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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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 1929-12 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

    • 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

    • 1930-12 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 1931-09 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 1933-08 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