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1934-06 American Mercury Magazine Contents

1934/06 — Contents as follows:

  • The Miners Fight Their Leaders by Tom Tippett
  • Taxation in America and England by Harold M. Groves
  • Flying Is Still Dangerous by Kenneth Brown Collings
  • Uncle Palli by Hilda Perini
  • Who Gets the Milk Profits? by Benjamin Horace Hibbard
  • I Recover from Sleeping Sickness by Eleanore Carey
  • Godfather to American Corruption by Esther Strachey
  • Playboy (to Alice B. Toklas) by Thomas Beer
  • Fascism in American Law by Carey McWilliams
  • The Home Medicine Chest by Jerome W. Ephraim
  • Hard Times Singing by Lowry C. Wimberly
  • The Political System of Russia by G.D.H. & Margaret Cole
  • The Inside of the Gambling Industry by Joe Bigelow
  • Aryans and Non-Aryans by Franz Boas
  • The Musician Starves by Grace Overmyer
  • Scab! by Albert Halper

    • The State of the Union:

  • War Comes to the Workingmen’s Paradise by T.L. Morton
  • Georgia at Last Has a Good Governor by Peyre Gaillard

    • The Library:

  • The Lower Depths of Journalism by Charles Angoff
  • Ex Nihilo Nihil by Charles Angoff
  • The Golden Age of Opera by W.J. Henderson
  • A Liberty Looks at Revolution by Benjamin Stolberg
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Check List of New Books
  • Correspondence

    • 1933-08 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1933/08 — Contents as follows:

  • Lowell of Harvard by Charles Angoff
  • Jack Dempsey by Jim Tully
  • It Was Like This by Stanley Walker
  • Blessed Event in Vienna by Martha Foley
  • Americana
  • There Is a Land by Francis Hackett
  • Secret Saint by Alice Mulhern
  • On the Causes of Crime by Sheldon Glueck
  • The Pedagogues Hunt Indians by Flora Warren Seymour
  • Cadet Edgar Allan Poe, USA by Carlisle Allan
  • Twilight of a Golden Age by Ernest L. Mayer

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • The Mexican Cuisine by Marion Lay
  • New Antidotes for Some Old Poisons by Creston Collins
  • North Star by Bernice Kenyon
  • Notes on American Yiddish by George Wolfe
  • Childhood in a Mormon House by Louis W. Larsen
  • Pilgrim’s Progress by George Milburn
  • The Soap-Box
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Index to Volume XXIX
  • Check List of New Books

    • 1933-05 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1933/05 — Contents as follows:

  • What Is Going On in the World
  • America: 1933 by Eugene Davidson
  • The Old Guard Dies by William C. Murphy, Jr.
  • The Death-Rate in the Depression by W.W. Bauer
  • They Call Me a Monk by Brother Cajetan
  • Americana
  • Lest We Forget by M.B. Hamilton
  • The Man Who Looked Like Himself by Erskine Caldwell
  • The Americans in Ethiopia by Jerrold Robbins
  • The Siren by Jack Conroy

    • The State of the Union:

  • The Mississippi Swallows another Billion by John Alroy
  • A Gentleman in Politics by Isidor Feinstein
  • The Carillon Invades America by F.R. Webber

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Capital Punishment by Lethal Gas by Anthony M. Turano
  • Tidal Waves by Charles Fitzhugh Talman
  • Two Poems by Muna Lee
  • No-Account Accounting by Clifford B. Reeves
  • Magin in American Tattooing by Albert Parry
  • Censored by Lowry Charles Wimberly
  • The Soap-Box
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Check List of New Books
  • Editorial Note

    • 1933-03 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1933/03 — Contents as follows:

  • What Is Going On in the World
  • Paradise by James M. Cain –from the page about the authors: “James M. Cain is a former newspaper man, now living in California.” This story was published prior to Cain’s famous novels “The Postman Always Rings Twice” (1934) and “Double Indemnity” (1936)
  • Big Leaguer by John Fante –from the page about the authors: “John Fante was born in Denver, Colo., the son of an Italian father and an American-born mother. He studied at Regis College, a Jesuit institution at Denver, and the University of Colorado. He is now living in California”
  • Americana
  • Rehearsing for Baseball by Arthur Mann
  • The Facts of Life by Samuel Grafton
  • The Feud in the Rotunda by Albert Halper
  • Salvation for the Select by Frank Devine
  • Old Ladies by Margaret Widdemer

    • The State of the Union:

  • Getting Rid of the Mexican by Carey McWilliams
  • Super-Moses by Oliver Jenkins
  • A City That Might Have Been by George Seibel
  • The Clown as Lawmaker by William Seagle
  • In Praise of Islands by Frances Front
  • Prison Stupor by Victor Folke Newlson

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Victor Herbert & Rubato by Gustav Klemm
  • The Potato by Norman Taylor
  • The Catholics in the Revolution by Theodore Maynard
  • Wine from American Grapes by Philip Wagner
  • Fantasia Impromptu by Bejamin DeCasseres
  • Something Starting Over by Thomas Hornsby Ferril
  • The Soap-Box
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Check List of New Books
  • Lucky Strike ad on the back cover is illustrated by Penrhyn Stanlaws

    • 1931-09 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1931/09 — Contents as follows:

  • The Worst American State: Part I — by Charles Angoff & H.L. Mencken
  • Ohio Town by Hugh Hanley
  • A City Editor’s Testament by Stanley Walker
  • Editorials
  • American Folk Art by Holger Cahill
  • Laura Jean Libbey by Louis Gold
  • The Assassination of McKinley by Emma Goldman
  • Americana
  • A Jeeter Wedding by Dorothy Thomas
  • Yorktown, 1781 by Hoffman Nickerson

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • The Inventiveness of the American Indian by Robert H. Lowie
  • Continents Adrift by H.E. McKinstry
  • A Kentucky Crusader by Edwin Rogers Embree
  • Rio Grande — Part V. The Common Folk of the Valley by Harvey Fergusson

    • Music:

  • The Uses of Amateur Playing by Isaac Goldberg
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Check List of New Books
  • Editorial Notes
  • Lucky Strikes ad on back cover features Hazel Bofinger

    • 1931-08 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1931/08 — Contents as follows:

  • The Radio Octopus by Dane Yorke
  • The Beer Barons of New York by Gerald Holland
  • Leaves from a Waste-Basket
  • Our Street in Cuernavaca by Elizabeth Morrow
  • Uncle Sam’s Balleyhoo Men by J. Frederick Essary
  • Americana
  • The Finance Company Racket by Ulric Whitaker
  • Choral by Elizabeth Lindsay
  • The Democrats Must Go Native! by John Hemphill

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • The Brooklyn Bridge by Lewis Mumford
  • Sodium Amytal as an Anesthetic by J. Shirley Sweeney
  • Preparing for the Next War by Herbert Claiborne Pell
  • Senators Investigate Indians by Erna Fergusson
  • The Exquisite American by Theodore Maynard
  • Rio Grande: Part IV: The Rise and Fall of the Mountain Men by Harvey Fergusson
  • A Little Path of Glory by Robert Jeans
  • Music: MacDowell’s Protesting Demon by Edward Robinson
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Index to Volume XXIII
  • Check List of New Books
  • Editorial Notes

    • 1931-02 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1931/02 — Contents as follows:

  • Hard Winter by Jack Conroy
  • Evacuation Hospital by Louis Gold
  • A Pioneer Captain by H.L. Davis
  • Editorials
  • A Pretty Cute Little Stunt by George Milburn
  • Lydia Pinkham by Robert Collyer Washburn
  • The Case for Foreign Missions by Henry A. Perkins
  • Career of a Public Servant by W.A.S. Douglas
  • Americana
  • Wanted: A World Language by Edward Sapir
  • Grandma Gingersnap by Charles Sampson

