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1879-10 Harper’s Monthly Magazine Contents for October 1879

1879/10 —

  • On the Skirt of the Alps by George E. Waring, Jr.
  • Painted Glass in Household Decoration by Charles A. Cole
  • The Connemara Hills by Miss J. L. Cloud
  • Fifty Years of American Art — Part 3 by S. G. W. Benjamin
  • A Ramble in Central Park by Helen S. Conant
  • The Two Burdens — A Poem by Philip Bourke Marston
  • Through Texas by Frank H. Taylor
  • White Wings — Chapters 8-10 of a serialized Yachting Romance by William Black
  • The State of the Alcohol Question by Dr. T. M. Coan
  • Belle’s Diary by Mary N. Prescott
  • Young Mrs. Jardine — A Novel by Dinah Mulock Craik
  • The Revolution in the Life of Mr. Balingall by Sherwood Bonner
  • Mary Anerley — Chapters 10-13 of a serialized novel by R. D. Blackmore
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1879-12 Harper’s Monthly Magazine Contents for December 1879

    1879/12 —

  • The Fortunes of the Bonapartes
  • The New York Cooking School by F. E. Fryatt
  • The City of Atlanta by Ernest Ingersoll
  • The Palestine of Today by Dr. J. F. Hurst
  • The Iron Pen — A Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Sea-Drift from a New England Port by Lizzie W. Champney
  • Blossoms — A Poem by Philip O. Sullivan
  • London’s Glory and Whittington’s Renown — A Ballad
  • White Wings — Chapters 14-16 of a serialized Yachting Romance by William Black
  • The Connemara Hills — Part 2 by J. L. Cloud
  • Young Mrs. Jardine by Dinah Mulock Craik
  • A New and True Ghost Story — A Poem by James T. Fields
  • Will’s Will, and His Two Thanksgivings — A Story by Rose Terry Cooke
  • Mary Anerley — Chapters 18-21 of a serialized novel by R. D. Blackmore
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1880-02 Harper’s Monthly Magazine Contents for February 1880

    1880/02 —

  • Bartram and His Garden by Howard Pyle with illustrations by the author
  • Foreign Tips by B. F. De Costa
  • A Famous Breviary by Mrs. J. W. Davis
  • Washington as a Burgher by William F. Carne
  • A Visit to the Republic of San Marino by John Bigelow
  • The Drop-Star.–A Legend of Lake Kayutah by Arthur Cleveland Coxe
  • The Percheron and Norman Horse by A. B. Allen
  • The Lover’s Peril — A Poem by James T. Fields
  • Grub Stakes and Millions by A. A. Hayes, Jr.
  • White Wings — Chapters 20-22 of a serialized Yachting Romance by William Black
  • Hector Berlioz by Emily Royall
  • Mary Anerley — Chapters 24-27 of a serialized novel by R. D. Blackmore
  • Mr. Keesler’s Horse-Car by Edward Everett Hale
  • A Symposium of Wood-Engravers
  • A Night in an Avalanche by S. H. M. Byers
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1877-01 Harper’s Monthly Magazine Contents for January 1877

    1877/01 —

  • Contemporary Art in England by S. G. W. Benjamin
  • In the Garden by Zadel Barnes Buddington
  • The Good Old Times at Plymouth by C. Wyllys Elliott
  • A Cruise Among the Magdalen Islands by S. G. W. Benjamin
  • Felicien David by Moncure D. Conway
  • Erema; Or, My Father’s Sin by R. D. Blackmore
  • Marthe’s Chevalier by Lizzie W. Champney
  • Answer For Me by R. H. Stoddard
  • A Craniologist by John Esten Cooke
  • Garth by Julian Hawthorne
  • Fizz and Freeze by Mrs. E. T. Corbett
  • Recollections of Thackeray by George Lunt
  • Miss Truepenny’s Fortieth Christmas by Mrs. Frank McCarthy
  • A Woman-Hater by Charles Reade
  • The Little People’s New-Year by Harriet Prescott Spofford
  • Grit by Rose Terry Cooke
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Scientific Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1880-04 Harper’s Monthly Magazine Contents for April 1880

