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1924-08 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for August 1924

Feb.18, 2010 in American Mercury

1924/08 — Contents as follows:

  • Mr. Coolidge by Frank R. Kent
  • The Gates of Tamerlane — A Story by Achmed Abdullah
  • Godey’s Lady’s Book by Richard Fay Warner
  • Canned Music and the Composer by Harry B. Smith
  • The Trial of the Dead Cleopatra — A Poem by Vachel Lindsay
  • The Ordeal of Prohibition by Clarence S. Darrow
  • A Note on Tights by Carl Van Vechten
  • Americana
  • El Paso by Owen P. White
  • American Portraits – 6: The Advertising Agent by Orrick Johns
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken
  • The Mercy of God by Theodore Dreiser

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Jazz by Virgil Thomson
  • Cavalry in Modern War by G.A. Moore
  • The Books of Dard Hunter by Nelson Antrim Crawford
  • The Inquiring Mind by Zechariah Chafee, Jr.
  • Pariah — A Story by Chester T. Crowell
  • A Forgotten American Statesman by Milledge L. Bonham, Jr. about Edward Livingston
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken

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    1924-07 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for July 1924

    Feb.18, 2010 in American Mercury

    1924/07 — Contents as follows:

  • The Presidency by Charles C. Thach
  • Champion of Champions by R.F. Dibble is about John L. Sullivan – 7 pages
  • M’Liss and Louie — A Poem by Carl Sandburg
  • The Devil Born in Them – A Story by Chester T. Crowell
  • Editorial
  • Stanley Hall – A Memory by A.E. Hamilton
  • Americana
  • Mr. Munsey by Robert L. Duffus
  • Where the Law Fails by Homer H. Cooper
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken
  • American Portraits – 5: Babbitt Emeritus by Parkhurst Whitney
  • Whitman on His Contemporaries — From the Camden Diary of Horace Traubel

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Insect vs. Insect by H.M. Parshley
  • The Gods of Modern Music by W.J. Henderson
  • The Wages of Peace by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
  • The Dutch on the Delaware by Isaac R. Pennypacker
  • The American Chemist by L.M. Hussey
  • The Mouse — A Story by May Freud Dickenson
  • Saving Souls by Gerald W. Johnson
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken

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    1924-06 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for June 1924

    Feb.18, 2010 in American Mercury

    1924/06 — Contents as follows:

  • The Righteous Perish by Mary Alden Hopkins
  • Call for a Literary Historian by Fred Lewis Pattee
  • Absolution — A Story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Rise and Fall of Homeopathy by Morris Fishbein
  • Editorial
  • The Black Duck Dinner by James Stevens
  • Americana
  • Satan in the Dance-Hall by Gregory Mason
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken
  • The English of the Negro by George Philip Krapp
  • This City Wind — A Sonnet by Leonora Speyer
  • Passing — A Sonnet by David Morton
  • American Journalism Today by Chester T. Crowell

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Walt Whitman and the Aristidean by Thomas Ollive Mabbott
  • What Is a Race? by Melville J. Herskovits
  • The Training of the Soldier by Arlington B. Conway
  • American Portraits — 4: Medicine Doctor by L.M. Hussey
  • International Languages by Albert leon Guerard
  • The War Against Birth Control by Margaret Sanger
  • The Senate’s Last Leader by Charles Willis Thompson
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken

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    1924-05 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for May 1924

    Feb.18, 2010 in American Mercury

    1924/05 — Contents as follows:

  • The Peace Myth by Virgil Jordan
  • John Ruskin by Frank Harris
  • The Case of Bedrich Zatloukal — A Story by Paul Tanaquil
  • Editorial
  • The American Cigar by Carl Avery Werner
  • Watson of Indiana by John W. Owens
  • The Right to Consolation by William Seagle
  • Americana
  • Modern American Printing by Harry Lyman Koopman
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken
  • Lowell by C. Hartley Grattan
  • The South and the Offensive by Gerald W. Johnson

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Mathematics in the United States Today by R.D. Carmichael
  • Alfred Stieglitz and His Work by Herbert J. Seligmann

  • The Campaign of B.C. 588-86 by K.C. McIntosh
  • Rachel and Her Children — A Story by Frances Newman
  • American Books in France by Lewis Galantiere
  • The Substance of Poetry by John McClure
  • Pedagogue: Old Style by James M. Cain
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken

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    1924-03 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for March 1924

    Feb.18, 2010 in American Mercury

    1924/03 — Volume 1, Number 3

    Contents as follows:

  • Cretheus and the Lions by Stephen French Whitman
  • The John Brown Myth by Leland H. Jenks
  • Chautauqua – Its Technic by Gregory Mason
  • Reflections of a Bible-Reader by Arthur Davison Ficke

  • Six Orchestral Conductors by D.W. Sinclair
  • Editorial
  • John Maroufaz and His Sons — A Story by W.L. George
  • Americana

  • Every Science an Exact Science by Vilhjalmur Stefansson
  • The Two Tafts by Charles Willis Thompson
  • Mansfield Park and America by Arthur Bingham Walkley
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken
  • Portrait of an Old Mother — A Poem by Alice Mary Kimball

  • Byron in America by Samuel C. Chew
  • American Portraits – 2: The Washington Job-Holder by Harvey Ferguson
  • The Sire of Kiwanis by William Feather
  • Spanish Nights’ Entertainment by C.E. Bechhofer

  • The American View of Politics by Johan J. Smertenko
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken

    • Reviews by Other Hands:

  • The Popularization of Science by H.M. Parshley
  • Walter von Molo by Friedrich Schonemann

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    1924-02 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for February 1924

    Feb.18, 2010 in American Mercury

    1924/02 — Volume 1, Number 2

    Contents as follows:

  • All God’s Chillun Got Wings — A Play by Eugene O’Neill
  • The Grammarian and His Language by Edward Sapir
  • The Part-Time Missionary by Howell Sykes
  • Editorial
  • Caught — A Play by Sherwood Anderson

  • Americana
  • Pinchot by Charles Willis Thompson
  • More Light on Whitman by Emory Holloway
  • Osteopathy by Morris Fishbein
  • American Portraits — 1: The Labor Leader by James M. Cain
  • Clincal Notes by H.L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan
  • The Ku-Kluxer by Gerald W. Johnson
  • Panorama by John McClure

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Alcohol and the Duration of Life by Raymond Pearl

  • Modern First Editions by George H. Sargent
  • The American Painter by Guy Eglington

  • Heredity and the Uplift by H.M. Parshley
  • Carrying Civilization to Mexico by Carleton Beals
  • The Comic Patriot by Carl Van Doren
  • A Note on Shakespeare by Leon Kellner
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken

    • Additional Book Reviews:

  • Origins of the Revolution by W.F. Robinson
  • The Case of Luther by John E. Lind

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    1924-01 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for January 1924

    Feb.18, 2010 in American Mercury

    1924/01 — This issue is Volume 1, Number 1

    Contents as follows:

  • The Lincoln Legend by Isaac R. Pennypacker
  • Four Poems by Theodore Dreiser – 1) The Little Flowers of Love and Wonder; 2) Proteus; 3) For a Moment the Wind Died; 4) Take Hands
  • Stephen Crane by Carl Van Doren
  • Four Generations by Ruth Suckow
  • Huneker on Huneker by James Gibbons Huneker
  • Editorial
  • The Drool Method in History by Harry E. Barnes
  • Mr. Moore and Mr. Chew by Sameul C. Chew
  • Americana
  • Aesthete: Model 1924 by Ernest Boyd
  • The Tragic Hiram by John W. Owens
  • Two Years of Disarmament by Miles Martindale
  • Santayana at Cambridge by Margaret Munsterberg
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken
  • The Communist Hoax by James Oneal
  • The Weaver’s Tale by John McClure

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • The New Sky-Line by C. Grant La Farge
  • The Pother About Glands by L.M. Hussey
  • The Test of English by George Philip Krapp
  • Sweeney’s Grail by Leonard Lanson Cline
  • The New Thought by Woodbridge Riley
  • On a Second-Rate War by X–
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken

    • Additional Book Reviews:

  • Once More, the Immortals by James Branch Cabell
  • Brandes and Croce by Ernest Boyd
  • Brazil from Within by Isaac Goldberg

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    1941-01 The American Magazine Contents for January 1941

    Feb.18, 2010 in American

    1941/01 — Cover is a natural color photograph by Leon De Vos

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

    SHORT NOVEL:

  • “The Halfway Heart – Complete in this Issue by Laurette MacDuffie Knight

    • SERIALS:

  • “The Talk of the Town” — Part 2 of 5 — by Ann Pinchot and illustrated by Mario Cooper
  • “Wildcat 13″ — Part 4 of 6 by Tom Gill

    STORIES:

  • “Two in a Glass House” by Eleanor DeLamater and illustrated by John Gannam
  • “Eleven Years” — Vignette by Denis Plimmer
  • “Christmas in the Heart” by Rachel Field with a full-page color illustration by Norman Rockwell
  • “It Must Be Love” by Gordon Malherbe Hillman and illustrated by Gilbert Bundy
  • “Might-Have-Been” by Marion Baxter Taylor and illustrated by Al Parker
  • “His Own Medicine” by Clarence Budington Kelland
  • “Echo of War” by Thomas Rourke and illustrated by Donald Teague
  • “The Meanest Man” — Storiette by Paul Schubert
  • “Fire by Night” — Short short story by Constance Wagner
  • “Dumb Guy” — Vignette by Gordon Gaskill

    • ARTICLES:

  • The Blue Bird Found Again by Maurice Maeterlinck
  • King of Canada by Beverly Smith about Prime Minister Mackenzie King

  • Adventures of a Sneeze Hound by Katherine Madison
  • How to Get Along in the Army by William G. McChesney
  • Half a Dozen Ways to Get Rich by William D. Collidge, Ph.D.
  • Warning–Keep Out! by John Winter
  • Tell It to the Judge by Michael Angelo Musmanno
  • Star Salesman by Clarence Woodbury
  • Art Begins at Home by James C. Boudreau
  • Let ‘er Roll by Jerome Beatty
  • Science Steps Up the Game by Norman V. Carlisle
  • Santa Claus Becomes a Citizen by Ruth Moore Morriss
  • Accuracy by H.W. Phelps

    • SHORT FEATURES:

  • Interesting People in the American Scene
  • Along the Way
  • Scattergood Says
  • New Eyes for the Needy
  • Why Don’t They?
  • Johnny-On-the-Spot
  • American Parade
  • Streamlining the Classics
  • The Animal Fair
  • Getting Along
  • How Emotional Are You
  • Signs of the Times
  • New Ways to Enjoy Your Home
  • Word Teasers
  • Around the House
  • Carrots O’Hara
  • It’s the Law!
  • Cause for Divorce
  • Life’s Little Temptations and 13 other comics

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    1935-04 The American Magazine Contents for April 1935

    Feb.18, 2010 in American

    1935/04 — Cover is a natural color photograph by C. C. Beall

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

    FICTION:

  • “Opera Hat” — Part 1 of a serial by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by George Howe
  • “Admiration” by Edward Doherty and illustrated by Ronald McLeod
  • “She Dreamed of Wings” — A short short story by MacKinlay Kantor with illustration by C. C. Beall
  • “Long Cold Night” by Allan Vaughan Elston
  • “Trophy” by Barbara Webb and illustrated by Matt Clark
  • “Starlight Pass” — Part 5 of a serial by Tom Gill and illustrated by Saul Tepper
  • “Preview” by Channing Pollock and illustrated by Walter Klett
  • “Peach Crop” by Ruth Burr Sanborn with the bottom half illustrated in color across the opening two pages by Norman Rockwell
  • “Never Mind the Lady” — Part 3 of a serial by David Garth and illustrated by Donald Teague
  • “Broken Jade” by Leonard Falkner and illustrated by John Gannam
  • “Today’s the Day” by Harold Titus and illustrated by Elmore Brown

    • ARTICLES:

  • Tools of War by General Hugh S. Johnson
  • “I Want to See the President” by Marvin H. McIntyre
  • Mysterious Neighbors by Courtney Ryley Cooper and illustrated by Robert C. Gellert
  • What Labor Really Wants — Questions by Henry F. Pringle — Answers by William Green
  • Little Bum and Little Brother
  • Another Man’s Poison by Maurice Chideckel, M.D.
  • Why They get the Crowd by Paul Gallico
  • There Is No Winter by Thomas Sugrue
  • It’s All in Fun by Hubert Kelley is about Cole Porter
  • Where Accidents Don’t Happen by Jerome Beatty is about “America’s Safest City” Evanston, Illinois

    • SHORT FEATURES:

  • Editorial — Pretense by Walter Hampden
  • How to Freshen Your Walls by Roger B. Whitman
  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • What’s Your Pet Worry? — Contest Announcement
  • What the Readers Say

    • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Versatile – Mercedes Hill
  • Unorthodox — Marriner S. Eccles
  • Ambitious — Francesca Lamonte
  • Etcher – Levon West
  • Winner – Harold C. Urey
  • Weighty – Anderson M. Baten
  • Chief – Katherine F. Lenroot
  • Top – Cole Porter
  • Wheaties ad on back cover features small head shot of Lou Gehrig with quote from the “Iron Man of Baseball”

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    1935-01 The American Magazine Contents for January 1935

    Feb.18, 2010 in American

    1935/01 — Cover is a natural color photograph directed by Ray Prohaska with photography by F. Alden Weeks

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

    MYSTERY NOVEL:

  • “Eight Bells” by Frederic Arnold Kummer and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer

    FICTION:

  • “Even the Ocean Laughed” by David Garth and illustrated by Mario Cooper
  • “Starlight Pass” — Part 2 of a serial by Tom Gill and illustrated by Saul Tepper
  • “The Man With the Nose” by Walter D. Edmonds and illustrated by Matt Clark
  • “Willie Takes a Step” by Don Marquis with color illustration spreading across top two-thirds of first two pages by Norman Rockwell
  • “Until It’s Over” by MacKinlay Kantor with drawing by August Bleser, Jr.
  • “Beauty’s Daughter” — Part 4 of a serial by Kathleen Norris and illustrated by Roy Spreter
  • “I Could Brighten Your Life!” by Elizabeth Sanxay Holding
  • “The Closed Room” — Conclusion of a serial by Clarence Budington Kelland and illustrated by George Howe

  • “Courage for Two” by Brassil Fitzgerald and illustrated by Ronald McLeod
  • “Magic Circle” by Hugh MacNair Kahler and illustrated by C.D. Williams

    • ARTICLES:

  • Our $280,000,000 Gamble by Beverly Smith is about the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
  • We Jews by George E. Sokolsky
  • Short-Weight Justice by Jerome Beatty with illustration by Rollin Kirby
  • A Matter of Size by Frank J. Taylor
  • The Government and the Banks by Thomas F. Woodlock
  • Have You Paid Your Doctor? by Webb Waldron with drawing by Ralph Stein
  • Today’s Liquor Problems — Questions by Henry F. Pringle — Answers by Joseph H. Choate, Jr.
  • Amateur Night by Hubert Kelley
  • Time Out! by Archibald Rutledge and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • What the New Congress Faces by Frank R. Kent with cartoon by Harold Talburt
  • Desert Heat and London Fog by Thomas Sugrue and illustrated by Edward A. Wilson

    • SHORT FEATURES:

  • Editorial — Growth by Robert A. Millikan
  • It Takes All Kinds by Albert Benjamin
  • As Others See You by Eleanor Early
  • “The Thing I’ve Always Wanted to Do” — Contest Announcement
  • Anything Wrong With the Plumbing? by Roger B. Whitman
  • What the Readers Say

