---
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: 12
number: 1
published: 1908-11
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* 12, no. 1 (November 1908): 1–80.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1201unse
  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: improvementera1201unse
start_page: 1
end_page: 80
curator_note: "Cover, masthead, and contents retained. Unnumbered advertising leaves are intentionally omitted: leaves 1–2 and 83–84; editorial folios 1–80 map to source leaves 3–82."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1908-11)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1201unse
  publication_year: 1908
  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 1908, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Cover, Masthead, and Contents

*Improvement Era*. Volume 12, no. 1. November 1908. Organ of the Seventies and the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations; published by the General Board, Salt Lake City.

## Contents

- Bryce-Thomas, R. M., “St. Paul’s Companions in Rome—III.”
- Parry, Edwin F., “Herbert Melbourne.”
- Bennion, Milton, “The Philosophers on Conduct—III: Socrates—Xenophon.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “In the Rocky Mountains.”
- Hyde, W. A., “My Three Invisible Companions.”
- Barnes, Claude T., “Some Utah Birds—V: Arkansas Flycatcher.”
- Jordan, William George, “Self-Control—VI: The Greatness of Simplicity.”
- Fowler, D. H., “In the Business of the Lord.”
- Hickman, J. E., “The Tragedy and Triumph of Youth—I: The Nature of True Character.”
- Smith, George Albert, “Redeeming the Waste Places.”
- James, John, “The National Eisteddfod.”
- Smith, Joseph F., “Editor’s Table: Temperance and the Word of Wisdom.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Mutual Work: North Weber Officers.”
- Roberts, B. H., “Seventy’s Council Table.”
- Anderson, Edward H., “Events and Comments.”