    1880/04 —

  • Music and Musicians in England by Mrs. John Lillie
  • Some Pennsylvania Nooks by Ella Rodman Church
  • La Villa Real de Santa Fe by Ernest Ingersoll
  • An Irish Fishing Village by J. L. Cloud
  • Shipwrecked.– A Poem From the French of Francois Coppee by E. W. Latimer
  • Luca Della Robbia and His School by E. D. R. Bianciardi
  • Before the Shrine — A Sonnet by Louise Chandler Moulton
  • The Swiss Rhine by S. H. M. Byers
  • Home Studies in Nature by Mary Treat
  • The Old Mill — A Poem by Thomas Dunn English
  • White Wings — Chapters 26-28 of a serialized Yachting Romance by William Black
  • Mr. Witherton’s Romance by Phoebe Yates Pember
  • A Farewell — A Sonnet by Alfred H. Louis
  • Early History of Bible Illustration by W. C. Prime with 15 illustrations
  • An Easter Card — A Story by Virginia W. Johnson
  • Navy of the United States by E. H. Derby
  • Mary Anerley — Chapter 32-33 of a serialized novel by R. D. Blackmore
  • Madrigals by A. Bowman Blake
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1857-08 August 1857 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1857/08 —

  • North Carolina Illustrated — Part 4: The Gold Region
  • Wheat, And Its Associations by T.B. Thorpe
  • The States-General by John S.C. Abbott
  • A Jaunt In Java
  • Blind Man’s Love
  • Epigrams And Epigrammatists
  • Evening At Epping
  • My Theory, And A Few Facts Against It
  • Alix Thuriot Thorne
  • My Forenoon With The Baby
  • Three Pictures After The Manner Of Ferogio
  • My Brother Tom
  • Passages In The Experience Of Briefless Barrister
  • De L’Amitie
  • Corsican Life Drama
  • Are We A Polite People? — Our Gentlemen
  • The Whirlpool: A Tale Of The Green Mountains
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Elephantine Metamorphoses
  • Fashions For August

    • 1857-09 September 1857 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1857/09 —

  • Winter In The South
  • Coal, And The Coal-Mines Of Pennsylvania by Eli Bowen
  • Temples In Which I Have Worshipped
  • My Inheritance
  • Desmond The Speculator
  • Esther
  • Handel
  • Love After Marriage
  • Code Of Honor
  • Are We A Polite People? — Our Ladies
  • Mr. Seedy
  • Taking Of Belen Gate
  • Summer Cruise In Search Of An Appetite
  • Alice Maude — A Poem
  • Seeing The World
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Fashions For September

    • 1857-04 April 1857 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1857/04 —

  • Holy City
  • A June Jaunt by Brantz Mayer
  • Mosses
  • Story Of Huguenot’s Sword
  • Anecdotes Of Lord Raglan
  • Oliver Goldsmith by Thomas Babington Macaulay
  • May And Death
  • Uttoxeter by Nathaniel Hawthorne – About 2 pages of text spread over 3 pages
  • Miser’s Curse
  • Broken-Down Kings
  • Reminiscence Of A Foreign Celebrity’s Reception Morning
  • Barbara’s Courtship
  • The Three Numbers
  • The Leonards
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 60-63 — by Charles Dickens
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • The Inauguration
  • Fashions For April

    • 1857-06 June 1857 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1857/06 —

  • Charleston, The Palmetto City — 22 pages
  • Adventures Of The Early Settlers In New England
  • Monads
  • Do Mountains Grow?
  • Our Wish
  • The Bird That Sang In May
  • Yellow Fever
  • A Gentleman Of The Jury
  • House Spiders: Their Habits and Astonishing Feats
  • Woman’s Dream
  • Woman’s Tears
  • Duel In Russia
  • Animal Love Of Music
  • Pomps And Vanities
  • Blackburn Farmer
  • Then And Now
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 63-65 — by Charles Dickens
  • All Alike
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Inconveniences Of Living In A Uniform Row Of Houses
  • Fashions For June

    • 1858-09 September 1857 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1858/09 —

