1924-08 The American Mercury Magazine Contents for August 1924 1924/08 — Contents as follows: Mr. Coolidge by Frank R. Kent The Gates of Tamerlane — A Story by Achmed Abdullah Godey’s Lady’s Book by Richard Fay Warner Canned Music and the Composer by Harry B. Smith The Trial of the Dead Cleopatra — A Poem by Vachel Lindsay The Ordeal of Prohibition by Clarence S. Darrow A Note on Tights by Carl Van Vechten Americana El Paso by Owen P. White American Portraits – 6: The Advertising Agent by Orrick Johns Clinical Notes by George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken The Mercy of God by Theodore Dreiser The Arts and Sciences: Jazz by Virgil Thomson Cavalry in Modern War by G.A. Moore The Books of Dard Hunter by Nelson Antrim Crawford The Inquiring Mind by Zechariah Chafee, Jr. Pariah — A Story by Chester T. Crowell A Forgotten American Statesman by Milledge L. Bonham, Jr. about Edward Livingston The Theatre by George Jean Nathan The Library by H.L. Mencken