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1899-09 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

1899/09 — Contents taken from the index found on the front cover are as follows:

  • Frontispiece — “Love, the Conqueror” – Byam Shaw
  • The “America’s” Cup by John R. Spears with photos of several ships including a couple of the “Columbia”
  • A LIfe by Maarten Maartens with drawings by Robert J. Campbell
  • “Eternal Me” a poem by Charlotte Perkins Stetson
  • An Unconscious Crime by John E. Wilkie, Chief, United States Secret Service
  • Inner Organization of the French Spy System by I. Saint-Just, Former Chief of Division French Secret Service
  • The Art-Gallery of the Great Lakes by Charles Warren Stoddard and illustrated by W.W. Deslow — 10 Denslow illustrations
  • The Roof-Gardens of New York by Vance Thompson
  • “A Plea for a Song” a poem by Maurice B. Kirby
  • Love Laughs at Blacksmiths by O’Neill Latham and illustrated by the Author
  • The Delightful Art of Cooking by Anna Leach with drawings by F.G. Attwood
  • The Building of an Empire — Mohammed : Omar by John Brisben Walker and illustrated by Eric Pape

  • The Study of Fiction by Brander Matthews
  • The Art of Buying Food for a Family — Prize Article by Mary Graham
  • Romance and Tragedy of Kentucky Feuds by J. Stoddard Johnston
  • Elton Slade’s Auction Habit by Annie Hamilton Donnell and illustrated by Louise L. Heustis
  • Men, Women and Events
  • Some Examples of Recent Art
  • Much advertising in both front and back of issue

    • 1899-07 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1899/07 — Contents taken from the index found on the front cover are as follows:

  • Frontispiece — Moslems in the Captured Convent of Abyla – Eric Pape
  • Some Americans Who Have Married Titles by Frances de Forest
  • Balzac and His Work by Harry Thurston Peck
  • “Dawn” – a poem by Mrs. Edgar Van Etten
  • Samoan Types of Beauty by William Churchill
  • A South Sea Island Story by Lloyd Osbourne and illustrated by B. West Clinedinst
  • The Hero of the Regiment by Herbert D. Ward and illustrated by H. Pruett Share
  • “Love’s Coming” a poem by Alice W. Winthrop
  • The Building of an Empire — Omar — by John Brisben Walker and illustrated by Eric Pape

  • Tea-Drinking in Many Lands by Laura B. Starr
  • The Organization of a Home on $2.50 a Day by Charlotte W. Eastman
  • Snowflake and Ishahari by John Luther Long and illustrated by Theodore Wores
  • Woman’s Economic Place by Charlotte Perkins Stetson and illustrated by F.G. Attwood
  • The Awakening by Count Leo Tolstoy
  • Romance and Reality in a Single Life by Charles S. Gleed
  • What One Should Know About Swimming by John Fletcher and illustrated by Hy S. Watson
  • Some Examples of Recent Art
  • Much advertising in both front and back of issue

    • 1899-06 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1899/06 — Contents taken from the index found on the front cover are as follows:

  • Frontispiece — Eric Pape
  • Progress in Air-Ships by H.B. Nason with photos of both the Russian and French Air-Ships
  • In the Philippines, Past and Present by Robert Lawrence Packard
  • How to Secure Expression in Photography by C. Francis Jenkins
  • Marine Disasters on Pacific Shores by James G. McCurdy
  • Our Neighbors the Birds by Mabel Osgood Wright
  • The Woman of To-day and To-morrow by Harry Thurston Peck
  • The Shadows of a Clever Pair of Hands by Henry Ridgely Evans

  • The Ideal and Practical Organization of a Home
  • “The Coming Race” a poem by J.A. Edgerton
  • “Queer People” a poem by Charlotte Perkins Stetson
  • The Building of an Empire — Mohammed ; Abu Beker ; Omar — by John Brisben Walker and Illustrated by Eric Pape
  • John Gayther and the Galleon by Frank R. Stockton and illustrated by H. Pruett Share
  • Penitential Hymn by Joel Elias Spingarn
  • The Awakening by Count Leo Tolstoy and illustrated by Pasternak
  • The Launching of Larry by Caroline Leslie Field and illustrated by Peter Newell
  • “Love’s Gift” a poem by John Vance Cheney
  • The United States of Europe by Edward Everett Hale
  • As to the Theatrical “Supe” by Charles M. Skinner
  • Much advertising in both front and back of issue

    • 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

    • 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