  • The Finishing School
  • Tribes Of The Thirty-Fifth Parallel with illustrations including the Choctaws, Hueco, Kaiowa, Zuni, Mojave and more
  • Death Of Louis XVI
  • Our Charley
  • Mark Wilton’s Wife
  • Lydia Lankfort’s Wedding
  • In The Autumn
  • Our Husbands
  • The Lost Room
  • Memoirs Of Generals Charles Lee, Horatio Gates, Adam Stephen, And William Darke
  • The Identification
  • The Virginians — Chapters 37-40 — by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Munchausen Redivivus
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • New System Of Musical Notation
  • Fashions For September

    • 1926-03 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1926/03 —

  • Frontispiece in Color — “Candida” by Maurice Fromkes
  • Why Should the Majority Rule? by Walter Lippmann
  • Relgion and Life by Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • “The Gray Goose” — A Story — by Wilbur Daniel Steele

  • On Being the Right Size by J.B.S. Haldane
  • Why I Sent My Children Away to School by Emily Newell Blair
  • “In the Dark” — A Christopher Robin Poem — by A.A. Milne
  • Freedom in Society by Bertrand Russell
  • “Lot’s Wife” — A Poem by Elizabeth Morrow
  • “The Arrow” — Part 2 of 2 of a Story by Christopher Morley
  • “Love Postponed” — A Poem by Ruth Fitch Bartlett
  • “Happiness In Every Box” by Ernest Boyd
  • “Ulysses in Autumn” — A Poem by Joseph Auslander
  • The Cheer-Leader in Literature by William McFee
  • “We Who Do Not See Ghosts” — A Story by Fleta Campbell Springer
  • Out Front by Robert Benchley
  • America, England, and World Affairs by Arnold J. Toynbee
  • “The Actor and the Alibi” — A Story by G.K. Chesterton

  • “Two a Penny” by A. Hamilton Gibbs
  • Eternal Life in the Jungle by John W. Vandercook
  • The Lion’s Mouth
  • Editor’s Easy Chair by Edward S. Martin
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Among the New Books by Harry Hansen
  • Art Objects and Antiques
  • In the Financial World by Paul Tomlinson
  • Steamship Sailing Dates and Travel Information

    • Advertising in color is as follows:
    Insurance Company of North America – Le Jade Perfume – Camels (2 pages) – Lincoln – Plus several black & white ads, which are by far the majority

    1927-09 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1927/09 —

  • Frontispiece — “Chanteur Populaire” by Arthur W. Heintzelman
  • Our Courts and Free Speech by John T. Flynn
  • “Forfeit” — A Poem by Stanley Kidder Wilson
  • “Night Club” — A Story by Katharine Brush
  • The Sick Donkey by Walter Lippmann
  • “Pax!” by Ford Madox Ford
  • Religion in Business by Jesse Rainsford Sprague
  • “Wild Music” — A Story by Sally MacDougall
  • “Effigy” — A Poem by Henriette De Saussure Blanding
  • The Co-Ed: The Hope of Liberal Education by Bernard De Voto
  • The Far East’s Reaction to Western Civilization by Arnold J. Toynbee
  • A New Adventure for Millionaires by Oswald Garrison Villard
  • “Home Fire” — A Story by Margaret Ayer Barnes
  • The Art of Ballyhoo by Silas Bent
  • Illusion: 1915 by H.M. Tomlinson
  • The Myth of the Unconsciousness by John B. Watson
  • On Making Low People Interesting by Albert Jay Nock
  • The Lion’s Mouth
  • Editor’s Easy Chair by Edward S. Martin
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Among the New Books by Harry Hansen
  • Where to Shop Section
  • In the Financial World by Paul Tomlinson
  • Steamship Sailing Dates and Travel Information

    • 1927-11 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1927/11 —

  • Frontispiece — “Marsh Gunner” by Frank W. Benson
  • The Chimera of Church Unity by Herbert Parrish

