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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

    • 1924-10 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for October 1924

    1924/10 — Contents as follows:

  • Arsenals of Hatred by Duncan Aikman
  • Notes of an Amateur Father by Chester T. Crowell
  • Masterpiece — A Story by Robert B. Garey
  • Editorial
  • The Yankee in Paris by Vincent O’Sullivan
  • The Question of Racial Purity by Franz Boas
  • Americana
  • Why Men Leave Kansas by Charles B. Driscoll
  • The Dilemma of the Negro by W.E.B. DuBois
  • Walt Whitman on Himself – From the Diary of Horace Traubel
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken
  • Government by Yokel by Orville A. Welsh

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • On Literary Groups by Maxwell Bodenheim

  • The Advantage of Senator La Follette by Alexander Harvey
  • Birth Control: An Unsolved Problem by Morris Dishbein
  • The Sentimentalist — A Story by Ben Hecht
  • Devastated Regions by Lewis Mumford
  • Highway Personages by Isaac R. Pennypacker
  • Wells of Correct Thought by Bruce Gould
  • Notes on the Vernacular by Louise Pound
  • The Railroads on the Griddle by Richard Hoadley Tingley
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken

    • 1924-09 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for September 1924

    1924/09 — Contents as follows:

  • The Anglo-Saxon Myth by Henry J. Ford
  • Song Tournament: New Style — A Poem by Louis Untermeyer
  • Voila, Anatole France by Jean-Jacques Brousson
  • A Start in Life — A Story by Ruth Suckow
  • The Japanese Bugaboo by David Warren Ryder
  • Editorial
  • Morals in the Two-A-Day by Marian Spitzer
  • Americana
  • The Statesman as Artist by Duncan Aikman
  • Fads in Health Legislation by Morris Fishbein
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken
  • The Devil’s Advocate by R.F. Dibble

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Koussevitsky by Ernest Newman
  • What Is Disease? by Paul H. DeKruif
  • Architecture and the Machine by Lewis Mumford – 3-1/2 pages
  • Mr. Durant — A Story by Dorothy Parker
  • American Portraits – 7: The Country Banker by Charles B. Driscoll
  • A Boyhood in the Bush by Thomas J. LeBlanc
  • The Law: First Year by William Seagle
  • Hunting Bolsheviks in 1798 by Henry Elmer Barnes
  • Gentlemen All by D.R. Potter
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken

    • 1924-08 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for August 1924

    1924/08 — Contents as follows:

  • Mr. Coolidge by Frank R. Kent
  • The Gates of Tamerlane — A Story by Achmed Abdullah
  • Godey’s Lady’s Book by Richard Fay Warner
  • Canned Music and the Composer by Harry B. Smith
  • The Trial of the Dead Cleopatra — A Poem by Vachel Lindsay
  • The Ordeal of Prohibition by Clarence S. Darrow
  • A Note on Tights by Carl Van Vechten
  • Americana
  • El Paso by Owen P. White
  • American Portraits – 6: The Advertising Agent by Orrick Johns
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken
  • The Mercy of God by Theodore Dreiser

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Jazz by Virgil Thomson
  • Cavalry in Modern War by G.A. Moore
  • The Books of Dard Hunter by Nelson Antrim Crawford
  • The Inquiring Mind by Zechariah Chafee, Jr.
  • Pariah — A Story by Chester T. Crowell
  • A Forgotten American Statesman by Milledge L. Bonham, Jr. about Edward Livingston
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken

    • 1924-07 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for July 1924

    1924/07 — Contents as follows:

  • The Presidency by Charles C. Thach
  • Champion of Champions by R.F. Dibble is about John L. Sullivan – 7 pages
  • M’Liss and Louie — A Poem by Carl Sandburg
  • The Devil Born in Them – A Story by Chester T. Crowell
  • Editorial
  • Stanley Hall – A Memory by A.E. Hamilton
  • Americana
  • Mr. Munsey by Robert L. Duffus
  • Where the Law Fails by Homer H. Cooper
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken
  • American Portraits – 5: Babbitt Emeritus by Parkhurst Whitney
  • Whitman on His Contemporaries — From the Camden Diary of Horace Traubel

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Insect vs. Insect by H.M. Parshley
  • The Gods of Modern Music by W.J. Henderson
  • The Wages of Peace by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
  • The Dutch on the Delaware by Isaac R. Pennypacker
  • The American Chemist by L.M. Hussey
  • The Mouse — A Story by May Freud Dickenson
  • Saving Souls by Gerald W. Johnson
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken

    • 1924-06 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for June 1924

    1924/06 — Contents as follows:

  • The Righteous Perish by Mary Alden Hopkins
  • Call for a Literary Historian by Fred Lewis Pattee
  • Absolution — A Story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Rise and Fall of Homeopathy by Morris Fishbein
  • Editorial
  • The Black Duck Dinner by James Stevens
  • Americana
  • Satan in the Dance-Hall by Gregory Mason
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken
  • The English of the Negro by George Philip Krapp
  • This City Wind — A Sonnet by Leonora Speyer
  • Passing — A Sonnet by David Morton
  • American Journalism Today by Chester T. Crowell

