Munsey's Magazine, June 1906

Catalog Note: Munsey's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, June 1906, No. 3 This issue features a substantial nonfiction article by D. O. S. Lowell titled "The Descendants of Jonathan Edwards," examining intellectual heredity across six generations of the Edwards family. The piece traces the lineage from Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758), the eighteenth-century theologian and metaphysician, through his descendants, documenting that college presidencies and leadership positions in academia, law, theology, science, and politics recurred throughout the family. The article catalogs Edwards descendants who served as presidents of Princeton, Yale (three), Amherst, Hamilton, Rutgers, Union, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, and other institutions, along with portraits and biographical details. The issue also contains a short story by Montague Glass featuring a New York street boy named Ambrose McGann who confesses to a policeman that he has killed someone on Scammel Street. The narrative follows the officer's investigation with the sergeant, only to discover the supposed victim, Pincus Shapiro, alive and playing with a toy automobile, his injuries from the previous day now forgotten.