  • “The Wind on the Heath” — A Poem by Suzanne La Follette
  • “Meat” — Part 1 of a Novel by Wilbur Daniel Steele
  • Diogenes Looks at the Ladies by Dorothy Dunbar Bromley
  • Putting Business Before Life by Jesse Rainsford Sprague
  • “Six Easy Pieces” — A Story by Clarence H. Gaines
  • Footnote on the West by Bernard De Voto
  • “Incoming Tide” — A Poem by Ralph Emerson Hackett
  • Should Our College Educate? by Gerald W. Johnon
  • “For Seven Years” — A Poem by Elizabeth J. Coatsworth
  • “Up Near Tawas” — A Story by M.W. Mountjoy
  • The Truth About Fascist Censorship by George Seldes
  • Head-High-in-the-Wind by Anna Louie Strong
  • The Great American Game by Rollin M. Perkins

  • “The Apartment” — A Story by Libbian Benedict
  • What Price Doctors? by Louis I. Dublin
  • The Lion’s Mouth
  • Editor’s Easy Chair by Edward S. Martin
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Among the New Books by Harry Hansen
  • Where to Shop Section
  • In the Financial World by Paul Tomlinson
  • Steamship Sailing Dates and Travel Information

    • 1928-06 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1928/06 —

  • Frontispiece — “The Workshop of Ancient Sculpture” by Arthur B. Davies
  • Science and Ethics by J.B.S. Haldane

  • “Never Anything That Fades” — A Story by Wilbur Daniel Steele
  • The American Political System by Harold J. Laski
  • This Strange Luster of Kings by Harvey O’Higgins
  • Three Quatrains – Poems by Elizabeth Morrow
  • Minister or Business Executive? by James Brett Kenna
  • “Eggs-a-Cook!” by Peter Gething
  • The Future of America by Anonymous
  • “Spinster and Cat” — A Story by Ruth Suckow
  • The Past and Future of Love by Andre Maurois
  • Our Orchestras and Our Money’s Worth by Daniel Gregory Mason
  • Prosperity Without Profit by Jesse Rainsford Sprague
  • “Potter’s Field” — A Poem by A.E. Johnson
  • “A Fatalist” — A Story by C.E. Montague

  • “Career” — A Poem by Granville Paul Smith
  • Morality Among the Animals by James H. Leuba
  • Cutting the Heart Out of Gratitude by John O’Hara Cosgrave
  • Diet Your Mind Too by Margaret Culkin Banning
  • “Evanescence” — A Poem by George Sterling
  • The Lion’s Mouth
  • Editor’s Easy Chair by Edward S. Martin
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Among the New Books by Harry Hansen
  • Where to Shop Section
  • In the Financial World by Paul Tomlinson
  • Travel News and Steamship Sailing Dates

    • 1928-09 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1928/09 —

  • Frontispiece in Color — “Margaret” by George Bellows
  • Religion Faces a New World by James Harvey Robinson
  • “Afternoon of a Biologist” — A Story by Bernard De Voto
  • International Window-Smashing by Silas Bent
  • My Son Gets Spanked by Frederic Van De Water
  • Marriage and Money by G.V. Hamilton and Kenneth MacGowan
  • “The Two Business Men” — A Story by Mary Johnston

  • America’s Debt to a German Soldier by John Mca. Palmer

  • China’s Covered Wagon by Olive Gilbreath
  • “Bitters” — A Poem by Lizette Woodworth Reese
  • Quack-Doctoring the Colleges by William Bennett Munro

  • Buried Alive by Joseph F. Hook

  • “Lament for Heaven” — A Poem by Margaret Widdemer
  • The Future of Man by C.E.M. Joad
  • “The Vestal” — A Story by Mary Lispenard Cooper
  • Not Quite Standardized Yet by Duncan Aikman
  • The Lion’s Mouth
  • Editor’s Easy Chair by Edward S. Martin
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Among the New Books by Harry Hansen
  • Where to Shop Section
  • In the Financial World by Paul Tomlinson
  • Travel News and Steamship Sailing Dates

    • 1928-10 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1928/10 —

  • Frontispiece — “Portrait Study of an Old Man” by Arthur W. Heintzelman
  • What the Blue Menace Means by Oswald Garrison Villard
  • “There’s Money in Poetry” — A Story by Konrad Bercovici
  • The Penny and the Gingerbread by Anonymous
  • Extra Ladies by Margaret Culkin Banning

