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1935-02 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1935/02 —

  • If Industry Gave Science a Chance by J.D. Bernal
  • Grand Canyon — Part 1 by J.B. Priestley
  • “The Perfect Perriers” — A Story by Philip Curtiss
  • “This Is My Country” — A Poem by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
  • What Will Become of the Republicans? by George Soule

  • “Cool as the Water” — A Poem by Helene Magaret
  • A Fuhrer Comes to Liechtenstein by Brinckerhoff Jackson
  • “Answer to Millay” — A Poem by Robert Nathan
  • Would Another War End Civilization? by Liddell Hart
  • “Slow Curtain” — A Story by Paul Horgan
  • Our Capacity to Produce by Stuart Chase
  • Without a Tower by Anonymous
  • California, There She Stands! by Lillian Symes
  • An Excuse for Universities by Gerald W. Johnson
  • “Whistle” — A Poem by Frances Frost
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1935-01 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1935/01 —

  • “The Home Place” — A Story by Dorothy Thomas
  • What About Public Works? By David Cushman Coyle
  • “And Jacob Wrestled” — A Poem by Joseph Auslander
  • How We Reconstruct Nature by M. Ilin with map
  • A Murder Has Been Arranged by Ransom McCarthy
  • The Chinese Attitude Toward Graft by Pearl S. Buck
  • Littletown by William G. Mather, Jr.
  • Jews at the Crossroads by William Zukerman
  • Taking the Hospital Out of Hospitality by Burges Johnson
  • The Saar–And Human Nature by Edgar Packard Dean
  • The Uncertainty Principle and Human Behavior by Selig Hecht
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1934-12 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1934/12 —

  • The Capital Goods Fallacy by David Cushman Coyle
  • I See the King of Hell by Harrison Forman
  • Paradise Lost–Or Mislaid? By D.W. Brogan
  • Mercy and the Condor — A Story by E.W. Harmening
  • “Moonlight Sonata” — A Poem by Robert Nathan
  • Good-By to Germany by Dorothy Thompson
  • Was My Life Worth Living? by Emma Goldman
  • Broadcasting — A British View by Mary Agnes Hamilton
  • “From Safe Ground” — A Poem by Margaret Emerson Bailey
  • This Unscientific Age by Robert L. Duffus
  • Changing Trends in Sport by John R. Tunis
  • The Case of the Missouri Pacific by Max Lowenthal
  • “Death and the Children” — A Story by Paul Horgan
  • A Moral Code for the Future by Charles H. Heinsath
  • “Dark Years” And What They Thought About It
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1933-08 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1933/08 —

  • Frontispiece – “Mr. Brown’s House” by Sanford Ross
  • The Crisis in Character by James Truslow Adams
  • Fox Hunt at Clonrue by Lord Dunsany
  • “Soldier” — A Poem by C.T. Lanham
  • The German Revolt Against Civilization by Ludwig Lewisohn
  • “Bequest” — A Poem by Lysbeth Boyd Borie
  • “The Betrothed” — A Story by Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  • Religion for a Scanty Band by T.L. Harris
  • The Ford in the Jungle by Wilson Follett
  • To My Sisters and Brothers — A Poem by John A. Holmes
  • They Call It Barter by George R. Leighton
  • “The Man Who Knew Everybody” — A Story by Harold Nicolson
  • The Great Man by Julian Rutledge
  • The Flamingoes — A Poem by Frederic Prokosch
  • Makers of the Martyrs by Elmer Davis
  • Catalogues — A Story by George Milburn
  • Sonnet — A Poem by Dorothy Seager
  • Expatriates in Time by Eugene Bagger
  • Time’s Absolute — A Poem by Mary Lapsley
  • Plus regular departments including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1933-04 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1933/04 —

