Total Issues: 35

Intended as an "international review," it published different articles in English, French and German. Though the emphasis was on literary and political commentary, it published some fiction and serialized R.L. Stevenson's "The Weir of Hermiston" (1896). Other authors include S.R. Crockett, Israel Zangwill, Somerset Maugham, George Gissing.

Serialized Wells's "The War of the Worlds" (1897) and "The First Men in the Moon" (1900-1901); other authors include Maxim Gorky, W.W. Jacobs, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur B. Reeve. Went through a muck-raking period but switched heavily to fiction in 1912. Eventually was transformed into a sexy upmarket women's magazine under the editorship of Helen Gurley Brown (from 1965); merged with Hearst's International in Apr-1925 and though ran under the combined title retained Cosmo's numbering. Re-emerged under single name in April 1952 (and at some point the definite article was dropped from the title).

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UK edition of US original, though with many UK features. Prides itself on its high-quality short fiction and novel-extracts: authors include Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Penelope Lively, David Lodge, Alison Lurie, Joyce Carol Oates, Ruth Rendell, Salman Rushdie, William Trevor, Alice Walker, Fay Weldon, Jeanette Winterson (some stories are reprints from The New Yorker and other American magazines). See such derivative anthologies as The Best of Cosmopolitan Fiction (Serpent's Tail, 1991) and The Cosmopolitan Book of Short Stories (Penguin, 1995), both edited by Kate Figes; women's magazine; circulation 461,000.

Total Issues: 11 (to Nov-2006)

Popular science magazine publishing an SF story in each issue.

Total Issues: 1

Total Issues: 4

The editing of this magazine was actually subcontracted to the Scott Meredith Agency, where Larry M. Harris assembled the issues.

Total Issues: 4

Booklet series.

Total Issues: 73+209=282

Women's pocket library. Numbering restarted on 7-Jul-1906, as Vol 1 No 1 - Vol 4 No 13, then #126 - 209.

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Total Issues: 7+6=13

Important little magazine of review and comment which also encouraged new fiction

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Originally a farming and rural magazine which ran occasional poems and extracts from novels; under Curtis (when it became a companion to The Saturday Evening Post) fiction became a strong feature. Authors included Ben Ames Williams and Zane Grey, a number of whose westerns were serialized here.

With the Aug-1955 issue, the magazine was sold to FARM JOURNAL, which became FARM JOURNAL AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN from Sept-1955 through Nov-1956. The title was revived for a 1975-1982 run during which it carried a small amount of fiction.

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Contained agricultural articles & general fiction. Name changed to The Country Guide and Nor-West Farmer some time in the mid-1930s.

A society magazine aimed primarily at the landed gentry (in its early years). It published a regular story or two per issue, usually nature-related, including several stories by Algernon Blackwood (e.g. "The Sea Fit" 25-Jun-1910), and "Davy Jones's Gift" by John Masefield (11-Nov-1905).