  • Two Plays by Thornton Wilder – “The Angel on the Ship” and “Mozart and the Grey Steward” – 4 pages total

  • Man’s Place in the Universe by Arthur S. Eddington
  • “Manicure” — A Story by Margaret Leech
  • Portrait of Beethoven at Thirty by Romain Rolland
  • Vicious by Gustav Eckstein
  • “Finalities” — A Poem by John Kingston Fineran
  • Tools for the Intellectual Life by Bernard De Voto

  • Come Weal, Come Woe — Five Poems by Samuel Hoffenstein
  • Mammon, M.D. by Lloyd Morris
  • “IN the Ways of His Heart” — A Story by C.E. Montague
  • “Truce” — A Poem by Geoffrey Johnson
  • What Makes a Play Succeed? by Sarah Comstock

  • Methuselah Saw Many Repeaters — A Poem by Carl Sandburg

  • Gandhi and HIs Spinning Wheel by John Jesudason Cornelius
  • The Lion’s Mouth
  • Editor’s Easy Chair by Edward S. Martin
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Among the New Books by Harry Hansen
  • Where to Shop Section
  • In the Financial World by Paul Tomlinson
  • Travel News and Steamship Sailing Dates

    • 1929-05 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1929/05 —

  • Frontispiece — “Under the Elevated” by Louis Lozowick
  • The Unsocial Christian by Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  • Fathima the Cook by Leland Hall
  • “Harvest” — A Poem by Helene Magaret
  • Still a Man’s Game by Lilliam Symes
  • “Polite Refusal” — A Poem by William Harold McCreary

  • “The Plate” — A Story by Henri Duvernois

  • Mr. Smith and Mr. Smythe by Albert Jay Nock
  • Alias Walt Whitman by Harvey O’Higgins

  • In Line for Something — A Story by Margaret Culkin Banning

  • “Fido” — A Poem by Lenora Speyer

  • Must Our Children Start Where We Did? by Emily Newell Blair
  • “Parting Song” — A Poem by Helene Mullins
  • The Exploration of Space by Edwin Hubble – 7 full pages
  • “Optimist” — A Poem by James Stephens
  • “The No-Good Coaster” — A Story by John W. Vandercook

  • Teeth and Health by Louis I. Dublin and Thaddeus P. Hyatt
  • “Unseasonable” — A Poem by Margaret Emerson Bailey
  • Making Trout Medicine by Brendan Lee
  • People Who Want to Be Educated by Lola Jean Simpson
  • The Lion’s Mouth
  • Editor’s Easy Chair by Edward S. Martin
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Among the New Books by Harry Hansen
  • Where to Shop Section
  • In the Financial World by Paul Tomlinson
  • Travel News and Steamship Sailing Dates

    • 1929-07 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1929/07 —

  • Frontispiece — “Building a Babylon” by Martin Lewis
  • A Business Man’s Civilization by James Truslow Adams
  • Whisky Below Decks by Howard Linn Edsall

  • The Crumbling Color Line by Oswald Garrison Villard
  • “September Sailing” — A Story by Eleanor H. Kittredge

  • The Peppermint Years by Sarah Comstock
  • Eve in the Apple Orchard by Gamaliel Bradford
  • “Pioneers” — A Story by Wilbur Daniel Steele
  • Women and the Sport Business by John R. Tunis
  • “Higher Mathematics” — A Poem by Margaret Emerson Bailey
  • The Tendency Toward Pure Poetry by Max Eastman
  • “Boy’s Head” — A Story by Frances Warfield
  • The Mystery of Ocean Currents by Harald U. Sverdrup
  • $50,000 Cannon Balls by Duncan Aikman
  • The Lion’s Mouth
  • Editor’s Easy Chair by Edward S. Martin
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Among the New Books by Harry Hansen
  • Where to Shop Section
  • In the Financial World by Paul Tomlinson
  • Travel News and Steamship Sailing Dates

