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1900-01 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

1900/01 — Contents taken from the index found on the front cover are as follows:

  • Frontispiece — “That magic evening when he had first ventured ‘Helen’ unrebuked” – O’Neill Latham
  • The Delights of Trying to be Somebody Else by Edgar Saltus
  • “The Poet” — Quatrain by Martha Gilbert Dickinson
  • Fossil-Hunting in Wyoming by Howard W. Bell
  • Some Types of Egyptian Women by Alexander Harvey
  • Letters to a Lady on the Home Care of the Sick – Prize Article by John S. Fulton
  • Motorman Cupid by Melville Chater and illustrated by O’Neill Latham
  • “A Winter Song” — A Poem by Clinton Scollard
  • “Dizzy Dave” by John Luther Long and illustrated by E. Pollak
  • Pushkin and His Work by Zanaide A. Ragozin
  • Some Impressions of Berlin by Charles De Kay, Former Consul-General for the United States
  • The Theatrical Advance Agent by Kirke La Shelle
  • The Lady of the Ship by A.T. Quiller-Couch (“Q”)

  • Pathrick’s Proxy by Seumus MacManus and illustrated by Gustave Verbeek
  • Zoroaster – The Magian Priest by A.V. Williams Jackson, Professor of Indo-Iranian Languages, Columbia University
  • “Lad’s Love” — A Poem by Arthur Ketchum
  • Modern Education: Part 10 — Encouraging the Mental Powers of Young Children by M.V. O’Shea, President National Child-Study Association
  • Some Examples of Recent Art

    • 1930-05 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1930/05 — Cover design by Harrison Fisher

    Contents taken from the index and from paging through the issue are as follows:

    SERIALS:

  • The Bracelet by Robert Hitchens and illustrated by F.R. Gruger
  • “Shattered Glass” by Louis Bromfield and illustrated by McClelland Barclay
  • “The Party Dress” by Joseph hergesheimer and illustrated by Henry Raleigh
  • “War Nurse” by Rebecca West and illustrated by W.E. Heitland

    • SHORT STORIES:

  • “Return of Pan” by Laurence Stallings and illustrated by W. Smithson Broadhead
  • “Lovely Liar” by Rupert Hughes and illustrated by R.F. Schabelitz
  • “Gala Night” by P.G. Wodehouse and illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg
  • “The King’s Messenger” by Rafael Sabatini and illustrated by Dean Cornwell
  • “Kiss of April” by F.E. Baily and illustrated by Maurice L. Bower
  • “The Little Waif of Karma” by Katherine Mayo and illustrated by Harvey Zook
  • “Autumn Landscape” by John Held, Jr. and illustrated by the Author
  • “You’re Fired!” by Royal Brown and illustrated by Charles D. Mitchell
  • “Broken Heart” by J.P. McEvoy and illustrated by C.R. Chickering
  • “Diamond Cut Diamond” by Allan Swinton and illustrated by James E. Allen
  • “La Estrella” by Wilbur Hall and illustrated by Rico Tomaso
  • “The Key” by A.E.W. Mason and illustrated by Sydney Seymour-Lucas

    • SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • This is My Ideal for an Epitaph by Ray Long
  • Reflections from Private Life by Calvin Coolidge
  • To be Taken Before Sailing by Irvin S. Cobb with cartoons by Tony Sarg
  • 10 Minutes for Marriage–9 Minutes for Divorce by Frazier Hunt
  • Exercise for the Business Woman by Helen Wills with illustrations by the author
  • Amos ‘n’ Andy by O.O. McIntyre
  • Even Doctors Must Live by Frank Ward O’Malley with illustrations by Harry Beckhoff
  • The Fable of the Edicts and the Addicts by George Ade with illustrations by Gluyas Williams

    • 1933-04 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1933/04 — Cover design by Harrison Fisher

    Contents taken from the index and from paging through the issue are as follows:

  • Cosmopolitan Almanack for April by F.P.A.
  • The Calvin Coolidge Nobody Knew by Herman Beaty and illustrated by William Oberhardt
  • Dolly and the Colleagues by Fannie Hurst and illustrated by McClelland Barclay
  • Men of Straw by Henry F. Pringle features Stinnes, Lowenstein and “The Match King” Ivar Kreuger
  • Have You Got Everything You Want? If Not, Consult Mr. Parker Pyne by Agatha Christie with illustrations by Marshall Frantz
  • A Life of Her Own by Eleanor Roosevelt
  • The Eyes Had It by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by R.F. Schabelitz
  • What’s Brewing in America? by Floyd Gibbons
  • “Bad Debts” by Bruno Lessing and illustrated by Maurice Bower
  • Enchanted Ground — Part 3 — by Temple Bailey and illustrated by Henry Raleigh
  • The Age of Innocence–and I — Part 2 by Cora Brown Potter about the “Gay 90’s”
  • The Moon Treasure by Hugh Wiley and illustrated by E.M. Jackson
  • Luck and Mr. Lunt by Alexander Woollcott featuring Alfred Lunt and Lunn Fontanne
  • Voodoo Moon — Part 2 by Clements Ripley and illustrated by Pruett Carter
  • Revolt! by Robert W. Chambers and illustrated by Norman Price
  • I’ve Always Felt Out of the Parade by O.O. McIntyre and illustrated by George Shellhase
  • The American Plan: Training by Ida M. Tarbell
  • The Square Peg by Dorothy Cottrell and illustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum
  • The Dark City by Joseph Hergesheimer is about Havana

  • Full page black & white ad for Lux Toilet Soap features Jean Harlow
  • Full-page ad for Life Savers features color illustration by John Held, Jr.

