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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

    • 1929-04 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

    • 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