    • 1929-08 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1929/08 —

  • Frontispiece — “Jean Marie” by Franklin T. Wood
  • The Animal Ideal in America by Hermann Keyserling
  • “The Centipede” — A Story by Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  • “Loneliness” — A Poem by Edward Snelson
  • The Dutiful and Damned by Elmer Davis
  • “Round Trip” — A Story by W.R. Burnett

  • The Fight for Glory by Anonymous
  • “Quicksilver” — A Story by Wilbur Daniel Steele

  • “Ship Model” — A Poem by Daniel Whitehead Hicky
  • To Picnic in Fez by Leland Hall
  • Laid Off at Forty by Stuart Chase
  • In Defense of Selfishness by Ernest Boyd
  • “Jolly Boy” — A Story by Letitia Preston Randall
  • “Song” — A Poem by Elizabeth Larocque
  • Diet and Appetite by T. Swann Harding
  • The Sausage by Ben Ray Redman
  • Four Poems by Elizabeth Hollister Frost

  • Paradise: American Plan by Lloyd Morris
  • The Lion’s Mouth
  • Editor’s Easy Chair by Edward S. Martin
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Among the New Books by Harry Hansen
  • Where to Shop Section
  • In the Financial World by Paul Tomlinson
  • Travel News and Steamship Sailing Dates

    • 1878-06 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1878/06 —

  • Along the South Shore by S. G. W. Benjamin
  • Dutch Faience by Wirt Sikes
  • The Battle of Monmouth Court-House by Benson J. Lossing
  • Telemachus versus Mentor — A Poem by Bret Harte
  • The Drinkwater House — A Story by Mrs. C. V. Hamilton
  • An American Sculptor by G. W. Sheldon is about J.Q.A. Ward
  • Heligoland, the Enchanted Isle by Marion Mitchell
  • Macleod of Dare — Chapters 16-19 of as Novel by William Black
  • Hugh Latimer by Charles D. Deshler
  • The Return of the Native — Chapters 6-8 of a novel by Thomas Hardy
  • The Poetry of Indians by General James S. Brisbin
  • In A Storm — A Story by Harriet Prescott Spofford
  • Music in New York Thirty Years Ago by Matilda Despard
  • Greta’s Boys — A Story by Henrietta Hardy
  • How Shall Boys Be Fitted For Scientific School? by G. W. Beaman
  • A Trio — A Poem by George Lunt
  • Fitz-Greene Halleck and the Village Belle by Rev. A. C. Baldwin
  • Captive Queens in the Market — A Poem by Mary A. Barr
  • Russian Literature by Charlotte Adams
  • A Manufactured Comet by Simon Newcomb
  • Song of the Clay — A Poem by Z. D.
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Scientific Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1894-05 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1894/05 —

  • The Lament of El Moulock by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • My First Visit to New England — Part 1 by William Dean Howells
  • Solace — A Poem by Charlotte Fiske Bates
  • Trilby — Part 5 of a A Novel by George Du Maurier with 15 illustrations by the author — This is the original publication of the hugely popular novel featuring the classic character Svengali
  • The Miracle of Tisha Hofnagle — A Story by R. C. V. Meyers
  • The Chastisement of the Qualla Battooans by Edgar Stanton Maclay
  • At Cheniere Caminada — A Story by Grace King
  • The Advent of Spring by Mark W. Harrington
  • A Note of a Philogynist. A Story by Marrion Wilcox
  • The Exiles — A Story by Richard Harding Davis
  • Pecuniary Independence by Junius Henri Browne
  • A Kinsman of Red Cloud by Owen Wister with four illustrations by FREDERIC REMINGTON
  • A Little Journey in Java by Frederic M. Burr
  • A Kentucky Cardinal — Part 1 of A Story by James Lane Allen
  • Charleston South Carolina (1861) by Anna C. Brackett
  • The End of Animosity by L. Clarkson
  • The Relations of Life to Style in Architecture by Thomas Hastings
  • Editor’s Study by Charles Dudley Warner
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Literary Notes by Laurence Hutton

