---
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: 16
number: 4
published: 1913-02
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* 16, no. 4 (February 1913): 279–403.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1604unse
  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: improvementera1604unse
start_page: 279
end_page: 403
curator_note: Cover, masthead, and table of contents retained. Advertisements and unnumbered subscription leaves are intentionally omitted. Printed editorial folios were mapped against the scan images before transcription; unnumbered illustration/front-matter leaves are not assigned fabricated page markers.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1913-02)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1604unse
  publication_year: 1913
  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 1913, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Cover, Masthead, and Contents

*Improvement Era*. Volume 16, no. 4. February 1913. Organ of the Priesthood Quorums, the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, and the schools of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; published monthly by the General Board at Salt Lake City, Utah.

## Contents

- Michelsen, R., “I'll Trust in Him Who Rules on High.”
- Widtsoe, John A., “The Conquest of Drouth.”
- Alder, Lydia D., “A Visit to Newcastle-on-Tyne.”
- Ursenbach, O. F., “What Have We Done Today? A Poem.”
- Barnes, Claude T., “Dryden on Salvation for the Dead.”
- Curtis, Theodore E., “As We Journey Along the Road. A Poem.”
- Jordan, William George, “Little Problems of Married Life XVII.”
- Kleinman, Bertha A., “I Would Not Know. A Poem.”
- Roberts, B. H., “Joseph Smith, Jr., as a Translator: A Plea in Bar of Final Conclusions.”
- Frost, Grace Ingles, “War. A Poem.”
- Sjodahl, J. M., “The Book of Abraham.”
- Wells, Junius F., “Scholars Disagree.”
- Evans, John Henry, “Bishop Spulding's Jump in the Logical Process.”
- Young, Levi Edgar, “The Book of the Dead.”
- Anderson, James H., “Liberty of the Press III.”
- Lyman, Albert R., “Voice of the Intangible VII.”
- Quinney, Joseph, Jr., “Vocation.”
- Roberts, B. H., “Department of Vocations and Industries VI.”
- Wells, Hermon J., “A Day in the English Lakeland.”
- Hardy, Annie K., “A Glimpse of the Salt Works.”
- Emmett, Walter P., “The Ten-Dollar Bill. A Poem.”
- Smith, Joseph F., “Editor's Table: Joseph Smith, Jr., as a Translator.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Messages from the Missions.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Priesthood Quorums' Table: Elder George Barton Taylor; Men Who Remember Seeing the Prophet Joseph.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Mutual Work.”
- Merrill, H. R., “Church School Department: The Purpose of Founder's Day; Dr. George H. Brimhall.”
- Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Passing Events.”