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1911-12 The North American Review Contents for December 1911

1911/12 – Contents as taken from the front cover and contents page inside are as follows:

  • The Anti-Trust Law by Ex-Senator George F. Edmunds
  • Canada’s Conservative Policies by J. Castell Hopkins
  • Canada’s Conservative Policies — A Rejoinder by The Editor
  • Can the Republican Party Reform? by William MacDonald
  • Interdependence of Political and Military Policies by Major-General W.H. Carter, U.S.A.
  • The Passing of the Manchus by Stephen Bonsal
  • The Interstate Commerce Commission by James W. Crook
  • A Lover’s “Litany to Pan” by Florence Earle Coates
  • The Waters of Blackpool by William Dean Howells – 10 pages
  • Andreyev’s “Anathema” and the Faust Legend by O.R. Howard Thomson
  • A Woman Critic of Women by Floence L. Ravenel
  • William Tindale – The Maker of the English Bible by J.H. Gardiner
  • The Industrial Problem by Andrew Carnegie – 7 pages
  • “The Iron Woman” by Mary Tappan Wright
  • New Books Reviewed

    • 1910-06 The North American Review Contents for June 1910

    1910/06 – Contents as taken from the front cover and contents page inside are as follows:

  • Frontispiece: Photo of Mark Twain. This issue marks Twain’s death on April 21, 1910
  • King Edward VII by Anglo-American

    • Special Articles:

  • Egypt’s Reply to Colonel Roosevelt by Sheikh Ali Youssuf
  • The Return of Roosevelt by Dr. Stephen S. Wise and Norman E. Mack
  • The Income Tax Amendment by Senator W.E. Borah – 7 pages

  • Jean Moreas by William A. Bradley
  • Will Trade Training Solve the Child-Labor Problem by Owen R. Lovejoy
  • A Certain Criticism of Art in America by Charles H. Caffin
  • Rising Prices: Causes and Remedies by Albert S. Bolles
  • Patents and Industrial Progress by William Macomber
  • Medical Control of Vivisection by Walter B. Cannon
  • England and Mark Twain by Britannicus – 5 pages

    • TRIBUTES TO MARK TWAIN – 9 pages total with tributes from:

  • Andrew Carnegie
  • Albert Bigelow Paine
  • Booker T. Washington
  • Booth Tarkington
  • Samuel Gompers

  • Wilbur Nesbit

  • George Ade

  • Hamlin Garland

  • John Kendrick Bangs
  • Brander Matthews
  • Mark Twain – An Inquiry by William Dean Howells – 15 pages
  • New Books Reviewed

    • 1911-01 The North American Review Contents for January 1911

    1911/01 – Contents as taken from the front cover and contents page inside are as follows:

  • Will the Democratic Party Commit Suicide? By The Editor
  • A Government of Law or a Government of Men? By Associate Justice Horace H. Lurton
  • John Brown After Fifty Years by William Dean Howells
  • An Abortive Hero by Henry Watterson
  • The Music of Loeffler by Lawrence Gilman
  • Is Woman Suffrage Important? by Max Eastman
  • The Drama and the Play by Arthur Colton
  • Personalities and Political Forces by Albert B. Hart
  • A Crusade for the Child by Olivia Howard Dunbar
  • The British Elections by Britannicus
  • The Panama Canal vs. American Shipping by A.G. McLellan
  • Medthodist Episcopal Church in Italy by Archbishop Ireland
  • New Books Reviewed
  • “Under Western Eyes” — Part 2 by Joseph Conrad

    • 1895-12 The Forum Magazine Contents for December 1895

    1895/12 – Contents as taken from the front cover and/or table of contents page are as follows:

  • Conditions for American Commercial and Financial Supremacy by Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, Editor l’Economiste francais
  • The Nature of Liberty by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
  • Thomas Brackett Reed and the Fifty-First Congress by THEODORE ROOSEVELT
  • The Trail of “Trilby” by Albert D. Vandam
  • Editorship as a Career for Women by Margaret E. Sangster
  • The Monroe Doctrine – Defense, Not Defiance by A.C. Cassatt
  • Thomas Carlyle – His Work and Influence by William R. Thayer
  • The Pilgrim Principle and the Pilgrim Heritage by William DeW. Hyde – President, Bowdoin College
  • The Obligation of the Inactive by Katrina Trask
  • Crime Among Animals by William Ferrero
  • Has the Mormon Church Re-Entered Politics? by Glen Miller
  • The Literary Hack and His Critics

    • 1883-09 Century Magazine Contents September 1883

    1883/09 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Frontispiece: Portrait of Robert Burns, from a miniature which belonged to his sister — Engraved by T. Johnson
  • Cape Cod by F. Mitchell
  • A Woman’s Reason — Part 8 by William Dean Howells
  • A Musk-Ox Hunt by Frederick Schwatka
  • The Tragedies of the Nests by John Burroughs
  • Will New York Be the Final World Metropolis? by William C. Conant
  • At Castle Hill, Newport, R.I. by Charles de Kay
  • Indian War in the Colonies by Edward Eggleston
  • Ornamental Forms in Nature by Roger Riordan
  • Professor Agassiz’s Laboratory by Ernest Ingersoll
  • Wonderland by George Edgar Montgomery
  • The Bread-winners — Part 2
  • A Burns Pilgrimage by H.H.

  • Love’s Power by Josephine Pollard
  • Our Story by Frank R. Stockton
  • Death’s First Lesson by Susan Marr Spalding
  • Love in Old Clothes by H.C. Bunner
  • Nights with Uncle Remus — Part 3 by Joel Chandler Harris

    • Topics of the Time

  • The Temperance Outlook
  • The Reticence of American Politicians
  • “College-Bred” Statesmen

    • Open Letters:

  • New York as a Field for Fiction by H.C. Bunner
  • The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union by Frances E. Willard
  • The Massachusetts Experiment in Education by Charles Barnard
  • A Romantic Career by D.C. Gilman
  • The Christian League by Washington Gladden and George K. Dunlop
  • Standard Railway Time by W.F. Allen
  • Reforming the Alfabet by Frederick A. Fernald
  • The Training of Children’s Voices by J. Spencer Curwen

    • Bric-a-Brac:

  • In Swimming-Time by James Whitcomb Riley
  • Model Children by Charles H. Turner
  • What’s in a Name? by R.K. Munkittrick
  • A Midsummer Day’s Dream by William M. Briggs
  • A Bundle of Letters by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • Massachusetts French by Bell F. Hapgood

    • 1886-05 Century Magazine Contents May 1886

    1886/05 — Complete contents taken from the contents page and from paging through this issue:

  • Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne – Engraved by T. Johnson after a daguerreotype taken about 1848
  • Recent Architecture in America — Part 1 by Mrs. Schuyler van Rensselaer
  • The Minister’s Charge — Part 4 by William Dean Howells
  • The Flour Mills of Minneapolis by Eugene V. Smalley
  • To the Memory of H. H. by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Iduna by George A. Hibbard
  • A Betrothal by Frank Dempster Sherman
  • A Californian’s Gift to Science: Lick Observatory by Taliesin Evans
  • Control by Sidney Lanier
  • To Will H. Low — A Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson – A half page
  • Perturbed Spirits by Brander Matthews
  • Reunion (Regimental Officers, 1885) by David L. Proudfit
  • Hawthorne’s Philosophy by Julian Hawthorne
  • The Breeding of Fancy Pigeons by E. S. Starr
  • Evolution and the Faith by T. T. Munger
  • Zweibak; or, Notes of a Professional Exile — Part 3
  • Two Views of It by Anthony Morehead
  • The Helmet of Mambrino by Clarence King

    • From the Peninsula to Antietam

  • Posthumous Notes by Gen. George B. McClellan — 9 pages including illustrations
  • With an Introduction by Literary Executor by William C. Prime
  • Recollections of a Private — Part 7: McClellan at the Head of the Grand Army by Warren Lee Goss
  • The Battle of South Mountain or Boonsboro by Gen. D. H. Hill

    • Memoranda on the Civil War

  • In Reply to General Grant by Gen. William Farrar Smith

    • Topics of the Time

  • George Bancroft on the Legal-Tender Decision
  • Copyright
  • James Russell Lowell’s Bible Argument
  • The American Opera Company
  • A Readjustment of the Industrial Order
  • Labor Question

    • Open Letters

  • The True South vs the Silent South by John W. Johnston
  • The True South vs the Silent South by George W. Cable
  • On the South Kensington School for Cookery by Mary B. Welch

    • Bric-A-Brac:

  • An Easter Lay by David Rorty
  • Spring by Bessie Chandler
  • Time and Love by Harold van Santvoord

    • 1917-08 Atlantic Monthly Magazine Contents

    1917/08 — Contents as follows:

    The Great War:

  • Headquarters Nights by Vernon Kellogg
  • High Adventure — Part 1 by James Norman Hall
  • British Experience for Americans — Part 2 by Sidney Webb
  • The Diary of a Coward by A Dutch Volunteer in the French Army
  • Tactics and Armament: an Evolution by Raoul Blanchard
  • Neutrals and Permanent Peace by L. Simons
  • Money by Agnes Repplier
  • A Double Event by Mrs. Asquith
  • May, 1917 – A Poem by John Jay Chapman
  • The New Paganism by Edward Lewis
  • The Life of Adventure by Edgar J. Goodspeed
  • A Tale Untold by William Dean Howells
  • The Dead — A Sonnet by Sigourney Thayer
  • Magic Advertisements by Lisa Ysaye Tarleau
  • A New Knowledge of the Frontier by Alice Tisdale
  • The Pay-Roll Clerk — A Story by Adelaide Lund
  • Food-Control and Democracy by David Lubin
  • The Return – A Poem by Jean Kenyoun Mackenzie
  • Individualism After the War by Fabian Franklin
  • Naval Organization, American and British by Winston Churchill
  • The Contributors’ Club
  • The Contributor’s Column