    • 1894-02 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1894/02 —

  • Trilby — Part 2 of a A Novel by George Du Maurier with 15 illustrations by the author — This is the original publication of the hugely popular novel featuring the classic character Svengali
  • In the Sierra Madre with the Punchers by Frederic Remington – 10 pages total with 8 illustrations by Remington
  • As Told to his Grace — Part 3 — Tales of the French Revolution by William McLennan
  • Lord Byron and the Greek Patriots by Rev. Henry Hayman D.D.
  • A Masterpiece of Diplomacy — A Farce by William Dean Howells
  • A Singing-Student in London by Jean Forsyth
  • In Tenebras — A Parable by Howard Pyle
  • Great American Industries — Part 10: A Bar of Iron by edited by R. R. Bowker
  • A Transplanted Boy — A Story by Constance Fenimore Woolson
  • The Flower of Death — A Story by Flavel Scott Mines
  • An Anonymous Letter — A Story by Richard Harding Davis
  • Walking Sticks by Samuel H. Scudder
  • Vignettes of Manhattan — Part 3 — Short Stories by Brander Matthews
  • The-Man-That-Draws-the-Handcart — A Story by Edward Eggleston
  • Editor’s Study by Charles Dudley Warner
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • An Infelicitous Speeches by George Du Maurier
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1886-03 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1886/03 —

  • An Iron City Beside the Ruhr by Moncure D. Conway
  • She Stoops To Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
  • East Angels — Part 15 of a Novel by Constance Fenimore Woolson
  • Africa’s Awakening by David Ker
  • Portrait Of Constance Fenimore Woolson
  • The City Of Cleveland by Edmund Kirke
  • Dogs and Their Management by Hugh Dalziel
  • With the Afghan Boundary Commission by William Simpson
  • A Rose Of Jericho — A Poem by Frances L. Mace
  • Cape Breton Folk by C. H. Farnham
  • Brief – As Woman’s Love — A Story by Brander Matthews
  • The Home Acre — Part 1 by E. P. Roe
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Study
  • Monthly Record Of Current Events
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • The Fair Vale Of Springhaven

    • 1866-02 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1866/02 —

  • Blackwell’s Island Lunatic Asylum by W. H. Davenport
  • Euthanasy by N. G. Shepherd
  • Historic Deeds of Men — Part 10: Charles Ellet and Steam Rams by John S. C. Abbott
  • Indian Summer by Caroline Seymour
  • An International Affair — Conclusion by Fitz Hugh Ludlow
  • Sweet Clover by William Dean Howells
  • The Red Jacket Medal by A. H. Guernsey
  • The Witnesses by N. G. Shepherd
  • Armadale — Part 4 — by Wilkie Collins
  • To the Unreturning Braves by Edward N. Pomeroy
  • Diamonds and Other Gems by John Bonner
  • Christmas Guests by Julia F. Snow
  • The Holidays by George C. McWhorter
  • New-Year’s to Twelfth-Night by George C. McWhorter
  • The March to the Sea — A Poem by HERMAN MELVILLE (2 full pages, Melville not credited inside issue, but this is him)
  • Charlotte Bronte’s Lucy Snow by Susan M. Waring
  • Winning His Spurs by Edmund Spencer
  • Names of Places by M. Schele De Vere
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1893-03 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1893/03 —

  • Dance at the Ponce de Leon — Illustration for “Our Own Riviera” — Frontispiece drawn by W.T. Smedley
  • Riviera Our Town by Julian Ralph
  • The Face on the Wall — A Story by Margaret Deland
  • The Escurial by Theodore Child
  • Monochromes — Nine Poems by William Dean Howells with 12 illustrations by Howard Pyle
  • My Upper Shelves by Richard Burton
  • The Refugees — A Tale of Two Continents — Part 3 by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE — 36 pages with illustrations
  • Washington Society — Part 1 – Official by Henry Loomis Nelson with illustrations by C.S. Reinhart
  • Horace Chase — A Novel by Constance Fenimore Woolson
  • Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa by Henry M. Stanley with 6 illustrations by FREDERIC REMINGTON including 2 full-page illustrations
  • An American in Africa by Richard Harding Davis
  • Editor’s Study
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Gentle Terrorism — Darwn by George Du Maurier
  • Editor’s Drawer