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1878-01 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1878/01 —

  • A Glimpse Of Prague by Mrs. J. W. Davis
  • Sappho — A Story by Mrs. C. V. Hamilton
  • Mike — A Story by Mary G. Morrisson
  • The Hot Springs of Arkansas by A. Van Cleef
  • On the Welsh Border by Wirt Sikes
  • Old Man Gram — A Poem by J. T. Trowbridge
  • Life On Broadway by William H. Rideing — 11 pages with 13 illustrations
  • The Fireside — A Poem by C. P. Cranch
  • How Barry Became a Hero — A Story by Marc E. Cook
  • Popular Exposition Of Some Scientific Experiments — Concluded by Dr. J. W. Draper
  • Within a Year — A Story in 3 Chapters by Augusta Stevens
  • A Turko-Russian War — A.D. 1828-1829 by J. W. De Forest
  • Break of Day — A Poem by Ellis Gray
  • A Year of American Travel — Concluded by Jessie Benton Fremont
  • The Scholar’s Sweetheart — A Poem by Edgar Fawcett
  • Christmas in Venice by Charlotte Adams
  • The Rose of Warning — A Poem by S. S. Conant
  • Da Capo — Concluded here with Chapters 6-12 — by Miss Thackeray
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Scientific Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1864-02 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1864/02 —

  • Simon Kenton by Robert E. Coleman with illustrations including of Daniel Boone
  • Monomoy by G. H. Ballou
  • A Woman’s Words by M. A. Lee
  • The Geometer or Measuring Worm by John J. Hicks
  • Episodic Farming by D. R. Castleton
  • The Three Watchers
  • The Small House at Allington –Chapters 46-48 of a serialized story by Anthony Trollope
  • A Historical Mystery
  • Edinburgh After Flodden by W. E. Aytoun
  • John Heathburn’s Title — Part 1 by Fitz Hugh Ludlow
  • The Siege of Louisburg by J. T. Headley
  • On the Stage by Frances Anne Kemble
  • Mehetabel Roger’s Cranberry Swamp by Charles Nordhoff
  • Picked Up by Mary N. Prescott
  • Four Days at Gettysburg by John Y. Foster – 7-1/2 pages, all text
  • Our Bridget by Harriet E. Prescott
  • A Gossip About Fires by S. W. G. Benjamin
  • Renan and His Book by John McClintock
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Fashions for February

    • 1884-11 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1884/11 —

  • Columbia College
  • A Day with Sir Joseph Hooker at Kew by Joseph Hatton
  • Norman Fisher-Folk by Mary Gay Humphreys
  • Chrysanthemums by John Thorpe
  • The Great Hall of William Rufus — Part 4 — by Treadwell Walden
  • The Poet’s Fame — A Poem by Florence M. Byrne
  • To a Haggis — A Poem by Robert Burns
  • The Acadian Tragedy by Francis Parkman
  • Three Quiet Ladies of the Name of Luce — A Story by Harriet Prescott Spofford
  • Sydney Smith by Andrew Lang
  • Nature’s Serial Story — PArt 12 — by E. P. Roe
  • The Art Competitions by F. D. Millet
  • Judith Shakespeare — Chapters 31-36 of a Novel by William Black
  • Grandmother’s Story by W. T. Davis
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1891-05 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1891/05 —

  • The Warwickshire Avon by A. T. Quiller Couch
  • In The “Stranger People’s” Country — Part 5 — by Charles Egbert Craddock
  • Mortality — A Poem by William Dean Howells
  • Some American Riders — First Paper by Colonel Theodore Ayrault Dodge U.S.A. with six illustrations from paintings by Frederic Remington
  • The Argentine People And Their Religious And Educational Institutions by Bishop J. M. Walden
  • A Batch Of Bread And A Pudding — A Story by A. B. Ward
  • The English Ancestry Of Washington by Moneure D. Conway
  • Wessex Folk — Part 3 by Thomas Hardy
  • The Salvation Army by Ven Archdeacon F. W. Farrar D.D.
  • The Republic Of Uruguay by Theodore Child
  • Over Johnson’s Grave — A Causerie by Walter Besant
  • Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady — A Story by Caroline Earl White
  • Golden Bubbles — A Poem by Robert Burns Wilson
  • Roman London by Eugene Lawrence
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Study
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Literary Notes by Laurence Hutton

    • 1878-02 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1878/02 —

  • Along Our Jersey Shore by William H. Rideing
  • The Fieschi Conspiracy by O. M. Spencer
  • A Return — A Poem by A. F.
  • Punished Enough — A Story by Mrs. R. B. Latimer
  • The Dunmow Flitch, 1877 by M. D. Conway
  • Joseph Mallord William Turner by Helen S. Conant
  • Macleod Of Dare — Chapters 1-3 of a novel by William Black
  • The Return Of the Native — Chapters 1-4 of a Novel by Thomas Hardy
  • The Turkish Wars With the Hospitalers by J. W. De Forest
  • A Glimpse At Some Of Our Charities — Part 1
  • Nobody’s Business — A Story by Horace E. Scudder
  • A Painter On Painting
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1878-08 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1878/08 —

  • The Golden Age of Engraving by F. Keppel
  • The White Sulphur Springs by John Esten Cooke
  • Aunt Eunice’s Idea — A Story by Henrietta H. Holdich
  • Shipwreck — A Poem by Z. D.
  • An Old-Fashioned Spa by Clara F. Morse
  • Manuel Menendez — A Story by Professor Charles Carroll
  • Who Knows? — A Poem by Anna C. Brackett
  • Birds and Plumage by Helen S. Conant
  • In a Cloud Rift — a Poem by Lucy Larcom
  • A Glimpse of Nature from My Veranda by General Egbert L. Viele
  • Macleod of Dare — Chapters 24-27 of a Novel by William Black
  • John Comprador by Thomas Knox
  • A Summer Day — A Poem by C. E. Brooks
  • The Return of the Native — Chapters 5-8 of a Novel by Thomas Hardy
  • The Cliffs at Newport — A Poem by Ruth Dana
  • Jenny Gridley’s Concession — A Story
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Scientific Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1933-08 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1933/08 —

  • Frontispiece – “Mr. Brown’s House” by Sanford Ross
  • The Crisis in Character by James Truslow Adams
  • Fox Hunt at Clonrue by Lord Dunsany
  • “Soldier” — A Poem by C.T. Lanham
  • The German Revolt Against Civilization by Ludwig Lewisohn
  • “Bequest” — A Poem by Lysbeth Boyd Borie
  • “The Betrothed” — A Story by Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  • Religion for a Scanty Band by T.L. Harris
  • The Ford in the Jungle by Wilson Follett
  • To My Sisters and Brothers — A Poem by John A. Holmes
  • They Call It Barter by George R. Leighton
  • “The Man Who Knew Everybody” — A Story by Harold Nicolson
  • The Great Man by Julian Rutledge
  • The Flamingoes — A Poem by Frederic Prokosch
  • Makers of the Martyrs by Elmer Davis
  • Catalogues — A Story by George Milburn
  • Sonnet — A Poem by Dorothy Seager
  • Expatriates in Time by Eugene Bagger
  • Time’s Absolute — A Poem by Mary Lapsley
  • Plus regular departments including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1935-06 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1935/06 —

  • Inflation–When and How? By John T. Flynn
  • A Little Night-Music by Gerald W. Johnson
  • Our Choice in the Far East by Nathaniel Peffer
  • “The Return” — A Poem by Lawrence Lee
  • Bargaining With Writers by Curtis Brown
  • Power and the Public by N.R. Danielian
  • Everything in the Window — A Story by I.A.R. Wylie
  • Why Automobile Accidents? by William Junkin Cox
  • They Are Moving to the Country by Philip Curtiss
  • The Road to Destitution by C. Hartley Grattan
  • The House on the Dunes — A Poem by Margaret Marks
  • Evening Meal — A Story by Evan Coombes
  • To Tell or Not to Tell by Eugene Lyons
  • Building the Big Dam by Theo White
  • In This Stern Hour — A Poem by Josephine Johnson
  • Plus regular departments including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1935-07 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1935/07 —

  • The Radicals’ Betrayal by Johan J. Smertenko
  • Jorkens Handles a Big Property — A Story by Lord Dunsany
  • Dust Blowing by Avis D. Carlson
  • Churchill, Margot Asquith, and Others by Curtis Brown
  • This Business of Monetary Control by Guy Greer
  • Music and the Movies by Douglas Moore
  • Men Like War by Leo C. Rosten
  • Dateline Vienna by John Gunther
  • “Debt” — A Story by Walter Gilkyson
  • Doctors, Patients, and the State by John A. Hartwell
  • Where Atahualpa Died by Carleton Beals
  • The Meat in the Agricultural Stew by Gove Hambidge
  • Plus regular departments including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1935-08 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1935/08 —

  • Gilbert and Sullivan — Part 1 by Hesketh Pearson
  • Chemistry Wrecks the Farm by Wayne W. Parrish and Harold F. Clark
  • The Home Place: Spring — A Story by Dorothy Thomas
  • Mars, His Idiot by H.M. Tomlinson
  • Fiction Tells All by Henry Seidel Canby
  • Parade of the Gravediggers by Stuart Chase
  • “When Doctors Agree” — A Story — by G.K. Chesterton
  • “Ask Not for Freedom” — A Poem by Robert Nathan
  • Songs of Destiny — Poems by Jesse Stuart
  • Half Slave, Half Free by George R. Leighton and Richard Hellman
  • They Raise Their Hats by Margaret Culkin Banning
  • Liberty–For What? by Alexander Meiklejohn
  • Plus regular departments including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1935-10 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1935/10 —

  • A Word to the Republicans by Harold J. Laski
  • “A Long Line of Soldiers” — A Story by Mackinlay Kantor
  • “Man” — A Poem by Ross Edward Pierce
  • Japan’s New Outposts with Map by Willard Price
  • In Homage to Mark Twain by Owen Wister
  • The Twilight of National Planning by David Cushman Coyle
  • “Evening Prayer” — A Poem by Josephine Johnson
  • Hiram Stevens Maxim : Parent — Part 2 by Hiram Percy Maxim
  • Our Debtor-Nation Complex by Raymond Gram Swing
  • The Portrait of a Lady — A Story by Griffith Beams
  • Gilbert and Sullivan — Part 3 — by Hesketh Pearson
  • Getting Along With Women by Anonymous
  • How Little Is Little England? by Jack Fischer
  • Plus regular departments including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1938-09 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1938/09 —

  • China and Japan : Second Year by Nathaniel Peffer
  • Boats for Hire — A Story by Bucklin Moon
  • Morgan and Morgan and Lilienthal by Willson Whitman
  • Inhibition — A Poem by Margery Mansfield
  • In An American Factory by Stoyan Pribichevich
  • The Story of the Davis Cup by John R. Tunis
  • On Being Kept by a Cat by Elmer Davis
  • The Doctors Face Revolt by Avis D. Carlson
  • How the Scandinavians Do It by Marquis W. Childs
  • America’s Globe-Trotting Salesmen by Carl Crow
  • Brothers to the Gods by A.H. Young-O’Brien
  • What Would Germany Fight With? by Willson Woodside
  • Plus regular departments including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1851-08 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1851/08 —

  • Napoleon Bonaparte — Part 1: Childhood and Youth — by John S. C. Abbott with 6 illustrations
  • Somnambule
  • Household Of Sir Thomas More (Continued)
  • Reminiscences Of An Attorney – The Chest of Drawers
  • Village Life In Germany: The Club – A Temperance Meeting – Evening Parties
  • Peep At The Peraharra
  • Tobacco Factory In Spain
  • Infirmities Of Genius
  • Race Horses And Horse Races
  • Hartley Coleridge
  • Oriental Salons In Madrid
  • Phantoms And Realities – An Autobiography (Concluded)
  • Feet-Washing In Munich
  • Pedestrian In Holland
  • Last Priestess Of Pele
  • Spanish Bull Fight
  • Maurice Tiernay, The Soldier Of Fortune (Continued) by Charles Lever
  • French Cottage Cookery
  • Student Life In Paris
  • Faquir’s Curse
  • Love And Smuggling – A Story of the English Coast
  • American Notabilities: Professor Agassiz – Mr. and Mrs. Prescott – Mr. and Mrs. J. Grinnell – New Bedford and Naushon – President Taylor – By Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley
  • The Hunter’s Wife
  • The Warnings Of The Past – Poetry
  • The Pie Shops Of London
  • My Novel; Or, Varieties In English Life by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton (continued)
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Woman’s Emancipation. – A Letter From A Strong-Minded American Woman
  • Leaves From Punch
  • Fashions For August

    • 1851-11 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1851/11 —

  • Napoleon Bonaparte — Part 4: The Siege of Mantua — by John S. C. Abbott with 6 illustrations
  • Story Of Reynard The Fox — With 6 illustrations
  • Story Of An Organ
  • Household Of Sir Thomas More (Concluded)
  • The Flying Artist
  • Seals And Whales
  • Maurice Tiernay, The Soldier Of Fortune by Charles Lever (Continued)
  • Floating Island
  • Siberia As A Land Of Political Exile
  • Application Of Electro-Magnetic Power To Railway Transit
  • The Stolen Rose
  • Thomas Moore – Sketch of His Life and Works
  • The Fairy’s Choice
  • A Gallop For Life
  • Sketches Of Oriental Life by F.A. Neale, esq.
  • The Shadow Of Ben Jonson’s Mother
  • The Widow Of Cologne
  • My Novel; Or, Varieties In English Life (Continued) by Edward Bulwer Lytton
  • A Scene From Irish Life
  • Scottish Revenge
  • Postal Reform – Cheap Postage
  • Syrian Superstitions
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Literary Notices
  • Leaves From Punch
  • Fashions For November

    • 1852-01 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1852/01 —

  • Early and Private Life of Benjamin Franklin by Jacob Abbott – 21 pages with 45 illustrations
  • Napoleon Bonaparte — The Expedition to Egypt by John S. C. Abbott with 7 illustrations
  • The German Emigrants by John Doggett
  • Conspiracy Of The Clocks
  • Maurice Tiernay, The Soldier Of Fortune (Continued) by Charles Lever
  • Talk About The Spider
  • Amalie De Bourbanc, The Lost Child – A Tale of Facts
  • The Game Of Chess – A Scene in the Court of Philip the Second
  • How Men Rise In The World
  • The Brothers
  • Sketch Of The Life of M. Thiers
  • Life And Death by Rev. Charles Kingsley
  • Black Eagle In A Bad Way
  • Potter Of Tours
  • Knights Of The Cross – St. George’s Cross by Caroline Chesebro’
  • Anecdotes Of Wild Beasts — Leopards And Jaguars
  • The Fashionable Forger
  • To Be Read At Dusk by Charles Dickens
  • My Novel; Or, Varieties In English Life (Continued) by Edward Bulwer Lytton
  • The Opera by Thomas Carlyle
  • High Life In The Olden Time
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Literary Notices
  • Mr. Pott’s New Years Adventures
  • Leaves From Punch
  • Fashions For January

    • 1852-02 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1852/02 —

  • Public Life of Benjamin Franklin by Jacob Abbott with 32 illustrations
  • Napoleon Bonaparte – The Syrian Expedition – by John S. C. Abbott with 7 illustrations
  • Great Object’s Attained By Little Things
  • The Sublime Porte
  • The Curse Of Gold – A Dream
  • Maurice Tiernay, The Soldier Of Fortune (Continued) by Charles Lever
  • Anecdotes And Aphorisms
  • Curious Page Of Family History
  • The Ass Of La Marca
  • The Legend Of The Weeping Chamber
  • An Old Maid’s First Love
  • The Poison Eaters
  • My Novel; Or, Varieties In English Life (Continued) by Edward Bulwer Lytton
  • The Orphan’s Dream Of Christmas – Poetry
  • What Christmas Is In The Company Of John Doe by Charles Dickens – Parts of 5 pages
  • What Christmas Is As We Grow Older by Charles Dickens – Parts of 4 pages
  • Helen Corrie
  • The Good Old Times In Paris
  • Vision Of Charles XI
  • Street Scenes Of The French Usurpation
  • What Becomes Of The Rind?
  • Mazzini, The Italian Liberal
  • Chewing The Buyo – A Sketch of the Philippines
  • A Sketch Of Suwarrow
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Literary Notices
  • Leaves From Punch
  • Fashions For February

    • 1852-12 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1852/12 —

  • Sketch of Washington City by Anne C. Lynch
  • Australia and its Gold by Alfred H. Guernsey
  • Napoleon Bonaparte by John S. C. Abbott
  • An Original Sketch in a Homely Frame by Eliza Cook
  • My Client’s Story
  • A Ghost of a Head
  • My Novel; or, Varieties in English Life (Continued) by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton
  • A Night Adventure
  • Slate and its Uses
  • Cultivation of the Senses
  • Blind Sarah – From the Diary of a Clergyman
  • Something about the Winds
  • Daniel Webster
  • How I Went to Sea
  • Bleak House — Chapters 26-29 — by Charles Dickens
  • Who Wrote It?
  • Sunday Morning
  • Speed the Plow
  • A Tiger’s Jaws
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Literary Notices
  • Comicalities, Original and Selected
  • Fashions for December

    • 1854-11 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1854/11 —

  • Napoleon Bonaparte by John S. C. Abbott
  • The Generations of Fashions – 14 pages, packed with 22 illustrations of fashions from the mid-1700’s through mid-1800’s
  • General Taylor’s Residence at Baton Rouge
  • Whom Shall We Marry?
  • The Quaker’s Wife
  • The Young Surgeon
  • The Newcomes — Chapters 36-38 — by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • A Few Words About Birds
  • The Ways of Providence
  • The Scholars of Brienne
  • A Night In an Old Castle by G. P. R. James
  • Galvanoplasty
  • Something for the Ladies About Colors
  • Stooping to Conquer
  • The Betrothed Children
  • The Nurse’s Revenge
  • A Greek Carnival
  • Editor’s Table
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Literary Notices
  • Old World and New
  • Two Paths In Life
  • Fashions for November

    • 1855-01 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1855/01 —

  • Andrew Jackson – 28 pages packed with illustrations
  • Napoleon Bonaparte by J. S. C. Abbott
  • The Dead Sea, Sodom, And Gomorrah
  • Captain Obstinate
  • Personal Memoirs Of The House Of Romanov – 20 pages
  • Tragedy In Married Life
  • The Newcomes — Chapters 42-44 — by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Lady’s Revenge
  • My Son, Sir
  • Singer’s Dream
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Literary Notices
  • The Village School
  • Fashions For January

    • 1855-06 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1855/06 —

  • History and Mystery of Tobacco – 18 pages
  • California Through English Eyes
  • Sketches in Brazil by Thomas Ewbank
  • The Newcomes — Chapters 58-61 — by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • The Sisters – A Parson’s Story
  • The Tree of Life
  • Journey Through China
  • Girl’s Dilemma
  • Passing Faces
  • Water Cure
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Comicalities, Original and Selected
  • Fashions for June

    • 1856-05 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1856/05 —

  • Visit To The Silver Mines Of Central America
  • Commodore Perry’s Expedition To Japan
  • The Gnawers
  • Martha Wyatt’s Life
  • Rise Of The Dutch Republic
  • Two College Friends
  • The Story Of Kars
  • The Senses: Sight
  • Recollections Of Samuel Rogers
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 15-18 — by Charles Dickens
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • May Day In New York
  • May Day In The Country
  • Fashions For May

    • 1858-04 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1858/04 —

  • Tropical Journeyings
  • Pictures From Siberia And Tartary
  • An American At Sinai
  • Lady Of Belisle
  • Civilization And Health
  • Mist Over The Valley
  • Bianca Milesi Mojon
  • Hasheesh And Hasheesh-Eaters
  • The Way Of The World
  • Number 101
  • Lost by The Author of John Halifax, Gentleman
  • The Virginians — Chapters 17-20 — by William Makepeace Thackaray
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Private Galleries. Collection Of Moses Levi, Esq.
  • Fashions For April

    • 1860-03 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1860/03 —

  • The Ballad Of Valley Forge by R. H. Stoddard
  • Life Among The Loggers by Charles Hallock
  • A Peep At Elephant by Charles Nordhoff
  • Lost On The Prairie by Rose Terry
  • Coin In America by W. C. Prime
  • Disappeared by Alice B. Haven
  • A Fish Story by Arthur M. Edwards
  • Little Brother — Part 2 — by Fitz Hugh Ludlow
  • The First Colonists In Florida by J. T. Headley
  • Our Christmas Tree by Fitz James O’Brien
  • Night In A Snow-Storm by Mary E. Bradley
  • Lovel The Widower — Chapter 2 — by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Tithonus — A Poem by Alfred Tennyson
  • Search For A Northwest Passage by Charles Nordhoff
  • Nil Nisi Bonum — A Tribute to Irving And Macaulay by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Foreign Bureau
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Tobacco And Its Users
  • Fashions For March

    • 1926-02 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1926/02 —

  • Frontispiece in Color — “No Man’s Bay” by Paul Dougherty
  • “The Arrow” — Part 1 of 2 of a Story — by Christopher Morley
  • Shoulder Straps by H.G. Dwight
  • “Once in a Lonely Hour” — A Poem by John Hall Wheelock
  • The Intolerable City by Lewis Mumford
  • Two Christopher Robin Poems by A.A. Milne
  • Religion and Life by Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • “Paradise Regained” — A Story by Harold W. Brecht
  • “Question” – A Poem by Henriette De Saussure Blanding
  • The Plight of the Genteel by Katharine Fullerton Gerould
  • Al Smith – An East Side Portrait b Robert L. Duffus

  • “White Man” — A Story by Mary S. Watts
  • Perverted American History by Harold Underwood Faulkner
  • “The Better I Like Dogs” by Albert Payson Terhune
  • “Treeshy” — A Story by Ada Jack Carver
  • The Ladies’ Next Step by Edna Kenton
  • The Candle of Astronomy by Henshaw Ward
  • “For Any Lady’s Birthday” — A Poem by Lawrence Lee
  • The Lion’s Mouth
  • Editor’s Easy Chair by Edward S. Martin
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Among the New Books by Harry Hansen
  • Art Objects and Antiques
  • In the Financial World by Paul Tomlinson
  • Steamship Sailing Dates and Travel Information

    • Advertising in color is as follows:
    The Chesterfield – Tarrytons – American Radiator Company – Camels (2 pages) – Lincoln Limousines – – Plus several black & white ads, which are by far the majority

    1896-05 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1896/05 —

  • Mark Twain by Joseph H. Twichell with 7 illustrations including the Frontispiece
  • The Haunted House — A Poem — by Z. D. Underhill
  • Through Inland Waters — Part 1 — Depicted with Pen and Pencil by Howard Pyle – 16 illustrations
  • The Bringing of the Rose — A Story by Harriet Lewis Bradley
  • The Fallow Field — A Poem — by Dora Reade Goodale
  • England and America In 1863 — A Chapter In the Life of Cyrus W. Field
  • Border-Lands — A Poem — by Louise Imogen Guiney
  • The Three Old Sisters and the Old Beau — A Story by Mary E. Wilkins
  • Little Fairy’s Constancy — A Story by Julian Ralph
  • Tansy — Three Poems by Mary Allen
  • Briseis — Part 6 of A Novel by William Black
  • The Penalty of Humor by Brander Matthews
  • The German Struggle For Liberty — Part 11 — by Poultney Bigelow
  • There — A Poem by Lulah Ragsdale
  • The Dashur Explorations by Jacques de Morgan
  • At Home In Virginia by Woodrow Wilson with 11 illustrations
  • The English Crisis by an Eastern Diplomatist
  • Editor’s Study by Charles Dudley Warner
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Literary Notes by Laurence Hutton
  • Miscellaneous back pages
  • Harper’s Magazine Advertiser