    • 1895-09 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1895/09 — Contents taken from the index found on the front cover are as follows:

  • Frontispiece — by T. de Thulstrup
  • In the Realm of the Wonderful by Chrles B. Hudson and illustrated by the author, to give an example of the article the illustrations are of the following: Sea-Horses and Pipefish – Batfish – Echiostoma Barbatum and Linophryne Lucifer – A Group of Pediculates – A BAssalian Tregedy – Amphisile Scutata – Sea-Robins – Toadfish – Pegasus Draconis – Argyropelecus Olfersii
  • The Ancient Capital of Cuba by John T. Hyatt with photos and illustrations
  • Brigham Young and Modern Utah by John A. Cockerill and illustrated by Thomas Moran – 12 pages total
  • A House-Party at Abbotsford by Nina-Larre Smith
  • The Nixy’s Chord by Hjalmar H. Boyesen and illustrated by Osterlind
  • “To a Skylark” — A Poem by William Hill
  • A Famous Crime by George C. Holt and illustrated by Hugh M. Eaton – The article begins: “Nearly 50 years have passed sincethe trial, at Boston, of Prof. John W. Webster for the murder of Dr. George Parkman .. “
  • A Three-Stranded Yarn — A serial picking up from Chapter 27 this issue — by W. Clark Russell and illustrated by F. Lix
  • Tempted by the Devil by Arthur Conan Doyle and illustrated by T. de Thulstrup – 14 pages
  • In the World of Art and Letters

    • The Progress of Science:

  • The Advent of Electric Railways by A.E. Dolbear
  • The New Determination of the Constants of the Solar System by C.A. Young
  • The Latest Maxim Gun by S.E. Tillman
  • Three Noted Yachts: Defender – Valkyrie III – Ailsa (a full-page photo of each)
  • Some Examples of Recent Art: Millais – Perrault – Ricci – Lossow
  • Much advertising in both front and back of issue

    • 1933-12 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1933/12 — Fall Fiction Number
    Cover design by Harrison Fisher

    Contents taken from the index and from paging through the issue are as follows:

  • Cosmopolitan Almanack by F.P.A.
  • “Love Song” — Part 1 — by Rupert Hughes and illustrated by McClelland Barclay
  • Our First Planned Harvest by Henry A. Wallace
  • “Tabloid Tragedy” by Theodore Dreiser and illustrated by Marshall Frantz
  • November 11th, 15 Years After by the Grand Duchess Marie
  • “Lady Dick” by Arthur Somers Roche and illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg
  • Daddy’s Gone a-Hunting by Courtney Ryley Cooper
  • Soft by Mary Derieux and illustrated by Harold Von Schmidt
  • “F.X. Healey ’33” — A short novel complete in this issue — by Mary C. McCall Jr. and illustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum
  • Thanksgiving by Irvin S. Cobb
  • Better Than None by Mary Hastings Bradley and illustrated by H.R. Ballinger
  • The First Mrs. Tanqueray by Alexander Woollcott
  • “Seven Men Came Back” — Part 3 by Warwick Deeping and illustrated by Dean Cornwell
  • Dinner With Dreiser by O.O. McIntyre with illustration by Charles Johnson Post
  • Like Miles Standish Only Different by Royal Brown and illustrated by W.E. Heitland
  • “Eagle Wings Under the Southern Cross” — Part 5 by Forrest Wilson
  • “The Mother” — Part 6 — by Pearl S. Buck and illustrated by C.E. Chambers

  • A Kiss for Miss Foley by Fannie Fox and illustrated by Tom Webb
  • “Innocent Bystander” — Conclusion by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by R.F. Schabelitz
  • “The Cat Had Nine Lives” — Part 2 — by Achmed Abdullah and illustrated by Charles De Feo

    • 1901-06 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1901/06 — Contents taken from the index found on the front cover are as follows:

  • Frontispiece — An Easy Pose – by Thomas Mitchell Peirce

  • The Artist and His Model by Gustav Kobbe
  • How to Choose a Child’s Pony by Francis Trevelyan
  • The Well-Gowned Woman by Mary C. Blossom
  • Old French Romances — Part 1: Aucassin and Nicolete by Richard Le Gallienne and illustrated by Louis Rhead
  • The Bailie’s Double by Ian MacLaren and illustrated by George B. Waldo and Thomas Fogarty
  • The Psychology of the Printed Page by Harry Thurston Peck
  • The Travels of Prince Weary-Heart by O’Neill Latham and illustrated by the Author
  • The Umbrella of Justice by Tudor Jenks and illustrated by Gustave Verbeek
  • A View of Pierpont Morgan and His Work by E.C. Machen
  • The Youngest Soldiers in the World by Allen Sangree
  • A Girl’s College Life by Lavinia Hart
  • The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells and illustrated by E. Hering
  • Insight by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • The Secret Orchard by Agnes and Egerton Castle
  • Great Events – Humor and Satire by the World’s Most Famous Cartoonists

    • 1901-05 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1901/05 — Contents taken from the index found on the front cover are as follows:

  • Frontispiece — Waiting for Her Carriage – by Thomas Mitchell Peirce

  • Envoys at Washington by Waldon Fawcett
  • Olga Nethersole by Lavinia Hart
  • The Steel Trust and Its Maker by Charles S. Gleed

  • Eight Years in a Rock by Julian Hawthorn and illustrated by T. Dark Walker
  • “A Prayer for the Power of Loving” — A Poem by Richard Le Gallienne and illustrated by H.T. Carpenter
  • Paris Types by E.C. Peixotto and illustrated by the author
  • The Stranger’s Left-Handed Race-Horse by Hayden Carruth and illustrated by Conde
  • Questions of the Day: Social Progress by Richard T. Ely
  • “Life Is a Priviledge” –A Poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  • General De Wet and His Campaign by Allen Sangree and illustrated by Gordon H. Grant
  • The Art of Entertaining by Lady Jeune and illustrated by Thomas Michell Peirce
  • The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells and illustrated by E. Hering
  • The Secret Orchard by Agnes and Egerton Castle
  • “A Morning” — A Poem by Theodosia Garrison
  • Great Events – Humor and Satire by the World’s Most Famous Cartoonists

    • 1901-04 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1901/04 — Contents taken from the index found on the front cover are as follows:

  • Frontispiece — At a Turn of One of the Small Canals — F. Hopkinson Smith
  • Sarah Bernhardt by Lawrence S. Vassault with illustrations
  • The Garden Spirit by Martha Brookes Brown
  • The Influence of Beauty on Love by Henry T. Fink
  • The Montgomery Invincibles by Henry Guy Carleton and illustrated by E.W. Kemble
  • Bluebeard by Edgar Saltus
  • The Average Young Man and His Library by James H. Canfield, Librarian, Columbia University
  • Spring Days in Venice by Edgar Fawcett

  • Making Maple Sugar by Max Bennett Thrasher
  • The Lame Coyote’s Lone War by Charles Michelson and illustrated by Dan Smith

  • The Ideal Wife and Helpmeet by Lavinia Hart
  • The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells and illustrated by E. Hering
  • “Defeated” — A Poem by Theodosia Garrison
  • The British Aristocracy by Grant Allen
  • The Secret Orchard by Agnes and Egerton Castle
  • “Responsibility” — A Poem by Anne Virginia Culbertson
  • The World’s Greatest Revolution by John Brisben Walker
  • Great Events – Humor and Satire by the World’s Most Famous Cartoonists

    • 1901-02 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1901/02 — Contents taken from the index found on the front cover are as follows:

  • Frontispiece — “On steamers there are always people who seek to make her acquaintance” – Archie Gunn
  • The Miniator’s Art by Charles De Kay
  • “A Challenge” — A Poem by George S. Hellman
  • Modern Maneuvers in the French Army by Fritz Morris
  • Jerome Park Racing Days by John Brewster Dane
  • Flingin’ Jim and His Fool-Killer by Joel Chandler Harris and illustrated with photographs by Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr.
  • The Festival of Love by Millicent Olmsted
  • Mademoiselle de Castelfranc by Adolphe Ribaux and illustrated by O’Neill Latham
  • Scientific Joy by Harry Thurston Peck
  • The Life of a Vaudeville Artiste by Norman Hapgood and illustrated by Archie Dunn
  • The Requiem of the Drums by Bucky O’Neill and illustrated by Frederic Remington – 2 illustrations by Remington
  • The First Lady of Our Land by Mrs. Burton Harrison
  • The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells and illustrated by E. Hering
  • Questions of the Day: Public Control of Private Corporations by Richard T. Ely
  • The Secret Orchard by Agnes and Egerton Castle
  • Great Events – Humor and Satire by the World’s Most Famous Cartoonists

    • 1901-01 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1901/01 — Contents taken from the index found on the front cover are as follows:

  • Frontispiece — “The Indian in his Birch Canoe” – E. Hering
  • Knickerbocker Days by E.S. Martin and illustrated by Maxfield Parrish – 9 illustrations by Parrish
  • How to Judge a Horse by E.A.A. Grange
  • Beauty on the Paris Stage by Vance Thompson
  • Pictor Ignotus — A Poem by Bliss Carmen and illustrated by E. hering and H.T. Carpenter
  • The Patronage of High Bear by Owen Wister and illustrated by E.L. Williams
  • “Children” — A Poem by Virginia Woodward Cloud
  • The Paris Press by Emil Friend
  • A Samaritan of the “L-Bar” by R.L. Ketchum and illustrated by Frederic Remington and Dan Smith – 2 by Remington
  • Americanisms Once More by Brander Matthews
  • Some Chinese Oddities by Francis E. Clark, D.D., President United Society of Christian Endeavor
  • “A.D. MCM” a Poem by O’Neill Latham and illustrated by the Author
  • Cycling in Touraine by Ernest C. Peixotto and illustrated by the author
  • Miss Temple’s Game by Francis Willing Wharton
  • Questions of the Day: Reforms in Taxation by Richard T. Ely, Ph.D., L.L.D.
  • The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells and illustrated by E. Hering

  • The Knights of the Golden Fleece by Edgar Saltus
  • Great Events – Humor and Satire by the World’s Most Famous Cartoonists

    • 1900-11 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1900/11 — Contents taken from the index found on the front cover are as follows:

  • Frontispiece — “Selecting a capstan-bar from the rack near him he whirled it over his head and walked briskly into the fray” — Vincent A. Svoboda
  • Thebes – Her Ruins and Her Memories by Dulany Hunter
  • A Fall From Grace by Morgan Robertson and illustrated by Vincent A. Svoboda

  • Successful Personalities Sketched from Real Life by John Holms
  • The Galveston Tragedy by John Fay
  • Fishing With a Camera by Dr. R.W. Shufeldt, U.S.A. and illustrated by G.F. Kerr and from Photographs
  • The Way That He Took by Rudyard Kipling and illustrated by Gordon R. Grant
  • “Repetition” — A Poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Early Influences – A Reminiscence of My School Days by Max O’Rell
  • What Communities Lose by the Competitive System — Prize Article by Jack London
  • The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells and illustrated by E. Hering
  • A Woman’s Experience at Cape Nome by Eleanor B. Caldwell
  • A Problem in Army Transportation by Capt. A.W. Butt, U.S.V.
  • The Last of the Smugglers by S.R. Crockett
  • The Little Inns of France and England by Ernest C. Peixotto and illustrated by the author
  • Some Plays and their Actors – Illustrated
  • Great Events – Humor and Satire by the World’s Most Famous Cartoonists

    • 1900-10 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1900/10 — Contents taken from the index found on the front cover are as follows:

  • Frontispiece — A Cossack of the Don

  • The Organization of the Russian Army by Lieut. W.C. Rivers, U.S.A.
  • The American Colony in Paris by Walter Germain Robinson
  • Great Problems in Organization — The Inspection of a Railway by Cromwell Childe
  • The African Boer — Part 2 by Olive Schreiner
  • The First and Last of It by Melville Chater
  • Our Navy Fifty Years from Now by U.S. Sen. William E. Chandler, Formerly Secretary of the Navy
  • “Cave Canem” by Francis Willing Wharton
  • “Tyranny” — A Sonnet by R.E. Lee Gibson
  • Some New Members of the Comedie Francaise by Emil Friend
  • Offshore Whaling in the Bay of Monterey by Edward Berwick
  • How Indian Baskets Are Made by Helen M. Carpenter
  • In a Mysterious Way by Vance Thompson and illustrated by Max F. Klepper
  • The Care of the Teeth — Prize Essay by Arthur De Voe

  • The Woman by Julia B. Foster
  • The Hygiene of Sleep by Cyrus Edson, M.D.
  • “The Epitaph of a Butterfly” — A Poem by Thomas Walsh
  • How Honor and Justice May Be Taught in the Schools by Edward S. Holden
  • Great Events – Humor and Satire by the World’s Most Famous Cartoonists

    • 1900-07 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1900/07 — Contents taken from the index found on the front cover are as follows:

  • Frontispiece — Paris Exposition – View of the Trocadero and Colonial Section

  • First View of the Exposition of 1900 by F.A. Kidder
  • Henley Week by Mrs. Burton Harrison
  • “The Mystery” –A Poem by Charles Edward Thomas
  • Is Russia to Control All of Asia? by Alexander Hume Ford with Illustrations and Maps
  • Modern College Education – Part 11: A Consideration of Herbert Spencer’s Essay on Education by David Starr Jordan, President of Leland Standford, Junior University
  • The Story of Annabel Lea by Francis Willing Wharton and illustrated by B. West Clinedienst
  • Women in Turkey – Their Rights and Wrongs by Lucy M.J. Garnett
  • The Central City of the West by Charles S. Gleed
  • “A Song of Kamal” a poem by Theodosia Pickering Garrison
  • A Clerical Comedy by W.A. Gill
  • The Trusts and the End by John Brisben Walker
  • “Time” — A Poem by Alexander Blair Thaw
  • The Lady of La Jeunesse by O’Neill Latham and illustrated by the Author
  • Organized Thrift by Vance Thompson
  • The Mask of Life by Virginia Woodward Clou
  • Hiprah Hunt’s Journey Through the Inferno — Part 3 — Depicted by Arthur Young
  • Great Events – Humor and Satire by the World’s Most Famous Cartoonists

    • 1900-03 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1900/03 — Contents taken from the index found on the front cover are as follows:

  • Frontispiece — “The Two Captives” – A. Weisz
  • The Dramaticic Realization of the Novel by Joseph W. Herbert
  • The Respectable Wolf by William Marsh
  • The World’s Largest Truck-Gardens by John E. Bennett
  • Ruskin’s Land by Leonard D. Abbott
  • “Thy Song” — A Poem by Thomas Bicket

  • Men, Women and Events with contributions by Maurice Thompson, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, John Gilmer Speed, Charles B. Spahr, Charles Battell Loomis, Gertrude Atherton, Harry Thurston Peck, S.E. Kiser, Edgar Saltus, Carolyn Wells, Edward S. Martin, Hillary Bell, Holman F. Day, and James Barton Adams
  • The Servant Question — Prize Article by Flora McDonald Thompson
  • The Honorable Blueford Light by Elmore Elliott Peake and illustrated by Max F. Klepper
  • In the Security Trust Building by William R. Lighton and illustrated by Clyde O. DeLand
  • A Little Thief by Ouida
  • Where English Lawyers Are Made by Champe S. Andrews
  • The Little Tricks of Smuggling by Luther B. Little
  • Great Editors of America — Part 1: Thorlow Weed by Charles Emory Smith, United States Postmaster General
  • The Pilot of Sadie Simmons by Joseph Mills Hanson and illustrated by Vincent A. Svoboda
  • A National Highway Commission
  • Great Events – Humor and Satire by the World’s Most Famous Cartoonists

    • 1900-02 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1900/02 — Contents taken from the index found on the front cover are as follows:

  • Frontispiece — “His pistol-shots rang out shrill and clear” – Vincent A. Svoboda
  • On the Streets of the Nation’s Capital by Louis A. Coolidge
  • “A Snow Song” – A Poem by Clinton Scollard
  • The Czar of Russia by W.T. Stead
  • “The Earth, The World, And I” — Poem by Charlotte Perkins Stetson
  • Aunt Jane’s Album by Eliza Clavert Hall with drawings by Robert J. Campbell
  • The Courts of Love by Edgar Saltus
  • From Ore to Armor Plate by Rupert Hughes
  • The Well-Dressed Woman — Prize Article by Annie R. Ramsey
  • “Discontent” a poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Noted Young Men of the American Stage by Joseph W. Herbert
  • Where the Klondike Gold Is Valued by George Edward Adams
  • The Duel in the Deeper Pit by Cutcliffe Hyne and illustrated by Vincent A. Svoboda
  • “Miracle” — A Poem by Arthur Ketchum
  • Among the Farthest People by William Jameson Reid and illustrated by L.J. Bridgman
  • A Patient Love by Frank H. Spearman
  • The Prime Minister’s Coup by William Le Queux and illustrated by Clyde O. De Land
  • Modern College Education: Does It Educate in the Broadest and Most Liberal Sense of the Term? by John Brisben Walker
  • Great Events – Humor and Satire by the World’s Most Famous Cartoonists

    • 1949-07 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1949/07 — The Cosmopolitan cover girl painted by Edwin Georgi
    Contents taken from the index and from paging through the issue are as follows:

    NON-FICTION SPECIAL FEATURE:

  • A Writer’s Notebook — Part II — by W. Somerset Maugham featuring “The Tahitian Mountains” in full-color by Paul Gauguin

    • NOVELETTE:

  • The Heart of C.C. Corwin by Carl Dreher and illustrated by Phil Dormont

    • STORIES:

  • Full Circle — Part I — by Richard Sherman and illustrated by Coby Whitmore
  • Surprise for the Professor by Richard Stern and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb
  • None Before Me by Sidney Carroll and illustrated by William Rose
  • The Hero — Part II — by Millard Lampell and illustrated by Al Parker
  • The Unguarded Moment by Ernest Lehman and illustrated by Alex Ross
  • The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance by Dorothy M. Johnson and illustrated by Robert Fawcett
  • Marius by Robert Lewis and illustrated by Edwin Georgi
  • The Trouble With Ryan Conneally by Nancy Shores and illustrated by Frederic Varady

    • ARTICLES:

  • In Defense of Dermathermy by Wolcott Gibbs
  • Tall, Cool, and Beautiful– by Lucius Beebe
  • Would You Make a Good Spy? by John Kobler
  • Amnesia by Agnes Lynn Marshall
  • Let Go! Like a Latin by Harry Henderson and Sam Shaw
  • One Hour That May Save a Life by Lawrence Lader
  • Shakedown by George J. Roberts
  • Low Note on the Musical Scale by H. Allen Smith

    • SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • What Goes on at Cosmopolitan by John J. O’Connell
  • Dress Rehearsal by Tony Friend
  • Main Street by John M. Henry
  • Broadway by Louella F. Still
  • Cosmopolitan’s Movie Citations by Louella O. Parsons
  • What’s New in Medicine by Dr. Morris Fishbein
  • What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You by Bernard Geis
  • The High Cost of Promptness by Franklin P. Adams
  • How to be a Popular Bridge Player by Albert H Morehead
  • Male-Tested Fashions by Kay Wister
  • Jon Whitcomb’s Page
  • I Wish I’d Said That! by Lincoln Hodges
  • Educational Guide

    • 1949-01 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1949/01 — The Cosmo cover girl painted by Al Parker
    Contents taken from the index and from paging through the issue are as follows:

    THE BOOK-LENGTH NOVEL:

  • Breakaway by Leon Ware and illustrated by William Kautz

    • STORIES:

  • “I’ll Be Right Home, Ma” — Part I — by Henry Denker and illustrated by Austin Briggs
  • The Fall Guy by William Fay and illustrated by Harry Fredman
  • Identity by Nathaniel Benchley and illustrated by Stan Klimley
  • Thirty Days Hath December by Mary Hastings Bradley with illustration by John Carroll
  • I’ll Marry You Again by Dale Eunson and illustrated by Coby Whitmore
  • The Pale Red Room — Conclusion — by Ann Chidester and illustrated by Alex Ross
  • Nunzi by John P. McKnight and illustrated by Robert Patterson
  • Margin for Love by Mary Roberts Teare and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

    • ARTICLES:

  • New Years Between Midnight by Paul Gallico
  • Can New York Hide from the Atomic Bomb? by Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Groves
  • “I’m Still Happy I Married a Yank” by Jean Libman Block
  • What Should Your Dentist Charge? by McLeod Morgan
  • Shirley Temple Will Be Twenty-One by Florabel Muir
  • What I Saw When I Was Blind by Carl Van Doren
  • Girls on the Prowl by Howard Whitman
  • Inventions We Need in 1949 by Rube Goldberg
  • Why They Will Hypnotize You by Agnes Lynn Marshall

    • SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • What Goes by the Cosmopolitan Editors
  • Dress Rehearsal by Tony Friend
  • I Know Dale Carnegie When… by Mrs. Dale Carnegie
  • The Cosmopolitan Mirror by Jennifer A. Reeves
  • Cosmopolitan’s Movie Citations by Louella O. Parsons
  • What’s New in Medicine by Dr. Morris Fishbein
  • 1948, Farewell! by Katharine Brush
  • “Nice and Lousy” by Norman Lewis
  • The Killer Instinct by Albert H. Morehead
  • Male-Tested Fashions by Kay Wister
  • Jon Whitcomb’s Page
  • Popular Stuff by Abel Green
  • Cosmopolitan’s Golden Gallery
  • What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You by Bernard Geis
  • Educational Guide

    • 1948-07 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1948/07 — The Cosmo cover girl by Coby Whitmore
    Contents taken from the index and from paging through the issue are as follows:

    THE BLUE RIBBON STORY:

  • The Head and the Heart by W.C. Heinz and illustrated by William A. Smith

    • FIVE NOVELETTES:

  • Who Is Your Judge? by Paul Gallico and illustrated by Thornton Utz
  • The Double Corner by Wallace Stegner and illustrated by Phil Dormont
  • The Temptation of Anthony Sloan by Carl Dreher and illustrated by Robert Patterson
  • Moonlight Behind You by Robert Wallsten
  • Incident in a Blizzard by Ruth McCoy Harris

    • SERIAL:

  • The Blue Sleep — Part III — by William E. Barrett and illustrated by Robert Patterson

    • FOUR SHORT STORIES:

  • Seal Maiden by Phyllis Hambledon and illustrated by Stan Klimley
  • Just the Two of Us by Czenzi Ormonde and illustrated by Harry Anderson
  • The Affair by Elise Jerard and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb
  • The Father of the Bride by Hortense Lion and illustrated by Frederic Varady

    • EIGHT ARTICLES:

  • What’s Right With America by Philip Wylie
  • What Price Their Sanity? by Albert Q. Maisel
  • Five Ways to Prevent Worry by Dale Carnegie
  • Strike It Rich by Peter Packer
  • The Truth About Atomic Power by B.B. Hickenlooper
  • Miracles for Sale by Anthony Abbot
  • The Coat You Can Grow in the Cellar by Beryl Williams
  • What About the Unmarried Father? by Eugene Burns

    • SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • What Goes at Cosmopolitan by the Editors
  • I Knew Gypsy Rose Lee When by Fannie Brice
  • The Washington Monument by Andrew Hamilton
  • Cosmopolitan’s Movie Citations by Louella O. Parsons
  • What’s New in Medicine by Lawrence Galton
  • Interview with F. van Wyck Mason by R. van Gelder
  • Cosmopolitan Abroad: Sauna Party by Erwin C. Lessner
  • Male-Tested Fashions by Kay Wister
  • The Gray Leaf by Inez M. Caldwell
  • Postage Due by David Redstone
  • What Do You Know About Modern Art? by E. Genauer
  • Illustrated by Jon Whitcomb
  • Bed Tester by A.L. Simon
  • My Luckiest Day by Bing Crosby
  • Educational Guide

    • 1946-12 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1946/12 — Cover girl by Coby Whitmore
    Contents taken from the index and from paging through the issue are as follows:

    THE BLUE RIBBON STORY:

  • The Forsaken by Eric Linklater and illustrated by John Clymer

    • NOVEL:

  • The Showpiece by Booth Tarkington and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

    • NOVELETTE:

  • The Beautiful Time by Czenzi Ormonde and illustrated by Phil Dormont

    • SERIALS:

  • Portrait from Life — Part I — by Margaret Culkin Banning
  • Gentleman’s Agreement — Part II — by Laura Z. Hobson and illustrated by Tom Lovell

    • SIX SHORT STORIES:

  • The Day They Gave Babies Away by Dale Eunson and illustrated by Ben Stahl
  • The Santa Claus Parade by Gladys Schmitt
  • The Quarrel by Mark Brandel
  • Fountain of Youth by Faith Baldwin
  • What On Earth Does He See in Her? by Edward Harris Heth and illustrated by Warren Baumhofer
  • The Peacemakers by George Weller and illustrated by William A. Smith

    • FIVE ARTICLES:

  • Should Your Child Be Allowed to Choose His Own Religion? by Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Howard Hughes by Francis Sill Wickware
  • Cosmopolitan’s Movie Citations of the Month by Louella O. Parsons
  • How to Throw a Party by Harmon and Elsie Tupper
  • Men Vs. Women by W. Somerset Maugham

    • FIFTEEN SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • What’s Going On by the Editors
  • It Was This Way, Judge by Myrick Land
  • Cosmopolite of the Month: Sir James G.P. Bisset
  • The Balloon Wedding by Hans Schoenfeld
  • Male-Tested Fashions by Hinda Gould
  • To Your Good Health by Lawrence Gelton
  • Some of the People by Jack Goodman and Fred Schwed, Jr.
  • A Noted Professional Photographer’s Favorite Color Photo — Ylla
  • All Throught the House
  • Best News Pictures from U.S. Camera 1947
  • How Does Your Cactus Grow? by Patty de Roulf
  • The Left-Handed Dictionary by Ted Taylor and Leonard Louis Levinson
  • My Luckiest Day by Myrna Loy
  • Rejection Slip Collection by Marion Elenberry
  • Educational Guide

    • PICTURE STORY:

  • Wasted Motion

    • 1946-07 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1946/07 — The Cosmo cover girl by Coby Whitmore
    Contents taken from the index and from paging through the issue are as follows:

    THE BLUE RIBBON STORY:

  • Mr. Pratt and the Triple Horror Bill by F. Hugh Herbert and illustrated by William A. Smith

    • NOVELETTE:

  • The Quiet Kind by Sophie Kerr and illustrated by Ben Stahl

    • THE SHORT NOVEL:

  • Passport in Purple by MacKinlay Kantor and illustrated by Alex Ross

    • EIGHT SHORT STORIES:

  • Epilogue in London by Mary Hastings Bradley and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb
  • First Day of Spring by Louis and Irene Camp
  • The Quitter by Beryl Markham and illustrated by Hardie Gramatky
  • Voyage to Persia by Frank Laskier and illustrated by Fred Ludekens
  • The Son of the Condor by Stuart Cloete and illustrated by James Bingham
  • Afternoon of A Faun by Eloise Barrangon and illustrated by Lonnie Bee
  • Laughter from Downstairs by Czenzi Ormonde and illustrated by Robert Fawcett
  • You Know Best by Dawn Powell and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

    • THE SERIAL:

  • The Governor’s Lady — Conclusion — by Mignon McLaughlin and illustrated by Walter Baumhofer

    • SEVEN ARTICLES:

  • The Plot Against Hitler by Pierre J. Huss
  • Safety Deposit Boxes by David Redstone
  • Chic Young by Bob Considine
  • Independent’s Day by Morton Thompson
  • The Henry Ford of Tennis by Keith Monroe
  • Cosmopolitan’s Movie Citations of the Month by Louella O. Parsons
  • Make My Boss a Man! by Jan Speiss

    • TWELVE SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • What’s Going On by the Editors
  • The Great Pedestrian by Hans Schoenfeld
  • Cosmopolite of the Month: Grandma Moses by George Burns
  • Murder: The Amateur’s Crime by Myrick Land
  • Male-Tested Fashions by Hinda Gould
  • Both Sides of the Question by Dorothy Marcus
  • Some of the People by Jack Goodman and Fred Schwed, Jr.
  • The Home-Coming by Joseph Auslander
  • The Lady is a Dick by Isabella Taves
  • A Better One on the House by Andrew Tully
  • Hysterical Hats
  • Educational Guide

    • THE PHOTO STORY:

  • Indians in Brooklyn by Harry Henderson and Sam Shaw

    • 1944-04 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1944/04 — Cover girl Judy Garland by Bradshaw Crandell
    Contents taken from the index and from paging through the issue are as follows:

    NOVELETTE:

  • Reunion in Barcelona by Jess Arnold and illustrated by Fred Ludekens

    • SEVEN SHORT STORIES:

  • Wedding Night by Adela Rogers St. John and illustrated by John Gannam
  • Fragrance to Gladden the Heart by Paul MacNamara and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • False Witness by Laura Z. Hobson and illustrated by Perry Peterson
  • The Bride Wore Overalls by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by Arthur Sarnoff
  • The Boston Story by Wilbur Daniel Steele and illustrated by Martha Sawyers
  • Love, Honor and Away by Edith S. Campbell
  • Miss Maggie’s Terrible Secret by Christine Tapley and illustrated by Ray Prohaska

    • TWO SERIALS:

  • Home Is the Sailor — Conclusion — by Eric Hatch and illustrated by Walter Baumhofer
  • The Real Things — Part III — by Pearl S. Buck and illustrated by Pruett Carter

    • SEVEN ARTICLES:

  • The Cosmopolite of the Month: Margaret Sullavan by Mona Gardner
  • What’s New in Chicago by Patricia Dougherty
  • Pappy by Olga Greenlaw
  • What Will Happen in Aviation the Day War is Over? by Stanley Young
  • Warren of California by Charles S. Ryckman
  • Once Upon a Springtime by Hinda Gould
  • They Don’t Make Headlines by Major Arthur Gordon, 8th A.A.F.

    • NINE SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • What’s Going On by F.W.
  • Cosmopolitan’s Clothes Horse by Hinda Gould
  • From a South American Sketchbook by Enrique Castells Capurro
  • Two Little Words by Albert Q. Maisel
  • The Cosmopolitan Family Quiz
  • Presidential Unit Citation by Donald E. Keyhoe
  • Prime Minstrelsy
  • New Pictures You’ll Want to See
  • Educational Guide

    • COSMOPOLITAN PREVIEW:

  • Captain from Castile by Samuel Shellabarger and illustrated by E.M. Jackson

    • THE COMPLETE BOOK-LENGTH NOVEL:

  • Tension in Tunis by Cecile Gilmore and illustrated by Earl Cordrey

    • 1899-04 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1899/04 — Contents taken from the index found on the front cover are as follows:

  • Frontispiece — The Beheading of Abu Jahl — Eric Pape
  • Napoleon at Moscow Portrayed by Verestchagin
  • “Nature’s Laws Beneath” a poem by Ritchie Smith
  • The Awakening by Count Leo Tolstoy and illustrated by Pasternak
  • Great Problems in Orgainisation — Recent Developments in Industrial Organization by F.W. Morgan
  • How the French Army Crossed the Channel by Quatre Etoiles
  • The Extraordinary Story of John Worrell Keely by Julius Moritzen
  • The Building of an Empire — Part 1 — Mohammed by John Brisben Walker and illustrated by Eric Pape
  • Some Tricks of Ancient Temples by Henry Ridgely Evans and illustrated by Dan Beard
  • “Love’s Banker” — A Poem by Thomas Walsh
  • The Ideal and Practical Organization of a Home by Edith Elmer Wood
  • Daring the Rattler in His Den by Sumner W. Matteson
  • Oliver Cromwell — Conclusion — by A.J. Gade
  • The University and Democracy — by William R. Harper, the President of the University of Chicago and Illustrated by F.G. Attwood
  • “The Unheroic Strife” — A Poem by Paul Kester
  • The Nemesis of Motherhood by Harriet Prescott Spofford
  • Some Plays and Their Actors — Illustrated with 8-full page photos
  • Much advertising in both front and back of issue

    • 1944-02 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1944/02 — Cover design “Lady With Red Hair” by Bradshaw Crandell
    Contents taken from the index and from paging through the issue are as follows:

    NOVELETTE:

  • Since You’ve Been Away by Gertrude Schweitzer and illustrated by Perry Peterson

    • EIGHT SHORT STORIES:

  • Sailor, Take Care! by Royal Brown and illustrated by Earl Cordrey
  • I’m a Stranger Here Myself! by Matt Taylor and illustrated by George Hughes
  • Lost and Found by Rita Weiman and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • Care: Fleet Postmaster by Lindsay Neal
  • Return Engagement–The Lieutenant and the Wac by Mary Hastings Bradley and illustrated by Michael
  • Situation Well in Hand by Vina Delmar and illustrated by Phil Dormont
  • Dance Program by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by Alex Ross
  • The Ghost of Freeman Clarke by Katherine Albert and illustrated by Barbara Schwinn

    • TWO SERIALS:

  • The Real Thing — Part I — by Pearl S. Buck with painting by Hardie Gramatky and illustrated by Pruett Carter
  • Boardwalk — Conclusion — by Libbie Block and illustrated by Alfred Parker

    • EIGHT ARTICLES:

  • The Cosmopolite of the Month: Nancy Love by Morton Thompson
  • What’s New in New York by George Jean Nathan
  • Night Fighter Ace by Joseph Wechsberg
  • Home-Front Casualty List by Harry T. Brundidge
  • The Story Behind Italy’s Surrender by Clark Lee
  • The Defeat of Democracy by John Newton Baker
  • D.L. + YOU = $200,000,000 by Eleanor Harris is about Dorothy Lamour
  • Doctors on the Fighting Fronts by Albert Q. Maisel

    • EIGHT SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • What’s Going On by F.W.
  • Cosmopolitan’s Clothes Horse by Hinda Gould
  • Elmer Squee Takes a Pet to Sea by Lt. Richard L. Brooks, USNR
  • The Quiet One by Margaret Cousins
  • The Cosmopolitan Family Quiz
  • The Silver Star by Donald E. Keyhoe
  • New Pictures You’ll Want to See
  • Educational Guide