  • Frontispiece – “Mexican Landscape” by Richard Day
  • A New Deal in Foreign Policy? By Frank H. Simonds
  • “Reunion” — A Story by Vincent Sheean
  • Chain Gangs and Profit by Walter Wilson
  • “Fish for Breakfast” — A Poem by Henry T. Chambers
  • Is Love Enough? by Ludwig Lewisohn
  • Radio–A Brief for the Defense by Deems Taylor
  • Homes, Sweet Home by Mitchell Dawson
  • The Menace of Mortgage Debts by Arthur C. Holden
  • “Routine” — A Poem by Gerro Nelson
  • Thoughts on Diving by William Beebe
  • Trotsky at Elba by John Gunther
  • Colloque Sentimental — A Story by Griffith Beems
  • “Challenge” — A Poem by Granville Paul Smith
  • The Journal of a Man of Letters — Part 2 by Gamaliel Bradford
  • For Poorer Travelers by Ford Madox Ford
  • Plus regular departments including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1931-06 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1931/06 —

  • Frontispiece – “Manhattan Old and New” by Samuel Chamberlain
  • A Ten Year Plan for America by Stuart Chase
  • “On the Wagon” — A Story by Margaret Culkin Banning

  • The Beautiful and the Dumb by Lillian Symes
  • “The First Lover” — A Story by Kay Boyle
  • Perjury Rampant by Dorothy Dunbar Bromley
  • The Cane and the Schoolboy by Geoffrey Layman
  • “Reversal” — A Poem by Orrick Johns
  • The Real Frontier by Andre Maurois
  • The Real Frontier by Bernard De Voto
  • “Octogenarian” — A Poem by Lee Andrew Weber
  • The Oxford Goes to Sea Again by William McFee
  • Sketch for a Portrait — A Poem by Clara Shanafelt
  • “Postscript to a Career” — A Story by Roland English Harvey
  • Jessica and Al Capone by Katharine Fullerton Gerould
  • The Negro Looks at His South by Horance Mann Bond
  • The Incompleat Angler by Brendan Lee
  • Plus regular departments including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1931-05 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1931/05 —

  • Frontispiece – Spring by Abbo Ostrowsky
  • Our American Dreyfus Case by Lillian Symes
  • “Search for Mr. Loo” by Stella Benson
  • Unchristian Christianity and the Jew by Phillip S. Bernstein
  • Mexicans Know How to Play by Stuart Chase
  • Women Walking on Their Hind Legs by Agnes Rogers Hyde
  • “Green Thoughts” — A Story by John Collier
  • “Maps” — A Poem by Elizabeth Hollister Frost
  • Americans in England by Alec Waugh
  • Old Age Intestate by Anonymous
  • College Graduates and Civilization by Mary Lee
  • “The Truant” — A Story by Sarah-Elizabeth Rodger
  • The Policeman’s Bed of Roses by Gerald W. Johnson
  • Doctor Jung – A Portrait by Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant about Carl Jung
  • Tragic Towns of New England by Louis Adamic
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1931-04 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1931/04 —

  • Frontispiece – Carnegie Concert by Grant Reynard
  • Bank Failures: The Problem and the Remedy by J.M. Daiger
  • “Lovers” — A Story by Liam O’Flaherty
  • Still Innocent and Still Abroad by Joseph Wood Krutch

  • Simpleton’s Song — A Poem by Selma Robinson
  • Chicago Revisited by Mary Borden
  • Two Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • “Cold Roast Lamb” — A Story by Charles Caldwell Dobie

  • These Downtrodden Men by Alice D. Kelly
  • Exit the Gospel of Work by Henry Pratt Fairchild
  • A Coronation in Abyssinia by Ellen N. LaMotte
  • Are You an Amateur? by John R. Tunis
  • Notes from Darkness — Poems by Sarah Elizabeth Rodger
  • Diderot – Homage to a Genius by Harold J. Laski
  • “The Lost Romance” — A Story by Lord Dunsany
  • Panics and Time Payments by Jesse Rainsford Sprague
  • In Defense of Snobbery by Margaret Culkin Banning
  • “Change of Season” — A Poem by Helene Magaret
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1931-03 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1931/03 —

