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1939-06 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

1939/06 —

  • Debt Threatens Democracy by Roy Helton
  • Europe’s Secret Nightmare by Henry C. Wolfe
  • “The Birthday” — A story by Thomas Wolfe

  • “In the Night” — A poem by Robert Nathan
  • Why France Trusts England by Andre Maurois
  • “Beauty Is Earth’s Immortal Carelessness” — A poem by Andrerson M. Scruggs
  • Fascism for America – Threat or Scarehead? by Lillian Symes
  • What Business Kills by Carl Dreher
  • A Number of People — Part 2 — by Sir Edward Marsh
  • Socrates Crosses the Delaware by Milton S. Mayer
  • Elephants of the Sea by William Beebe
  • “Winter World” — A poem by Josephine Johnson
  • “Barn Burning” — A Story by William Faulkner
  • The Shakespeare Industry by Ivor Brown
  • 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

    • 1939-07 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1939/07 —

  • Germany Would Lose by Willson Woodside
  • America’s Gunpowder Women by Pearl S. Buck
  • “They Required of Us a Song” — A story by Ralph Bates
  • Wall Street, Main Street, & Co. by S.H. Walker and Julia Riera
  • Lessons in Living from the Stone Age by Vilhjalmur Stefansson
  • Totalitarian “Prosperity” by Wilhelm Ropke
  • A Number of the People — Part 3 — by Sir Edward Marsh
  • “Spade Song” — A poem by Gilbert Maxwell

  • The Law Factories by Ferdinand Lundberg
  • World’s Fair, New York by Gardner Harding
  • “At the Spa” — A story by Marjorie Worthington
  • “I Think That There Is Laughter” — A poem by Robert Avrett
  • Science and the New Landscape by Paul B. Sears
  • 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

    • 1939-08 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1939/08 —

  • The Return of Johnny Appleseed by Charles Allen Smart
  • “Futility at Dawn” — A poem by Elford Caughey
  • “Brigham and Amelia” — A story by Vardis Fisher
  • A Prize Fighter in the Nineties by Edmund Rucker
  • Seascape with Figures by Leonard Bacon
  • Storm Center in Brookline by Louis Untermeyer
  • “The Presbyterian Choir Singers” — A story by William Saroyan
  • “In Time of Crisis” — A poem by Paul Engle
  • Eating Through Africa by Eugene Wright
  • As I Remember Groton School by george Biddle
  • “The Marple Legend” — A story by Vincent Sheean
  • “Mountain Meadows” — A poem by Martha Keller
  • 579 Miles an Hour, Vertically by James L.H. Peck
  • “Go Talk to Mr. Waring” — A story by Pilip Curtiss
  • 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

    • 1939-09 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1939/09 —

  • Giddy Minds and Foreign Quarrels by Charles A. Beard
  • Two Sonnets to Ourselves by Barclay Hall

  • Foreign Trade Begins at Home by John Chamberlain
  • Making Friends With Latin America by Hubert Herring
  • What England and France Think About Us by Frank C. Hanighen
  • “From Usually Reliable Sources” by Morris Gilbert
  • What We Think About Foreign Affairs by Francis Sill Wickware
  • What the Home Folks Say About Events Abroad by Richard L. Neuberger
  • Champion Ex-Champion by Myron M. Stearns is about Jack Dempsey
  • “Mr. Hata Pulls the Strings” — A story by Charles Corbeau
  • Number One Swing Man by Irving Kolodin
  • 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

    • 1939-10 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1939/10 —

  • Old People: A Rising National Problem by Roy Helton
  • Roosevelt, the Rich Man’s Alibi by Elmer Davis
  • “The Strange Noise of Dr. Beldoon” — A story by Morris Markey
  • “Lost World” — A poem by Hermann Hagedorn
  • How the Wright Brothers Began by Fred C. Kelly
  • “Surmise” — A poem by Roland English Hartley
  • The Future of the British Empire by C. Harley Grattan
  • Why Can’t We Have Perfect Teeth? by Walter C. Alvarez, M.D.
  • Conscience in Wartime by Lucille B. Milner and Groff Conklin
  • Great Hawaii by Leonard Bacon

  • Why Slum Clearance May Fail by Alfred Rheinstein and Henry F. Pringle
  • Music in Aspic by Oscar Levant
  • In Defense of Ghost Writing by Seneca Johnson
  • The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge by Abraham Flexner
  • 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

    • 1939-11 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1939/11 —

  • After Many a Summer — Part 1 — by Aldous Huxley
  • Broadcasting the Outbreak of War by Elmer Davis
  • Koussevitzky, Toscanini, Stokowski by Oscar Levant
  • The Industrial Revolution Hits the Farmer by Peter F. Drucker
  • “Light” — A poem by Hermann Hagedorn
  • “Seal Tregarthen’s Cousin” — A story by Margery Sharp
  • Since Yesterday — Part 1 — by Frederick Lewis Allen
  • American Military and Foreign Policies by George Fielding Eliot
  • Lady in the Shoe by Anonymous
  • The Control of Pain by George W. Gray
  • Gobble and Turk by William Beebe
  • Bombing Cities Won’t Win the War by James Warner Bellah
  • “The Going Forth” — A poem by Conrad Aiken
  • 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

    • 1856-10 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1856/10 —

  • Cooking of Men
  • Wild Life in Oregon
  • Passages of Eastern Travel by An American
  • Insects and Insect Life – With 32 Illustrations
  • South Beach
  • Daniel Webster’s Social Hours
  • Terrible Night
  • Why We Get Sick
  • Merlinville
  • Double House by The Author of “John Halifax”
  • Visit to Red River
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 33-36 of a Serial — by Charles Dickens
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Miseries of Mistresses
  • Fashions for October

    • 1858-05 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1858/05 —

  • Winter In The South — Fifth Paper
  • From Sinai To Wady Mousa
  • Tiger-Hunting On Foot In India
  • Nancy’s Blynn’s Lovers
  • An Editorial Autobiography
  • My Story: The Story Of Florence Fay
  • Authors
  • Amazon
  • Experiences Of A Gambler
  • He Always Came In Sunshine
  • My Acquaintance With Rachel
  • A Few Idle Words
  • The Virginians — Chapters 21-24 of a Serial — by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • War Against Public Opinion
  • The Rivals
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Ingredients Of A Modern Novel
  • Fashions For May

    • 1856-06 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1856/06 —

  • Sulphur Springs of New York
  • Bear and Basket Maker
  • Astronomical Observatories in the United States by E. Loomis
  • Ballad of Bunker Hill
  • My Mission
  • Ambrosia – A Nose Offering
  • Great Epidemics — The Plague
  • Millicent
  • Wanted – a Healthy Wife
  • Rise of the Dutch Republic
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 19-22 of a Serial — by Charles Dickens
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Mr. Samson Shanghai’s Three Days on a Farm
  • Fashions for June

    • 1855-08 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1855/08 —

  • Virginia Illustrated — Adventures of Porte Crayon and His Cousins
  • Scott’s Battles in Mexico
  • Sketches in the East Indies – Pulo Pinang
  • The Newcomes by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Duke Humphrey’s Dinner
  • Mysterious Occurrence at Lambeth by G. P. R. James
  • Sydney Smith
  • The Third Bowl
  • Apparitions and Visions by John W. Draper M.D.
  • Thistle Figs; or Grapes that Grow on Thorns
  • Old Man’s Revenge
  • Drawing-Room Drama
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Mr. Slim’s Aquatic Experience
  • Fashions for August

    • 1856-09 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1856/09 —

  • Application of Photography to Printing
  • Dismal Swamp
  • Story of James P. Beckwourth
  • Passages of Eastern Travel by An American
  • Fanny and Myself
  • Daniel Webster’s Social Hours
  • How Nelly Lee Was Pawned
  • How We Spend Our Money
  • Fossil Remains of Scottish Society
  • An Alibi
  • Soldiering in Oregon
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 30-32 of a Serial — by Charles Dickens
  • In Memoriam
  • Way to Remember
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Advertisements Illustrated
  • Fashions for September

    • 1856-08 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1856/08 —

  • Valley of the Connecticut by T. Addison Richards
  • Virginia Illustrated – Adventures of Porte Crayon and His Cousins
  • Passages of Eastern Travel by An American
  • Wonders of Vegetable Life
  • De L’Amour
  • Daniel Webster’s Social Hours
  • Board for a Lady
  • The Great Epidemics: Asiatic Cholera
  • Twice in Love
  • Rakings from an Old Fogy’s Journal
  • Sheriff’s Wife
  • When We Husked the Corn
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 26-29 of a Serial — by Charles Dickens
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Experiments in Photography
  • Fashions for August

    • 1856-12 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1856/12 —

  • Sunnyside The Home Of Washington Irving
  • Omoa Picturesque And Incidental
  • Scraps From A Artist’s Notebook
  • Gigantic Centipede
  • Passages Of Eastern Travel by An American
  • White Hills In October
  • How It Happened
  • How To Keep Well
  • Old Man’s Story
  • Virginia Editor
  • Shell And Pearl
  • Prince Of Intrigue
  • Crystal Bell
  • Fall Of Islam
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 41-43 of a Serial by Charles Dickens
  • Sowing In Tears
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Fashions For December

    • 1857-10 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1857/10 —

  • The Ship Of The Desert about Camels with illustrations
  • Winter In The South – Second Paper
  • The National Assembly by John S.C. Abbott
  • Pride Of Moses Grant
  • Screw Loose
  • Disagreeable People
  • Siege Of Fort Atkinson
  • The Fair Dona Bella – A Tale of Cordova, In Spain
  • Matter Of Fact And Matter Of Fiction
  • Mr. Tompkins’s Experience
  • The Father Of Railways is about George Stephenson – Takes up parts of 8 pages (more like 6+ page article), all text
  • Where Our Daughters Go To School
  • Old Bachelor’s Last Love
  • The Bronze Gaiters or “All’s Well That Ends Well”
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Mr. Jinks’s Patent Inflating Costumes
  • Fashions For October

    • 1857-07 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1857/07 —

  • Scraps From An Artist’s Notebook – The Carib Settlements
  • North Carolina Illustrated – Part3: Guilford
  • The Shakers
  • Lichens
  • Two Kates; Or First And Second Love
  • Causes And Prevention Of Epidemics
  • Mr. Quigley’s Experience
  • Emperor Napoleon The Third
  • Our Cousin From Town – A Family Reminiscence
  • Summer Idyl
  • Holbrook House
  • Story Of A Piano
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 46-52 Concluding a Serial — by Charles Dickens
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Family Daguerreotypes Found Everywhere
  • Fashions For July

    • 1856-04 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1856/04 —

  • Israel Putnam
  • Madeira, Port And Sherry
  • Home In The Cinnamon Isle
  • Resurrection Flower
  • Paupertown
  • Story Of Emile Roque
  • The Senses: Hearing
  • Paul Allen’s Wife And How He Found Her
  • Snake Charming by A. M. Henderson M.D.
  • A Nightly Scene In London by Charles Dickens – Short, about a page and a half
  • How I Was Discarded by A Married Man
  • The Doppelganger
  • How The Destruction Of Trees Affects The Rain
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 12-14 of a Serial — by Charles Dickens
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Foolish Folks – All-Fool’s Day Sketches
  • Fashions For April

    • 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
  • Story Of Kars
  • The Senses: Sight
  • Recollections Of Samuel Rogers
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 15-18 of a Serial — 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

    • 1856-03 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1856/03 —

  • The Juniata by T. Addison Richards
  • Commodore Perry’s Expedition To Japan
  • The Story Of The Whale
    To give an idea of the article it includes the following illustrations: The Signal – Whaling Implements – The Dolphin – The Porpoise – The Narwhal – The Sperm Whale – Pursuit of the Sperm Whale – The Greenland Whale – Whalebone – Jaw of the Whale – The Flipper of the Whale – Strength of the Whale – Scene in Delago Bay – Seals at Play – Fancy Scene in the North Sea – Pursuit of the Greenland Whale – The Whale Breaching – A Case of Nightmare – Homeward Bound – The Whale of Captain Deblois
  • Passages Of Eastern Travel by An American
  • My Neighbor’s Story by the Author of “Lily”
  • The Senses: Smell
  • The Senses
  • Cinderella – Not A Fairy Tale
  • The ‘Gees
  • A Pistol Shot At The Duelists
  • The Terrible Tree
  • The Dragon-Fang Possessed By The Conjuror Piou-Lu
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 9-11 of a Serial — by Charles Dickens
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Windology
  • Fashions For March

    • 1858-06 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1858/06 —

  • City Of Elms is about New Haven
  • Tropical Journeyings
  • The Microscope
  • Dear Hunting
  • Old And New Style
  • Our Sons
  • Esther Bennet’s Love And Hate
  • Night Scene by William Cullen Bryant
  • Nest Of Cavaliers
  • Incident At Niagara Falls by Mrs. Gaskell
  • In Articulo Mortis
  • Mother’s Confession
  • The Virginians — Chapters 25-28 of a Serial — by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Mr. Flasher’s Love At First Sight
  • Fashions For June

    • 1858-07 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1858/07 —

  • Francis Marion by Benson J. Lossing
  • Journey Through The Land Of The Aztecs
  • The Wine-Cup
  • Caracas
  • Nelly’s Slipper
  • Ladies Of The Sacred Heart
  • Modern Samaritans
  • Archibald Blossom, Bachelor
  • Explorations Of The Amoor River by Perry M’D. Collins
  • My Visitation
  • The Virginians — Chapters 29-32 of a Serial — by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Grab’s Great Gift Enterprise
  • Fashions For July

    • 1856-07 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1856/07 —

  • Hasty Pudding by Joel Barlow
  • Negroland and the Negroes is about Africa
    Includes the following illustrations: Sierra Leone – Monrovia – Kru Village – Kru Houses – African Belle – Elmina – Cape Coast Castle – Street in Kumasi – Gabun Chief – Fernando Po – Election in Yoruba – Missionary House, Gabun River – The Red-Water Ordeal – Boa Constrictor – Elephant Hunting – Ant Hills
  • Great Seal of the United States
    Includes the following illustrations: Du Simitiere’s Design – Jefferson’s Design – Design submitted in 1779 – Design submitted in 1780 – Barton’s Design – The Great Seal – The President’s Seal
  • My Legacies
  • Passages of Eastern Travel by An American
  • Maria A Lost Queen of England
  • Great Epidemics: Plague in London and Marseilles
  • Queer Case
  • Daniel Webster’s Social Hours
  • Lion-Slayers and Man-Eaters
  • What Mr. Trevanion Saw
  • Value of a Pin
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 23-25 of a Serial — by Charles Dickens
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Hints for Celebrating the Fourth of July
    Two pages of illustrations, 6 to a page, as follows: Perparing for the Fourth – Excursion to the Fishing Banks – A Drive on the Avenue – Young America – There Goes a Rocket – Reading the Declaration – A Rural Celebration – Taking it Quietly – The Largest Liberty – A Pleasant Lesson – The Drunkard’s Fourth – Colored People’s Fourth
  • Fashions for July

    • 1857-05 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1857/05 —

  • Pictures In Switzerland
  • North Carolina Illustrated — Part 2: The Piny Woods
  • Little Sticks And Their Kindred
  • The Assassin Of Society
  • By The Passaic
  • Table-Turning In France
  • A Reminiscence
  • John Bunyan by Thomas Babington Macaulay
  • The Broken Shilling
  • The Moravians And Their Leader
  • Patrick Henry
  • Little Jim
  • Sold!
  • A Reminiscence Of Samuel Rogers
  • Religion, Love, And Marriage, In Italy
  • Little Dorrit — Chapters 59-62 of a Serial — by Charles Dickens
  • Only A Rat
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Fashions For May

    • 1858-03 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1858/03 —

  • The Upper Mississippi
  • My Illusions Spare!
  • The Three Sons
  • Tropical Journeyings
  • The Bladensburg Dueling Ground
  • Jack Of All Trades — Concluded — by Charles Reade
  • Progress Of Womanhood
  • Westmoreland
  • Captain Becalmed
  • A Paper Of All Sorts
  • Rouge Et Noir
  • Every Wife Her Own Tormentor
  • My Wife And I
  • The Virginians — Chapters 13-16 of a Serial — by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • The Statue In Clay
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Substance And Shadows
  • Fashions For March

    • 1858-04 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1858/04 —

  • Tropical Journeyings
  • Pictures From Siberia And Tartary
  • An American At Sinai
  • The Lady Of Belisle
  • Civilization And Health
  • The 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”, etc.
  • The Virginians — Chapters 17-20 of a Serial — 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

    • 1855-11 Harpers Monthly Magazine Contents

    1855/11 —

  • Day at Pompeii
  • Nicaragua – An Exploration from Ocean to Ocean by E. G. Squier
  • Hints for Country House Builders by Calvert Vaux
  • My Wife, and My Theory About Wives
  • Marrying a Countess
  • An Earthquake or Two
  • Jimmy Rose
  • The Pot of Tulips
  • The Old Pastor
  • Bird Gossip
  • Autumn Leaves from the South: A Forest Dream
  • Monthly Record of Current Events
  • Literary Notices
  • Editor’s Table
  • Editor’s Easy Chair
  • Editor’s Drawer
  • Mr. Slim’s Final Piscatorial Experience
  • Fashions for November