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Walt Whitman and the Aristidean by Thomas Ollive Mabbott
  • What Is a Race? by Melville J. Herskovits
  • The Training of the Soldier by Arlington B. Conway
  • American Portraits — 4: Medicine Doctor by L.M. Hussey
  • International Languages by Albert leon Guerard
  • The War Against Birth Control by Margaret Sanger
  • The Senate’s Last Leader by Charles Willis Thompson
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken

    • 1924-05 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for May 1924

    1924/05 — Contents as follows:

  • The Peace Myth by Virgil Jordan
  • John Ruskin by Frank Harris
  • The Case of Bedrich Zatloukal — A Story by Paul Tanaquil
  • Editorial
  • The American Cigar by Carl Avery Werner
  • Watson of Indiana by John W. Owens
  • The Right to Consolation by William Seagle
  • Americana
  • Modern American Printing by Harry Lyman Koopman
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken
  • Lowell by C. Hartley Grattan
  • The South and the Offensive by Gerald W. Johnson

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Mathematics in the United States Today by R.D. Carmichael
  • Alfred Stieglitz and His Work by Herbert J. Seligmann

  • The Campaign of B.C. 588-86 by K.C. McIntosh
  • Rachel and Her Children — A Story by Frances Newman
  • American Books in France by Lewis Galantiere
  • The Substance of Poetry by John McClure
  • Pedagogue: Old Style by James M. Cain
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken

    • 1924-03 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for March 1924

    1924/03 — Volume 1, Number 3

    Contents as follows:

  • Cretheus and the Lions by Stephen French Whitman
  • The John Brown Myth by Leland H. Jenks
  • Chautauqua – Its Technic by Gregory Mason
  • Reflections of a Bible-Reader by Arthur Davison Ficke

  • Six Orchestral Conductors by D.W. Sinclair
  • Editorial
  • John Maroufaz and His Sons — A Story by W.L. George
  • Americana

  • Every Science an Exact Science by Vilhjalmur Stefansson
  • The Two Tafts by Charles Willis Thompson
  • Mansfield Park and America by Arthur Bingham Walkley
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken
  • Portrait of an Old Mother — A Poem by Alice Mary Kimball

  • Byron in America by Samuel C. Chew
  • American Portraits – 2: The Washington Job-Holder by Harvey Ferguson
  • The Sire of Kiwanis by William Feather
  • Spanish Nights’ Entertainment by C.E. Bechhofer

  • The American View of Politics by Johan J. Smertenko
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken

    • Reviews by Other Hands:

  • The Popularization of Science by H.M. Parshley
  • Walter von Molo by Friedrich Schonemann

    • 1924-02 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for February 1924

    1924/02 — Volume 1, Number 2

    Contents as follows:

  • All God’s Chillun Got Wings — A Play by Eugene O’Neill
  • The Grammarian and His Language by Edward Sapir
  • The Part-Time Missionary by Howell Sykes
  • Editorial
  • Caught — A Play by Sherwood Anderson

  • Americana
  • Pinchot by Charles Willis Thompson
  • More Light on Whitman by Emory Holloway
  • Osteopathy by Morris Fishbein
  • American Portraits — 1: The Labor Leader by James M. Cain
  • Clincal Notes by H.L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan
  • The Ku-Kluxer by Gerald W. Johnson
  • Panorama by John McClure

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • Alcohol and the Duration of Life by Raymond Pearl

  • Modern First Editions by George H. Sargent
  • The American Painter by Guy Eglington

  • Heredity and the Uplift by H.M. Parshley
  • Carrying Civilization to Mexico by Carleton Beals
  • The Comic Patriot by Carl Van Doren
  • A Note on Shakespeare by Leon Kellner
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken

    • Additional Book Reviews:

  • Origins of the Revolution by W.F. Robinson
  • The Case of Luther by John E. Lind

    • 1924-01 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for January 1924

    1924/01 — This issue is Volume 1, Number 1

    Contents as follows:

  • The Lincoln Legend by Isaac R. Pennypacker
  • Four Poems by Theodore Dreiser – 1) The Little Flowers of Love and Wonder; 2) Proteus; 3) For a Moment the Wind Died; 4) Take Hands
  • Stephen Crane by Carl Van Doren
  • Four Generations by Ruth Suckow
  • Huneker on Huneker by James Gibbons Huneker
  • Editorial
  • The Drool Method in History by Harry E. Barnes
  • Mr. Moore and Mr. Chew by Sameul C. Chew
  • Americana
  • Aesthete: Model 1924 by Ernest Boyd
  • The Tragic Hiram by John W. Owens
  • Two Years of Disarmament by Miles Martindale
  • Santayana at Cambridge by Margaret Munsterberg
  • Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken
  • The Communist Hoax by James Oneal
  • The Weaver’s Tale by John McClure

    • The Arts and Sciences:

  • The New Sky-Line by C. Grant La Farge
  • The Pother About Glands by L.M. Hussey
  • The Test of English by George Philip Krapp
  • Sweeney’s Grail by Leonard Lanson Cline
  • The New Thought by Woodbridge Riley
  • On a Second-Rate War by X–
  • The Theatre by George Jean Nathan
  • The Library by H.L. Mencken

    • Additional Book Reviews:

  • Once More, the Immortals by James Branch Cabell
  • Brandes and Croce by Ernest Boyd
  • Brazil from Within by Isaac Goldberg

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 1927-10 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

    • 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

    • 1928-07 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 1929-12 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

    • 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