  • Frontispiece – Iron Men by Anthony Pugliese
  • Can Business Manage Itself? By Elmer Davis
  • “Mr. Arcularis” — A Story by Conrad Aiken
  • The Scandals of New York by Alva Johnston
  • “Emblems of Spring” — A Poem by Arthur D. Ficke
  • This Moderate Drinking by Anonymous
  • The Three Widows by Ellen N. La Motte
  • Motes, Beams, and Foreigners by Dorothy Canfield
  • “Paves” — A Poem by Orrick Johns
  • Beating the Economic System by Alice Beal Parsons
  • And So My Wife Divorced Me by Anonymous
  • Apropos of Asses by Lowry Charles Wimberly
  • Youth Turns to War by George Seldes
  • Romance in a Realist World by Avis D. Carlson
  • In Defense of the Claque by Pitts Sanborn
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1931-02 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1931/02 —

  • Frontispiece – Meditation by Cadwallader Washburn
  • Mrs. Eddy’s Right-Hand Man by Ernest Sutherland Bates
  • “A Bird Blessing” — A Poem by Christy Mackaye
  • “Carrie” — A Story by McCready Huston
  • “Snowfall” — A Poem by Margaret Emerson Bailey
  • Specialists at Large by Dorothy Dunbar Bromley
  • Engine-Room Stuff by William McFee
  • Children of Freedom by Stella Crossley Ward
  • “South Cliff” — A Story by Catherine Drinker Bowen

  • The American System in Job-Land by Neil Staebler
  • The Cosmetic Urge by Jeanette Eaton
  • No More Excuses by Gerald W. Johnson
  • “And If I Cry Release” — Poems by Sarah-Elizabeth Rodger
  • “Leaf Unfolding” — A Story by Griffith Beams
  • “We Have Been Happy” — A Poem by Max Eastman
  • The Fury of Living: Theodore Roosevelt by Gamaliel Bradford
  • Morals in a Machine Age by Ralph W. Sockman
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Lucky Strikes ad on back cover features color image of August Heckscher

    • 1931-01 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1931/01 —

  • Frontispiece – Fifty-Seventh Street Manhattan by Louis Lozowick
  • Yes, But Religion Is an Art! By Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • “In Loving Memory” — A Story by Roland English Hartley
  • Sonnet — A Poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay (just a single sonnet)
  • Great Britain in Second Place by Raymond Gram Swing
  • “The Perfume” — A Story by Henri Duvernois
  • Biscay Gales by Leonard Outhwaite
  • This Business of Parenthood by Anonymous
  • Our Institutional Habits by Floyd H. Allport
  • “Acrobats” — A Poem by Helen Molyneaux Salisbury
  • Standing and Talking by Muriel Draper
  • “Poorhouse Road” — A Poem by Margaret Emerson Bailey
  • “The White Cabin” — A Story by Leonard Hess
  • Sabotage by Louis Adamic
  • On the Eating of Worms by Sarah Comstock
  • The Negro and the Supreme Court by Walter White
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1930-12 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1930/12 —

  • Frontispiece – North Country by Kerr Eby
  • Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay – 5 sonnets spread over 3 pages
  • Miniature Golf to the Rescue by Elmer Davis
  • The Showman – a story by Lord Dunsany
  • What Is This Communism? by Lilliam Symes
  • English Sportsman and International Sport by John R. Tunis
  • How Come Christmas by Roark Bradford
  • Otherworld – a poem by Geoffrey Johnson
  • Detroit: Utopia on Wheels by Robert L. Duffus
  • The Three R’s on a Mountain Top by Alicia O’Reardon Overbeck
  • Mistakes of Moralists by Ralph W. Sockman
  • Water Never Hurt a Man – a story by Walter D. Edmonds
  • The Room – a poem by Charles Hanson Towne

  • Blind Alley by Ludwig Lewisohn
  • The Sex Taboo at Puka-Puka by Robert Dean Frisbie
  • Finality – a poem by Josephine Johnson
  • The Limitations of the Expert by Harold J. Laski
  • White Christmas – a poem by Margaret Emerson Bailey
  • Men in Women’s Colleges by Agnes Rogers Hyde
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1930-11 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1930/11 —