    • The Arts and Sciences:
    Farmer Jones Goes to Law by Fred B. Morrill

  • Jules Pascin by Dorothy Adlow
  • The Stakes of ’32 by Arthur Krock
  • Hooraw for Vance! by Phillips Russell
  • Music: The “Hammerklavier” Sonata for Orchestra by Ernest Newman
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Check List of New Books
  • Editorial Notes

    • 1931-01 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1931/01 — Contents as follows:

  • The Young Doctor in New York by Lewis G. Arrowsmith
  • Stephen A. Douglas by Edgar Lee Masters
  • Your Home-Town Paper: Paris by Whit Burnett & Martha Foley
  • Editorials
  • Free Books by Matthew Paxton
  • Notes on Marriage by William F. Ogburn
  • School Days in the Gumbo by H.H. Lewis
  • Americana
  • Shakespeare’s New England by Dane Yorke
  • On Women as Housekeepers by Ralph Milne Farley

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • The Horizontal Challenges the Vertical by William E. Willner
  • The American Language Fights for Recognition in Moscow by Eli B. Jacobson
  • The Chiropractor by Albert Lindsay O’Neale, Jr.
  • Faith Cures for Unemployment by Abraham Epstein
  • A Knight Errant in Maine by Eric Sonnichsen

    • Music:

  • Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge: A Record by Alfred V. Frankenstein
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Check List of New Books
  • Editorial Notes

    • 1930-12 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1930/12 — Contents as follows:

  • Why I Do Not Become an American by Theodore Maynard
  • Lodge Doctor by Lewis G. Arrowsmith
  • Liberty and Democracy by Louis Le Fevre
  • Editorials
  • Bong Soir by Joel Sayre
  • Savonarola in Los Angeles by Duncan Aikman
  • Americana
  • Sex and the Bishops by Herbert Parrish
  • Oklahoma Note Book by George Milburn

    • The Arts and Science:

  • Cremation in the United States by George G. Whitehead
  • The Argot of the Racketeers by James P. Burke
  • American Church Builders by F.R. Webber
  • White on Black by Tess Slesinger
  • Tom Paine by William E. Dodd
  • Iron Man of the Saginaw by James Stevens
  • Mississippi Pledges Her Faith by Richard F. O’Toole

    • Music

  • Eye Music by Winthrop Parkhurst
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Index to Volume XXI
  • Check List of New Books
  • Editorial Notes

    • 1930-02 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1930/02 — Contents as follows:

  • The Twilight of Legislatures by Hoffman Nickerson
  • Water on the Wheat by H.L. Davis
  • What Is the Family Still Good For? by Edward Sapir
  • Editorials
  • Mass Psychologist by Henry F. Pringle
  • The War in the South by W.J. Cash
  • Americana
  • Reb Samuel by Michael Gold
  • Hurdles for the Hoover Commission by Howard Lee McBain

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • The Nurse and Her Patient by Hermine Kane
  • “Freemasons” Among North Dakota Indians by Robert H. Lowie
  • Mr. Jefferson’s University by Emily Clark
  • The Law of the Road by H.H. Sawyer
  • A Negro Looks Ahead by George S. Schuyler
  • Tom Reed by Benjamin DeCasseres
  • In Memoriam by Albert Stevens Crockett
  • Secrets of the Psyche by Arturo F. Razzi
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Check List of New Books

    • 1930-01 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1930/01 — Contents as follows:

  • The Centennial of Mormonism by Bernard DeVoto
  • A Mormon Boyhood by Neil Borgquist Musser
  • Overseas Americans by R.C. Brown
  • Editorial
  • The Eugenics Bugaboo by Warren S. Thompson
  • School-Books Free by H.E. Buchholz
  • Americana
  • The American Hotel by Jefferson Williamson
  • Healed by Harlan Miller

