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1877-06 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1877/06 —

  • Contemporary Art in Germany by S. G. W. Benjamin
  • A Dream-Land City — A Poem — by Mrs. Frances L. Mace
  • The Androscoggin Lakes by Edward Abbott
  • The Niebelungen Lay by Leda M. Schoonmaker
  • Erema; or My Father’s Sin — Chapters 30–33 — by R. D. Blackmore
  • La Festa Dello Statuto — A Poem — by William Gibson
  • The Wheeler Survey in Nevada by William H. Rideing
  • Gibraltar by George M. Towle
  • Moses Clymer’s Business by Marc E. Cook
  • Bird’s Nests by H. D. Minot
  • An Order for a Cameo — A Poem — by Fannie H. Robinson
  • The Professor’s Victim — A Story — by Mrs. Frank McCarthy
  • Popular Exposition of Some Scientific Experiments by Dr. John W. Draper
  • A Woman-Hater — Part 12 — by Charles Reade
  • A Fear — A Poem — by Harriet Prescott Spofford
  • Garth — A Novel (Conclusion) — by Juian Hawthorne
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Scientific Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1877-08 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1877/08 —

  • The White Mountains by William H. Rideing
  • The Golden Treasures of Kurium by William C. Prime
  • A New Watering-Place by Elizabeth E. Evans
  • The Poet Keats by Edward F. Madden
  • The Jeet-Black Groom — A Poem — by Thomas Davidson
  • Home Observations in Florida by Mary Treat
  • Erema; or My Father’s Sin — Chapters 39-43 — by R. D. Blackmore
  • Reality — A Poem — by Helen S. Conant
  • Voudoo Violet — A Story — by Lizzie W. Champney
  • Good-Morrow — A Poem — by A. F.
  • Pan-Fish Angling by Maurice Thompson
  • Friend Brook — A Poem — by Lucy Larcom
  • Mahomet by Eugene Lawrence
  • Hints for Practical Trout-Fishing by Douglas Frazar
  • Inside Plum Island — A Poem — by Harriet Prescott Spofford
  • Popular Exposition of Some Scientific Experiments — Part 5 — by Dr. John W. Draper
  • The Flying Proa by William L. Alden
  • The Fairies’ Table-Cloth — A Poem — by Margaret J. Preston
  • The Old South Meeting-House — A Poem — by Edward Everett Hale
  • Bell’s Match-Making — A Story — by Mary N. Prescott
  • Sunrise on Mount Washington — A Poem — by Anna C. Brackett
  • The Waving of the Corn — A Poem — by Sidney Lanier
  • Percy and the Prophet — A Story — by Wilkie Collins
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Scientific Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1877-09 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1877/09 —

  • The Lading of a Ship by Ernest Ingersoll – 13 pages packed with illustrations
  • The Domestic and Artistic Life of Titian by Helen S. Conant
  • General Stark and the Battle of Bennington by H. W. Herrick
  • Snow-Storm on Mount Shasta by John Muir – Just Over 9-pages with illustrations
  • Ma’m’selle — A Story — by Miss E. A. Mooney
  • Tom Moore in America by Benson J. Lossing
  • Large versus Small Schools by Anna C. Brackett
  • Prince Edward Island by S. G. W. Benjamin
  • Ali — A Poem — by Harriet Prescott Spofford
  • Shadows — A Story — by Mrs. E. T. Corbett
  • A Group of Classical Schools by Horace E. Scudder
  • The Pastor’s Reverie — A Poem — by Rev. Washington Gladden
  • Popular Exposition of Some Scientific Experiments by Dr. John W. Draper
  • Erema; or My Father’s Sin — Chapters 44-47 — by R. D. Blackmore
  • American Workmen from a European Point of View by Leonard W. Bacon
  • A Visit to a Country-House and What Came of It — A Story — by Annie T. Howells
  • Waifs from Motley’s Pen by Jun Park Benjamin
  • A Railroad Study by Edward Howland
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Scientific Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1877-10 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1877/10 —

