---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 10
number: 11
published: 1907-09
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Cover, Masthead, and Contents," *Improvement Era* 10, no. 11 (September 1907): 849–928.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera10011unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera10011unse
start_page: 849
end_page: 928
curator_note: "Cover, masthead, and contents retained. Unnumbered advertising leaves are intentionally omitted: leaves 1–4 and 85 through the final scan leaf; editorial folios 849–928 are mapped from source scan leaves 5–84."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1907-09)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera10011unse
  publication_year: 1907
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1907, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Cover, Masthead, and Contents

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*Improvement Era*. Volume 10, no. 11. September 1907. Organ of the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations; published by the General Board, Salt Lake City.

## Contents

- Frederic Clift, “Apocryphal and Lost Scriptures,” 849.
- Maud Baggarley, “The Call: A Poem,” 862.
- James X. Allen, “The Border Land,” 863.
- Claude T. Barnes, “The New Mania,” 865.
- W. J. Kohlberg, “The Sunset Sea: A Poem,” 867.
- Samuel Johnson, “History of Rasselas, XLIII–XLIV,” 868.
- Leila Marler Hoggan, “Things Worth While,” 878.
- M. A. Stewart, “Listen to the Spirit's Voice: A Poem,” 881.
- Nephi Anderson, “When the Stove Smoked: A Story,” 882.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Advice on How to Succeed,” 888.
- An Australian Sister, “Sociability,” 889.
- C. A. M. Bryce-Thomas, “Closing Years of St. Paul's Life in Rome—VI,” 892.
- Albert R. Lyman, “Phantoms of Hope,” 901.
- Maud Baggarley, “Oregon: A Poem,” 906.
- Lydia D. Alder, “The Isle of Patmos,” 907.
- Joseph F. Smith, “Editor's Table: How to Celebrate; Missionary Work,” 912.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Messages from the Missions,” 916.
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Our Work: Y. M. M. I. A. Annual Conventions, 1907,” 920.
- Edward H. Anderson, “Events and Comments,” 924.