    • COSMOPOLITAN PREVIEW:

  • “While We Still Live” by Helen MacInnes and illustrated by Fred Ludekens

    • THE COMPLETE BOOK-LENGTH NOVEL:

  • Never Forget Spring by Margaret Weymouth Jackson and illustrated by Al Moore

    • 1942-11 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1942/11 — Cover girl, Joan Bennett, by Bradshaw Crandell
    Contents taken from the index and from paging through the issue are as follows:

    NOVELETTE:

  • A Matter of Honor by Vina Delmar and illustrated by Dean Cornwell

    • SIX SHORT STORIES:

  • Say It With Flowers by Nancy Moore and illustrated by Michael
  • Wings of the Wind by Paul Gallico and illustrated by John Clymer
  • Remember Me? by Hilda Sidney and illustrated by Irving Nurick
  • Let’s Try Again by Marion Baxter Taylor and illustrated by Arthur Sarnoff
  • It’s A Woman’s World by Isabel Moore and illustrated by Harry Anderson
  • Daughter of Pleasure by Adela Rogers St. Johns and illustrated by Alfred Parker

    • TWO SERIALS:

  • The Long Way Round — Part III — by Pearl S. Buck and illustrated by Pruett Carter
  • Mrs. Parkington — Conclusion — by Louis Bromfield and illustrated by Tom Lovell

    • ELEVEN ARTICLES:

  • The Cosmopolite of the Month: Joan Fontaine by Lupton A. Wilkinson
  • Small Town Stuff by Inez Robb
  • Last Man Off Bataan by Col. Carlos P. Romulo
  • The Girls They Left Behind Them–Should They Have Dates? by Philip Wylie and Sarah-Elizabeth Rodger
  • How to Relax by Robert Benchley
  • Gin Rummy by Jack Alan
  • My First Date by Four Hollywood Starlets (Marjorie Reynolds, Maria Montez, Jean Rogers, Susan Hayward)
  • What Is Jazz? by George Frazier

  • What Impression Do You Make?
  • Doctor, Please Hurry! by Gretta Plamer

    • TWELVE SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • What’s Going On by F.L.R.
  • Vitamin V — Poem by Norman R. Jaffray
  • 24 Hours Heave by Lt. Jon Whitcomb, USNR
  • Axis Blunders in Air Strategy by Mar. Alexander P. de Seversky
  • The Cosmopolitan Family Quiz
  • Woodman, Spare Those Tease — Poem by Ogden Nash
  • New Pictures You’ll Want to See
  • Murder on the Gridiron by Harry A. Stuhldreher
  • Fashions in Fiction by Lee Russell
  • My Favorite Champion by Bob Considine
  • Educational Guide
  • Christmas Mail for Our Armed Forces Abroad — Postmaster General Frank C. Walker

    • FROM THE FIGHTING FRONTS:

  • Flight Surgeon by Maj. Robert Lateiner, USAAF as told to Donald E. Keyhoe
  • Ranger for a Day by Larry Meier
  • The Woman in Cairo — A Story — by Eloise Barrangon and illustrated by Armando Seguso

    • COMPLETE SHORT NOVEL:

  • Washington, USA III — Lady in Danger by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by McClelland Barclay

    • THE COMPLETE BOOK-LENGTH NOVEL:

  • Secret Mission by Bernard Seeman and illustrated by E.M. Jackson

    • 1941-05 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1941/05 — Cover design “Wings” by Bradshaw Crandell
    Contents taken from the index and from paging through the issue are as follows:

    NOVELETTE:

  • Twilight in Monte Carlo by Louis Bromfield and illustrated by Pruett Carter

    • SIX SHORT STORIES:

  • Slippers for Cinderella by Paul Gallico and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb
  • Dead Man’s Shoes by Donald Barr Chidsey and illustrated by Courtney Allen
  • A Pair of Silk Stockings by Jay Wilson and illustrated by Martin Burniston
  • It’s a Wise Wife by Frances Oglivie and illustrated by Stanley Parkhouse
  • Tough Assignment II: The Simplest Way by Joseph Harrington and illustrated by Charles Bryson
  • Hunger in the Heart by Harold Titus and illustrated by Carl Mueller

    • THREE SERIALS:

  • The Other Woman — Part I — by Isabel Moore and illustrated by John Clymer
  • Saratoga Trunk — Part II — by Edna Ferber and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • A Week in New York — Conclusion — by Margaret Culkin Banning and illustrated by George Evans

    • EIGHT ARTICLES:

  • Yo Hoe Hoe! by John Christopher
  • Cosmopolite of the Month: Valentina by Francis Sill Wickware
  • Maturity by Fannie Hurst
  • Pan-American Powerhouse by Charles E. Hewitt, Jr. is about 32-year-old Nelson A. Rockefeller
  • Repackage Yourself! by Dorothy Draper
  • The Picket Fence by I.A.R. Wylie
  • What! No Spinach? by Dean Jennings
  • Rockabye, Daddy by Jack Alan

    • TEN SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • Over the Editor’s Shoulder
  • The Cosmopolitan Family Quiz
  • Safety First by Paul Kearney
  • How Did It Start? by Louis Renault
  • Speaking of Sports by John Kieran
  • New Pictures You’ll Want to See
  • Poems by Carrington Lane
  • Fashions in Fiction
  • Letters
  • Educational Guide and Camp Directory

    • THE COMPLETE SHORT NOVEL:

  • Temporary Address–Reno: Repent at Leisure by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by McClelland Barclay

    • THE NONFICTION BOOK DIGEST:

  • Crime Is My Business by Raymond C. Schindler

    • THE COMPLETE BOOK-LENGTH NOVEL:

  • The People vs. Dr. Kildare by Max Brand