    • INTERESTING PEOPLE:

  • Fire-eater – Bernard R. Hubbard
  • Prexy – Mary E. Woolley
  • Father Time – Paul Sollenberger
  • Scenographer – Russell Patterson
  • Players – Fred & Carol Stone
  • Needle-Pusher – Lucia Coulter
  • Iceman – Roy Worters
  • Bridge-Builder – Joseph B. Strauss

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    1933-11 The North American Review Contents for November 1933

    Feb.11, 2010 in North American Review

    1933/11 – Contents as taken from the front cover and contents page inside are as follows:

  • A Murder a Day by P.W. Wilson
  • The Bridge — A Poem by Frederic Prokosch
  • Selections from The Machado by Cognosco
  • Economics, Old, Blue Eagle and New by Edward F. Harvey
  • All Hottentots or Millionaires by Norman Lombard
  • Retort to The Fight Over Money by Richard A. Lester

  • The Red Pony — A Story by John Steinbeck
    From Wikipedia: “”The Red Pony” is an episodic novella written by American writer John Steinbeck in 1933. The first three chapters were published in magazines from 1933–1936, and the full book was published in 1937 by Viking Penguin. The stories in the book are tales of a boy named Jody Tiflin. The book has four different stories about Jody and his life on his father’s California ranch.”

    The 18 pages are one of those first three chapters, judging by the date I’d assume the first of them.

  • “False and Fraudulent” by T. Swann Harding
  • Mist on the Mirror by Gladys Hasty Carroll
  • For “Them on the Fence” by E. Pendleton Herring
  • Martial Law for Litgants by Andrew Sledd
  • Departments by William A. DeWitt – Herschel Brickell – John Pell – Barbara E. Scott Fisher

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    19th Century Issues of The Forum Added to the magawiki and eBay

    Feb.09, 2010 in Blog

    I just received what was nearly a full year of The Forum from 1895 and listed the issues into the magawiki today (and onto eBay tonight). The issues arrived in better than expected condition, so I’ve gone back and bought another few couple dozen-plus which will also be added here for the end of the month.

    Of note throughout 1895 were articles written by future Presidents Theodore Roosevelt (in 3 issues) and Woodrow Wilson, a Hull House related article by Jane Addams, a piece about tariffs by Andrew Carnegie, articles by William Dean Howells, Anatole France, several articles about the new Income Tax laws (most of which ask if Socialism is here), plus one I’m going to have to be sure to read before I sell it–which I imagine would mean this week–about the idea of reviving the Olympics.

    I’d read the first paragraph of the Olympic Games article and it mentioned how after 1,500 years the possibility existed of reviving the Olympic Games in 1900. The revival actually occurred about a year after this article was published in the May 1895 issue of The Forum with the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens Greece. So the timetable seems to have been sped up some!

    As with practically all new entries to the magawiki the issues are also being listed simultaneously for the first time on eBay … fresh stock! 4 of them are already for sale as I type this as Buy it Now items, the other 7 will be listed at auction later tonight with auctions closing next Tuesday, January 16.

    Here’s a direct link to all issues of The Forum that I currently have for sale on eBay. (Auction items will appear by 10:30 pm EST tonight).

    Coming next, some issues of The North American Review, approximately 1908-1933.

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    1895-12 The Forum Magazine Contents for December 1895

    Feb.09, 2010 in Forum

    1895/12 – Contents as taken from the front cover and/or table of contents page are as follows:

  • Conditions for American Commercial and Financial Supremacy by Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, Editor l’Economiste francais
  • The Nature of Liberty by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
  • Thomas Brackett Reed and the Fifty-First Congress by THEODORE ROOSEVELT
  • The Trail of “Trilby” by Albert D. Vandam
  • Editorship as a Career for Women by Margaret E. Sangster
  • The Monroe Doctrine – Defense, Not Defiance by A.C. Cassatt
  • Thomas Carlyle – His Work and Influence by William R. Thayer
  • The Pilgrim Principle and the Pilgrim Heritage by William DeW. Hyde – President, Bowdoin College
  • The Obligation of the Inactive by Katrina Trask
  • Crime Among Animals by William Ferrero
  • Has the Mormon Church Re-Entered Politics? by Glen Miller
  • The Literary Hack and His Critics

