1939-08 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents 1939/08 — The Return of Johnny Appleseed by Charles Allen Smart “Futility at Dawn” — A poem by Elford Caughey “Brigham and Amelia” — A story by Vardis Fisher A Prize Fighter in the Nineties by Edmund Rucker Seascape with Figures by Leonard Bacon Storm Center in Brookline by Louis Untermeyer “The Presbyterian Choir Singers” — A story by William Saroyan “In Time of Crisis” — A poem by Paul Engle Eating Through Africa by Eugene Wright As I Remember Groton School by george Biddle “The Marple Legend” — A story by Vincent Sheean “Mountain Meadows” — A poem by Martha Keller 579 Miles an Hour, Vertically by James L.H. Peck “Go Talk to Mr. Waring” — A story by Pilip Curtiss One Man’s Meat by E.B. White The Easy Chair by Bernard De Voto Personal and Otherwise The New Books by John Chamberlain Steamship Sailing Dates