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January 1929 Issue - 33 Articles- The Catholic Church Faces America
E. Boyd Barrett
, pp. 1-10 - Freebooters of the Forest
Marquis W. Childs
, pp. 11-16 - The Trade of the Journalist
Richard Owen Boyer
, pp. 17-24 - Mr. Blease of South Carolina
O.L. Warr
, pp. 25-32 - Americana, pp. 33-37
- Housekeeping Faces the Stars
Arturo F. Ratti
, pp. 38-45 - Is American Capital Intelligent?
Abraham Epstein
, pp. 46-51 - Pennsylvania Idyl
Josephine Herbst and John Herrmann
, pp. 52-59 - A Little More about Eve
James Branch Cabell
, pp. 60-63 - The Northwest Takes to Poesy
James Stevens
, pp. 64-70 - Movie Critics
Leda V. Bauer
, pp. 71-73 - Tobacco Among the Indians
Cornelia H. Dam
, pp. 74-76 - I Investigate Lynchings
Walter White
, pp. 77-84 - Chautauqua in the Jazz Age
Henry F. Pringle
, pp. 85-93 - Crop Campers
H.L. Davis
, pp. 94-95 - Hands Across the Rio Grande
Jose Miguel Petersen
, pp. 96-103 - The West Point of Fundamentalism
William Cobb
, pp. 104-112 - Clinical Notes
George Jean Nathan
, pp. 113-115 - The Theatre
George Jean Nathan
, pp. 116-121 The Library
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What Is Civilization? (8 Reviews) H.L. Mencken
, pp. 122-123 Civilization, by Clive Bell
- Civilization by Clive Bell
- The Building of Cultures by Roland B. Dixon
- Where Is Civilization Going? by Scott Nearing
- Anthropology and Modern Life by Franz Boas
- In the Beginning by G. Elliot Smith
- Pots and Pans by Herbert Spencer Harrison
- First Player by Ivor Brown
- How We Go Round by Evelyn Sharp
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Men in Cages (2 Reviews) H.L. Mencken
, pp. 124-126 Life and Death in Sing Sing, by Lewis Edward Lawes
- Life and Death in Sing Sing by Lewis Edward Lawes
- Chicago May: Her Story by May Churchill Sharpe
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The Nine Against Liberty (Review) H.L. Mencken
, p. 127 Losing Liberty Judicially, by Thomas James Norton
- Losing Liberty Judicially by Thomas James Norton
- The American Mercury Authors, pp. 128-154
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The Sciences (5 Reviews) - This Puzzling Planet by Edwin Tenney Brewster
- How Animals Find Their Way About by Etienne Rabaud
- Psychology for the Writer by Howard K. Nixon
- A Short History of Medicine by Charles J. Singer
- The Conquest of Life by Serge Voronoff
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Public Affairs Motherhood in Bondage, by Margaret Sanger (11 Reviews) - Motherhood in Bondage by Margaret Sanger
- College or Kindergarten? by C. Maxwell McConn
- Jews Are Like That! by James Waterman Wise
- The Handwriting on the Wall by Arthur D. Little
- Who Will be Master, Europe or America? by Lucien Romier
- American Reconstruction, 1865-1870 by Georges Clemenceau
- Propaganda by Edward L. Bernays
- Catholicism and the Modern Mind by Michael Williams
- Some More Medical Views on Birth Control by Norman Haire
- Recent Gains in American Civilization by Kirby Page
- Labor and Farmer Parties in the United States, 1828-1928 by Nathan Fine
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Biography The House that Shadows Built, by Will Irwin (17 Reviews) - The House that Shadows Built by Will Irwin
- On My Way by Art Young
- John Wesley: A Portrait by Abram Lipsky
- The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan by Isaac Goldberg
- Big Frogs by Henry F. Pringle
- Rasputin: The Holy Devil by Rene Fulop-Miller
- James Wolfe, Man and Soldier by W.T. Waugh
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes: Eccentric and Poet by Royall H. Snow
- The Mad King by Guy de Pourtales
- Bullets and Bolos by John R. White
- Twelve Portraits of the French Revolution by Henri Beraud
- A Modern Plutarch by John Cournos
- A Gallery of Eccentrics by Morris Bishop
- Gentlemen Unafraid by Barrett Willoughby
- Keeping Off the Shelf by Blanche G. Whiffen
- The Enchantress by Helen W. Henderson
- Memories of a Sculptor's Wife by Mary French
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History The American Party Battle, by Charles A. Beard (8 Reviews) - The American Party Battle by Charles A. Beard
- In Quest of Truth and Justice by Harry Elmer Barnes
- Famous Prize Fights by Jeffery Farnol
- A History of Canada by Carl F. Wittke
- Famous Seamen of California by Hanson Hart Webster and Ela M. Power
- Byzantine Portraits by Charles Diehl
- Modern World History, 1776-1926 by Alexander Clarence Flick
- Science and History by A.L. Rowse
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Criticism A Study of the Modern Novel, by Annie Russell ... (2 Reviews) - A Study of the Modern Novel by Annie Russell Marble
- Matthew Arnold by Hugh Kingsmill
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Fine Arts The Songs of Schubert, by C.E. Le Massena (5 Reviews) - The Songs of Schubert by C.E. Le Massena
- Old Silver of Europe and America by E. Alfred Jones
- Agnolo Bronzino by Arthur K. McComb
- Modern French Painters by Maurice Raynal
- Architecture by Andrew L.N. Russell
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Religion The Confusion of Tongues, by Charles W. Ferguson (2 Reviews) - The Confusion of Tongues by Charles W. Ferguson
- The Graphic Bible by Lewis Browne
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Literature The American Caravan II, by Alfred Kreymborg, ... (3 Reviews) - The American Caravan II by Alfred Kreymborg, Lewis Mumford, and Paul Rosenfeld, ...
- Selected Letters of Byron by V.H. Collins and Byron
- The Anecdotes and Egotisms of Henry Mackenzie, 1745-1831 by Harold William Thompson and Henry Mackenzie
- Editorial Notes
- The Investment Trust
Rudolph L. Weissman