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    1895-07 The Forum Magazine Contents for July 1895

    Feb.09, 2010 in Forum

    1895/07 – Contents as taken from the front cover and/or table of contents page are as follows:

  • Salutary Results of the Income-Tax Decision by Hon. George F. Edmunds
  • Political Dangers of the Income Tax Decision by E.B. Whitney, Assistant Attorney General
  • Society’s Protection Against Degenerates by Dr. Max Nordau
  • The Proper Perspective of American History by Professor WOODROW WILSON – 16 pages by the future American President
  • Charles Kingsley ‘s Place in Literature by Frederic Harrison
  • “Coins” Food for the Gullible by Professor J. Laurence Laughlin
  • Sound Currency the Donimant Political Issue by William Saloman
  • A Previous Era of Popular Madness and its Lessons by Ex-Senator E.G. Ross

    • Successful Efforts to Teach Art to the Masses:

  • Work of an Association in Western Towns by Hamlin Garland
  • Picture-Exhibitions in Lower New York by A.C. Bernheim
  • The Art-Work Done by Hull House, Chicago by JANE ADDAMS – about 3 pages of text of 4 pages of the issue
  • A “Pastoral Letter” – Is the Church Yet so Timid? by Eliza Gold
  • Confessions of a Literary Hack

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    1895-04 The Forum Magazine Contents for April 1895

    Feb.09, 2010 in Forum

    1895/04 – Contents as taken from the front cover and/or table of contents page are as follows:

  • The Real “Quintessence of Socialism” by W.H. Mallock
  • The Battle of Standards and the Fall of Prices by Edward Atkinson
  • Is Sound Finance Possible under Popular Government? by J.B. McMaster
  • Social Discontent — Part 3: More Remedies by Henry Holt
  • Women in European Universities by Alice Zimmern
  • A Study of Beggars and their Lodgings by Alvan F. Sanborn
  • The Doom of the Small Town by Henry J. Fletcher
  • Studies of Notable Men: Lord Rosebery by Justin McCarthy
  • Suppression of the Lottery and other Gambling by Reverend Dr. Newman Smyth
  • The Healthful Tone for American Literature by Richard Burton

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    1895-02 The Forum Magazine Contents for February 1895

    Feb.09, 2010 in Forum

    1895/02 – Contents as taken from the front cover and/or table of contents page are as follows:

  • Should the Government Retire from Banking? By W.C. Cornwell, President N.Y. State Bankers’ Association
  • Why Gold Is Exported by Alfred S. Heidelbach
  • The Programme of German Socialism by Wilhelm Liebknecht, Leader of the Social Democrats in the Reichstag
  • The Social Discontent — Part 1: Its Causes by Henry Holt
  • Has the Law Become Commercialized? by William B. Hornblower
  • The Outlook for Decorative Art in America by Frank Fowler
  • A Religious Study of a Baptist Town by Reverend W.B. Hale
  • Steps Toward Government Control of Railroads by Colonel Carroll D. Wright
  • Colorado’s Experiment With Populism by Joel F. Vaile
  • The Great Realists and the Empty Story-Tellers by H.H. Boyesen
  • Student-Honor and College Examinations by Professor W. Le Conte Stevens
  • True American Ideals by THEODORE ROOSEVELT – 8 pages of text by the future President
  • The Barnacles of Fire Insurance by Louis Windmuller

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    1966-05 Playboy Magazine Contents for May 1966

    Jan.19, 2010 in Playboy

    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

    Jan.15, 2010 in American

    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

    Jan.15, 2010 in American

    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

    Jan.15, 2010 in American

    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

    Jan.15, 2010 in American

    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

    Jan.15, 2010 in American

    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

    Jan.15, 2010 in American

    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

    Jan.15, 2010 in American

    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

    Jan.15, 2010 in American

    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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