The North American Review

The North American Review

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 136Edit

Issue 113Edit

The Pyramid of Cheops (by Richard A. Proctor)

Volume 147Edit

Issue 385Edit

Is Stanley Dead? - Various authors

Volume 150Edit

Issue 402 (May 1890)Edit

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 151Edit

Issue 406 (September 1890)Edit

Volume 165Edit

Issue 490 (September 1897)Edit

Chinese Slavery in America by Charles Frederick Holder

Volume 168Edit

Issue 506 (January 1899)Edit

Issue 507 (February 1899)Edit

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

Volume 170Edit

Volume 171Edit

Issue 526 (September 1900)Edit

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

Volume 206Edit

Issue 742 (September 1917)Edit

Bohemia–the submerged front (by Stephen Bonsal)

Copyright renewalsEdit

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