Paul Stahr
  • The Chances of Getting Killed or Hurt in This War by Mary B. Mullett
  • Williams Sees Herself as Others Saw Her — A story by Bertha A. Rich
  • When My Boy Comes – What a prospective father has been through since war was declared
  • Interesting People:

  • Clem Yore by Jack Lait
  • George H. Beach by N.B. Beasley
  • Emily Griffith by Marie La Due
  • William S. Olive by S.R. Winters
  • Prize Contest Announcement: The Most Tender, Gentle Thing I Ever Knew a Human Being to Do
  • Prize winners: What I Would Do If I Had My Life to Live Over
  • The Family’s Money by Myron T. Herrick
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    1918-01 The American Magazine Contents for January 1918

    1918/01 — Cover illustrated by J. Knowles Hare

    Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Illustrating “Aunt Julia” by M. Leone Bracker
  • Aunt Julia – The story of a thoroughbred by William Dudley Pelley and illustrated by M. Leone Bracker
  • What the War Has Done To Me by Harry Lauder
  • Omelets for Violets – A Fair Trade — a story by Ida M. Evans and illustrated by F. Graham Cootes
  • Some of My Best Friends Are– by Montague Glass, the experiences of a Jew among Gentiles
  • Montague Glass – As I Know Him by Barney Bernard
  • Mr. and Mrs. Montague Glass – A Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Frank A. Vanderslip – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • How We Decide When to Raise a Man’s Salary by B.C. Forbes
  • Through Clearing — A love story by Holworthy Hall and illustrated by R.M. Crosby
  • What to Do With a Bad Habit by James J. Walsh, M.D.
  • Chicago – The Glavor of the Cities Series by Jack Lait
  • The Quest of Gloria Harney — A story by Alexander Hull and illustrated by W.M. Berger
  • The Comic Side of Trouble by Bert Williams
  • Bert Williams – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Mrs. Bertha A. Rich – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • The Business Woman and the Powder puff by Bertha A. Rich
  • Prize Winning Stories: What I Have Seen Booze Do
  • Prize Contest Announcment: What I Am Getting Out of the War
  • The Making of George Groton — A novel by Bruce Barton and illustrated by Paul Stahr
  • Sid Says: What goes on in your head is older than you think
  • Interesting People:

  • Ralph A. Hayes by Fred C. Kelly
  • William F. Nevitt by Albert Sidney Gregg
  • Gay Zenola MacLaren by May Stanley
  • The Rev. F.R. Wedge by Lloyd Alan Lehbras
  • The Family’s Money
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    1917-10 The American Magazine Contents for October 1917

    1917/10 — Cover illustrated by J. Knowles Hare

    Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Illustrating “771″ by Clarence F. Underwood
  • My Creed – The way to happiness as I have found it – by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Mary Roberts Rinehart as She Appears to Bob Davis by Robert H. Davis
  • The Importance of Mr. and Mrs. Dinsmore — A Story by John Barton Oxford and illustrated by F. Graham Cootes
  • Dropping the Easy Job and Tackling the Tough One by H. Thompson Rich
  • Henry L. Doherty – Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Mary Roberts Rinehart – A Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Foolish Things The War May Stop by Fred C. Kelly
  • What Salary Do You Need to Make You Happy?
  • “771″ – The story of a Cinderella without a Prince – by Mabel Nelson Thurston and illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood
  • How I Advertised Myself into a Better Job
  • The Four Square Man — a story by William Dudley Pelley and illustrated by Douglas Duer
  • A Clown Who Build a Skyscraper with Laughs by Fred Stone
  • Small inset as part of Fred Stone article: Gentleman Jim Corbett’s Tribute to Fred Stone by James J. Corbett
  • Fred Stone – A Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Arthur Train – A portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Have You a Friend Who is a Lawyer by Arthur Train
  • A Severe Attack of the Gerties A Baseball Story by Hugh S. Fullerton and illustrated by W.E. Hill
  • Sid Says: It’s the encores people call for that make lying difficult
  • Places of Retirement by David Grayson and illustrated by Thomas Fogarty
  • Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber and illustrated by M. Leone Bracker
  • Interesting People:

  • Frank W. Woolworth by Ada Patterson
  • Aaron I. Dotey by Alfred Grunberg
  • Mrs. Clara Pressler by W.W. Major
  • Henry B. Gentry by Don Herold
  • Prize Contest Winners: The Man Who Helped Me Most and What He Taught Me
  • Some Windows That Sell Goods by Dale Carnegie
  • Letter froma Reader by mary Dana-Hicks Prang
  • Suggestions to Old Folks
  • Are You Using Your Wife’s Business Sense? by Alfred Grunberg
  • Bad Teeth vs. Good Health by Edwin F. Bowers, M.D.
  • Prize Contest Announcement: What I Have Seen Booze Do
  • The Family’s Money
  • Getting Ahead by Henry C. Walker
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    1918-02 The American Magazine Contents for February 1918