  • Mytown by Rose Terry Cooke
  • Hunting the Walrus by W. L. Alden
  • The Life of a New York Fireman by William H. Rideing – 14 pages with illustrations
  • Girl and Woman — A Poem — by Fannie R. Robinson
  • The Campaign of Burgoyne by W. L. Stone
  • On A Melon Schooner — A Story — by B. Phillips
  • A Group of Classical Schools — Part 2 — by Horace E. Scudder
  • Fabrics — A Poem — by Edgar Fawcett
  • To Brusa from Constantinople by S. G. W. Benjamin
  • An Old Umbrella — A Poem — by C. P. Cranch
  • The Home Concert — A Poem — by Mary D. Brine
  • Raspberry Island — A Story — by Constance F. Woolson
  • Popular Exposition of Some Scientific Experiments — Part 7 — by Dr. John W. Draper
  • Erema; or My Father’s Sin — Chapters 48-52 — by R. D. Blackmore
  • The Regular Army of the United States by General George B. McClellan — 9 pages, all text
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Scientific Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1877-11 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1877/11 —

  • Ten Year’s Acquaintance with Alaska: 1867-1877 by Henry W. Elliott
  • Palingenesis — A Poem — by Ellis Gray
  • The King of Conjurers by Olive Logan is about Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin – Considered the modern father of conjuring and the man from whom Harry Houdini took his famous last name – Just over 14 pages and packed with illustrations such as the following: Small portrait of Houdin – Houdin’s Trick Table – The Conjuror’s Parlor – The Conjuror’s Ghost – The Magic Basket – The Bust of Socrates – The Four Harps – The Cabinet Trick – Plus several other smaller illustrations
  • San Antonio de Bexar by Harriet Prescott Spofford
  • Contentment — A Poem — by Helen S. Conant
  • Madelena — A Story — by Mrs. C. V. Hamilton
  • Yachting in Blue Waters by T. Robinson Warren
  • The Best Gift — A Poem — by Kate Hillard
  • Back to Back –A Story of To-Day: Part I — by Edward Everett Hale
  • A Study — A Poem — by Philip Bourke Marston
  • Erema; or My Father’s Sin — Chapters 53-58 (Conclusion) — by R. D. Blackmore
  • To a School-Girl — A Poem — by Fannie R. Robinson
  • A Year of American Travel by Jessie Benton Fremont
  • The Miners of Scranton by Phoebe E. Gibbons
  • My Mother’s Objections — A Story — by Henrietta H. Holdich
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Scientific Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1878-03 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1878/03 —

  • State and Society in Washington by Martha J. Lamb
  • Doubt — A poem by Ruth Dana
  • Summer Schools by C. F. Thwing
  • Old Flemish Masters — I: Quentin Matsys — by E. Mason
  • Quentin Matsys by E. Mason
  • Matches Morganatic –A story by Constance F. Woolson
  • In Alsatia — A poem by R. H. Stoddard
  • Wood Carving and Fret-Sawing by Julius Wilcox
  • Grand Mana and ‘Quoddy Bay by Edward Abbott
  • Passamaquoddy Bay by Edward Abbott
  • Macleod Of Dare — Chapters 4-7 — by William Black
  • A Triad Of Superstitions by Anna C. Brackett
  • The Return Of the Native — Chapters 5-7 — by Thomas Hardy
  • Some Unpublished Letters of Washington by B. Phillips
  • A Glimpse At Some Of Our Charities — Part 2
  • Squire Paine’s Conversion by Rose Terry Cooke
  • Venetian Tapestries by Charlotte Adams
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1878-05 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1878/05 —

  • Coast Rambles In Essex by S. A. Drake
  • The Italian Poets by Eugene Lawrence
  • The Silent Tryst — A Poem — by Margaret J. Preston
  • The Story of Jean Malcomb by Susan Archer Weiss
  • Four Poems By Michael Angelo by Edward Howland
  • Old Flemish Masters — Part 3: Peter Paul Rubens — by E. Mason
  • The Italian Poet In Exile — A Poem — by T. M. Coan
  • Along the Havel by Arthur Venner
  • Song Birds of the West by Robert Ridgeway
  • Easter Morning — A Poem — by Frances L. Mace
  • Macleod Of Dare — A Novel: Chapters 12-15 — by William Black
  • The Return Of the Native — A Novel: Chapters 1-5 — by Thomas Hardy
  • My Nephew’s Crotchets — A Story — by Lucretia P. Hale
  • Free Muscular Development by William Blaikie
  • Why Jack Went To Europe — A Story — by Julian Hawthorne
  • The English Civil Service by Hon. F. H. Morse
  • May-Flower — A Poem — by Henrietta Hardy
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Scientific Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1878-07 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1878/07 —

  • Some Landmarks of Old Virginia by Allen C. Redwood
  • Hospital Life in New York by W. H. Rideing
  • Old Flemish Masters — Part 4: Anthony Van Dyke — by E. Mason
  • Owlet — A Story — by John Esten Cooke
  • Old Time Militia Masters by Porte Crayon
  • Juggernaut by A. H. Guernsey
  • A First Week in England by Mrs. E. C. Walton
  • Daddy Will – A Glimpse of Ancient Dixie by Charles D. Deshler
  • Macleod of Dare — A Novel: Chapters 20-23 — by William Black
  • Anecdotes of Voltaire Among the Swiss by Dr. Abel Stevens
  • The Return of the Native — A Novel: Third Book: Chapters 1-4 — by Thomas Hardy
  • A Wife Hunt — A Story — by Charles De Kay
  • Freedom of the Press Vindicated by Benson J. Lossing
  • An Adventure in a Forest; Or Dickens’s Maypole Inn by James Payn
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Scientific Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1878-10 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1878/10 —

  • A New England Dairy and Stock Farm by William H. Rideing
  • Adonais by Will Wallace Harney
  • The St. Gothard Tunnel by S. H. M. Byers
  • A Japanese School by John C. Ballagh
  • Through the Dark Continent by John Russell Young with illustration of Henry M. Stanley
  • Butter Stores in Paris by Marie Howland
  • Meeting — A poem by Helen S. Conant
  • Ye Bell Man — A poem by Robert Herrick
  • New York in Summer by Professor Charles Carroll
  • Three Thunderbolts by Lizzie W. Champney
  • Around the Peconics by Ernest Ingersoll
  • Macleod of Dare — Chapters 32-35 — by William Black
  • The Western Ginevra — A story by Edward Everett Hale
  • The Return of the Native — Chapters 5-8 — by Thomas Hardy
  • In a Jewish Bookstore by M. L. Marks
  • Discord — A poem by Richard Realf
  • Little Miss Mouse and Her Marvellous Scholar — A story by The Author of ‘Colonel Dunwoodie, Millionaire’
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Scientific Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1879-08 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1879/08 —

  • Lake George by S. G. W. Benjamin
  • St. Mary’s, The Nautical School by Willam H. Rideing
  • Chautauqua by D. H. Post
  • Little Barbara — A poem by Will Wallace Harney
  • The First Mrs. Petersham — A story by Harriet Prescott Spofford
  • American Forests by G. W. Powell
  • Miss Mildred’s Friend — A story by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
  • Snug Hamlet and Hometown by W. H. Gibson
  • Watch-Words — A poem by Helen S. Conant
  • Japanese Rock Crystal by Rev. W. E. Griffis
  • White Wings: A Yachting Romance — Chapters 1-4 — by William Black
  • Young Mrs. Jardine — A novel by Dinah Mulock Craik
  • The Foreign Indebtedness of the United States by Willard Brown
  • Mary Anerley — Chapters 1-3 — by R. D. Blackmore
  • Consequences of Defective Vision by Dr. E. G. Loring
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1883-04 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1883/04 —

  • Frontispiece: Washington Irving – From portrait by Gilbert Stuart Newton
  • English Farmers by Mrs. Phoebe Earle Gibbons with illustrations drawn by C.S. Reinhart
  • The Treaty Of Peace and Independence by George Ticknor Curtis
  • Whence and Whither? — A poem by Richard Henry Stoddard
  • Artist Strolls In Holland by George H. Boughton, A.R.A. with illustrations drawn by George H. Boughton
  • America. – “An English Nation” by Thomas Wentworth Higginson with illustrations drawn by Howard Pyle
  • A Home Lawn by S. B. Parsons with illustrations drawn by Alfred Parsons
  • The Little White Beggars — A poem by Helen W. Ludlow with illustration drawn by Frederic Dielman
  • The Heir-Presumptive To the Imperial Crown Of Mexico by John Bigelow with a portrait of Prince Iturbide
  • For the Major — A novel by Constance Fenimore Woolson with illustration drawn by Alfred Fredericks
  • Easter — A poem by John B. Tabb
  • A New Cinderella — A story by A Working-Girl
  • Shandon Bells — A novel by William Black with illustration drawn by William Small
  • A Visit To Cetywayo by Simon Newcomb
  • In the Belfry Of the Nieuwe Kerk — A poem by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • The Sisters by E. A. Abbey

    • 1896-06 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1896/06 —

  • Frontispiece – “Mother and Child” engraved by Frank French from the painting by Mary Cassatt
  • A Visit To Athens by The Right Rev. William Croswell Doane, D.D. with illustrations by Guy Rose
  • A Rebellious Heroine — Part 1 — by John Kendrick Bangs with four illustrations by W.T. Smedley
  • Queen Lukeria Of Gorelovka by H. F. B. Lynch with three illustrations by T. De Thulstrup
  • The Greatest Painter Of Modern Germany by Dr. Charles Waldstein
  • Through Inland Waters — Part 2 — by Howard Pyle with 16 illustrations by the author
  • Evelina’s Garden — A Story by Mary E. Wilkins with three illustrations by Clifford Carleton
  • A Wall Street Wooing — A Story by Brander Matthews with two illustrations by W.T. Smedley
  • The Sea by James Herbert Morse
  • The Ouananiche And Its Canadian Environment by E. T. D. Chambers with 13 illustrations
  • Praeterita — A Sonnet by Madison Cawein
  • The German Struggle For Liberty — Part 12 (Conclusion) — by Puoltney Bigelow with 5 illustrations and a map
  • The Battle Of The Cells by Dr. Andrew Wilson
  • The Thanks Of The Municipality — A Story by James Barnes
  • Lip-Service by Louise Betts Edwards
  • Editor’s Study by Charles Dudley Warner
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1922-12 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1922/12 —

  • Frontispiece in Color – Illustration for “The Shadow Christmas” by C.E. Chambers
  • “The Shadow Christmas” — A story by Laura Spencer Portor and illustrated by C.E. Chambers
  • “Who Has Known Heights” — A poem by Mary Brent Whiteside
  • What Is Education? by Arthur Twining Hadley
  • “The Toiling Masses” — A story by Mary S. Watts and illustrated by Frances Rogers
  • “Cottages in England” — A poem by Hesper Le Gallienne
  • Are We a Happy People? by Meredith Nicholson
  • “Retreat” — A story by Neith Boyce and illustrated in tint by R.M. Crosby
  • Damaged Souls — Part 1: Aaron Burr by Gamaliel Bradford
  • Four Feringhees in Inner Asia — Part 2: Through the Lands Where History Began — by E. Alexander Powell – Illustrated with photographs
  • “The Portrait” — A story by Aldous Huxley — Early fiction by Huxley, then 28 years old, this magazine appeared between the time his first and second novels were published
  • Poems by W.H. Davies
  • Journalism and International Politics by Raymond Recouly
  • “The Mating of Oby Shorts” — A story by Ida E. Melson with illustrations by Mead Schaeffer
  • The Lions Mouth
  • Editor’s Easy Chair by E.S. Martin
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Business and Financial Conditions by John Grant Dater

    • Advertising in color is as follows:
    Universal Silver – Lionel Trains illustrated by Raymond Thayer – Steinway with an illustration featuring Rachmaninoff conducting – Fiberloid – Colgate – Maxwell Auto – Underwood Typewriter – Whiting & Davis Mesh Bags illustrated by Andrew Loomis – Shell Pyralin – Holeproof Hosiery – Brunswick Phonographs – Corona Typewriters illustrated by Tempest Inman – American Piano Company illustrated by C.C. Beall – Jello – American Radiator Company illustrated by Herbert Paus – Haynes Auto – Plus many black & white ads, which are by far the majority

    1923-01 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1923/01 —

  • Frontispiece in Color – Illustration for “Arab Stuff” by Frank E. Schoonover
  • “The Land of the Free” by Katharine Fullerton Gerould
  • “Cynthia” — A poem by Margaret Hutchins
  • “Whispering Leaves” — A story — Part 1 — by Ellen Glasgow and illustrated by Elizabeth Shippen Green
  • The Immigrant’s Golden Fleece by Viola Paradise and Helen Campbell — Illustrated with photographs
  • “The Ticket Agent” — A poem by Edmund Leamy
  • “Arab Stuff” — A story by Wilbur Daniel Steele and illustrated by Frank Schoonover
  • Jacques Loeb, the Mechanist by Paul de Kruif
  • “The Ears of the Deaf” — A story by Alice Brown and illustrated by Frances Rogers
  • “Adventures in Green Places” by Herbert Ravenel Sass and illustrated in tint by Charles Livingston Bull
  • “The Do Not Live” — A poem by Irwin Edman
  • The Art of Courtship by W.L. George
  • “A Day in a Woman’s Life” — A story by Sheila Kaye-Smith
  • Four Feringhees in Inner Asia — Part 3: Across Bedouin Lands — by E. Alexander Powell — Illustrated with photographs
  • Damaged Souls 2: Benedict Arnold by Gamaliel Bradford
  • The Lion’s Mouth
  • Editor’s Easy Chair by Edward S. Martin
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Business and Financial Conditions by John Grant Dater

    • Advertising in color is as follows:
    Steinway with an illustration featuring Paderewski playing the Minuet – The Seven-Passenger Phaeton by Marmon Auto – Firestone Tires – American Radiator Company with illustration by Herbert Paus – Plus several black & white ads, which are by far the majority

    1923-02 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1923/02 —

  • Frontispiece in Color – Illustration for “The Sad Horn Blowers” by Mead Schaeffer
  • “The Sad Horn Blowers” by Sherwood Anderson and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer
  • The Drama as I See It — Part 1: “Cast Up By the Sea” — by Stephen Leacock and illustrated by John Held, Jr.
  • Sonnet by Ben Ray Redman
  • “The Tithe Barn” — A story by Mrs. Henry Dudeney and illustrated by J. Scott Williams
  • “The Seat of Judgment” — A poem by Ethel M. Hewitt
  • Doing Away With the Middleman by Gertrude Mathews Shelby
  • “The Beloved Face” — A poem by Carolyn Wells
  • “Whispering Leaves” — A Story — Part 2 — by Ellen Glasgow and illustrated by Elizabeth Shippen Green
  • Four Feringhees in Inner Asia — Part 4: Through Phoenicia to the Promised Land — by E. Alexander Powell — Illustrated with photographs
  • Shall the Calories be Forgotten? by Casimir Funk and Benjamin Harrow
  • “Going South” — A series of drawings in tint by E.H. Suydam
  • Damaged Souls 3: Thomas Paine by Gamaliel Bradford
  • “The Contract of Corporal Twing” — A story by Solon K. Stewart
  • “The Fates” — A poem by W.H. Davies
  • The Lion’s Mouth
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Business and Financial Conditions by John Grant Dater

    • Advertising in color is as follows:
    Steinway with an illustration featuring Josef Hofmann at his Steinway at Carnegie Hall – Romance Chocolates – Jello ad illustrated by Norman Rockwell A grandmother pours boiling water into a pitcher of Jello while grandaughter stands on a chair peering in and grandson looks up from table’s edge while wearing a hat made from a newspaper – Standard Plumbing Fixtures – The Story and Clark Piano Company – Davey Tree Surgeons – Holeproof Hosiery illustrated by Cole Phillips – American Piano Company illustrated by C.C. Beall – Underwood Portable Typewriter – American Radiator Company with illustration of Robert E. Lee by Herbert Paus – Plus several black & white ads, which are by far the majority