  • Frontispiece – Barcarolle by James McBey
  • The Enemy of Prosperity by Stuart Chase
  • A Prisoner of Memory – a story by Walter Gilkyson

  • The Despotism of Polly Ross by Alice Beal Parsons
  • The Vanishing Sinner by Ralph W. Sockman
  • Pity the Poor Athlete by Frank Schoonmaker

  • Nettle Danger – a poem by Ruth Fitch Boyd
  • An Unwritten Story – a story by J.C. Squire
  • The Jewish World Crisis by Ludwig Lewisohn
  • A Patient Looks at Doctors by Anonymous
  • The Maguey – a poem by Elizabeth Morrow
  • Borderland – a story by Roland English Hartley

  • The Little Things – a poem by Josephine Johnson
  • Missions and the Life of Africa by Julian Huxley
  • The Survival of the Cutest by Philip Curtiss
  • Benito Mussolini by Gamaliel Bradford
  • The Unfailing Light – a poem by Ada Alden
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1930-10 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1930/10 —

  • Frontispiece – Devout Disciple of St. Francis by Cadwallader Washburn
  • The Great American Enigma by Gamaliel Bradford
  • The False Talisman – a story by Charles Caldwell Dobie
  • Is Pittsburgh Civilized? by R.L. Duffus
  • Farewell to Sophisitication by La Mar Warrick
  • The Pacifist Bogey by Dorothy Dunbar Bromley
  • Wanted: A Madchen fur Alles by Theodore Stearns
  • The Other Room – a story by Don Marquis
  • The Blessing of the Beds -a poem by Elizabeth Coatsworth
  • The Soviet Challenge to Capitalism by Calvin B. Hoover
  • Our Musical Adolescence by Daniel Gregory Mason

  • Where the Danger Lies – a poem by Margaret Emerson Bailey

  • The Romantic Man – a story by Mary Heaton Vorse
  • Some African Animals by Julian Huxley
  • Helping Industry to Help Itself by Frances Perkins
  • It Shall Not Matter – a poem by Frederic Prokosch
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1930-09 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1930/09 —

  • Frontispiece – Paysan Savoyard by Andre Jacques
  • Fouding Fathers and Straddling Sons by Elmer Davis
  • A Mexican Parting – a poem by Witter Bynner
  • The Queer Island – a story by Lord Dunsany
  • Two By a Grave – a poem by Elizabeth Hollister Frost
  • Racketeers and Organized Labor by Louis Adamic
  • The New Stage Fright: Talking Pictures by Louise Closser Hale
  • Portrait of an Empty Barrel by James Truslow Adams
  • The Narrow Bed – a poem by Ada Alden
  • Good Wednesday – a story by Katharine Brush

  • Before Rain–Chartres – a poem by Katherine Garrison Chapin

  • The Real Value of the League by Gilbert Murray
  • For Miss Maude in Heaven – a poem by Mary Willis Shuey
  • Who Gets the Children? by Anonymous
  • Slapstick – a story by Elaine Sterne Carrington
  • Is History a Fraud? by J.B.S. Haldane
  • I Believe in Kings by Geoffrey Layman
  • How and Why – a poem by Margaret Emerson Bailey
  • To Be Or Not to Be? by Louis I. Dublin
  • The Wallflower Complex by Brenda Ueland
  • Reversion – a poem by Frederic Prokosch
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1930-08 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1930/08 — Mid-Summer Fiction Issue

  • Frontispiece – Segovia by Ernest D. Roth
  • Presidential Prosperity by James Truslow Adams
  • The Electric King – a story by Lord Dunsany
  • Vergil, the Modern Poet by John Erskine
  • Violette – a story by Vincent Sheean
  • The Davis Cup Runs Over by John R. Tunis
  • Prelude – a poem by Conrad Aiken
  • Mountain Meadows – a story by Esse Hamot
  • The Business of Giving Away Money by Edwin R. Embree
  • The Bustle by Charles Macomb Flandrau
  • Beauty Shop – a poem by Mary Brent Whiteside
  • The Luxury of Integrity by Stuart Chase
  • The Resident of Purgatory – a story by Thomas Boyd
  • Half-Wisdom – a poem by Frederic Proskosch
  • Senate Inquisitors and Private Rights by John T. Flynn
  • The Real Tragedy of the Farmer by Mark Van Doren
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1930-07 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1930/07 —