    1918/02 — Cover illustrated by J. Knowles Hare

    Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Illustrating “New York and Return” by Clarence F. Underwood
  • The Sword of Jesus by Harold Bell Wright is the first article by Wright written for any magazine
  • Harold Bell Wright – A Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • The Mayo Brothers – Portraits in Alco Gravure
  • “Dr. Will and Dr. Charlie” – The Story of the Mayo Brothers by Mary B. Mullett
  • New York and Return – A Love Story by Holworthy Hall and illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood
  • What I Have Learned from Abe Lincoln – Illustration by Paul Meylan
  • Bud Jones–Small Advertiser — A Story by William Dudley Pelley and illustrated by Norman Price
  • Future Life Contest — Top 5 Prizewinners
  • Edison – The “Original Man from Missouri” — by William Maxwell with a latter from Arthur Brisbane, illustrated with a photograph
  • Thomas A. Edison – Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Ina Claire – Portrait in Alco Gravure
  • Plays Worth Seeing This Winter by Walter prichard Eaton
  • A Kind of Dog-Gone Christian – A Story by Arthur Preston Hankins with illustrations by F.E. Schoonover
  • The Making of George Groton — A novel by Bruce Barton and illustrated by Paul Stahr
  • Sid Says: If you aren’t fighting–are you worth fighting for?
  • Abner Larned, Who Knows How to Sell Things by N.B. Beasley
  • The Crisis in Room 25 – A dog story by Samuel A. Derieux with illustrations by J. Knowles Hare
  • Interesting People:

  • May Peterson by Betty Shannon
  • Frank Brown by Carl Gregg Doney
  • Leo Feist by E.M. Wickes
  • Charles H. Purdy by Bertha Snow Adams
  • Prize Contest Announcement: Why I Like My Job
  • Mistaken For My Wife’s Son by George H. McClellan
  • Getting Ahead
  • The Family’s Money
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    1925-06 The American Magazine Contents for June 1925

    1925/06 — Cover illustrated by M.L. McMillan

    Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Looking Forward to the Great Adventure by Booth Tarkington
  • “It Pays to Hang On” by Harry A. Stewart
  • Emerson Carrey – A portrait in photogravure
  • Fannie Kilbourne – A portrait in photogravure
  • Fannie Kilbourne is “A Great Little Self-Starter” by Allison Gray
  • The Laughing House — A Story by Wallace Smith with illustrations by Stockton Mulford
  • Captain Whitelaw Has Raised Hundreds of Wrecks from the Sea by Magner White
  • A World Famous Singer Whose Parents Were Slaves by Mary B. Mullett is about Roland Hayes
  • Stuff of Youth — A story by Ruth Cross with Illustrations by J. Simont
  • Good Morning, Judge by John Monk Saunders and illustrated by Tony Sarg
  • The Top Is All That Can Stop You If You Keep Going Up by Neil M. Clark
  • Carl R. Gray – A portrait in photogravure
  • Frederick P. Keppel – A portrait in photogravure
  • Keppel’s Job Is to Pour Oil on Troubled Waters by Ralph Hayes
  • The Minister Who Thought He Was a Failure — A Story by Nelia Gardner White with illustrations by Herman Pfeifer
  • I Went to the Klondike On My Father’s Shoulders! by Barrett Willoughby
  • Adventures in Understanding: 10 — The Adventure of the Shabby Man by David Grayson with illustrations by Thomas Fogarty
  • How Much Exercise Is Enough for You? by Arthur A. McGovern
  • Excess Baggage by Ellis Parker Butler
  • We Americans Buy Billions of Flowers a Year by Frank B. Copley
  • “That’s What Homes Are For!” — A story by Alice Garland Steele with illustrations by T.D. Skidmore
  • Every Job Is a Dare by Wheeler McMillen
  • Thrilling Feats of the Men Who Fight Fires by Sherman Gwinn
  • A Veteran Kennel Man Tells About His Most Wonderful Dogs by William S. Dutton
  • Queer Things People Take to a Picture Framer by Norman E. White
  • Discarded — A novel (continued) by Inez Haynes Irwin and illustrated by J. Simont
  • Everybody Hates a Bad Driver by Robert Chancellor
  • Interesting People:

  • Mrs. Anna Nott Shook by Betty Shannon
  • Hans and Henry Fuhrer by Emma Mauritz Larson
  • Carl Canova by G.W.B. Witten
  • Prize Winning Entries: My Favorite Season

  • Prize Contest Announcement: The Biggest “White Elephant” in My Collection
  • The Family’s Money by Mrs. E.G.H.
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    1925-05 The American Magazine Contents for May 1925

    1925/05 — Cover illustrated by Anderson

    Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Discarded — Part 1 of a serialized novel by Inez Haynes Irwin with illustrations by J. Simont
  • Pick Your Boss With Care by Keene Sumner
  • R.E. Reeves and Family – Pictures in photogravure
  • Harvey C. Miller – A portrait in Photogravure
  • Harvey Miller Starts Where Other Men Quit by William A. McGarry
  • Derickson’s Gagoo — A Story by Conrad Richter and illustrated by Ralph Pallen Coleman
  • A Haven for Souls in the World’s Money Market by Frank B. Copley
  • Adventures in Understanding: 9 — Jonas by David Grayson and illustrated by Thomas Fogarty
  • How It Feels to be Psychoanalyzed by Lucian Cary
  • Exit Eglantine! — A Story by Blanche Brace and illustrated by G. Patrick Nelson
  • Blanche Bates Gives Her Secret of Happiness by Mary B. Mullett
  • Blanche Bates – A portrait in photogravure
  • John F. Queeny – A portrait in photogravure
  • “It’s Dangerous to be Too Good a Loser!” by Harry A. Stewart
  • “Don’t Go to Any Trouble” a story by Margaret Culkin Banning and illustrated by T.D. Skidmore
  • Does Your World End at the Foot of Your Own Street? by Neil M. Clark
  • “It’s a Tough Job, But Somebody’s Got to Swing It” by John Monk Saunders
  • His Highness, My Dog by H.I. Phillips
  • Sentenced to Six Months — A Story by Dean L. Heffernan with illustrations by Forrest C. Crooks
  • The Romantic Story of Buttons by John Singleton
  • He Has Learned About People–From Shoes by William S. Dutton
  • How Tremendous Blocks of Granite and Cut from the Vermont Hills by Allan Harding
  • My Six Steps to Self-Mastery by W.L. George
  • Plan Your Yard As Carefully As You Do Your House by John Howe
  • Jen Starts All Over Again — A Story by Nelia Gardner White and illustrated by Herman Pfeifer
  • “I Can’t See People Smile, So I Like to Hear Them Laugh!” by Helen Christine Bennett
  • The World That Gets Up When You Go To Bed by Charles A. David with drawings by the author
  • Interesting People:

  • Grace Denton by Mildred Harrington
  • Henry Coppinger by Joe Hugh Reese
  • Thomas V. Miller by R.H. Denehey
  • ,li>Mrs. Cora Scovil by Gene Donald

  • J.T. Genn by Louis E. Childers
  • Top 3 Prize Winners for “The Best-Loved Person I Ever Knew”
  • Prize Contest Announcement: The Happiest Day I Ever Spent
  • The Family’s Money by Mrs. G.C.G.
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    1945-05-19 Collier’s Magazine Contents May 19 1945

    1945/05/19 — Cover credited to Gray-O’Reilly

    Contents as follows:
    FICTION:

  • Dinner for Two by Ann Napier with illustration by Wendell Kling
  • The Evolution of a Tyrant by John Randolph Phillips and illustrated by John Pike
  • Audition by Dawn Powell and illustrated by Ben Hur Baz
  • Sentimental Week End — Part 2 of 3 — by Elizabeth Dunn with illustration by William Pachner
  • Second Chance by Norman Katkov and illustrated by Lou Cunette
  • The Word — The Short Short Story — by Elizabeth Lyons with illustration by Nathan Machtey
  • ARTICLES:

  • Injustice in the Courtroom by Attorney General Francis Biddle
  • These Are Americans by Quentin Reynolds
  • Wanna Pick a Lock? by The Great Zadma as told to Jule Mannix
  • Why You Don’t Get Meat by W.B. Courtney
  • Dancing Master by Kyle Crichton about Gene Kelly – Kelly appears to have bright future as producer-director-actor … after he leaves the Navy
  • Time Without Years by William Beebe with illustration by Francis Chase
  • For Services Rendered by Flora Murray
  • How to Get Married by Alexandra S. Potts
  • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Keep Up With the World by Freling Foster
  • Wing Talk by Robert De Vore
  • The Heroes – A Gallery of United Nations Patriots – No. 30 – Lieutenant Colonel Frederick W. Okie
  • The Week’s Work by Amy Porter
  • Editorials: Peace Without Passion – Lend-Leasing Labor – Those Six “British” Votes
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    1945-07-21 Collier’s Magazine Contents July 21 1945

