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1931-01 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1931/01 —

  • Frontispiece – Fifty-Seventh Street Manhattan by Louis Lozowick
  • Yes, But Religion Is an Art! By Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • “In Loving Memory” — A Story by Roland English Hartley
  • Sonnet — A Poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay (just a single sonnet)
  • Great Britain in Second Place by Raymond Gram Swing
  • “The Perfume” — A Story by Henri Duvernois
  • Biscay Gales by Leonard Outhwaite
  • This Business of Parenthood by Anonymous
  • Our Institutional Habits by Floyd H. Allport
  • “Acrobats” — A Poem by Helen Molyneaux Salisbury
  • Standing and Talking by Muriel Draper
  • “Poorhouse Road” — A Poem by Margaret Emerson Bailey
  • “The White Cabin” — A Story by Leonard Hess
  • Sabotage by Louis Adamic
  • On the Eating of Worms by Sarah Comstock
  • The Negro and the Supreme Court by Walter White
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1931-02 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1931/02 —

  • Frontispiece – Meditation by Cadwallader Washburn
  • Mrs. Eddy’s Right-Hand Man by Ernest Sutherland Bates
  • “A Bird Blessing” — A Poem by Christy Mackaye
  • “Carrie” — A Story by McCready Huston
  • “Snowfall” — A Poem by Margaret Emerson Bailey
  • Specialists at Large by Dorothy Dunbar Bromley
  • Engine-Room Stuff by William McFee
  • Children of Freedom by Stella Crossley Ward
  • “South Cliff” — A Story by Catherine Drinker Bowen

  • The American System in Job-Land by Neil Staebler
  • The Cosmetic Urge by Jeanette Eaton
  • No More Excuses by Gerald W. Johnson
  • “And If I Cry Release” — Poems by Sarah-Elizabeth Rodger
  • “Leaf Unfolding” — A Story by Griffith Beams
  • “We Have Been Happy” — A Poem by Max Eastman
  • The Fury of Living: Theodore Roosevelt by Gamaliel Bradford
  • Morals in a Machine Age by Ralph W. Sockman
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Lucky Strikes ad on back cover features color image of August Heckscher

    • 1931-03 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1931/03 —

  • Frontispiece – Iron Men by Anthony Pugliese
  • Can Business Manage Itself? By Elmer Davis
  • “Mr. Arcularis” — A Story by Conrad Aiken
  • The Scandals of New York by Alva Johnston
  • “Emblems of Spring” — A Poem by Arthur D. Ficke
  • This Moderate Drinking by Anonymous
  • The Three Widows by Ellen N. La Motte
  • Motes, Beams, and Foreigners by Dorothy Canfield
  • “Paves” — A Poem by Orrick Johns
  • Beating the Economic System by Alice Beal Parsons
  • And So My Wife Divorced Me by Anonymous
  • Apropos of Asses by Lowry Charles Wimberly
  • Youth Turns to War by George Seldes
  • Romance in a Realist World by Avis D. Carlson
  • In Defense of the Claque by Pitts Sanborn
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1931-04 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1931/04 —

  • Frontispiece – Carnegie Concert by Grant Reynard
  • Bank Failures: The Problem and the Remedy by J.M. Daiger
  • “Lovers” — A Story by Liam O’Flaherty
  • Still Innocent and Still Abroad by Joseph Wood Krutch

  • Simpleton’s Song — A Poem by Selma Robinson
  • Chicago Revisited by Mary Borden
  • Two Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • “Cold Roast Lamb” — A Story by Charles Caldwell Dobie

  • These Downtrodden Men by Alice D. Kelly
  • Exit the Gospel of Work by Henry Pratt Fairchild
  • A Coronation in Abyssinia by Ellen N. LaMotte
  • Are You an Amateur? by John R. Tunis
  • Notes from Darkness — Poems by Sarah Elizabeth Rodger
  • Diderot – Homage to a Genius by Harold J. Laski
  • “The Lost Romance” — A Story by Lord Dunsany
  • Panics and Time Payments by Jesse Rainsford Sprague
  • In Defense of Snobbery by Margaret Culkin Banning
  • “Change of Season” — A Poem by Helene Magaret
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1931-05 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1931/05 —

  • Frontispiece – Spring by Abbo Ostrowsky
  • Our American Dreyfus Case by Lillian Symes
  • “Search for Mr. Loo” by Stella Benson
  • Unchristian Christianity and the Jew by Phillip S. Bernstein
  • Mexicans Know How to Play by Stuart Chase
  • Women Walking on Their Hind Legs by Agnes Rogers Hyde
  • “Green Thoughts” — A Story by John Collier
  • “Maps” — A Poem by Elizabeth Hollister Frost
  • Americans in England by Alec Waugh
  • Old Age Intestate by Anonymous
  • College Graduates and Civilization by Mary Lee
  • “The Truant” — A Story by Sarah-Elizabeth Rodger
  • The Policeman’s Bed of Roses by Gerald W. Johnson
  • Doctor Jung – A Portrait by Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant about Carl Jung
  • Tragic Towns of New England by Louis Adamic
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1934-12 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1934/12 —

  • The Capital Goods Fallacy by David Cushman Coyle
  • I See the King of Hell by Harrison Forman
  • Paradise Lost–Or Mislaid? By D.W. Brogan
  • Mercy and the Condor — A Story by E.W. Harmening
  • “Moonlight Sonata” — A Poem by Robert Nathan
  • Good-By to Germany by Dorothy Thompson
  • Was My Life Worth Living? by Emma Goldman
  • Broadcasting — A British View by Mary Agnes Hamilton
  • “From Safe Ground” — A Poem by Margaret Emerson Bailey
  • This Unscientific Age by Robert L. Duffus
  • Changing Trends in Sport by John R. Tunis
  • The Case of the Missouri Pacific by Max Lowenthal
  • “Death and the Children” — A Story by Paul Horgan
  • A Moral Code for the Future by Charles H. Heinsath
  • “Dark Years” And What They Thought About It
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1935-01 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1935/01 —

  • “The Home Place” — A Story by Dorothy Thomas
  • What About Public Works? By David Cushman Coyle
  • “And Jacob Wrestled” — A Poem by Joseph Auslander
  • How We Reconstruct Nature by M. Ilin with map
  • A Murder Has Been Arranged by Ransom McCarthy
  • The Chinese Attitude Toward Graft by Pearl S. Buck
  • Littletown by William G. Mather, Jr.
  • Jews at the Crossroads by William Zukerman
  • Taking the Hospital Out of Hospitality by Burges Johnson
  • The Saar–And Human Nature by Edgar Packard Dean
  • The Uncertainty Principle and Human Behavior by Selig Hecht
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1935-02 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1935/02 —

  • If Industry Gave Science a Chance by J.D. Bernal
  • Grand Canyon — Part 1 by J.B. Priestley
  • “The Perfect Perriers” — A Story by Philip Curtiss
  • “This Is My Country” — A Poem by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
  • What Will Become of the Republicans? by George Soule

  • “Cool as the Water” — A Poem by Helene Magaret
  • A Fuhrer Comes to Liechtenstein by Brinckerhoff Jackson
  • “Answer to Millay” — A Poem by Robert Nathan
  • Would Another War End Civilization? by Liddell Hart
  • “Slow Curtain” — A Story by Paul Horgan
  • Our Capacity to Produce by Stuart Chase
  • Without a Tower by Anonymous
  • California, There She Stands! by Lillian Symes
  • An Excuse for Universities by Gerald W. Johnson
  • “Whistle” — A Poem by Frances Frost
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1935-03 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1935/03 —

  • The President’s Trigger Man by Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen
  • “Companioned” — A Poem by Katherine Garrison Chapin
  • “On the Rock” — A Story by Susan Ertz
  • Grand Canyon — Part 2 by J.B. Priestley
  • “Half-Moon Night” — A Poem by Frances Frost
  • Shall We Nationalize Minutions? by Ernest Angell
  • “The Pilgrim Bark” — A Poem by Kenneth Patchen
  • For Men Only by Anonymous
  • Revolutionary America by Louis M. Hacker
  • “The Crow” — A Poem by Winifred Welles
  • The Misunderstood Savage by John W. Vancercook
  • The Cosmic Whirlpool by George W. Gray with diagrams
  • “Slot Machine” — A Story by Margaret Culkin Banning
  • The Screen Enters Politics by Richard Sherman Ames
  • The Revival of Feudalism by Reinhold Niebuhr
  • Written on Friday by Thomas Beer
  • England’s Pink Party by Jack Fischer
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1935-04 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1935/04 —

  • Planning for Permanent Poverty by Harold M. Ware and Webster Powell
  • “Jesus Knew” — A Story by E.P. O’Donnell
  • General Grant’s Last Stand by Horace Green
  • The Future of English by H.L. Mencken
  • Is Capitalism to Blame? by Nathaniel Peffer
  • Elsa Mourns for Lohengrin — A Poem by Anne Goodwin Winslow
  • Stifled Laughter by Eugene Lyons
  • This Vibrant Clod by George W. Gray
  • “The Last Chrysanthemum” — A Poem by Helene Magaret
  • “The White Horses of Vienna” — A Story by Kay Boyle
  • Fossil Remnants of the Frontier by Bernard De Voto

  • Reporters Become of Age by Isabelle Keating
  • Bootlegging Coal by Oliver Carlson
  • Trip to the Moon by Fleta Campbell Sringer
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1935-05 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1935/05 —

  • New World Symphony by Elmer Davis
  • “Miracle at Cholula” — A Story by Griffith Beems
  • Huey Long and His Background by Hamilton Basso
  • The Intelligence of Cats by Michael Joseph
  • From Crisis to Conversation by Frank H. Simonds
  • The Concept of Race by Julian Huxley
  • The Tennessee Valley Experiment by Drew and Leon Pearson
  • “Vulnerable” — A Story by Susan Ertz
  • Some Hard Words About Confucious by Lin Yutang
  • Herculaneum Yesterday and To-day by E.V. Lucas
  • Is Feminism Dead? by Genevieve Parkhurst
  • The Depression Comes to the Jungle by Earl hanson
  • The Technic of Mob Rule by George Boas
  • Plus regular columns including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1873-10 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1873/10 —

  • A Lady’s Enterprise by Marie Howland
  • L’Envoi and Song by Alfred H. Louis
  • General Sherman in Europe and the East by Col. J. C. Audenreid
  • The Lordship of Corfu – A Legend of 1516 by Paul H. Hayne
  • The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute by Helen W. Ludlow
  • Memnon by Ellis Gray
  • Dat Taddeus by Ellis Gray
  • Who Was Right? by D. R. Castleton
  • Our Girls by Anna C. Brackett
  • The World and I by Nelly M. Hutchinson
  • The Home of Paul and Virginia by S. S. Conant
  • In a Tobacco Factory by Mrs. M. P. Handy
  • Lottery by Julian Hawthorne
  • Detective Pinkerton by General R. B. Marcy U.S.A.
  • Hero Worship by Constance F. Woolson
  • A Simpleton by Charles Reade
  • Semper Fidelis by Annie Chambers Ketchum
  • A Loss To the Profession by Mrs. Frank M’Carthy
  • Recollections of an Old Stager
  • The Judicial Record of Late Chief Justice Chase by John S. Benson
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Scientific Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1874-12 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1874/12 —

  • The Ancient City — Part 1 of 2
  • The Coming Transit of Venus
  • Decorative Art and Architecture in New England — Third Paper — by M.D. Conway
  • The Ballad of Breakneck
  • Rape of the Gamp — Chapters 12-14 of a Serialized Story – by C. Welsh Mason
  • The First Century of the Republic — Second Paper
  • A Character Mask
  • The Republican Movement in Europe — Fourteenth Paper — by Emilio Castelar
  • “On the Circuit”
  • The Survival of the Fittest
  • Genesis of the New England Churches
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Scientific Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1875-08 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1875/08 —

  • Sunrise in Venice — A Poem by Joaquin Miller
  • An American Enterprise — History of the Express Business — by William H. Rideing
  • Ancient Pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona by William C. Manning
  • Caricatures of Women by James Parton
  • Moosehead Lake by Rev. Julius H. Ward
  • Ticonderoga and Montcalm by Rev. Joseph Cook
  • The Stone Age in Europe — Part 5: Kitchen-Middens and Lake Settlements — by Professor Charles Rau
  • An Apple of Sodom by Harriet Prescott Spofford
  • The First Century of the Republic — 10th Paper: Growth and Distribution of Population by Francis A. Walker
  • A Strong-Minded Woman by Ella Farman
  • Garth — Chapters 4-5 of a Serialized Story — by Julian Hawthorne
  • The Gift of Empty Hands by S. M. B. Piatt
  • The Wit and Wisdom of the Haytians by John Bigelow
  • Submission by Celia Thaxter
  • Morituri Salutamus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — Long poem, taking up 5 full pages
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Scientific Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Our London Scrap-Book

    • 1875-09 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1875/09 —

  • Sunrise in Venice — A Poem by Joaquin Miller
  • An American Enterprise — History of the Express Business — by William H. Rideing
  • Ancient Pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona by William C. Manning
  • Caricatures of Women by James Parton
  • Moosehead Lake by Rev. Julius H. Ward
  • Ticonderoga and Montcalm by Rev. Joseph Cook
  • The Stone Age in Europe — Part 5: Kitchen-Middens and Lake Settlements — by Professor Charles Rau
  • An Apple of Sodom by Harriet Prescott Spofford
  • The First Century of the Republic — 10th Paper: Growth and Distribution of Population by Francis A. Walker
  • A Strong-Minded Woman by Ella Farman
  • Garth — Chapters 4-5 of a Serialized Story — by Julian Hawthorne
  • The Gift of Empty Hands by S. M. B. Piatt
  • The Wit and Wisdom of the Haytians by John Bigelow
  • Submission by Celia Thaxter
  • Morituri Salutamus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — Long poem, taking up 5 full pages
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Scientific Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Our London Scrap-Book

    • 1876-03 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1876/03 —

  • The Principalities of the Danube by George M. Towle
  • Aunt Hannah by J.T. Trowbridge
  • The Crime of Abigail Tempest by Susan Archer Weiss
  • Lucrezia Borgia by Professor T.F. Crane
  • Simpson of Bussora by James Payn
  • The Microscope by Professor Samuel Lockwood
  • The First Century of the Republic — Seventeenth Paper: American Literature by Edwin P. Whipple
  • Almost Too Late
  • Love Is King by Nelly M. Hutchinson
  • The Baby by Porte Crayon
  • Wanted–A Soul by Mrs. Frank M’Carthy
  • Garth by Julian Hawthorne
  • Parties and Preachers of the Church of England by Charles Deshler
  • Confederate Make-Shifts by Mrs. M.P. Handy
  • Number 13 by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
  • The Southern Industrial Prospect by General T. M. Logan
  • Daniel Deronda — Book Two: Meeting Streams — by George Eliot
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Scientific Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1876-06 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1876/06 —

  • Virginia in the Revolution by John Esten Cooke
  • A Trail in the Far Southwest by William H. Rideing
  • Old Abel’s Experience by Mrs. E.T. Corbett
  • Miss Susan’s Love Affair — A Story by Harriet Prescott Spofford
  • The Romance of the Hudson — Third Paper — by Benson J. Lossing
  • The Pursuit of a Heritage by Mrs. Frank M’Carthy
  • Quatrains by T.B. Aldrich
  • Modern Dwellings: Their Construction Decoration and Furniture — Second Paper by H. Hudson Holly
  • Garth — A Novel by Julian Hawthorne
  • The First Century of the Republic — Nineteenth Paper: Medical and Sanitary Progress by Austin Flint M.D.
  • The Poet by Fannie R. Robinson
  • Lord Macaulay and His Friends by R. H. Stoddard
  • The Laurel Bush by The Author of John Halifax Gentleman
  • Love’s Service by Lizzie W. Champney
  • The Steamer by George Lunt
  • Daniel Deronda (serialized) — Book Four: Gwendolen Gets Her Choice — by George Eliot
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Scientific Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1876-07 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1876/07 —

  • The Ballad of Arabella by J.T. Trowbridge
  • Block Island by Charles Lanman
  • Clemence by Carroll Owen
  • The Father of the Revolution by Ellis Gray is about Samuel Adams with illustrations
  • Polly Pharoah by Lizzie W. Champney
  • Macdonald’s Raid–A.D. 1780 by Paul H. Hayne
  • The Laurel Bush by The Author of John Halifax Gentleman
  • The Poet and the Poem by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
  • The Writer of The Declaration by John Esten Cooke with small illustration of subject Thomas Jefferson
  • Forgotten by Constance F. Woolson
  • Modern Dwellings: Their Construction Decoration and Furniture — Third Paper by H. Hudson Holly
  • A Woman-Hater — Part 1
  • Lord Macaulay and His Friends — Conclusion — by R.H. Stoddard
  • The Bryant Vase by Dr. Samuel Osgood
  • Garth by Julian Hawthorne
  • Coquette by T. B. Aldrich
  • Nominating the President by George M. Towle
  • Daniel Deronda (serialized) — Book Five: Mordecai — by George Eliot
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Scientific Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1876-10 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1876/10 —

  • The Silver Mountains of Utah by J. H. Beadle
  • Haydon and His Friends by Alfred H. Guernsey
  • Soeur Antoine by Rachel Pomeroy
  • Newark by Martha J. Lamb
  • Laocoon by Paul H. Hayne
  • Lace Lore by Emily V. Battey
  • The Laurel Bush — Part 5 — by The Author of John Halifax Gentleman
  • Home Life in the East by Lyman Abbott
  • Aunt Rhodanthe’s Mistake by Henrietta H. Holdich
  • Carnivorous Plants of Florida — Second Paper — by Mary Treat
  • German Love Song by Helen S. Conant
  • Harriet Martineau by James Payn
  • Garth by Julian Hawthorne
  • Hebe by Lizzie W. Champney
  • A Madrigal by Louise Chandler Moulton
  • A Woman-Hater — Part 4
  • Petralto’s Love by Amelia E. Barr
  • Daniel Deronda (Serialized) — Book 8: Fruit and Seed — by George Eliot
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Literary Record
  • Editor’s Scientific Record
  • Editor’s Historical Record
  • Editor’s Drawer

    • 1931-06 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1931/06 —

  • Frontispiece – “Manhattan Old and New” by Samuel Chamberlain
  • A Ten Year Plan for America by Stuart Chase
  • “On the Wagon” — A Story by Margaret Culkin Banning

  • The Beautiful and the Dumb by Lillian Symes
  • “The First Lover” — A Story by Kay Boyle
  • Perjury Rampant by Dorothy Dunbar Bromley
  • The Cane and the Schoolboy by Geoffrey Layman
  • “Reversal” — A Poem by Orrick Johns
  • The Real Frontier by Andre Maurois
  • The Real Frontier by Bernard De Voto
  • “Octogenarian” — A Poem by Lee Andrew Weber
  • The Oxford Goes to Sea Again by William McFee
  • Sketch for a Portrait — A Poem by Clara Shanafelt
  • “Postscript to a Career” — A Story by Roland English Harvey
  • Jessica and Al Capone by Katharine Fullerton Gerould
  • The Negro Looks at His South by Horance Mann Bond
  • The Incompleat Angler by Brendan Lee
  • Plus regular departments including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1933-04 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1933/04 —

  • Frontispiece – “Mexican Landscape” by Richard Day
  • A New Deal in Foreign Policy? By Frank H. Simonds
  • “Reunion” — A Story by Vincent Sheean
  • Chain Gangs and Profit by Walter Wilson
  • “Fish for Breakfast” — A Poem by Henry T. Chambers
  • Is Love Enough? by Ludwig Lewisohn
  • Radio–A Brief for the Defense by Deems Taylor
  • Homes, Sweet Home by Mitchell Dawson
  • The Menace of Mortgage Debts by Arthur C. Holden
  • “Routine” — A Poem by Gerro Nelson
  • Thoughts on Diving by William Beebe
  • Trotsky at Elba by John Gunther
  • Colloque Sentimental — A Story by Griffith Beems
  • “Challenge” — A Poem by Granville Paul Smith
  • The Journal of a Man of Letters — Part 2 by Gamaliel Bradford
  • For Poorer Travelers by Ford Madox Ford
  • Plus regular departments including Editor’s Easy Chair

    • 1939-02 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1939/02 —

  • The Emperor of Japan by John Gunther
  • “Rebel” — A poem by Josephine Johnson
  • The Social Security “Reserve” Swindle by John T. Flynn
  • Literary Conference by Leonard Bacon
  • Before Hitler Crosses the Atlantic by Henry C. Wolfe
  • “Silver Virgin” — A story by Benedict Thielen
  • “Night in Paradise” — A poem by Martha Bacon
  • The Wisconsin Brothers by Elmer Davis
  • Evelyn the Truck Driver by Leland Stone
  • Labor’s Two Houses by Edward Levinson
  • Black Money – How Cash Is Smuggled Out of Germany — by Martin Proctor
  • Too Many Squirrels by Ezra J. Poulsen
  • Seattle, Washington — Part 1 — by George R. Leighton
  • One Man’s Meat by E.B. White
  • The Easy Chair by Bernard De Voto
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • The New Books by John Chamberlain
  • Steamship Sailing Dates

    • 1939-03 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1939/03 —

  • In An Era of Unreason by Nathaniel Peffer
  • Hutchins of Chicago — part 1 — by Milton S. Mayer
  • Efim and the Tartar Horses – A Chronicle of Siberian Childhood – by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
  • Sonnet – A poem by Elizabeth Sampson Hoopes
  • American Women Are Coming Along by Grace Adams
  • Doing Business in Germany by Gunther Reimann
  • Setter and Terrier — A story by Preston Quadland
  • Sulfanilamide by John Pfeiffer
  • New Tools for Democracy by Peter Van Dresser
  • What Has Happened to Housing? by Thomas Humphries
  • Teaching at Berkeley — In the University of California, 1910-1923 – by Leonard Bacon
  • Seattle, Washington — Part 2 — by George R. Leighton
  • One Man’s Meat by E.B. White
  • The Easy Chair by Bernard De Voto
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • The New Books by John Chamberlain
  • Steamship Sailing Dates

    • 1939-04 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1939/04 —

  • Wanted: A Sane Defense Policy by Oswald Garrison Villiard
  • No More Excursions! by C. Hartley Grattan
  • Courage for Tomorrow by Avis D. Carlson
  • “Anschluss” — A Story by Kay Boyle
  • Music Goes Into Mass Production by Dickson Skinner
  • “Hymn Before Night” — A Poem by Martha Keller
  • When Grandfather Ran Off With the Tartar Girl by Nicholas Kalashnikoff
  • “Simple Farewell” — A poem by Conrad Aiken
  • Some Facts About Jews by Philip S. Bernstein
  • The Strange Story of the Great Eastern by Francis Rowsome
  • The Priesthood of the Law by Ferdinand Lundberg
  • Hell’s Canyon, the Biggest of All by Richard L. Neuberger
  • On Not Being Dead, As Reported by Elmer Davis
  • Hutchins of Chicago — Part 2 — by Milton S. Mayer
  • One Man’s Meat by E.B. White
  • The Easy Chair by Bernard De Voto
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Where to Shop
  • The New Books by John Chamberlain
  • Steamship Sailing Dates

    • 1939-05 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1939/05 —

  • The End of Economic Man in Europe by Peter F. Drucker
  • A Number of People — Recollections of London Society in the Gay Nineties — Part 1 — by Sir Edward Marsh
  • From a Town in a State of Siege — A Sequence of Five Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Where England Stands by J.B. Priestley
  • Atalanta in Cape Fair — A Story by Jessie Rehder
  • Patterns for Living Together by Raymond Pearl
  • Anxiety and Illness by George W. Gray
  • Democracy’s Crisis in France by Herve Schwedersky – John McJennett
  • Freedom, Radio and the FCC by Merrill Denison
  • Charles A. Beard — Freelance Among the Historians — by Hubert Herring
  • The Hidden Valley — A poem by Craig Rice
  • Salvaging Culture for the WPA by Mabel S. Ulrich
  • One Man’s Meat by E.B. White
  • The Easy Chair by Bernard De Voto
  • Personal and Otherwise
  • Where to Shop
  • The New Books by John Chamberlain
  • Steamship Sailing Dates