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The Golden Book Magazine [v1, #2, February 1925] (Review of Reviews, 160pp, 6½" x 9½") Listing only fiction and long (one page or more) other pieces by individual authors; skipping over fillers and columns of quotations from multiple authors. Details supplied by Denny Lien. 165 · Love of Life · Jack London · ss Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Dec 1905 175 · The Rathskeller and the Rose · O. Henry · ss The (New York) Sunday World Oct 9 1904 178 · A Second Missouri Compromise · Owen Wister · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine Mar 1895 189 · Putois · Anatole France · ss (r) 195 · Squire Petrick’s Lady · Thomas Hardy · ss The Wave Aug 22 1891 200 · Mazeppa and His Ambassador · Verner Von Heidenstam · ss (r) 204 · A Kiss · Luigi Capuana · ss (r) 207 · Salome · Oscar Wilde · pl Elkin Mathews & John Lane Feb 1894; one-act play.; translated from the French (Salomé). 221 · The Debt-Collector · Maurice Level · ss Hearst’s Magazine Nov 1919 226 · The Two Runaways · Henry Stillwell Edwards · ss (r) 235 · Carter · Don Marquis · ss (r) 249 · Prince Otto: A Romance [Part 2 of 2] · Robert Louis Stevenson · n. Longman’s Magazine Apr 1885 (+6) 280 · Valentine’s Day · Charles Lamb · ms (r) 282 · The Game of Backgammon · Prosper Mérimée · ss (r) 290 · The Little Red Lark · Alfred Percival Graves · ms (r); musical score. 294 · The Sundays of a Parisian: Mr. Patissot Goes a-Fishing · Guy de Maupassant · ss (r); translated from the French. 299 · The First Gorilla · Paul Du Chaillu · ar (r) 301 · An Indian Amazon: The Story of Pine Leaf · James P. Beckwourth · ar (r); exc from his Life and Adventures.... 305 · Monsieur Lecoq [Part 2 of 8; Monsieur Lecoq] · Emile Gaboriau · sl 1869

The Golden Book Magazine [v1, #3, March 1925] (Review of Reviews, 160pp, 6½" x 9½") Details supplied by Denny Lien. 325 · The Gentleman in the Barrel · Chester Bailey Fernald · ss The Century Magazine Jun 1895 332 · The Accursed House · Émile Gaboriau; translated by E. C. Waggener · ss Short Stories Feb 1893; translated from the French. 335 · An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner Jul 13 1890 341 · Mr. Carteret and His Fellow Americans Abroad [Carty Carteret] · David Gray · ss Metropolitan Magazine Jun 1905 348 · The Sire de Malétroit’s Door · Robert Louis Stevenson · nv Temple Bar Jan 1878 361 · Lokis: From the Mss. of Professor Wittembach · Prosper Mérimée · nv (r) 384 · A Passage in the Life of Mr. John Oakhurst [John Oakhurst] · Bret Harte · ss The New York Times Jun 28 1874 395 · The Living Dead · Count Lyof N. Tolstoy · pl (r) 420 · Making a Prince Into a Good Sport · Helen Green · ss (r) 430 · The Queen of the Marauders · Verner von Heidenstam · ss (r) 437 · The Slanderer · Anton Chekhov · ss (r) 439 · An Experiment in Love · Guy de Maupassant · ss (r); translated from the French. 445 · The Courting of T’nowhead’s Bell · Sir James Matthew Barrie · ss (r) 455 · He Saw Vesuvius Bury Pompeii · Pliny the Younger · ar (r); Pliny’s letter on this subject to Tacitus. 458 · When the Sea Swallowed Port Royal · An Eye-Witness · ar (r); two letters from English minister to Jamaica in 1692. 462 · Monsieur Lecoq [Part 3 of 8; Monsieur Lecoq] · Emile Gaboriau · sl 1869

The Golden Book Magazine [v1, #4, April 1925] (Review of Reviews, 160pp, 6½" x 9½") All fiction listed; other material listed only selectively. Details supplied by Denny Lien. 485 · The Lone-Hand Raid of Kulop Sumbing · Sir Hugh Clifford · ss The Further Side of Silence, Doubleday, Page 1916 495 · The Man from Red Dog · Alfred Henry Lewis · ss Wolfville, Stokes 1897 499 · The Story of a White Blackbird · Alfred de Musset; translated by Christopher Morley · ss (r); translated from the French. 513 · An Andalusian Duel · Serafin Estébañez Calderón · ss (r) 515 · The Siege of Berlin · Alphonse Daudet; translated by Edwin Francis Edgett · ss The Boston Transcript; translated from the French. 517 · Miss Gunton of Poughkeepsie · Henry James · ss The Cornhill Magazine May 1900 528 · The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart 1844 537 · The Conspirators · Prosper Mérimée · pl (r) 556 · El Verdugo · Honoré de Balzac · ss 1829; translated from the French (“El Verdugo”, La Mode, January 30, 1830). 561 · The Passing of Thomas · Thomas A. Janvier · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine Aug 1892 581 · The Rawhide · Stewart Edward White · nv McClure’s Nov 1904 (+2) 601 · The Bluebird · John Burroughs · pm Harper’s Monthly Magazine Jun 1903 605 · Books That May Last a Century · Heywood Broun · ar (r) 607 · Books That May Last a Century · John Cotton Dana · ar (r) 609 · Monsieur Lecoq [Part 4 of 8; Monsieur Lecoq] · Emile Gaboriau · sl 1869

The Golden Book Magazine [v1, #5, May 1925] (Review of Reviews, 160pp, 6½" x 9½") All fiction listed; other material listed only selectively. Details supplied by Denny Lien. 629 · One Block from Fifth Avenue [Judge William Pitman Priest (Old Judge Priest)] · Irvin S. Cobb · ss Cosmopolitan Jan 1923 641 · An Adventure of Captain Ivan Koravitch: How the Captain Was Entertained by a Chinese Mandarin · Victor L. Whitechurch · ss (r) 651 · The Bet · Anton P. Chekhov · ss (r) 655 · The Handbook of Hymen · O. Henry · ss Munsey’s Magazine Jul 1906 661 · A Lodging for the Night · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss Temple Bar Oct 1877 672 · The Flying Doctor · Molière · pl (r); “Le Médecin volant”, 1645. 678 · A Night in Spring · Guy de Maupassant · ss (r); translated from the French. 681 · Because of a Rose-Leaf · Antonio Fogazzaro · ss (r) 692 · King Solomon of Kentucky · James Lane Allen · ss The Century Magazine Jun 1889 702 · The Third Volume · Margaret Deland · nv The Delineator May 1915 (+1) 718 · The Terror of the Government · Pedro de Novo y Colson (ghost written by H. B. Schoch) · ss Short Stories Jul 1904 721 · The Gipsy—Makar Chudra: A Tale of the Steppes · Maxim Gorki · ss (r) 731 · Zenobia’s Infidelity · H. C. Bunner · ss Short Sixes, Keppler & Schwarzmann 1890 737 · The Sous-Préfet Afield · Alphone Daudet · ss Bruno’s Weekly Oct 21-30 1915; translated from the French. 749 · Monsieur Lecoq [Part 5 of 8; Monsieur Lecoq] · Emile Gaboriau · sl 1869 766 · Our Lady’s Juggler · Anatole France · ss Mother of Pearl, John Lane, The Bodley Head 1908; translated from the French (“Le Jongleur de Notre Dame”, 1892).

The Golden Book Magazine [v1, #6, June 1925] (Review of Reviews, 160pp, 6½" x 9½") All fiction listed; other material listed only selectively. Details supplied by Denny Lien. 773 · The Princess’s Kingdom · William J. Locke · ss Ainslee’s Magazine Sep 1905 781 · La Tinaja Bonita · Owen Wister · nv Harper’s New Monthly Magazine May 1895 806 · The Pot of Frightful Doom · Chester Bailey Fernald · ss The Century Magazine Jul 1896 812 · The Prophecy · Pedro Antonio de Alarcón · ss (r); translated from the Spanish. 817 · The Perils of Certain English Prisoners [Part 1 of 3] · Charles Dickens · nv (r) 832 · The House of Mapuhi · Jack London · nv McClure’s Jan 1909 849 · The Tents of the Arabs · Lord Dunsany · pl The Smart Set Mar 1915 856 · The Great Boar of Birkatheli · Anon. · ss (r) 863 · Djoumane · Prosper Mérimée · ss (r) 871 · The Pistol Shot · Alexander Pushkin · ss The Strand Magazine Feb 1891; translated from the Russian (“Vystrel”, Povest Belkina, 1831). 881 · Love’s Labour Lost · Alejandro Nieto · ss (r) 883 · The Golden Ford · Henry Wallace Phillips · ss (r) 897 · Monsieur Lecoq [Part 6 of 8; Monsieur Lecoq] · Emile Gaboriau · sl 1869

The Golden Book Magazine [v2, #7, July 1925] (Review of Reviews, 144pp, 6½" x 9½") Details supplied by Ned Brooks. 1 · Is Life a Dream · [Various] · ms (r) 2 · The Booklover’s Calendar · [Various] · ms (r) 5 · A Grey Sleeve · Stephen Crane · ss The Pocket Magazine May 1896 12 · A Digression on Wit · Laurence Sterne · ar (r) 13 · The Ambassador · Arthur Sherburne Hardy · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine Sep 1911 19 · “...Equality, Fraternity” · Jean Lahors; translated by Bertram Galbraith · pm (r) 20 · A Corner in Horses · Stewart Edward White · ss Arizona Nights, Grosset & Dunlap 1907 24 · In Other Days · [Various] · ms The American Citizen 1806 25 · Grettir at Drangey · Frank Norris · ss Everybody’s Magazine Mar 1902 32 · The Faithless Shepherdess · William Byrd · pm (r) 33 · The Horse Who Knew What’s What · Caran D’Ache · cs (r); 19-panel cartoon strip. 35 · Origin of the Good · Nietzsche · ar (r) 36 · The Perils of Certain English Prisoners [Part 2 of 3] · Wilkie Collins · nv (r); serial with alternate chapters by Dickens. 55 · What Are Good Manners · [Various] · ms (r) 61 · Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning · Mark Twain · ss The Atlantic Monthly Sep 1880 64 · Reproaches to a Dissipated Student · Anon. · pm (r); Egyptian, 1300 BC. 65 · Two Slaps in the Face · Franz Molnar · pl (r); playlet. 67 · The Riddling Knight · Anon. · pm (r) 68 · The Poodle of Monsieur Gaillard · Thomas A. Janvier · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine Dec 1910 78 · The Red Cockatoo · Po Chu-i; translated by Arthur Waley · pm (r) 79 · A Virtuoso’s Collection · Nathaniel Hawthorne · nv Boston Miscellany May 1842 87 · Plain Language from Truthful James · Bret Harte · pm Overland Monthly Sep 1870 88 · Among the Corn-Rows · Hamlin Garland · ss Harper’s Weekly Jun 28 1890 98 · The Dalliance of the Leopards · E. Powys Mathers · pm (r); from 5th century Sanskrit. 99 · An Inhabitant of Carcosa · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Newsletter Dec 25 1886 101 · A Little Course in Love-Making · [Various] · ms (r) 107 · The Shadows on the Wall · Mary E. Wilkins Freeman · ss Everybody’s Magazine Mar 1903 114 · Here and There · [Various] · ms (r) 115 · A Barbaric Yawp of Boots · Walt Whitman · ar (r) 116 · Mrs. Gilpin Riding to Edmonton · William Cowper · pm (r) 117 · The One-Hundred-Dollar Bill · Booth Tarkington · ss McCall’s Jan 1923 126 · The Poison Tree · William Blake · pm Songs of Experience 1794 127 · Self-Portraits · [Various] · ms (r) 130 · Monsieur Lecoq [Part 7 of 8; Monsieur Lecoq] · Emile Gaboriau · sl 1869

The Golden Book Magazine [v2, #8, August 1925] (Review of Reviews, 144pp, 6½" x 9½") Details supplied by Ned Brooks. 145 · Phrases That Excited Americans · [Various] · ms (r) 146 · The Booklover’s Calendar · [Various] · ms (r) 149 · The New Power · W. Albert Hickman · ar The Century Magazine May 1909 157 · A Greek Apologist · Anon. · ar (r) 158 · A Dialogue Between Pleasure and Pain · Robert Burton · pm (r) 159 · The Further Side of Silence · Sir Hugh Clifford · ss The Further Side of Silence, Doubleday, Page 1916 170 · Business Men · Ch’en Tzu-ang; translated by Arthur Waley · pm (r) 171 · Swordplay · [Various] · ms (r) 176 · The Procurator of Judæa · Anatole France · ss (r) 182 · Why She Read · De Maupassant · ms (r); fragment. 183 · The Fight with the White Whale [from Moby Dick] · Herman Melville · ex (r) 197 · Modern Love · John Keats · pm The Poetical Works and Other Writings of John Keats, Reeves & Turner 1883 197 · An Afghan’s Love · Tcherkess Khan; translated by Achmed Abdullah · pm (r) 198 · One of Those Nice Little Evenings · Stephen French Whitman · ss Harper’s Magazine Aug 1915 207 · Man and Monkey · [Various] · ms (r) 213 · The Perils of Certain English Prisoners [Part 3 of 3] · Charles Dickens · nv (r); serial with alternate chapters by Wilkie Collins. 220 · Sand · John Duncan · pm (r); translated from the Arabic. 221 · All for Peace and Quiet · C. E. Montague · ss (r) 229 · Season’s Signs · George Cruikshank · pm (r) 230 · The Thrice Promised Bride · Cheng-chin Hsiung · pl Samuel French 1923; playlet. 237 · Some Mighty Swimmers · [Various] · ms (r) 245 · Tamango · Prosper Merimee · ss (r) 254 · Nimrod · Ambrose Bierce · pm Black Beetles in Amber, Western Author’s Publishing Co. 1892 255 · The Catfish · Henry W. Nevinson · ar (r) 257 · A Treasure-Seeker Who Found · Cotton Mather · ar (r) 261 · The Second-Class Passenger · Perceval Gibbon · ss McClure’s Oct 1906 268 · The Library Comes to Life · W. R. H. Trowbridge · pl (r); playlet. 273 · A Woman’s Last Word · Robert Browning · pm Men and Women 1855 274 · Monsieur Lecoq [Part 8 of 8; Monsieur Lecoq] · Emile Gaboriau · sl 1869

The Golden Book Magazine [v2, #9, September 1925] ed. Henry Wysham Lanier (The Review of Reviews Corporation, 25¢, 60+289-432pp, 6.5" x 9.25", cover by Stephen Haweis) Full title is given as “The Golden Book Magazine of Fiction and True Stories That Will Live”. 4 · Some Persons of Importance · [The Editor] · bg (r) 289 · Repartee · [Various] · ms (r) 290 · The Booklover’s Calendar · [Various] · ms (r); illustrated by Stephen Haweis 293 · A Source of Irritation · Stacy Aumonier · ss The Century Magazine Jan 1918 300 · The Tale of Chloe [Part 1 of 3] · George Meredith · sl New Quarterly Magazine 1879 309 · The Long and the Short of It · [Various] · ms (r) 317 · Philippa’s Fox Hunt · E. Œ. Somerville & Martin Ross · ss (r) 325 · Turlendana Returns · Gabriele d’Annunzio · ss (r) 329 · The Afghan to His Chosen One · Kushal Khan; translated by Achmed Abdullah · pm 1925 330 · A Drop or Two of White · Talbot Mundy · ss Adventure Feb 1916 339 · A Moral Little Tale · Lord Dunsany · ss Rhythm Nov 1912 339 · Life Is but Vain · Léon de Montenaeken · pm (r) 340 · Perhaps It Didn’t Matter · Chester Bailey Fernald · ss The Century Magazine Sep 1911 347 · Summer Night [from “The Princess”] · Lord Tennyson · pm