---
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: 13
number: 1
published: 1909-11
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* 13, no. 1 (November 1909): 1–96.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1301unse
  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: improvementera1301unse
start_page: 1
end_page: 96
curator_note: "Cover, masthead, and contents retained. Unnumbered advertising leaves are intentionally omitted: leaves 1–4 and 101–103; editorial folios 1–96 map to source leaves 5–100."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1909-11)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1301unse
  publication_year: 1909
  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 1909, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Cover, Masthead, and Contents

*Improvement Era*. Volume 13, no. 1. November 1909. Organ of the Priesthood Quorums and the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; published at Salt Lake City by the General Board.

## Contents

- James E. Talmage, “The Great Apostasy.”
- Elsie C. Carroll, “My Prayer.”
- T. L. Hatch, “The South of Ireland.”
- William George Jordan, “The Crown of Individuality—I. Introduction.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Latter-day Saints University.”
- Lawrence Squires, “Jean Calvin.”
- Grace Ingles Frost, “The Just Shall Live by Faith.”
- Joseph F. Smith Jr., “Salvation Universal—I.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, “The New England School.”
- Frank J. Hewlett, “People and Places in the Orient—V. A Bit of China.”
- William Wordsworth, “Unknown.”
- Elizabeth R. Cannon, “The Pyramids of the Sun, Moon and Stars.”
- Carl C. A. Christensen, “Love Will Never Grow Old.”
- John Henry Evans, “Some Men Who Have Done Things—I. Anthony W. Ivins.”
- Gerald Anderson, “The New Deseret Gymnasium.”
- The First Presidency, “Editor’s Table—The Origin of Man.”
- Joseph F. Smith, “The Time Has Come for the Latter-day Saints to Look After Their Children.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “The Thing That Counts in a Boy’s Life.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Messages from the Missions.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Priesthood Quorums’ Table.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Mutual Work.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Passing Events.”