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • The Middle-Aged at Play by John B. Hawes, 2nd
  • The Newborn by I. Newton Kugelmass
  • A Town in Eastern Oregon by H.L. Davis
  • A Pioneer Bishop by Herbert Parrish
  • Report from North Carolina by Ben Dixon MacNeill
  • Three Moral Moments by Isaac Goldberg
  • Rich Port by Muna Lee
  • Rubber Stamp by Ward Greene
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Check List of New Books

    • 1929-12 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1929/12 — Contents as follows:

  • The Secretariat by A Washington Correspondent
  • Experience by Ruth Suckow
  • Citizenship by James M. Cain
  • Editorial
  • Saving Souls in Japan by Oland D. Russell
  • Apostle of Manifest Destiny by Bernard Mayo
  • Americana
  • Five El Paso Worthies by Owen P. White
  • Figaro Storms Athene by Maurice S. Sullivan
  • More Tales from Oklahoma by George Milburn
  • Language by Frances M. Frost

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • The Training of Soldiers by Arlington B. Conway
  • The Secretary by William Feather
  • Cow-Town Widows by H.L. Davis
  • He Hated Southern Gentlemen by Lloyd Lewis
  • Whitman as His Own Press Agent by Emory Holloway
  • Sometimes We Are Fooled by Eleanor Rowland Wembridge
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Index to Volume XVIII
  • Check List of New Books
  • Editorial Notes
  • “Earnings” Are in Season by Rudolph L. Weissman

    • 1929-08 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1929/08 — Contents as follows:

  • Black Ulysses Goes to War by Howard W. Odum
  • Heap Big Chief by A Washington Correspondent
  • A Moral Crisis in Banking by John Carter
  • Editorial
  • We Elect a Bishop by Nelson Antrim Crawford
  • Duke by Ben Dixon MacNeill
  • Americana
  • Testimonials–Mainly Medical by Arthur J. Cramp

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Floggin the Ether by Genevieve Cain
  • Skin-Grafting by Harold E. Hullsiek
  • The Conflict of Divorce Laws by Anthony M. Turano
  • Time Off by John B. Hawes, 2nd
  • Keeping the Negro In His Place by George S. Schuyler
  • Salvation at the Brink by Dean Clute
  • The Big Brother of the West by Alfred E. Prowitt
  • Walt Whitman in England by Harold Blodgett

  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Check List of New Books
  • Editorial Notes
  • the Investment Trust Again by Rudolph L. Weissman
  • Camel Cigarettes illustrated ad on back cover

    • 1929-04 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1929/04 — Contents as follows:

  • The Progressives of the Senate by A Washington Correspondent
  • The Will of the People by James M. Cain
  • Sapping Day by Jim Tully
  • Mrs. Kemper by Ruth Suckow
  • Editorial
  • The Discipline of Sex by Edward Sapir
  • Learning How to be Black by Albon L. Holsey
  • Americana
  • Renaissance in Hollywood by (R.E.) Robert Sherwood
  • Trial by Jury, or by Judge? by Sterline E. Edmunds
  • Horse-Car Days by Raymond S. Tompkins

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Modernism for Sale by Lewis Mumford
  • Literary Currents in Cuba by Isaac Goldberg
  • Walt Whitman’s Politics by Clifton Joseph Furness
  • An American Wrestles With God by Benjamin DeCasseres
  • Old Tuck by Meritt Wimberly
  • Nocturne at Noon–1605 by Thomas Hornsby Ferril
  • The Land of Laughs by Louis Adamic
  • Public School Mamas by Margaret Cobb
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Index to Volume XVI
  • Check List of New Books
  • Editorial Notes
  • Book Value by Rudolph L. Weissman

    • 1929-03 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1929/03 — Contents as follows:

  • The Nervous American by Harvey O’Higgins
  • Americanization in Samoa by Margaret Mead –from the page about the authors: “Margaret Mead, Ph.D. (Columbia), is assistant curator of ethology at the American Musuem of Natural History, and is now in New Guinea, where she is making a study of the pre-school child under primitive conditions. She is the author of “Coming of Age in Samoa.”
  • More Money for Less Education by H.E. Buchholz
  • Editorial
  • Across the Color Line by M.S. Lea
  • The Twilight of the A.F. of L.
  • Buckets of Blood by Owen P. White
  • A Lubber Looks at the Sea by Samuel Hoffenstein
  • Americana
  • Back to the Land–Oregon, 1907 by H.L. Davis

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Blood Transfusion by Harold E. Hullsiek
  • Turning City Blocks Inside Out by Jacob L. Crane, Jr.
  • The Sports Section by William Henry Nugent
  • Kansas in Labor by Charles B. Driscoll
  • Fool by John Huston –from the page about the authors: “John Huston is the son of Walter Huston, the actor, and Rhea Huston Stevens, a New York newspaper woman. He was born in Missouri and has lived in New York, Los Angeles and Mexico City.”
  • Bible Engineers by Arturo F. Ratti
  • A Literary Swell by Granville Hicks
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Check List of New Books
  • Editorial Notes
  • Business and Stock Market Forecasting by Rudolph L. Weissman
  • Ad for Lucky Strikes on back cover features Rosalie Adele Nelson, the Original Lucky Poster Girl

    • 1929-02 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1929/02 — Contents as follows:

  • The Presidential Succession by H.H. Sawyer
  • The Sad Case of Porto Rico by Luis Munoz Marin
  • Old Man Isbell’s Wife by H.L. Davis
  • Editorial
  • Are We Solving the Traffic Problem? by Raymond S. Tompkins
  • Dry Texas by Albert Linsay O’Neil Jr.
  • Grande Dame by John Armstrong
  • Americana
  • There’s Women in Portland by B. Virginia Lee
  • Some New Whitman Letters by Emory Holloway
  • Ann to Gwendolyn by Muriel Moore
  • Jackdaw in Peacock’s Feathers by Malvina Lindsay
  • Harrigan and Hart–and Braham by Isaac Goldberg
  • Is Compulsory Education Justified? by Knight Dunlap
  • Ambrose Bierce by Cary McWilliams
  • The Making of Modern Armies by Elbridge Colby
  • Station B-U-N-K by H. Le B. Bercovici
  • Two Sonnets by S. Bert Cooksley

  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Check List of New Books
  • Editorial Notes
  • Foreign Securities by Rudolph L. Weissman
  • Camel Cigarettes illustrated ad on back cover

    • 1928-10 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1928/10 — Contents as follows:

  • Why Poker Was Invented by James Stevens
  • Women as Jurors by H.H. Sawyer
  • Health Audits by Logan Clendening
  • Four Poems by Carl Sandburg – 1) Destroyers; 2) Foolish About Windows; 3) Epistle; 4) Boy Baby
  • Editorial
  • Psychology as Fortune-Teller by Arturo F. Ratti
  • Mid-Western Nights’ Entertainment by Marquis W. Childs
  • Americana
  • The Holy Rollers by Duncan Aikman

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Aboriginal Education in America by Robert H. Lowrie
  • Animal Mentality by Grace Adams
  • Italian Funeral by Giuseppe Cautela
  • Cousin Am and Cousin George by William Cobb
  • Gate-Crashers by John Armstrong
  • Peach Harvest by Charles Sampson
  • The Power-House by W.A.S. Douglas
  • A Christian Literatus by Granville Hicks

  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Check List of New Books
  • Editorial Notes
  • Camel Cigarettes illustrated ad on back cover

    • 1928-09 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1928/09 — Contents as follows:

  • The New Tammany by Joseph McGoldrick
  • A Test of Eugenics by Ellsworth Huntington
  • Two Songs by Muna Lee
  • Editorial
  • Preacher’s Wife by Merritt Wimberly
  • Americana
  • New England Does Not Choose by Dane Yorke
  • In Memoriam by Richmond Barrett
  • The Omnipotent Nine