    1923-03 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1923/03 —

  • Frontispiece in Color – Illustration for “As the Law Directs” by Frances Rogers
  • “The Happy Isles” — A Novel, Part 1 — by Basil King and illustrated by John Alonzo Williams
  • The Drama as I See It — Part 2: “The Soul Call” — by Stephen Leacock and llustrated by John Held, Jr.
  • “For You” — A poem by Violet Alleyn Storey
  • The Lordly Sun by Ellsworth Huntington — Illustrated with photographs
  • Island Wild Folk by Herbert Ravenell Sass and illustrated in tint by Charles Livingston Bull
  • Three Sonnets by Alfred Kreymborg
  • “Romance” — A Story by Evelyn Gill Klahr and illustrated by H.J. Mowat
  • The Reporter Speaks for Publication by Simeon Strunsky
  • “The Price of Reflection” — A Story by Donald Corley and illustrated by Kerr Eby
  • Liquor Control in Sweden by Francis Hackett — Illustrated with photographs
  • “The Avalanche” — A story by Ernest Poole
  • “The Test” — A poem by Barbara Hollis
  • Damaged Souls 4: John Randolph by Gamaliel Bradford
  • “As the Law Directs” — A story by Alice Brown and illustrated by Frances Rogers
  • “A Dewdrop” — A poem by Robert Graves – 2 stanzas
  • The Lion’s Mouth
  • Editor’s Easy Chair by Edward S. Martin
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Business and Financial Conditions by John Grant Dater

    • Advertising in color is as follows:
    Steinway with an illustration featuring Henry Steinway making his first piano – Mendel Trunx – Romance Chocolates illustrated by Norman Rockwell – Cabot’s Creosote Stains – Colgate – Fairfacts Fixtures – Syracuse China – Story and Clark Piano Company illustrated by F.R Harper – Firestone – The New 1923 Seven Passenger Haynes Auto – American Radiator Company featuring Robert Morris illustrated by Herbert Paus – Knox Hats – Plus several black & white ads, which are by far the majority

    1923-04 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1923/04 —

  • Frontispiece in Color – Illustration for “Muzio” by W.H.D. Koerner
  • “The Happy Isles” — A Novel, Part 1 — by Basil King and illustrated by John Alonzo Williams
  • The Drama as I See It — “Dead Men’s Gold” — by Stephen Leacock and llustrated by John Held, Jr.
  • “Harlequin” — A poem by Charles Hanson Towne
  • Two Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • “Muzio” — A Story by Konrad Bercovici and illustrated by W.H.D. Koerner
  • “By the Wall” — A poem by E. Dorset
  • They Had Their Day by Agnes Repplier and illustrated in tint by Anna Whelan Betts
  • “April” — A poem by Alice Brown
  • South, For Blue Water by Arthur Sturges Hildebrand — Illustrated with photographs
  • “A Dead Man’s Song” — A poem by W.H. Davies
  • “The Fallen Leaf” — A Story by Charles Caldwell Dobie
  • “A Song of Triumph” — A poem by Anne Goodwin Winslow
  • Adventures in Human Nature by Anonymous
  • “The Bright Side” — A story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer
  • Damaged Souls 5: Benjamin Franklin by Gamaliel Bradford
  • “Edges” — A poem by Ethel M. Hewitt

  • “Fatigue Poison” — A story by Harold H. Armstrong
  • “Singers” — A poem by Ben Ray Redman
  • The Lion’s Mouth
  • Editor’s Easy Chair by Edward S. Martin
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Business and Financial Conditions by John Grant Dater

    • Advertising in color is as follows:
    Standard Plumbing Fixtures – The Fiberloid Corporation – Waltham Watches – Carter’s Ink – Story and Clark Piano Company illustrated by F.R. Harper – Holeproof Hosiery illustrated by Coles Phillips – Romance Chocolates illustrated by Norman Rockwell – Whittall Rugs for Fine Homes- American Piano Homes – Ground Gripper Walking Shoes – American Radiator Company featuring Nathan Hale as illustrated by Herbert Paus – Texaco – Firestone – Underwood Portable Typewriter illustrated by Ernest Hamlin Baker – Plus several black & white ads, which are by far the majority