    1945/07/21 — Cover featuring Major General Norman T. Kirk credited to Jerry Cooke

    Contents as follows:
    FICTION:

  • Let’s Go Sweetheart by Norman Katkov and illustrated by Dun Roman
  • Rehearsal for Love — The Short Short Story by Jean Kinkead with illustration by John Collins
  • Beginner’s Luck by Ernest Lehman and illustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum
  • The Carnal Room by Jessamyn West and illustrated by William Meade Prince
  • Man and Boy by Frank O’Rourke and illustrated by Frank Golden
  • Odds Against the Girl — Conclusion of Serial by W.R. Burnett and illustrated by C.C. Beall
  • ARTICLES:

  • The Jungle Is Beaten by Walter Davenport
  • Swindler’s Paradise by Lester Velie
  • That They May Live! by Major General Norman T. Kirk, the Surgeon General of the Army with paintings from the Abbott Collection
  • MacArthur — The Story of a Great American Soldier — Part 2 of 2 by Herbert Asbury and Frank Gervasi
  • Fantastic Ferriss by Roger Birtwell is about Red Sox Dave Ferriss
  • Folies Bergere by Arthur Gordon
  • Revolution in Cotton by J.D. Ratcliff
  • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Keep Up With the World by Freling Foster
  • Wing Talk by Frederick R. Neely
  • The Heroes – A Gallery of United Nations Patriots – No. 39: Tech Sgt. Torger D. Tokle by George Creel
  • Your Life Tomorrow by David O. Woodbury
  • The Week’s Work by Amy Porter
  • Editorial: No Tags, No Gags, No Labels
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    1957-06-10 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents June 10 1957

    1957/06/10 – Front cover features U.S. Open defending champion Cary Middlecoff

  • Baseball: Gloom Here–Joy There by Roy Terrell about the season at the one-quarter mark
  • Spectacle: The Queen’s Plate by Horace Sutton and Dan Weiner about Canada’s ‘Kentucky Derby’
  • Sam Wins a Duel in the Sun by Kenneth Rudeen – Sam Hanks wins the Indianapolis 500
  • Preview: The U.S. Open by Herbert Warren Wind, to be held at the Inverness Club, Toledo, Ohio plus article about Harry Vardon
  • The Winners! by Jo Ahern about the American Sportswear Design Awards
  • How You Can Play Better Tennis by William F. Talbert and J. Donald Budge with drawings by Ed Vebell
  • The Upper Crust by James Ramsey Ullman about mountain climbing
  • Sport in Art: “The Wolf and the Fox Hunt” by Peter Paul Rubens in full color spread across most of two pages with text at the bottom of the page
  • Plus Departments containing semi-regular features
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    1939-03-06 Life Magazine Contents March 6 1939

    1939/03/06 — Cover photograph featuring Tallulah Bankhead is credited to Vandamm Studios

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Golden Gate Exposition Opens with Wild West Wallop
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • The King of Egypt’s Sister to Marry the Shah of Iran’s Son
  • Harry Hopkins Boom for President Starts in Native Iowa
  • Pope Pius is Buried in St. Peter’s
  • New York Nazis Beat Up Jew at Bund Meeting
  • “Mein Kampf” Is Published in Full for U.S. Readers
  • British Destroyer Is Repaired at Gibralter
  • German Battleship Is Launched at Hmaburg
  • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Fascism in America – Like Communism It Masquerades as Americanism – 7 pages
  • CLOSE-UP:

  • Heywood Broun
  • SCIENCE:

  • Camelliams: The South’s Most Aristocratic Bloom Is Yankee Favorite
  • Rats Are Driven Crazy by Insoluable Problems
  • SPORTS:

  • Florida Gives Disbarred Jockey a Second Chance
  • THEATER:

  • “The Little Foxes” – Tallulah Bankhead Has Her First U.S. Hit
  • MOVIES:

  • “Cafe Society” with Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray
  • The First Actress of the Screen Dons a Wig and Plays an Empress – Photo of Bette Davis in “Juarez”
  • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Victorians Loved Rogers Sculpture
  • LIFE Covers the Miami Waterfront
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Color ad featuring Shirley Temple in The Little Princess is on the inside front cover
  • Full-page black & white ad with huge image of Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne in “Love Affair”
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    1939-11-13 Life Magazine Contents November 13 1939

    1939/11/13 — Cover photograph featuring Claudette Colbert is by Alfred Eisenstaedt

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
    U.S. Business Opens Great Barco Oil Fields in Columbia

  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • Japanese Sentry in Hawaii Demands Salute from Americans
  • Congress Kills Arms Embargo
  • Germans Picture Attack on Rosyth Naval Base
  • New York and San Francisco Fairs Close
  • A British Convoy Crosses the North Sea
  • Giant Snow Cruiser Comes to Grief
  • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Argentines – LIFE Looks South at a Great and Proud People
  • CLOSE-UP:

  • Who’s Who in the German High Command – German Generals including Keitel, Halder, Von Rundstedt, Von Bock
  • ART:

  • Peter Scott Is Best British Bird Painter
  • MODERN LIVING:

  • London Adapts Fashions to Blackouts
  • Dorothy Lamour ’s Winter Sarong
  • RADIO:

  • “Information Please” is Made into Movie Short
  • THEATER:

  • Gertrude Lawrence Stars in “Skylark”
  • SPORTS:

  • Girls’ Football
  • “Drums Along the Mohawk” starring cover subject Claudette Colbert and Henry Fonda
  • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Denis Conan Doyle ’s Spirit Photographs
  • LIFE Calls on Helen Hayes
  • Pictures to the Editors
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    1945-10-08 Life Magazine Contents October 8 1945

    1945/10/08 — Cover photograph featuring General Robert Eichelberger is credited to the U.S. Navy

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • The Tokyo Express to Hiroshima – Photographs by J.R. Eyerman
  • Editorial: Urgent Business
  • “Paddy” Devereux Greets His Father
  • The “Europa” Returns
  • Mass Murderess of Belsen – Woman leader of Nazi Guards
  • Baseball Season Ends in Argument
  • CLOSE-UP:

  • J. Arthur Rank by Francis Sill Wickware
  • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Waldorf-Astoria – 8 pages
  • RELIGION:

  • Jewish New Year in Berlin
  • THEATER:

  • Bambi Lynn of Brooklyn Dances on Broadway
  • ART:

  • The Pacific War – American Artists Record the Battles Across the Big Ocean
  • EDUCATION:

  • Educating Hitler Youth – Americans teaching them Democracy
  • MODERN LIVING:

  • Fur Hats
  • MOVIES:

  • “The House on 92nd Street”
  • SCIENCE:

  • Texas Raises First U.S. Silk
  • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Frank Lloyd Wright ’s New Art Museum
  • LIFE’s Reports: How the World Didn’t End by Claude Stanush
  • LIFE Goes to a Grape Crush
  • Miscellany: Corporal Rahaman’s Pay
  • Full-page color ad for Pan-Cake Make-Up from Max Factor Hollywood features a large color image of Judy Garland promoting “The Harvey Girls”
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    1941-03-03 Life Magazine Contents March 3 1941

    1941/03/03 — Cover photograph featuring Model and Manikin is credited to Walter Sanders

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Roosevelt’s New Deal Sends an Ambassador to Britain’s New Dealers
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • A Frenchman Sheds Tears of Grief As His Country’s Flags Are Exiled to Africa
  • Greeks Push on in Albania
  • British Capture Tobruch
  • Fort Sill Welcomes an Officer and His Bride
  • Churchill’s Daughter Makes Maiden Speech
  • Income Tax: 8,000,000 Americans File First Returns
  • CLOSE-UP:

  • General Sir Archibald Percival Wavell by Harry Zinder
  • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Australia’s War Effort Forces Continent to Grow Up Industrially
  • BOOKS:

  • “Out of the Night” — Part 2 by Jan Valtin
  • MEDICINE:

  • Pain
  • ART:

  • Diego Rivera ’s New Mural Depicts Pan-American Unity – includes 4 full pages of color reproductions in the center of the issue
  • MODERN LIVING:

  • Model Is Cast in Plaster to Make Manikin Mold
  • MOVIES:

  • Veronica Lake – 3 pages though ads make it more like 2 pages does include a full-page black & white photo of lake, plus 5 other shots of Lake from the time of “I Wanted Wings”
  • SPORTS:
  • Table Tennis
  • NIGHT CLUB:

  • New York Clubs Offer Roughhouse & Satire
  • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Blizzard Sweeps Donner Pass
  • LIFE’s Reports
  • LIFE’s Pictures: An Index
  • LIFE Goes to an Atzor Party
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Full-page ad for Orson Welles in “Citizen Kane” (“It’s Terrific!”)
  • Pan American Coffee Bureau full-page color ad includes illustration b J.C. Leyendecker
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    1941-02-10 Life Magazine Contents February 10 1941