Edward Moxon 1847 348 · A Barmecide Feast: First Course · [Various] · ms (r) 355 · Spreading the News · Lady Gregory · pl Seven Short Plays, Maunsel and Company 1909 362 · Moonshiner’s Serenade · James Whitcomb Riley · pm Everybody’s Magazine Dec 1900 363 · A Clean White Shirt · Verner von Heidenstam · ss The American-Scandinavian Review Nov/Dec 1915 364 · The Culprit · Emily Dickinson · pm Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series, Roberts Brothers 1891, as “Surgeons Must Be Very Careful” 365 · What Was It? [Harry Escott] · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine Mar 1859, uncredited 371 · Lazy Man’s Song · Po Chü-i; translated by Arthur Waley · pm 1919 372 · The Oracle of the Dog [Father Brown] · Gilbert K. Chesterton · nv Nash’s and Pall Mall Magazine Dec 1923 378 · The Irrestible Beard · Charles Reade · ms (r) 379 · Toine · Guy de Maupassant; translated by Ernest Boyd · ss 1923; translated from the French. 383 · What Is a Gentleman? · [Various] · ms (r) 388 · That Schoolboy! · [Various] · ms (r) 389 · The Romance of the First Radical · Andrew Lang · ss In the Wrong Paradise, and Other Stories 1886 396 · Anatole France Talks · Anatole France · ms (r) 397 · Books I Can Reach Without Rising · William Lyon Phelps · ar (r) 398 · A Fifteenth Century Carol · Anon. · pm (r) 399 · A Mere Formality · Luigi Pirandello · ss (r) 410 · The Honor of the Name [Part 1 of 13; Monsieur Lecoq] · Émile Gaboriau · sl 1880 426 · Leviathan · [Various] · ms (r); collected by Herman Melville.

The Golden Book Magazine [v2, #10, October 1925] (Review of Reviews, 144pp, 6½" x 9½") Details supplied by Ned Brooks. 434 · The Booklover’s Calendar · [Various] · ms (r) 437 · The Story of the Rat-Trap · James Branch Cabell · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine Dec 1907, as “The Rat-Trap”; retold from the French of Nicolas de Caen. 444 · The Emperor · Thou-Fou; translated by E. Powys Mathers · pm (r) 445 · The Need of Change · Julian Street · ss Everybody’s Magazine Mar 1909 457 · To His Coy Mistress · Andrew Marvell · pm Miscellaneous poems by Andrew Marvell, Esq., Andrew Marvell, Robert Boulter 1681 458 · Providence and the Guitar · Robert Louis Stevenson · ex London Nov 1878 471 · Columbus’s Own Story · Christopher Columbus · ms (r); diary entries, with illustrations ascribed to the author. 475 · Cherry · Booth Tarkington · ex Harper & Brothers Oct 1903 508 · The Triple Locks · Achmed Abdullah · pm (r) 509 · The Love-Letters of Smith · H. C. Bunner · ss Puck Jul 23 1890 514 · The Doll’s House · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Nation and Athenaeum Feb 4 1922 517 · From a Pendaric Ode · Ben Jonson · pm (r) 518 · The Tale of Chloe [Part 2 of 3] · George Meredith · sl New Quarterly Magazine 1879 528 · Old Woman Magoun · Mary E. Wilkins Freeman · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine Oct 1905 536 · Aftermath · Henry W. Longfellow · pm (r) 537 · The Adventure of Fleurette [Aristide Pujol] · William J. Locke · ss The Strand Magazine Sep 1911 546 · Pigs Is Pigs · Ellis Parker Butler · ss American Illustrated Magazine Sep 1905 551 · Some Women I Have Met · [Various] · ms (r) 554 · The Serenade at Siskiyou · Owen Wister · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine Aug 1894 560 · Cynara · Ernest Dowson · pm (r) 561 · Speed · [Various] · ms (r); quotes. 566 · The Honour of the Name [Part 2 of 13; Monsieur Lecoq] · Emile Gaboriau · sl (r); spelling of “honor” changes from previous issue. 577 · So They Say · [Various] · ms (r); quotes.