Literary Digest June 1st, 1918

Cover: General Ferdinand Foch, Commander in chief of the Allied Armies on the Western Front

Long long article about Foch's military plans for victory

Native Americans gear up for war in US Army (be warned: article is incredibly racist!)

500 members of Sinn Fein rounded up and charged as traitors in Ireland

Prescient article: Can Chinese Labor keep Americans from starving?

Memorial to English war martyr Edith Cavell unveiled (she's worth a google)

Poetry by Robert Frost, Theodosia Garrison, Amelia Burr

Literary Digest was always so much more than its name suggested. Yes, it did book reviews, but it also did current events, the arts, sports – in many ways, it was much more like our contemporary Time or Newsweek than simply a literary digest!

It could hold its head proudly with other journalistic peaks of the period as Century, McClures, Harper's, Hearst's, Cosmopolitan, Scribners, Life, The American, Vanity Fair, and others.

This issue has all of the things listed in blue above, along with regular departments such as Topics of The Day, Foreign comment, Science and Invention, War Time problems, Letters and Art, Religion and Social Service, Reviews, and some of the greatest ads of the time – page after page after page of full pagers meant to appeal to the higher clientèle who subscribed!

The magazine is in good shape, with just expected reading wear.

Most pages have a very light moisture mark which is just cosmetic. No mildew, rippling, smell.