    1923-05 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1923/05 —

  • Frontispiece in Color – Illustration for “Prelude” by Mead Schaeffer
  • Hollywood : An American State of Mind by Katharine Fullerton Gerould
  • “Irony” — A poem by Margaret Widdemer
  • “Mr. Cardeezer” — A story by Edwina Stanton Babcock and illustrated by H.J. Mowat
  • “After Commendation” — A poem by J.H. Davies
  • The Universe and Life by Harlow Shapley
  • The Drama as I See It — “The Greek Drama” — by Stephen Leacock and illustrated by John Held, Jr.
  • South, for Water — No. 2: By Way of Gibralter — by Arthur Sturges Hildebrand — Illustrated with photographs
  • “The Struggle” — A poem by Louis Untermeyer
  • “Lovers’ Meeting — A story by V.H. Friedlaender
  • The Last Savage by Walter Prichard Eaton and illustrated in tint by Walter King Stone
  • Sonnets from an Ungrafted Tree by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • “Prelude” — A story by Edgar Valentine Smith and illustrated by Mead Schaeffer
  • Salvaging the Creators by Rollo Walter Brown
  • “The Happy Isles” — A serial, Part 3 — by Basil King and illustrated by John Alonzo Williams
  • The Lion’s Mouth
  • Editor’s Easy Chair by Edward S. Martin
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Business and Financial Conditions by John Grant Dater

    • Advertising in color is as follows:
    Nettledon – Colgate – Dunlop Tire and Rubber Corp. – Chas. Kaufman & Bros. – Cantrell & Cochrane Ginger Ale – Samuel Cabot, Inc. – Onondaga Pottery Company – Story & Clark Piano Company illustrated by F.R. Harper – Dunlap Hats – Firestone – Texaco – American Radiator Company featuring Thomas Jefferson as illustrated by Herbert Paus – Plus several black & white ads, which are by far the majority

    1859-03 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1859/03 —

  • Mount Vernon As It Is
  • Croton Water And Its Inhabitants
  • Joy To The Bride
  • Vasco Nunez De Balboa
  • Twilight
  • Single Life Among Us
  • What Was It? A Mystery
  • The Silent Spectre
  • My Intimate Enemy
  • My Valentines
  • Nest Of Nightingales
  • Mr. Sharply Again
  • The Virginians — Chapters 61-63 — by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Wanted – Saint Patrick
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Foreign Bureau
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Substance And Shadows
  • Fashions For March
  • Matter Of Life And Death

    • 1869-01 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1869/01 —

  • The Silent City at Greenwood by J. D. Sherwood
  • The Buffalo Range by Theo R. Davis
  • Editor’s Book Table
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Paul Du Chaillu Again by Alfred H. Guernsey
  • South Coast Saunterings in England by M. D. Conway
  • Learning Common-Sense
  • My Old Woman and I by John Brougham
  • Chivalrous and Semi-Chivalrous Southrons by J. W. De Forest
  • My Visit to Utopia by Mrs. E. T. Corbett

  • A Public Building by Harriett Prescott Spofford
  • A Christian’s Creed
  • The New Timothy — Part 8 — by William M. Baker
  • The Bishops of Rome by Eugene Lawrence
  • The Murder of Escovedo
  • My Enemy’s Daughter — Chapters 1-4 — by Justin McCarthy
  • Abbas Pacha of Egypt by Edwin De Leon
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Book Table
  • Monthly Record of Current EventsEditor’s Drawer

    • 1869-05 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

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  • Christopher Columbus by J. S. C. Abbott
  • Magdalen by Harriett Prescott Spofford
  • Glass-Blowing for Little Folks by Louise E. Chollet
  • Sacred City of the Hindus by Henry M. Alden
  • A Sin of Omission by Mary N. Prescott
  • Both Sides by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
  • Daguerreotypes of Webster, Clay, Etc. by T. B. Thorpe
  • The Plains – As I Crossed Them Ten Years Ago by Horace Greeley
  • The Working-Men of the Middle Ages by Eugene Lawrence
  • Eve of St. Bartholomew
  • My Enemy’s Daughter — Chapters 14-15 — by Justin McCarthy
  • A Brave Lady by Dinah Mulock Craik
  • Evening Rest by L. D. Nichols
  • Philly and the Rest by Mary E. Dodge
  • Deep-Sea Sounding by Jacob Abbott
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Book Table
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1872-01 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