    1941/02/10 — Cover photograph featuring New British Ambassador Lord Halifax is credited to Time, Inc.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Mussolini Takes a Bad Licking in Africa – 7 pages
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • American Bombers Take off for Britain from Newfoundland Base
  • Hearst’s Fabulous Art Goes at Bargain Prices
  • Lana Turner and Deanna Durbin Are Belles of President’s Birthday Ball – 2 pages includes full page shot of Durbin dancing with William Knudsen
  • Bombed London Railway Is Remade as Good as New in Four Hours
  • Socialite Fishermen Relax at Quarterdeck Club on Biscayne Bay
  • Inside Wartime Germany – Part 2 by William L. Shirer
  • CLOSE-UP

  • Lord Halifax by Carl Joachim Friedrich
  • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • LIFE Shows How to Fire a 75-mm. Field Gun – 8 pages
  • SCIENCE:

  • Earthquakes – Earth’s Crust & Ice Balls Break in Same Pattern
  • ART:

  • Spindletop – Great Texas Oil Gusher is Painted for LIFE by Alexandre Hogue
  • EDUCATION:

  • Ynching Is No. 1 Christian University in China
  • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE’s Pictures: An Index
  • LIFE’s Reports
  • Speaking of Pictures: Book Match Covers
  • LIFE Goes to a Hexing Party
  • Pictures to the Editors
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    1956-12-26 The Sporting News Baseball Magazine Contents December 26 1956

    1956/12/26 –

  • Cover cartoon is “Of Three We Sing” by Amadee featuring Al Lopez up top with new MLB managers Kerby Farrell, Bob Scheffing and Jack Tighe below
  • Headline of issue “Major Leagues Shape ‘Disaster Plan’ – Players’ Pool to Be Set Up by Each Loop – Victim Club Could Choose as Many as Three Men from Every Rival Team”
  • Eddie Robinson to 7th American League team
  • “How Much ‘Stretch’ in Pitcher’s Arm? – Konstanty Holds Record with 74 Games for Phils in ‘50″ with Lou Darvas cartoon featuirng Jim Konstanty, Fred Marberry and Hoyt Wilhelm
  • “Jackie Figures He’ll Hit Better Next Year as Every-Day Giant” with small photo of Jackie Robinson
  • “From The Sporting News to Wall Street Journal: Kuenn on Bank Job to Learn About Investing” featuring photos of Harvey Kuenn
  • Hall of Famer George Sisler Named Full-Time Buc Batting Coach
  • Small article with small photo notes Phil Rizzuto to return to Yankees as TV-Radio Announcer
  • Part 2 of 2 — PEE WEE … PRIDE OF FLATBUSH … Dodgers Shortstop Since ‘40 and ‘Captain of the Team’” second of 2 part Pee Wee Reese feature
  • Necrology: Obituatry for former N.L. umpire Ziggy Sears
  • Plus, believe it or not, much more! Including several articles covering many other players, usually at least something from each team; winter ball coverage; The separately numbered 8-page “The All-Sports News” section covering football and other sports
  • 26 pages plus 8-page “The All-Sports News” section for 34 pages total.

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    1891-11 Century Magazine Contents November 1891

    1891/11 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Italian Old Masters – Michelangelo Buonarotti by W. J. Stillman
  • Izaak Walton From a Painting by George H. Boughton
  • Southern Womanhood as Affected by the War by Wilbur Fisk Tillett
  • A Great German Artist — Adolf Menzel by Carl Marr
  • Notes by Other American Artists by W. J. Baer and R. Blum
  • The Players by Brander Matthews
  • India by Florence Earle Coates
  • The Naulahka, a Story of East and West — Part 1 by Rudyard Kipling and Wolcott Balestier
  • Sursum Corda by Edith M. Thomas
  • What Are Americans Doing in Art? by Francis D. Millet
  • The Hunger-Strike by Elizabeth W. Fiske
  • How Old Folks Won the Oaks by J. J. Eakins
  • Bronte by Harriet Prescott Spofford
  • The Autobiography of a Justice of the Peace by Edgar Wilson Nye
  • Mazzini’s Letters to an English Family by Joseph Mazzini
  • In the Pauses of Her Song by Orelia Key Bell
  • A Rival of the Yosemite — King’s River Canon by John Muir
  • A Theft Condoned by Gertrude Smith
  • A Song for All Seasons by James Herbert Morse
  • The Food-Supply of the Future by W. O. Atwater
  • Folksong by Sylvester Baxter
  • James Russell Lowell by George E. Woodberry
  • The Sonnet by Edith Wharton
  • Lowell’s Americanism by Joel Benton with a letter from James Russell Lowell
  • The Major’s Appointment by Julia Schayer
  • The Choice by Owen Innsly
  • Music by A. Lampman
  • San Francisco Vigilance Committees by William T. Coleman
  • Topics of the Time:

  • Editorials on Finance. Michigan’s “Wild-Cat” Banks
  • Lowell’s Legacy to his Country
  • Corrupt Practices Legislation in 1891
  • An American Achievement in Art
  • Open Letters:

  • California’s Interest in Yosemite Reform by George G. Mackenzie
  • The Paris Opera by A. Vianesi
  • The Century Series of Pictures by an American Artist. Izaak Walton by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • George H Boughton by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • A Roman Catholic’s View of “Sister Dolorosa” by L. H.
  • In Lighter Vein:

  • Kitty, my Colleen by Patrick J. Coleman
  • The Prophets by C. P. Stetson
  • Brer Fox by Edward A. OIdham
  • Grace After Meat by Margaret Vandegrift
  • Ho for the Desert! by George E. de Steigner
  • My Old Skippers by Charles Henry Webb
  • The New Street-Sweeper by George Towner
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    1883-09 Century Magazine Contents September 1883

    1883/09 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Robert Burns, from a miniature which belonged to his sister — Engraved by T. Johnson
  • Cape Cod by F. Mitchell
  • A Woman’s Reason — Part 8 by William Dean Howells
  • A Musk-Ox Hunt by Frederick Schwatka
  • The Tragedies of the Nests by John Burroughs
  • Will New York Be the Final World Metropolis? by William C. Conant
  • At Castle Hill, Newport, R.I. by Charles de Kay
  • Indian War in the Colonies by Edward Eggleston
  • Ornamental Forms in Nature by Roger Riordan
  • Professor Agassiz’s Laboratory by Ernest Ingersoll
  • Wonderland by George Edgar Montgomery
  • The Bread-winners — Part 2
  • A Burns Pilgrimage by H.H.
  • Love’s Power by Josephine Pollard
  • Our Story by Frank R. Stockton
  • Death’s First Lesson by Susan Marr Spalding
  • Love in Old Clothes by H.C. Bunner
  • Nights with Uncle Remus — Part 3 by Joel Chandler Harris
  • Topics of the Time

  • The Temperance Outlook
  • The Reticence of American Politicians
  • “College-Bred” Statesmen
  • Open Letters:

  • New York as a Field for Fiction by H.C. Bunner
  • The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union by Frances E. Willard
  • The Massachusetts Experiment in Education by Charles Barnard
  • A Romantic Career by D.C. Gilman
  • The Christian League by Washington Gladden and George K. Dunlop
  • Standard Railway Time by W.F. Allen
  • Reforming the Alfabet by Frederick A. Fernald
  • The Training of Children’s Voices by J. Spencer Curwen
  • Bric-a-Brac:

  • In Swimming-Time by James Whitcomb Riley
  • Model Children by Charles H. Turner
  • What’s in a Name? by R.K. Munkittrick
  • A Midsummer Day’s Dream by William M. Briggs
  • A Bundle of Letters by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • Massachusetts French by Bell F. Hapgood
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    1885-10 Century Magazine Contents October 1885

    1885/10 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Samuel Bowles — Engraved by Henry Velten from a photograph
  • The Great River of Alaska — Part 2: Exploring the Upper and Lower Yukon by Frederick Schwatka
  • A Study in Independent Journalism by George S. Merriam
  • A Poet’s Soliloquy by Christopher P. Cranch
  • “Love at First Sight” by Brander Matthews
  • The Summer Haunts of American Artists by Lizzie W. Champney
  • The Gray Gull’s Wing by Mary Allen
  • The Bostonians — Part 9 by Henry James
  • The Canada Pacific Railway by George M. Grant
  • Tuscan Cities by William Dean Howells
  • March in Janiveer by H. C. Bunner
  • Riverside Park by William A. Stiles
  • The Last Days of General Grant by General Adam Badeau — Just over 20 pages with illustrations
  • Lincoln and Grant by Gen. Horace Porter
  • Reminiscences of General Grant by Gen. James Harrison Wilson
  • The Dead Comrade by Richard Watson Gilder
  • “Taps.” August 8, 1885 by F. M. Newton
  • Bigotry by Edgar Fawcett
  • Zweibak: Being Notes of a Professional Exile
  • Memoranda on the Civil War:

  • A “Famous Saying” Contradicted by Gen. D. C. Buell
  • General Heintzelman in the Peninsula Campaign by Mary L. Heintzelman
  • National Memorials of the Civil War by Charles W. Eldridge
  • General Grant’s Premonition by M. E. Seawell
  • Topics of the Time:

  • North and South
  • Prejudice and Progress
  • Civic Rivers
  • Open Letters:

  • The Connecticut Training School for Nurses
  • In the Chilcat Country by Mrs. Eugene S. Willard
  • Police Reform by L. Edwin Dudley
  • “Hunting the Rocky Mountain Goat”
  • Bric-A-Brac:

  • Accepted by Robertson Trowbridge
  • Madrigal by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • The Wood-Sprite by Roger Riordan
  • Compensations by J. A. Macon
  • Hobson’s Choice by Francis E. Leupp
  • My Rival by Bessie Chandler
  • The Race by Charles G. Blanden
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    1885-12 Century Magazine Contents December 1885

    1885/12 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Helen Jackson (H.H.) – Engraved by Miss C.A. Powell, from a photograph
  • The City of Persia — Part 1: Teheran by S. G. W. Benjamin
  • Saint Elizabeth by T. T. Munger
  • A Child of the Age by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
  • The Interpreter by Edith M. Thomas
  • The Private History of a Campaign that Failed by Mark Twain
  • Eve by W. J. Henderson
  • The Bostonians by Henry James
  • The Solitary Knight by James T. McKay
  • An American Lordship by George Parsons Lathrop
  • The Poet by Ina D. Coolbrith
  • John Bodewin’s Testimony — Part 2 by Mary Hallock Foote
  • The “Lamia” of Keats by Henry Eckford
  • The Last Poems of Helen Jackson (H. H.) — Habeas Corpus; Acquainted with Grief; Fealty; The Poet’s Forge; Vision; Vanity of Vanities; A Last Prayer; by Helen Jackson
  • The Lesson of Greek Art by Charles Waldstein
  • Bird-Enemies by John Burroughs
  • Faith-Cures by A. F. Schauffler
  • The Haunted Heart by Minna Irving
  • The Monitors: Their Construction and Work by Capt. John Ericsson
  • The Loss of the Monitor. By a Survivor by Francis B. Butts
  • Dangers in Food and Drink by Elwyn Waller
  • At Mrs. Berty’s “Tea” by Thomas A. Janvier
  • Topics of the Time:

  • Transfigured Mercantilism
  • The Sunday-School and Good Literature
  • Open Letters:

  • What Shall Be Done With Our Ex-Presidents? — Opinions by George F. Edmunds – Thomas Cooley – Francis Wharton – Allen G. Bigelow
  • The Poetic Outlook by Washington Gladden
  • Wanted – A Universal Tinker by X. Y. Z.
  • Bric-A-Brac:

  • The Sultan of My Books by Edmund Gosse
  • De Libris by Cosmo Monkhouse
  • On the Fly-Leaf of a Book of Old Plays by Walter Learned
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    1886-05 Century Magazine Contents May 1886

    1886/05 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne – Engraved by T. Johnson after a daguerreotype taken about 1848
  • Recent Architecture in America — Part 1 by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • The Minister’s Charge — Part 4 by William Dean Howells
  • The Flour Mills of Minneapolis by Eugene V. Smalley
  • To the Memory of H. H. by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Iduna by George A. Hibbard
  • A Betrothal by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • A Californian’s Gift to Science: Lick Observatory by Taliesin Evans
  • Control by Sidney Lanier
  • To Will H. Low — A Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson – A half page
  • Perturbed Spirits by Brander Matthews
  • Reunion (Regimental Officers, 1885) by David L. Proudfit
  • Hawthorne’s Philosophy by Julian Hawthorne
  • The Breeding of Fancy Pigeons by E. S. Starr
  • Evolution and the Faith by T. T. Munger
  • Zweibak; or, Notes of a Professional Exile — Part 3
  • Two Views of It by Anthony Morehead
  • The Helmet of Mambrino by Clarence King
  • From the Peninsula to Antietam

  • Posthumous Notes by Gen. George B. McClellan — 9 pages including illustrations
  • With an Introduction by Literary Executor by William C. Prime
  • Recollections of a Private — Part 7: McClellan at the Head of the Grand Army by Warren Lee Goss
  • The Battle of South Mountain or Boonsboro by Gen. D. H. Hill
  • Memoranda on the Civil War

  • In Reply to General Grant by Gen. William Farrar Smith
  • Topics of the Time

  • George Bancroft on the Legal-Tender Decision
  • Copyright
  • James Russell Lowell’s Bible Argument
  • The American Opera Company
  • A Readjustment of the Industrial Order
  • Labor Question
  • Open Letters

  • The True South vs the Silent South by John W. Johnston
  • The True South vs the Silent South by George W. Cable
  • On the South Kensington School for Cookery by Mary B. Welch
  • Bric-A-Brac:

  • An Easter Lay by David Rorty
  • Spring by Bessie Chandler
  • Time and Love by Harold van Santvoord
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