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1899-10 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

1899/10 — Contents taken from the index found on the front cover are as follows:

  • Frontispiece — The Young Mother – by M.B. Parkinson
  • English Court Beauties by T. Cunliffe-Owen
  • A Horse-Swapping Convention by William M. Brewer
  • Christian Science and the Book of Mrs. Eddy by Mark Twain – 10 full pages of text
  • The Dead – A poem by J.A. Edgerton
  • Lady Mary’s Mistake by Maarten Maartens with drawings by R.J. Campbell
  • The Parting – A poem by John Vance Cheney

  • Great Industries of the United States — Zinc – Mining by Frank Eberle
  • The Stage in Mexico and Its Favorites by Thomas Brown
  • The Group-Gatherers by Ninetta Eames
  • The Care of Young Children – Prize Article by Helen O. Anderson, M.D.
  • The Lady in the Box by Frank R. Stockton
  • Out of the Shadow by Elmore Elliott Peake
  • The Bonapartes of To-Day by Prince Fabien Colonna

  • Candy-Making at Home by Marion R. Lee
  • Cagliostro-Necromancer, Hypnotist and Charlatan by Henry Ridgely Evans
  • An Arizona Episode
  • What Work Is by Charlotte Perkins Stetson
  • A Plan for the Organization of National Clearing House Bank by John Brisben Walker

  • Some Examples of Recent Art
  • Quarter-page ad for the Winton Motor Phaeton motor card

    • 1940-11 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1940/11 — Cover design “De Luxe Model” by Bradshaw Crandell
    Contents taken from the index and from paging through the issue are as follows:

    BOOK-LENGTH NOVEL:

  • Somwhere I’ll Find You by Charles Hoffman and illustrated by E.M. Jackson

    • TEN SHORT STORIES:

  • The Other Ten by Francis Wallace and illustrated by Michael Dolas
  • Air Mail to Red Riding Hood by Vina Delmar
  • Birthday Gift by Jean Dupont Miller
  • Half-Baked Alaska by Albert Rice and illustrated by Robert Patterson
  • The Bronzes of Martel Greer by Thyra Samter Winslow and illustrated by Tom Webb
  • Horse Show Ball by Sarah-Elizabeth Rodger and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb
  • Postscript by Frank R. Adams and illustrated by Armando Seguso
  • People Are An Uncommonly Bad Lot by W.E. Brandon and illustrated by Dan Content
  • The Star That Fell by Edison Marshall and illustrated by J.W. Schlaikjer
  • Charm by Grace Zaring Stone and illustrated by Walter M. Baumhofer

    • THREE SERIALS:

  • Tiger Milk — Part I — by David Garth and illustrated by John Falter
  • And New Stars Burn — Part V — by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by McClelland Barclay
  • The Strange War of Hiram Holliday — Conclusion by Paul Gallico and illustrated by Tom Lovell

    • TEN ARTICLES:

  • Cosmopolite of the Month: Byron C. Foy by Percy Waxman
  • Coming Home by W.L. White
  • Personal Exposures by Rex Beach
  • The Pan American Way by Stuart Chase
  • Her Blood Works Miracles by Walter Livingston
  • Streamline and Safe Way by Artie McGovern
  • The Hazards of Night Life by Ted Shane
  • Inside the Trojan Horse by Donald E. Keyhoe and John Jay Daly
  • Moving–Now and Then by Mary Margaret McBride
  • The Most Thrilling Football Game I Ever Saw by Bill Corum

    • FIVE SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • Over the Editor’s Shoulder
  • Letters
  • New Pictures You’ll Want to See
  • Fashions in Fiction
  • Educational Guide

    • 1941-05 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1941/05 — Cover design “Wings” by Bradshaw Crandell
    Contents taken from the index and from paging through the issue are as follows:

    NOVELETTE:

  • Twilight in Monte Carlo by Louis Bromfield and illustrated by Pruett Carter

    • SIX SHORT STORIES:

  • Slippers for Cinderella by Paul Gallico and illustrated by Jon Whitcomb
  • Dead Man’s Shoes by Donald Barr Chidsey and illustrated by Courtney Allen
  • A Pair of Silk Stockings by Jay Wilson and illustrated by Martin Burniston
  • It’s a Wise Wife by Frances Oglivie and illustrated by Stanley Parkhouse
  • Tough Assignment II: The Simplest Way by Joseph Harrington and illustrated by Charles Bryson
  • Hunger in the Heart by Harold Titus and illustrated by Carl Mueller

    • THREE SERIALS:

  • The Other Woman — Part I — by Isabel Moore and illustrated by John Clymer
  • Saratoga Trunk — Part II — by Edna Ferber and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • A Week in New York — Conclusion — by Margaret Culkin Banning and illustrated by George Evans

    • EIGHT ARTICLES:

  • Yo Hoe Hoe! by John Christopher
  • Cosmopolite of the Month: Valentina by Francis Sill Wickware
  • Maturity by Fannie Hurst
  • Pan-American Powerhouse by Charles E. Hewitt, Jr. is about 32-year-old Nelson A. Rockefeller
  • Repackage Yourself! by Dorothy Draper
  • The Picket Fence by I.A.R. Wylie
  • What! No Spinach? by Dean Jennings
  • Rockabye, Daddy by Jack Alan

    • TEN SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • Over the Editor’s Shoulder
  • The Cosmopolitan Family Quiz
  • Safety First by Paul Kearney
  • How Did It Start? by Louis Renault
  • Speaking of Sports by John Kieran
  • New Pictures You’ll Want to See
  • Poems by Carrington Lane
  • Fashions in Fiction
  • Letters
  • Educational Guide and Camp Directory

    • THE COMPLETE SHORT NOVEL:

  • Temporary Address–Reno: Repent at Leisure by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by McClelland Barclay

    • THE NONFICTION BOOK DIGEST:

  • Crime Is My Business by Raymond C. Schindler

    • THE COMPLETE BOOK-LENGTH NOVEL:

  • The People vs. Dr. Kildare by Max Brand

    • 1942-11 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1942/11 — Cover girl, Joan Bennett, by Bradshaw Crandell
    Contents taken from the index and from paging through the issue are as follows:

    NOVELETTE:

  • A Matter of Honor by Vina Delmar and illustrated by Dean Cornwell

    • SIX SHORT STORIES:

  • Say It With Flowers by Nancy Moore and illustrated by Michael
  • Wings of the Wind by Paul Gallico and illustrated by John Clymer
  • Remember Me? by Hilda Sidney and illustrated by Irving Nurick
  • Let’s Try Again by Marion Baxter Taylor and illustrated by Arthur Sarnoff
  • It’s A Woman’s World by Isabel Moore and illustrated by Harry Anderson
  • Daughter of Pleasure by Adela Rogers St. Johns and illustrated by Alfred Parker

    • TWO SERIALS:

  • The Long Way Round — Part III — by Pearl S. Buck and illustrated by Pruett Carter
  • Mrs. Parkington — Conclusion — by Louis Bromfield and illustrated by Tom Lovell

    • ELEVEN ARTICLES:

  • The Cosmopolite of the Month: Joan Fontaine by Lupton A. Wilkinson
  • Small Town Stuff by Inez Robb
  • Last Man Off Bataan by Col. Carlos P. Romulo
  • The Girls They Left Behind Them–Should They Have Dates? by Philip Wylie and Sarah-Elizabeth Rodger
  • How to Relax by Robert Benchley
  • Gin Rummy by Jack Alan
  • My First Date by Four Hollywood Starlets (Marjorie Reynolds, Maria Montez, Jean Rogers, Susan Hayward)
  • What Is Jazz? by George Frazier

  • What Impression Do You Make?
  • Doctor, Please Hurry! by Gretta Plamer

    • TWELVE SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • What’s Going On by F.L.R.
  • Vitamin V — Poem by Norman R. Jaffray
  • 24 Hours Heave by Lt. Jon Whitcomb, USNR
  • Axis Blunders in Air Strategy by Mar. Alexander P. de Seversky
  • The Cosmopolitan Family Quiz
  • Woodman, Spare Those Tease — Poem by Ogden Nash
  • New Pictures You’ll Want to See
  • Murder on the Gridiron by Harry A. Stuhldreher
  • Fashions in Fiction by Lee Russell
  • My Favorite Champion by Bob Considine
  • Educational Guide
  • Christmas Mail for Our Armed Forces Abroad — Postmaster General Frank C. Walker

    • FROM THE FIGHTING FRONTS:

  • Flight Surgeon by Maj. Robert Lateiner, USAAF as told to Donald E. Keyhoe
  • Ranger for a Day by Larry Meier
  • The Woman in Cairo — A Story — by Eloise Barrangon and illustrated by Armando Seguso

    • COMPLETE SHORT NOVEL:

  • Washington, USA III — Lady in Danger by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by McClelland Barclay

    • THE COMPLETE BOOK-LENGTH NOVEL:

  • Secret Mission by Bernard Seeman and illustrated by E.M. Jackson

    • 1944-02 Cosmopolitan Magazine Contents

    1944/02 — Cover design “Lady With Red Hair” by Bradshaw Crandell
    Contents taken from the index and from paging through the issue are as follows:

    NOVELETTE:

  • Since You’ve Been Away by Gertrude Schweitzer and illustrated by Perry Peterson

    • EIGHT SHORT STORIES:

  • Sailor, Take Care! by Royal Brown and illustrated by Earl Cordrey
  • I’m a Stranger Here Myself! by Matt Taylor and illustrated by George Hughes
  • Lost and Found by Rita Weiman and illustrated by Tom Lovell
  • Care: Fleet Postmaster by Lindsay Neal
  • Return Engagement–The Lieutenant and the Wac by Mary Hastings Bradley and illustrated by Michael
  • Situation Well in Hand by Vina Delmar and illustrated by Phil Dormont
  • Dance Program by Faith Baldwin and illustrated by Alex Ross
  • The Ghost of Freeman Clarke by Katherine Albert and illustrated by Barbara Schwinn

    • TWO SERIALS:

  • The Real Thing — Part I — by Pearl S. Buck with painting by Hardie Gramatky and illustrated by Pruett Carter
  • Boardwalk — Conclusion — by Libbie Block and illustrated by Alfred Parker

    • EIGHT ARTICLES:

  • The Cosmopolite of the Month: Nancy Love by Morton Thompson
  • What’s New in New York by George Jean Nathan
  • Night Fighter Ace by Joseph Wechsberg
  • Home-Front Casualty List by Harry T. Brundidge
  • The Story Behind Italy’s Surrender by Clark Lee
  • The Defeat of Democracy by John Newton Baker
  • D.L. + YOU = $200,000,000 by Eleanor Harris is about Dorothy Lamour
  • Doctors on the Fighting Fronts by Albert Q. Maisel

    • EIGHT SPECIAL FEATURES:

  • What’s Going On by F.W.
  • Cosmopolitan’s Clothes Horse by Hinda Gould
  • Elmer Squee Takes a Pet to Sea by Lt. Richard L. Brooks, USNR
  • The Quiet One by Margaret Cousins
  • The Cosmopolitan Family Quiz
  • The Silver Star by Donald E. Keyhoe
  • New Pictures You’ll Want to See
  • Educational Guide

    • COSMOPOLITAN PREVIEW:

  • “While We Still Live” by Helen MacInnes and illustrated by Fred Ludekens

    • THE COMPLETE BOOK-LENGTH NOVEL:

  • Never Forget Spring by Margaret Weymouth Jackson and illustrated by Al Moore