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  • The Legend of the Mistletoe by Mrs. Mary T. Waggaman
  • Holland and the Hollanders — Part 1 — by Junius Henri Browne
  • A Stranger In the Pew by Mrs. Mary E. Dodge
  • From a Barn to Drury Lane by S. S. Conant
  • The Danish West Indies by Mrs. S. B. Hynes
  • The Singer and the Song by H. R. Hudson
  • A Visit To a Greenland Glacier by Dr. Isaac I. Hayes
  • The Mysterious Case of My Friend Browne by Julian Hawthorne
  • A Good Investment by William J. Flagg
  • A Merry Christmas by Constance F. Woolson
  • A Cup of Coffee by Schele De Vere
  • The Snow-bird by D. R. Castleton
  • Is Alaska a Paying Investment? by W. H. Dall
  • The Poetry of the Zodiac by Benson J. Lossing
  • The Reverend Sampson’s Christmas Gift by Mrs. Frank M’Carthy
  • Quiet Life In Some Danish Towns by Clemens Petersen
  • Miserere by John G. Saxe
  • The Little Saints by Jane G. Austin
  • The Growth of Our Theories of the Weather by Edward Howland
  • The Winter Wedding by Annie D. Green
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Scientific Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1872-02 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1872/02 —

  • The Scott Centenary at Edinburgh by M. D. Conway
  • Holland and the Hollanders — Part 2 — by Junius Henri Browne
  • A Good Investment by William J. Flagg
  • English In School by William Atkinson
  • King Midas’s Granddaughter by Frank Lee Benedict
  • Dame Nature by Miss H. R. Hudson
  • Old Books in New York by William C. Prime
  • Building a House With a Tea-cup by Mrs. S. C. Hall
  • The Days of Queen Anne by Eugene Lawrence
  • A Curious Prediction by Edward Spencer
  • The Golden Lion of Granpere — Part 1 — by Anthony Trollope
  • The Pay-roll of Christendom by Dr. Samuel Osgood
  • Wedding Presents by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford
  • The Story of Francoise by Katharine S. Macquoid
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Scientific Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1872-03 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

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  • The United States Treasury Department by Colonel T. B. Thorpe
  • The Message by Mrs. E. B. Stoddard
  • Northern Bolivia and Its Amazon Outlet by Col. G. E. Church
  • Naval Architecture Past and Present — Part 1 — by Allan D. Brown
  • To-morrow by Carl Spencer
  • The City of the Little Monk — Part 1 — by M. D. Conway
  • The Wines of Syria by Rev. J. L. Lyons
  • A Good Investment by William J. Flagg
  • Negro Life in Jamaica by G. O. Seilhamer
  • A Case of Vitrification by J. W. De Forest
  • The Roman Capitol by Eugene Lawrence
  • Gottfried’s Success by Ruth Dana
  • The Golden Lion of Granpere — Part 2 — by Anthony Trollope
  • A Japanese Statesman at Home by E. H. House
  • Star and Candle by Julian Hawthorne
  • Sonnet (With a Letter) by John G. Saxe
  • The Old Ottoman and the Young Turk by Edwin De Leon
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Scientific Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1872-04 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

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  • The City of the Little Monk — Part 2 — by M. D. Conway
  • A Monument by Carl Spencer
  • The Mountains — Part 1 — by Porte Crayon
  • Naval Architecture Past and Present — Part 2 — by Allan D. Brown
  • The Story of Tammany — Part 1: How It Was Made a Political Power — by Rufus Home
  • The Bread-crumb Artist by Mrs. C. A. Merighi
  • The Social Palace At Guise by Edward Howland
  • Does He Love Me? by N. C. Ketchum
  • A Good Investment by William J. Flagg
  • Aunt’s New House by Katharine G. Ware
  • William Wilberforce by A. R. Macdonough
  • The Answer by Lillian Clarke
  • The Golden Lion of Granpere — Part 3 — by Anthony Trollope
  • Little Martin Craghan by Zadel Barnes Buddington
  • Music Emotion and Morals by Rev. H. W. Haweis
  • The Last of the De Launays by Kate Putnam Osgood
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Scientific Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer