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1881-07 Scribner’s Magazine Contents

1881/07 –

Contents as follows:

  • The Younger Painters of America — Part 3 by William C. Brownell
  • A Song Before Grief by Rise Hawthorne Lathrop
  • The Sea-Horse by Henry W. Elliott
  • A Day at the Ma’sh by Maurice F. Egan
  • The People’s Problem — Part 1 by Albert Stickney
  • Beware by A. B. Boyle
  • Mont Blanc by A. B. Boyle
  • Dr. Dollinger and the Old Catholic Movement in Germany by Prof. George P. Fisher
  • Decoration in the Seventh Regiment by William C. Brownell
  • Peter the Great as Ruler and Reformer — Part 9 by Eugene Schuyler
  • A Fearful Responsibility — Part 2 of 2 — by William Dean Howells
  • Shadows by William Watson
  • Railway, Church-Yard, and Cemetery Lawn Planting by Samuel Parsons, Jr.
  • The Levees of the Mississippi by William L. Murfree, Sr.
  • An Old Virginian by John Esten Cooke
  • Undowered by Harriet McEwen Kimball
  • Madame Delphine — Part 2 by George W. Cable
  • A Rainy Day with Uncle Remus Part 2 of 3 by Joel Chandler Harris
  • Owl Against Robin by Sidney Lanier

  • Topics of the Time: Topics of the Time
  • Communications: Communications
  • Home and Society: Home and Society
  • Culture and Progress: Culture and Progress
  • The World’s Work: The World’s Work
  • Bric-a-Brac: Bric-a-Brac

    • 1881-08 Scribner’s Magazine Contents

    1881/08 –

    Contents as follows:

  • The Isle of Peace by Susan Coolidge
  • The Daughter of Henry Sage Rittenhouse — Part 1 by The Author of ‘An Earnest Trifler’
  • “No Man’s Land” by H. H.
  • By the Sea in Normandy by Mary G. Loring
  • To My Dog “Blanco” by J. G. Holland
  • Ice-Yachting on the Hudson by Charles H. Farnham
  • Poetry in America — Part 1 by Edmund C. Stedman
  • Our Circle by Augusta Moore
  • Songs of Nature by Roger Riordan
  • A Little World by Allen C. Redwood
  • Robert Fulton’s Experiments in Submarine Gunnery from the unpublished manuscripts of Robert Fulton with 11 diagrams by Fulton
  • The People’s Problem — Part 2 by Albert Stickney
  • Peter the Great as Ruler and Reformer — part 10 by Eugene Schuyler
  • Queen Titania — Part 1 by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
  • The River Inn by Richard Watson Gilder
  • A Rainy Day with Uncle Remus Part 3 of 3 by Joel Chandler Harris
  • The Village Convict by C. H. White

  • Topics of the Time: Topics of the Time
  • Communications: Communications
  • Home and Society: Home and Society
  • Culture and Progress: Culture and Progress
  • The World’s Work: The World’s Work
  • Bric-a-Brac: Bric-a-Brac

    • 1881-06 Scribner’s Magazine Contents

    1881/06 –

    Contents as follows:

  • The New York Farragut Monument by Richard Watson Gilder
  • Along the North Shore of Long Island by Charles H. Farnham
  • Sic Semper Liberatoribus, March 13, 1881 A poem by Emma Lazarus
  • The Sanitary Condition of New York — Part 2: The Remedy by George E. Waring, Jr.
  • Madame Delphine — Part 2 by George W. Cable
  • An August Morning with Farragut by J. C. Kinney
  • The Lobster at Home by William H. Bishop
  • “Latitude Unknown” by H. H.
  • Practical Floriculture by Peter Henderson
  • Bastien Lepage by Richard Watson Gilder
  • Poems from a Scrap-Book by Edith M. Thomas
  • The Westminster Play by E. S. Nadal
  • A Rainy Day with Uncle Remus — Part 1 of 3 — by Joel Chandler Harris
  • Peter the Great as Ruler and Reformer — Part 8 by Eugene Schuyler
  • Keenan’s Charge (Chancellorsville, May, 1863) by George Parsons Lathrop
  • Fritz by Elizabeth Sill
  • Farragut by Charles de Kay
  • Lord Beaconsfield by P. M. Potter
  • Some New Berries by E. P. Roe
  • The Largest Extinct Volcano by C. F. Gordon Cumming
  • A Fearful Responsibility — Part 1 by William Dean Howells
  • The Revised New Testament by Prof. George P. Fisher
  • Topics of the Time: Topics of the Time
  • Communications: Communications
  • Home and Society: Home and Society
  • Culture and Progress: Culture and Progress
  • The World’s Work: The World’s Work
  • Bric-a-Brac: Bric-a-Brac

    • 1937-08 Scribner’s Magazine Contents

    1937/08 –

    Contents as follows:

  • Cover Photograph by Henry Waxman

    • SHORT STORIES:

  • “Ghost My Eye! by Walter Brooks
  • “Three Tables” by Virginia Byrd

    • ARTICLES:

  • Ours Was the Best Generation by Gene Shuford with drawings by Victor Candell – Preceded bythe Jazz Era and followed by today’s smug New Youth, the college graduates of the middle nineteen-twenties comes into a late ripening
  • Why Do They Read It? by Belle Rosenbaum – Explaining that bewildering American phenomenon, Gone With the Wind — how it changed the reading habits of a nation, why it outsold all best-sellers

    • LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES:

  • The American Student Leaves the Reservation by Maude Palmer Thayer
  • A Day in the Cumberlands by Marian Lackey
  • “Mountain People” — Verse by Jesse Stuart

    • THE PEOPLE AND THE ARTS:

  • Jim Tully by Frank Scully – 4 pages with a photo of Tully and one of his mansion
  • Books by John Chamberlain
  • Book Notes by Katherine Gauss Jackson
  • Music and Records by Richard Gilbert

    • TRAVEL:

  • East-to-West — 5. The Eastern Mediterranean by George Brandt
  • Vacation Cruises by K.K.

    • FEATURES:

  • Straws in the Wind
  • Who Looks Upon an Ocean Bay by Kathryn Grondahl
  • American Painters Series — No.6, White-faced Cattle by Howard Cook – Beautiful tipped-in page on higher quality paper, thick stock, blank back, quite colorful
  • Scribner’s Portfolio of American Photography
  • don herold examines: by Don Herold
  • The Scribner Quiz by Irving D. Tressler
  • The Sun Comes Home by Katherine Kent

    • 1938-05 Scribner’s Magazine Contents

    1938/05 –

    Contents as follows:

  • Cover Photograph by Bourges

    • ARTICLES:

  • Scribner’s Examines: Steve Hannagan by Stanley Jones
  • Royal Diversion – Life in the United States by Brice Taylor
  • One Every Minute: The Picture Magazines by Jackson Edwards – Life, Look, Click, Foto, Focus, Peek, Pic, etc.
  • For Rent Furnished – Life in the United States by Helen Wertheim
  • Eli Whitney’s Second Invention by Roger Burlingame
  • Water Thief – Life in the United States by Frances Hall

    • FICTION:

  • “Murder Is a Fact” — Part 1 — by Kurt Steel and illustrated by Robert Fawcett
  • “O’Precious” by Genevieve W. Chandler and illustrated by Paul Chapmon

    • FEATURES:

  • “The Litchfield Hills” — Verse by Edgar Lee Masters
  • Women — Color Drawings by H. Hidalgo de Caviedes
  • don herold examines: by Don Herold
  • “Rejection Slip” — Verse by Marcella Hartman
  • Life in the U.S. – Photographic
  • The Scribner Quiz by Irving D. Tressler
  • Art Quiz by Garrett Price

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Straws in the Wind
  • Motion Pictures by Gilbert Seldes
  • Theater by George Jean Nathan
  • Wines, Spirits, and Good Living by G. Selmer Fougner
  • Books by John Chamberlain
  • Music and Records by Richard Gilbert
  • The Swiss Have a New Angle — Travel by Fred Dossenbach, Jr.
  • Luxury on Wheels — Travel by Lucius Beebe
  • Intelligence Test for Dogs — Kennel by Arthur E. Patterson
  • Education by R.B.

    • 1932-04 Scribner’s Magazine Contents

    1932/04 –

    Contents as follows:

  • A Portrait of Bascom Hawke — A Complete Short Novel — by Thomas Wolfe
  • How Strong Is Roosevelt? By Frank R. Kent
  • Does Music Have to Be European? By Roy Harris
  • So Tall the Corn — A Story — by David Cornel DeJong
  • Five Years — A Poem — by Katharine Shepard Hayden
  • Wanted — A New Political Deal — by Norman Thomas
  • The Understanding Husband — A Poem — by Helene Mullins
  • Warriors of the Campus by Robert Wohlforth
  • Life in the United States: Florida Interlude by Sarah-Elizabeth Rodger

    • Straws in the Wind:

  • Has Japan “Come of Age”? by Upton Close
  • Hail Hitler! by William C. White
  • Germany Between Despair and Resurrection by S. McClatchie
  • As I Like It by William Lyon Phelps
  • Literary Sign-Posts by R. E. Sherwood and Others
  • Behind the Scenes — Biographical Notes
  • Two Kinds of Credit Cure by S. Palmer Herman
  • Cover Design by Edward Shenton

    • 1938-06 Scribner’s Magazine Contents

    1938/06 –

    Contents as follows:

  • Cover Photograph by Bourges

    • ARTICLES:

  • Scribner’s Examines: Grover A. Whalen by Harland Manchester
  • Yellow Horse – Life in the United States by Sylvia Crowder with drawings by David Hendrickson
  • Advertising the Next War by Ted Patrick
  • Ghost Behind the Grade – Life in the United States by Robert Greenlees
  • Geography, Inc. by Ishbel Ross is about the National Geographic Magazine

    • FICTION:

  • “Murder Is a Fact” — Part 2 — by Kurt Steel and illustrated by Robert Fawcett

    • FEATURES:

  • “A Certain Seclusion” — Verse by Julian Lee Rayford
  • Life in the U.S. – Photographic
  • The Scribner Quiz by Irving D. Tressler
  • don herold examines: by Don Herold
  • “Tribute” — Verse by Kimball Flaccus
  • “Time and Tide” — Verse by Marjorie Allen Seiffert

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Straws in the Wind
  • Books by John Chamberlain
  • Music and Records by Richard Gilbert
  • Wines, Spirits, and Good Living by G. Selmer Fougner
  • Education by R.B.
  • Dog Judge — Kennel by Arthur E. Patterson

    • 1932-07 Scribner’s Magazine Contents

    1932/07 –

    Contents as follows:

  • The Web of Earth — A Complete Short Novel — by Thomas Wolfe
  • The Birth Rate — Potential Dynamite — by J.J. Spengler
  • Without Benefit of Congress by Henry Hazlitt
  • The Visit to Uncle Jake’s — A Story — by George Milburn
  • Early Afternoon — A Story — by John O’Hara

    • Straws in the Wind:

  • “You Can’t Change Human Nature” by Robert Briffault
  • Who Lives My Life? by Grace Jones Morgan
  • Sketch of a Literary Career by Harry Salpeter

  • Confederate Daughters Stand Guard by Raymond S. Tompkins
  • Eve — A Poem — by Luella Boynton

  • ROTC — Torchbearers of Patriotism by Lt.-Col. John W. Lang
  • As I Like It by William Lyon Phelps
  • Literary Sign-Posts — Book Reviews
  • Behind the Scenes — Biographical Notes
  • The “Want-in-Plenty” Enigma by S. Palmer Harman
  • Cover Design by Edward Shenton

    • 1938-07 Scribner’s Magazine Contents

    1938/07 –

    Contents as follows:

  • Cover Photograph by Bourges

    • ARTICLES:

  • Scribner’s Examines: Morris L. Ernst by Marquis James
  • Souvenir Hunters – Life in the United States by Marty Savela
  • High Hat: The Luxury Magazines by Henry F. Pringle featuring Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Country Life and The Sportsman, Town & Country, The Spur
  • Mountain Lookout – Life in the United States by John Clark Hunt
  • The Great Speedup by Gilbert H. Burck

    • FICTION:

  • “The Fugitives” by Thomas Rourke with drawings by Hardie Gramatky
  • “Murder Is a Fact” — Part 3 — by Kurt Steel and illustrated by Robert Fawcett

    • FEATURES:

  • Life in the U.S. – Photographic
  • The Scribner Quiz by Irving D. Tressler
  • don herold examines: by Don Herold
  • “Mountain Rain” — Verse by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Straws in the Wind
  • Music and Records by Richard Gilbert
  • Books by John Chamberlain
  • Wines, Spirits, and Good Living by G. Selmer Fougner
  • Education by R.B.
  • Dog Preening — Kennel by Arthur E. Patterson

    • 1933-01 Scribner’s Magazine Contents

    1933/01 –

    Contents as follows:

  • Roosevelt’s Pilots by Arthur D. Howden Smith
  • Red Flame by Walter Duranty
  • A Song During Business Depression — A Poem — by Vachel Lindsay
  • There Was a Queen — A Story — William Faulkner
  • The Loss of the “Melbourne” by A.J. Villiers
  • No Taxes to Pay by Henry Hazlitt
  • The Next Political Front by William Harlan Hale
  • The Trap — A Story — by Meridel LeSueur
  • The Passing of Democratic Fallacy by Ernest Sutherland Bates
  • The Apostate — A Story — by Lillian Barnard Gilkes
  • Life in the United States: Feet in the Grass Roots by Josephine Herbst

    • Straws in the Wind:

  • College Girl: 1932-33 by Eunice Fuller Barnard
  • Military Medicine Men by Alva Lee
  • War in Bohemia by Malcolm Cowley

  • As I Like It by William Lyon Phelps

  • Literary Sign-Posts — Book Reviews
  • Motives Behind America’s Stand on War Debts by S. Palmer Harman
  • Behind the Scenes — Biographical Notes
  • Cover Design by Edward Shenton

    • 1938-08 Scribner’s Magazine Contents

    1938/08 –

    Contents as follows:

  • Cover Photograph by Bourges

    • ARTICLES:

  • Scribner’s Examines: Boake Carter by A.J. Liebling
  • Only the One I’m After – Life in the United States by Alvaro De Silva
  • On Patrol With Crime-Proofers by Gretta Palmer
  • Surrealism in Overalls by Frank Caspers features the use of art in advertising with small black & white repro of an ad done by Dali for Bonwit Teller, plus half-page color reproduction of “Apparitions” by Joan Miro
  • True Stories: The Confession Magazines by Harland Manchester

    • FICTION:

  • “Murder Is a Fact” — Part 4 — by Kurt Steel and illustrated by Robert Fawcett
  • “Fifty Cents Short of a Bargain” by Edward Horton with drawing by Hardie Gramatky

    • FEATURES:

  • Life in the U.S. – Photographic
  • The Scribner Quiz by Irving D. Tressler
  • don herold examines: by Don Herold

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Straws in the Wind
  • Music and Records by Richard Gilbert
  • Wines, Spirits, and Good Living by G. Selmer Fougner
  • Books by John Chamberlain
  • Dog Champions — Kennel by Arthur E. Patterson
  • Education by R.B.

    • 1933-07 Scribner’s Magazine Contents

    1933/07 –

    Contents as follows:

  • American Revolution: 1933 by John T. Flynn
  • No Door — A Story — by Thomas Wolfe
  • Gotterdammerung by Suzanne La Follette
  • Deer — A Story — by Alvah C. Bessie
  • What Bryan Did to America by J.C. Long

    • Straws in the Wind:

  • The Davis Cup by Herbert Reed
  • World’s End: 1893-1933 by R.L. Duffus
  • We Who Are About to Drink by Frank Schoonmaker
  • What Kind of World Are Young People Facing? by Helen Christine Bennett
  • Life in the United States: Fisherman’s Wife by Anonymous
  • As I Like It by William Lyon Phelps
  • A Letter to Certain Americans — A Poem — by Robert Nathan
  • Books for Your Library — Book Reviews
  • Behind the Scenes — Biographical Notes
  • Cover Design by Edward Shenton

    • 1938-09 Scribner’s Magazine Contents

    1938/09 –

    Contents as follows:

  • Cover Photograph by Bourges

    • ARTICLES:

  • Scribner’s Examines the airlines’ campaign to make America air-minded…the publicity designed to overcome fear…the facts and fallacies of air travel: Mr. Milquetoast in the Sky by J.C. Furnas
  • Elbert Hubbard by Frederick Lewis Allen
  • Jetsam – Life in the United States by Polly SImpson Macmanus
  • Romantic Business – Fortune Magazine by William A. Lydgate

    • FICTION:

  • “What’s In It for Me?” – Scribner’s Short Novel – by Jerome Weidman

    • FEATURES:

  • The Most Overrated People in America — Illustrated by Otto Soglow
  • Life in the U.S. – Photographic
  • don herold examines: by Don Herold
  • The Scribner Quiz by Irving D. Tressler
  • Sonnet for the Age — Verse by Oscar Williams

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Straws in the Wind
  • Books by John Chamberlain
  • Music and Records by Richard Gilbert
  • Wines, Spirits, and Good Living by G. Selmer Fougner
  • Education by R.B.
  • Bench Reform — Kennel by Arthur E. Patterson

    • 1933-06 Scribner’s Magazine Contents

    1933/06 –

    Contents as follows:

  • A High-Road for Business by A.A. Berle, Jr.
  • All-Night Wagon-Lunch — A Poem — by Elias Lieberman
  • Death the Proud Brother — A Story — by Thomas Wolfe
  • Congress — The Nation’s Scapegoat — by Fiorello LaGuardia
  • Bitter Apples — A Story — by Ethel Hepburn
  • Pastoral — A Poem — by Ruth Langland Holberg
  • Programs for the Jobless by Henry Hazlitt
  • Jefferson and the New Deal by Dumas Malone
  • Betrayal in American Education by Howard Mumford Jones
  • Life in the United States: Men Are Queer That Way by Mabel S. Ulrich
  • Not That We Are Forlorn — A Poem — by Chalres Norman

    • Straws in the Wind:

  • By All Means, the Saloon by Paul Hutchinson
  • On Being a Jew by Roebrt Nathan

    • Cray Under Chaos — A Poem — by Gilbert Maxwell

  • As I Like It by William Lyon Phelps
  • Books for Your Library — Book Reviews
  • Behind the Scenes — Biographical Notes
  • Cover Design by Edward Shenton

    • 1939-01 Scribner’s Magazine Contents

    1939/01 –

    Contents as follows:

  • Cover Painting by Eugene Speicher – Courtesy of the Rehn Galleries

    • ARTICLES:

  • Scribner’s Examines : Pare Lorentz by W.L. White
  • Drunken Driver – Life in the United States by William Davison with drawing by Peter Helck
  • The Newspaper Guild by Henry F. Pringle
  • Personal Attention – Life in the United States by Ruth K. Forinash with drawing by Robert Fawcett
  • The Press Agent Takes Over by Lou Wedemar
  • I Wish and I Wonder – Life in the United States by Margaret MacPhail

    • FICTION:

  • “One Last Wilderness” – Scribner’s Short Novel – by Wallace Stegner

    • FEATURES:

  • “The Birds” – Verse by Robert Herridge
  • The Scribner Quiz by Irving D. Tressler
  • Life in the U.S. – Photographic
  • don herold examines by Don Herold
  • “431 B.C.” — Verse by Robert Nathan

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Straws in the Wind
  • Music and Records by Richard Gilbert
  • Wines, Spirits, and Good Living by G. Selmer Fougner

    • Books:

  • Biography by Douglas Southall Freeman
  • Fiction by Carl Van Doren
  • Foreign Affairs by William L. Langer
  • Mysteries by S.S. Van Dine – Just over a single column of text (or one-third of a page)
  • Art by Thomas Craven
  • Education by R.B.
  • Bench Reform — Kennel by Arthur E. Patterson

    • 1929-08 Scribner’s Magazine Contents

    1929/08 –

    Cover Decoration by Rockwell Kent

    Contents as follows:

  • As I Like It by William Lyon Phelps
  • Annandale Again — A Poem by Edward Arlington Robinson
  • “The Turning Point” by Will James with illustrations by the author
  • “Elijah” — A Poem by John Finely
  • Women and HIgher Education by Clarence C. Little
  • No, No, Go Not to Lethe — A Story by Conrad Aiken
  • Silence — A Poem by John Hall Wheelock
  • Wall Street Marries Broadway by Thomas McKnight
  • “A Farewell to Arms” — Serialized and picking up from Chapter 25 here — by Ernest Hemingway
  • Why I Am Going Back to My Job by Anonymous
  • The White Satin Dress — A Story by Mary R.S. Andrews
  • Clisson and Eugenie — A Story by Napoleon Bonaparte and Edited by Harry B. Smith
  • Pastel — A Poem by Dorothy Haight
  • “An Angel on the Porch” — A Story by Thomas Wolfe
  • A Gray Day in the City — A Poem by James B. Carrington
  • Aunt Emmeline Takes an Interest — A Story by Janet A. Holmes
  • “Old Countryside” — A Poem by Louise Bogan
  • The Field of Art by Royal Cortissoz
  • The Financial Situation by Alexander Dana Noyes

    • 1939-02 Scribner’s Magazine Contents

    1939/02 –

    Contents as follows:

  • Cover Painting by Alexander Brook – Courtesy of the Rehn Galleries

    • ARTICLES:

  • Scribner’s Examines : Hugh A. Drum by George Fielding Eliot
  • I Pick ‘Em Up – Life in the United States by Bergen Evans with drawing Peter Helck
  • The Resurrection of Mr. Volstead by Will Irwin
  • Selling George VI to the U.S. by Josef Israels, II
  • Buy As You Go – An Examination of Installment Selling – by John T. Flynn

    • FICTION:

  • “Seasoned Timber” – Scribner’s Short Novel – by Dorothy Canfield

    • FEATURES:

  • Life in the U.S. – Photographic
  • The Scribner Quiz by Irving D. Tressler

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Straws in the Wind
  • Music and Records by Richard Gilbert
  • Wines, Spirits, and Good Living by G. Selmer Fougner

    • Books:

  • Fiction by Carl Van Doren
  • Stage by Richard Watts, Jr.
  • Biography by Douglas Southall Freeman
  • Mysteries by S.S. Van Dine – Approximately a single column of text (or one-third of a page)
  • Education by R.B.

    • 1934-09 Scribner’s Magazine Contents

    1934/09 –

    Contents as follows:

  • Are the Generals Ready? by Captain Liddell Hart
  • Human Waste in the Colleges by John R. Tunis
  • Let Us Play by Arthur Farwell
  • Echoes at Livorno by Stark Young
  • “Giver of the Grape” — A Story by Grace Flandrau
  • Republicans in a Political Jam by John Corbin
  • “Escape the Pattern” — A Poem by Conrad Aiken
  • “The Combination” — A Story by Evan Shipman
  • “Medusa Impotent” — A Poem by Jean Starr Untermeyer
  • Life in the United States — Cross Section by Elliott Merrick
  • “Souvenir of Arizona” — A Story by Benedict Thielen

    • Straws in the Wind:

  • Liars Are Fathers by Harold McGuire
  • Canners, Women, and Workers by Mary Heaton Vorse
  • As I Like It by William Lyon Phelps
  • Books for Your Library — Book Reviews
  • Symphonies in Wax by Richard Gilbert
  • Behind the Scenes — Biographical Notes
  • Cover Design by T.M. Cleland – Decorations by Edward Shenton

    • 1939-03 Scribner’s Magazine Contents

    1939/03 –

    Contents as follows:

  • Cover Painting by Peter Hurd – Courtesy of the Gallery of Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan

    • ARTICLES:

  • Scribner’s Examines : Clare Booth by Milton Mackaye
  • “Big Broadcast of 1938” – Life in the United States by Anonymous
  • Hollywood, Calif., Mar. 1– by Frank J. Taylor
  • Scribner’s Examines: Fast Freight by Gilbert H. Burck

    • FICTION:

  • “Bone Joe and the Smokin’ Woman – Scribner’s Short Novel – by Mari Sandoz

    • FEATURES:

  • The Scribner Quiz by Irving D. Tressler
  • Life in the U.S. – Photographic – Vermont

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Straws in the Wind
  • Music and Records by Richard Gilbert
  • Wines, Spirits, and Good Living by G. Selmer Fougner

    • Books:

  • Military by Major R. Ernest Depuy
  • Biography by Douglas S. Freeman
  • Fiction by Carl Van Doren
  • Mysteries by S.S. Van Dine – Slightly more than a single column of text total (or just over one-third of a page)
  • Education by R.B.

    • 1934-10 Scribner’s Magazine Contents

    1934/10 –

    Contents as follows:
    Business, Regimentation, and the New Deal:

  • Revolution by Electricity by Paul Hutchinson
  • Who Started This Regimentation? by John T. Flynn
  • Why Business Men Fear Washington by W.M. Kiplinger
  • “October” — A Poem by Bernice Kenyon
  • “A Start in Life” — A Story by Theodore Dreiser
  • American Music Enters a New Phase by Roy Harris
  • “The Dark Tribunal” — A Story by Walter Gilkyson
  • Design for Eating by Clarence William Lieb
  • Under Sentence of Death by Anonymous

    • Straws in the Wind:

  • The Inevitability of Peace by Foster Rhea Douglas
  • Social-Credit Dictatorship of the Consumer by Herbert Bruce Brougham
  • Children’s Crime Problems: 1934 by Arthur Mann
  • Life in the United States — Hawaii, Washington, Vermont by Genevieve Taggard
  • As I Like It by William Lyon Phelps
  • Books for Your Library — Book Reviews
  • Brain-Testers – A Cultural Test
  • Phonograph Records by Richard Gilbert
  • If I Should Ever Travel by Katherine Gauss Jackson
  • Behind the Scenes — Biographical Notes
  • Cover Design by T.M. Cleland – Decorations by Edward Shenton

    • 1939-04 Scribner’s Magazine Contents

    1939/04 –

    Contents as follows:

  • Cover Painting by James Chapin – Courtesy of Rehn Galleries

    • ARTICLES:

  • Scribner’s Examines : Igor I. Sikorsky by Russell Owen
  • Cafeteria Society – Life in the United States by Louise Levitas with drawing by Robert Fawcett
  • Surrender of Privacy by Meyer Berger
  • Government Publicity Machine by C.R. Walker

    • FICTION:

  • “The Heroes” – Scribner’s Short Novel – by Millen Brand

    • FEATURES:

  • The Scribner Quiz by Irving D. Tressler
  • Life in the U.S. – Photographic – Mississippi
  • “Barn Song” – Verse by Louis Stoddard

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Straws in the Wind
  • Music and Records by Richard Gilbert
  • Wines, Spirits, and Good Living by G. Selmer Fougner
  • Dogs and Kennels by J.B. McK.

    • Books:

  • Biography by Douglas S. Freeman
  • Foreign Affairs by William L. Langer
  • Fiction by Carl Van Doren
  • Mysteries by S.S. Van Dine – Slightly more than a single column of text total (or just over one-third of a page)
  • Education by R.B.

    • 1934-11 Scribner’s Magazine Contents

    1934/11 –

    Contents as follows:

  • Business and Government: Toward a Common Ground by A.A. Berle, Jr.
  • “Thundering Hoofs” — A Poem by Louisa Boyd Graham
  • Schools Can Learn to Educate by John R. Tunis
  • “Dark in the Forest, Strange as Time” — A Story by Thomas Wolfe
  • We Enjoyed the War by Iris Barry
  • “Fountain of Youth” — A Story by barbara Webster
  • “Lily, Pennsylvania” — A Poem by Pearl Mayefsky
  • The Football Brahmins Make Peace by Lawrence Perry
  • “Summary” — A Poem by Idella Purnell
  • Mahan, Naval Philosopher by Captain W.B. Puleston
  • Red Opinion in the United States by C. Hartley Grattan

    • Straws in the Wind:

  • My Children See America by Guy C. Hickok
  • The Passing of the Provincial Visitor by George Dangerfield
  • Life in the United States — Itinerant by M. O’Moran
  • As I Like It by William Lyon Phelps
  • Brain-Testers – A Cultural Test
  • Holiday Book Supplement — Book Reviews
  • Phonograph Records by Richard Gilbert
  • If I Should Ever Travel by Katherine Gauss Jackson
  • Behind the Scenes — Biographical Notes
  • Cover Design by T.M. Cleland – Decorations by Edward Shenton

    • 1937-02 Scribner’s Magazine Contents

    1937/02 –

    Contents as follows:

  • The Essence of Lima by Hudson Strode
  • How Shall We Run Our Cities? By Murray Seasongood
  • A Note on Scribner’s Fiction
  • The Bad-Nigger Mood by Will F. Jenkins
  • For Nancy’s Sake by Virginia Bird
  • Pro Arte by Allan Seager
  • Scribner’s Presents: The Cleansing and War by John Lang
  • Scribner’s Presents: An Album of Recovery
  • Ther New Woman Goes Home by Mrs. Ralph Borsodi

    • A Man’s World Still:

  • The Renaissance of Virility by Albert de Pina
  • We Do Not Have to Worry by Robert Faber
  • Scribner’s Examines: Television in America by Don Wharton – Scribner’s examines television — it’s status, problems, limitations, and immediate prospects … when and how it will come into our living rooms

    • Life in the United States:

  • The Anatomy of Courage by Anonymous
  • Fruit Tramp by Albert Martin
  • The Scribner Quiz
  • The People and the Arts by Gilbert Seldes
  • Books: Romanticism and Rebellion by John Chamberlain
  • Music and Records by Richard Gilbert
  • Better Lights and Decoration by Katherine Kent
  • Cover by T.M. Cleland

    • 1937-03 Scribner’s Magazine Contents

    1937/03 –

    Contents as follows:

  • There’s Peace in Pageantry by Wilson Chamberlain
  • Hollywood Takes Over the Theater by Arthur Hopkins – Appears to trace Hollywood taking over the theatre from its origins, with photos of a “traveling flicker show in 1910”, a 1913 nickelodeon, small pics of Theda Bara, Mabel Normand, Gloria Swanson in a Mack Sennett scene, Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, The Birth of a Nation, The Jazz Singer, What Price Glory?, and more.
  • Scribner’s Presents: Miss West and the Listenbees by Ima Webster
  • American Painters Series — No. 1, Fall Plowing by John Costigan – Beautiful tipped-in page on higher quality paper, thick stock, blank back, quite colorful
  • Welcome, Hanny by Judith Kelly
  • Beleaguered by Rion Bercovici
  • Conflict on the Campus by J.C. Long
  • The Circus — Photographed in Rehearsal by Maxwell Coplan – 4 pages of photos
  • Caesar at the Feast by Jo Pagano
  • Careers in Government by Leonard D. White

    • Life in the United States:

  • Connecticut Flood by Bertram O. Moody
  • Odd Fellows’ Hall by Nancy Hale
  • The People and the Arts by Gilbert Seldes
  • The Scribner Quiz
  • Books: Stories of Submerged People by John Chamberlain
  • Music and Records by Richard Gilbert
  • Home, Ahoy! by Katherine Kent
  • Cover Photograph by Henry Waxman

    • 1937-04 Scribner’s Magazine Contents

    1937/04 –

    Contents as follows:

  • Cover Photograph by Henry Waxman

    • SHORT STORIES:

  • “Whip-Poor-Willie” by Jesse Stuart and illustrated by David Hendrickson
  • “Charge It” by John Fante with illustrations by Marshall Davis
  • “To Those Who Wait” by Elick Moll and illustrated by Bernadine Custer

    • ARTICLES:

  • Scribner’s Examines: The Newsreels by Thomas Sugrue – Their origin, history and social function
  • Oh, England! Full of Sin by Robert J. Casey with drawings by Howard Willard – The Sceptered Isle, as Discovered by a Chronic Reader of English Detective and Mystery Stories
  • Our Hypnotized World by V.F. Calverton appears to be about the science of propaganda

    • LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES:

  • Hail, Hell and Farewell by Tom S. Elrod
  • Fantasia by Bergen Evans

    • FEATURES:

  • American Painters Series — No. 2, Lower Manhattan by Mildred Sheets – Beautiful tipped-in page on higher quality paper, thick stock, blank back, quite colorful
  • Photographs: Zuni and Navajo by Walter Herdeg
  • The Scribner Quiz
  • The People and the Arts by Gilbert Seldes
  • East-to-West – 1. Japan by George Brandt with drawings by B. Tagawa
  • Books: Socrates, Morris Ernst, and the Supreme Court by John Chamberlain

    • ALSO:

  • “One Who Knows His Sea Gulls” — A Poem by Robert P. Tristram Coffin