  • Frontispiece – French Fisherman by Cadwallader Washburn
  • The Nemesis of American Business by Stuart Chase
  • Mr. Bellows, The Monkey, and the Turtle – a story by H.R. Wakefield

  • Squirt-Gun Politics by Charles A. Beard
  • Concerning Trains by James Norman Hall
  • The Crisis in Nursing by Dorothy Dunbar Bromley
  • Ruin – a story by Gordon Arthur Smith

  • Must We Scrap the Family? by Floyd H. Allport

  • Man Out of Work by His Wife

  • The Realities of Zionism by John Gunther
  • The Canadian Oasis by Leslie Roberts
  • Saphead – a story by M.C. Blackman
  • The Twilight of Empire by Nathaniel Peffer
  • Nikolai Lenin by Gamaliel Bradford
  • Reply to a Summer Boarder – a poem by Edna K. Wallace
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1930-06 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1930/06 —

  • Frontispiece – 80 Years Ago – The Cover of the First Issue of Harper’s Monthly
  • The Peculiar Weakness of Mr. Hoover by Walter Lippmann
  • Secret Flowers – a poem by Katherine Mansfield

  • The Desert Islander – a story by Stella Benson
  • White Birches – a poem by Katherine Garrison Chapin
  • Step-Uncle Sam by Leslie Roberts
  • A Defense of the English Climate by Mary Borden
  • Roosevelt and the War by Owen Wister
  • The Daughter of a Princess – a story by Charles Caldwell Dobie

  • Are Religious People Fooling Themselves? by Harry Emerson Fosdick

  • Two Boys, a Gun, and a Dog by Stewart Edward White
  • Those Vital Differences by Katharine Fullerton Gerould
  • After All – a story by Roland English Hartley
  • Aquarium – a poem by Helen Magaret
  • The New Masculinism by Lillian Symes
  • Vulnerable – a poem by Dorothy Aldis
  • Where Is Aviation? by Francis D. Walton
  • On the Lake – a poem by V. Sackville-West
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1930-05 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1930/05 —

  • Frontispiece – Flirt by Albert Besnard
  • Roosevelt and the 1912 Disaster by Owen Wister
  • Come Day, Go Day – a story by Roark Bradford
  • The Futility of Farm Relief by Joseph Staff Lawrence
  • Master Builder – a story by Lee Foster Hartman
  • Our Substitute Lives by Katharine Fullerton Gerould
  • Two Flights in the Fog by Myron M. Stearns
  • Why Is Modern Youth Cynical? by Bertrand Russell
  • Rhapsody in Mauve – a story by Letitia Preston Randall

  • Religion in Russia by Philip S. Bernstein
  • Fisherman’s Luck by Brendan Lee
  • Two Childhoods by John Langdon-Davies
  • German Women in Politics by Genevieve Parkhurst
  • Can We Extend the Life Span? by Louis I. Dublin
  • White Horses – a poem by Carl Sandburg (5 lines)
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1930-04 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1930/04 —

  • Frontispiece – Hell Gate Bridge by Louis Lozowick
  • Diminishing Returns in Modern Life by James Truslow Adams

  • Spell – a poem by Katherine Garrison Chapin
  • Fledgling – a story by Libbian Benedict
  • Dissenting Opinions by Joseph M. Poskatuer
  • Poplars – a poem by Mary Brent Whiteside
  • The Jinx and Phyllis – a story by Elmer Davis

  • Parting Song – a poem by Samuel Hoffenstein
  • A Defense of French Morals by Mary Borden
  • Molten Steel by C.J. Freund
  • The Mad Hatter’s Dirty Teacup by Stuart Chase
  • Encarnacion – a story by Alicia O’Reardon Overbeck
  • Booze and Business by Jesse Rainsford Sprague
  • Philip Snowden – A Portrait by Harold J. Laski
  • “American Crude” by Frances Woodward Prentice
  • The Barren Twig Protests by Anonymous
  • Education: Savage and Civilized by John Langdon-Davies
  • Philadelphia – a poem by Louise Driscoll
  • Funneling the European News by John Gunther
  • The Rainy Day – a poem by Margaret Emerson Bailey
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1930-03 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1930/03 —

  • Frontispiece – Olympus by Gerald K. Geerlings
  • God Without Religion by Elmer Davis

  • Corporal Humpit of the 4th Musketeers – a story by H.R. Wakefield

  • A Bribe to Saint Anthony of Padua – a poem by Margaret Emerson Bailey
  • Mr. Justice Holmes by Harold J. Laski
  • Forerunner to Rain – a poem by Virginia Moore
  • How Safe is Flying? by Charles J.V. Murphy
  • Twenty-Four Hours of a Lawbreaker by L.M. Hussey
  • Educational Leadership in America by Alexander Meiklejohn

  • Solid Citizen – a story by McCready Huston
  • Heloise in Brittany – a poem by Katherine Garrison Chapin

  • Bermuda and the American Idea by John R. Tunis
  • Observation – a poem by Samuel Hoffenstein
  • Emily Dickenson’s Literary Debut by Mabel Loomis Todd

  • Djombe River – Part 2 of a story by John W. Vandercook
  • The Christmas Boat by Ellen N. LaMotte
  • The Death of Chinese Civilization by Nathaniel Pferrer

  • Portrait of a Male Butterfly by Lloyd Morris
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1930-02 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1930/02 —

  • Frontispiece – The Passing of the Lion by Norman Wilkinson
  • Djombe River – Part 1 of a story by John W. Vandercook

  • The Dear Old Constitution by Charles A. Beard

  • Ice Storm in Spring – a poem by Katherine Garrison Chapin

  • The New Skirt Length by William Bolitho

  • The Eight-Dollar Pup – a story by Philip Curtiss
  • A Burgler Looks at Laws and Codes by Jack Black

  • A Wild Thing – a poem by Witter Bynner
  • On the Practice of Smoking in Church by Albert Jay Nock
  • Black and White – a poem by Margaret Emerson Bailey

  • Rat Pie by Carolyn Conant Van Blarcom

  • If Ramsay MacDonald Were an American by Oswald Garrison Villard
  • Office Hours – a story by Roland English Hartley
  • The Religion of a Scientist by Floyd H. Allport
  • Infantile Paralysis by George Draper
  • The Loves of Orchids by John Langdon-Davies
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1930-01 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1930/01 —

  • Frontispiece – St. Peter’s by Decaris
  • The Crisis in Morals by Gilbert Murray

  • Intersection – a poem by Granville Paul Smith

  • The Prank – a story by Stella Benson

  • Whom Does Congress Represent? by Charles A. Beard
  • Blizzard – a poem by Helene Magaret
  • In the Shade of the Tree – a story by Wilbur Daniel Steele

  • Lit Ladies by Margaret Culkin Banning
  • Can Business Be Civilized? by Harold J. Laski

  • The Pearl Necklace – a story by Gordon Arthur Smith
  • Women and Children First by Alicia O’Reardon Overbeck

  • The Moon Came Up – poem by Witter Bynner
  • Speculation and Gambling by John T. Flynn

  • Let Us Pretend – a poem by Florence Nash
  • Our Failure in the Philippines by Henry Cabot Lodge
  • The Twilight of the Concert Gods by Jeanette Eaton

  • A Buried Treasure – Part 2 of a story by Elizabeth Madox Roberts

  • The Job and the Life Span by Louis I. Dublin
  • Ducks and Heron – a poem by Agnes Kendrick Gray
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 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

    • 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