The North American Review

The North American Review

related portals: Collective works. sister projects: Wikipedia article. Founded in Boston in 1815, The North American Review (NAR) was the first literary magazine in the United States, and was published continually until 1940, when publication was suspended due to World War II. Publication subsequently resumed in 1964 at Cornell College (Iowa). Since 1968 the University of Northern Iowa (Cedar Falls) has been home to the publication. Nineteenth-century archives are freely available via Cornell University’s Making of America.

• Volume 1

Volume 136

Issue 113

• The Pyramid of Cheops (by Richard A. Proctor)

Volume 147

Issue 385

• Is Stanley Dead? - Various authors

Volume 150

Issue 402 (May 1890)

• The hatred of England (by Goldwin Smith)
• Soap-bubbles of Socialism (by Simon Newcomb)
• What shall we do with silver? (by Roger Q. Mills)
• The typical American (by Andrew Lang and Max O’Rell)

Volume 151

Issue 406 (September 1890)

• Tolstoï and the "Kreutzer Sonata" (by Robert G. Ingersoll)
• Our Fur-Seal Fisheries (by D.O. Mills)

Volume 165

Issue 490 (September 1897)

• Chinese Slavery in America by Charles Frederick Holder

Volume 168

Issue 506 (January 1899)

• Americanism versus Imperialism (by Andrew Carnegie)
• Objections to Annexing the Philippines (by G. G. Vest)

Issue 507 (February 1899)

• How Holland Helps the Helpless (by Bessie B. Croffut)

Volume 170

Issue 518 (January 1900)

• Some Boer characteristics (by George Lacy)

Issue 521 (April 1900)

• The United States and Puerto Rico (by J. B. Foraker)

Issue 522 (May 1900)

• The Great Siberian Railway (by M. Mikhailoff)

Volume 171

Issue 526 (September 1900)

• The Empire of the Dead (by Francis E. Clark)

Copyright renewals

No general copyright renewals for this magazine for the period 1923-1940 have been located. The following are the only specific articles for which renewals could be found:

• Feb. 1923, Amy Lowell, Rosebud Wall Paper, R67422
• June-Aug. 1926, Amy Lowell, Real-estate agent's tale R119134 and R119135
• Nov. 1927, Robert P. Tristram Coffin, From Whitehead to Le Havre, R138042
• Mar. 1929, Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Gilt heels and captains' boots, R164872
• Aug. 1931, V. Sackville-West The poet, R217822
• May 1931, Conrad Aiken, This biped botanist, this man of eyes. R234282
• Feb. 1932, Sara Haardt Mencken, The manor, R229180
• Mar. 1933, C. Hartley Grattan. What the younger generation thinks, R252354
• May 1933, William McFee, The sun was over the foreyard, R255955
• Apr. 1934, John Steinbeck, The murder, R278733
• Oct. 1934, John Steinbeck, The raid, R286316
• Sep. 1935, Paul Engle, Prologue, R300878
• Jun. 1936, William Saroyan, School, R302267