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Popular Songs and their Piano Accompaniments by Isaac Goldberg
  • Bathing Through the Ages by Robert H. Lowie
  • Jailbirds by Jim Tully
  • The Meaning of Religion by Edward Sapir
  • Mulberry Street by F. Gregory Hartswick
  • The Labor Dailies by Earl W. Shimmons
  • The Soviet of Lady Patriots by Margaret Cobb
  • The First Smith of California by Helen Dwight Fisher
  • To Her Own Girlhood by Eda Lou Walton

  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Check List of New Books
  • Editorial Notes
  • Lucky Strike Cigarettes illustrated ad featuring Sir Harry Lauder on back cover

    • 1928-07 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1928/07 — Contents as follows:

  • The Virginians Are Coming Again by Vachel Lindsay
  • Shanty Irish by Jim Tully
  • The Money That Makes Presidents by Frank R. Kent
  • The Movies Tackle Literature by Leda V. Bauer
  • Editorial
  • If This Be Treason– by James Robinson
  • Making Justice Less Expensive by H.H. Sawyer
  • Americana
  • The Bohunks by Louis Adamic
  • Theological Interlude by James M. Cain

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Word Formation in the American Indian Languages by Robert H. Lowrie
  • Charles Peirce by Charles Angoff
  • Gas and Smoke by Elbridge Colby
  • Murphy by Isabel Paterson
  • Finale of the Wedding March by Charles B. Driscoll
  • Saint Andy by C. Hartley Grattan

  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Check List of New Books
  • Editorial Notes
  • Lucky Strike Cigarettes illustrated ad featuring Martin Johnson on back cover

    • 1928-05 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1928/05 — Contents as follows:

  • The Frail Sister of Medicine by Ralph Coghlan
  • The Great Papist Plot by W.A.S. Douglas
  • Written in Sand by Eda Lou Walton
  • Thieves and Vagabonds by Jim Tully
  • Editorial
  • Latin America Falls in Line by Genaro Arbaiza
  • The Rehabilitation of Whiskey by R.H. Towner
  • A Negro Looks at Race Prejudice by James Weldon Johnson
  • A New York Childhood by Catharine Brody
  • The First American Musician by Isaac Goldberg

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Cezanne and His Crowd by Rollin Kirby
  • The Language of the Underworld by Ernest Booth
  • Jim Tully by Sara Haardt
  • Watch-Dog of the Blue Laws by Elsie McCormick
  • Polemic Against Sobriety by Benjamin DeCasseres
  • Acres of Diamonds by W.C. Crosby
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Check List of New Books
  • Editorial Notes

    • 1928-04 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1928/04 — Contents as follows:

  • Notes of a Prohibition Agent by Homer Turner
  • Reflections of a Bootician by C.G. John
  • The Troubled Trolley by Raymond S. Tompkins
  • Editorial
  • Frank Norris, or, Up from Culture by Charles Caldwell Dobie
  • Jungle Justice by Jim Tully
  • Americana
  • Hymn to Satan by Benjamin DeCasseres
  • The Dean of Music by Karl Andrist

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Native Architecture in Southern California by Paul Edgar Murphy
  • Machine-Guns by An Army Officer
  • Falling Leaves on Yankee Hilltops by Walter Prichard Eaton
  • Raising the Big Wind by R.J. Prendergast
  • I Face a Jury of My Peers by Ernest Booth
  • Marsh Duck by Idwal Jones
  • The Anthropological Attitude by A.L. Kroeber

  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Index to Volume XIII
  • Check List of New Books
  • Editorial Notes
  • Camel Cigarettes illustrated ad on back cover

    • 1927-11 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1927/11 — Contents as follows:

  • The Biology of Superiority by Raymond Pearl
  • Egypt by W.A.S. Douglas
  • Tom Heflin by John W. Owens
  • A German Grandfather by Ruth Suckow
  • Editorial
  • Elegy in a Malty Mood by Benjamin DeCasseres
  • Officers of the Court by Horace A. Davis
  • Americana
  • A Texas Chain-Gang by Ernest Booth

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Heat or Heredity? by Emmett Reid Dunn
  • The Yugoslav Speech in America by Louis Adamic
  • Body’s Breviary by Joseph Warren Beach
  • The Gods Confused by Oliver H.P. Garrett
  • Deadwood the Dreadful by Duncan Aikman
  • Churches in the Moronic Mode by F.R. Webber
  • Flat Tires on the Farm by W.G. Clugston
  • Days of Wickedness by Herbert Asbury

  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Check List of New Books
  • Editorial Notes
  • Lucky Strikes Cigarettes illustrated ad on back cover

    • 1927-10 American Mercury Magazine Contents

    1927/10 — Contents as follows:

  • Red, White and Blue by James M. Cain
  • A Man of Heart by Arthur Strawn
  • Bull Horrors by Jim Tully
  • Evviva San Francisco by Idwal Jones
  • Editorial
  • Notes for a Comic History by George Seibel
  • Princes of the Press by Raymond S. Tompkins
  • The Braodway Mind by Benjamin De Casseres
  • Americana
  • The Passing of Vaudeville by W.A.S. Douglas
  • Under Which Flag? by Frdeerick Bausman

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • The Decline of Illustration by Thomas Craven
  • Quarter Tones–And Less by Grace Overmyer
  • Good Pals by Ruth Suckow
  • Lady Back-Slappers by Margaret Cobb
  • Footnote to the War of 1812 by Julius W. Pratt
  • Two-Head Doctors

  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken
  • The American Mercury Authors
  • Check List of New Books
  • Editorial Notes
  • Camel Cigarettes illustrated ad on back cover

    • 1924-12 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for December 1924

    1924/12 — Contents as follows:

  • The Christian Statesman by Edgar Lee Masters
  • The Grammarian — A Story by John McClure
  • Trial by Jury by Harry Elmer Barnes
  • Americana
  • Editorial
  • Therapeutic Thaumaturgy by Arthur J. Cramp
  • Congressional Letters by Hilton Butler
  • High Dignitaries of State by James M. Cain
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken

  • Conclusion — A Story by L.M. Hussey

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Modern Infantry by Elbridge Colby
  • The Ring That Rules Our Opera by Charles Henry Meltzer

  • As Latin America Sees Us by Isaac Goldberg
  • The Burden of the Cross by Don C. Seitz
  • A Whitman Manuscript by Emory Holloway
  • Why Go to College? by Richard Burton
  • This Being and Immigrant by George A. Schreiner
  • Varieties of Homo Sapiens by D.W. Fisher
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken

    • 1924-11 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for November 1924

    1924/11 — Contents as follows:

  • On Doing the Right Thing by Albert Jay Nock
  • Jesus and His Biographers by Alphonse B. Miller
  • The Uninvited — A Story by Thomas Boyd
  • Politician: Female by James M. Cain
  • The Liberty Bell by Henry J. Ford
  • Americana

  • Editorial

  • The Biology of Population Growth by Raymond Pearl
  • The Shroud of Color — A Poem by Countee P. Cullen

  • Clinical Notes by H.L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan
  • The Umbilical Cord by William Seagle
  • Nantucket by Walter Prichard Eaton

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • The Wood Alcohol Bugaboo by L.M. Hussey

  • The New Outlook in Weather Forecasting by Charles Fitzhugh Talman

  • Teaching the Young to Think by D.W. Fisher
  • William Kidd, Gentleman by Homer H. Cooper
  • More Wokr for Uplifters by James Stevens
  • The Hammer of Heretics by R.F. Dibble
  • Aesthetics: A Palaver by Lewis Mumford
  • Malaria by Thomas J. LeBlanc
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken