This volume of The American Mercury magazine includes the issues from January 1927 to April 1927. Found in each issue are such columns as Americana, The Arts and Sciences, The Theater, and The Library. The reader will also discover plays, poetry and stories on a myriad of topics in each issue. Sample contents: Plague of Laws; Herman Melville; Witchcraft in West Polk Street; Guantanamo; Logic and the Stock Market; Front Page Stuff; Rhodes Scholars; Sunburned Portraits; Have Painters Minds; Memoirs of a Four Minute Man; Anarchist's Progress; Yiddish Press; Boomer of the Skidroad; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Dwellers in Neurotica; Vox Mazuma; The Associated Press; Socialists in the War; and much more.