Munsey's Magazine, Volume 40

About this issue

This volume of Munsey's Magazine contains approximately fifty articles addressing contemporary political, historical, and cultural subjects. Contributors include William Jennings Bryan on a potential presidential election, Harry Thurston Peck on Edgar Allan Poe and Napoleon, and Brander Matthews on American literature and the theater. Articles cover topics ranging from Roosevelt's presidential record and McKinley at Antietam to the Kaiser's castle collecting, Marcella Sembrich's operatic retirement, and Maurice Maeterlinck's residence in France. The issue includes over sixty short stories by established authors including O. Henry, Mary Roberts Rinehart, and Dorothy Canfield, with titles such as "The Higher Pragmatism," "The King of France," and "A Solomon of Baldwinsville." Three serials run across multiple issues: "Desmond O'Connor—A Romance of the Irish Brigade" by George H. Jessop, Francis Lynde's "The Lion and the Lamb," and Marion Crawford's "The White Sister." Regular departments include Light Verse, The Stage, and Storiettes.