Metropolitan Magazine (New York)

Metropolitan Magazine

Metropolitan Magazine, cover dated September 1917
Categories	Politics, literature, art
Circulation	Monthly
First issue	1895
Final issue	August 1925
Country	United States
Language	English

Metropolitan Magazine, known in its later years as Macfadden's Fiction Lover's Magazine, was a monthly periodical in the early 20th century with articles on politics and literature.

Metropolitan Magazine began in 1895 as a sophisticated magazine for theater-goers in New York City. During World War I the publication focused on politics and literature. Its first editor and publisher was John Brisben Walker. In 1902, the magazine was sold along with The Daily Telegraph for $100,000 to Col. George Harvey, president of Harper & Brothers. Harvey said, "in purchasing The Metropolitan I bought simply a name," and that the chief mission of the periodical should be urban life in New York. He named John Kendrick Bangs as the new editor.

During the Mexican Revolution, Metropolitan Magazine sent John Reed to Mexico to report. The journalist met Pancho Villa and stayed with his troops for four months. Reed was sent to Europe as a war correspondent during World War I. However, some of his articles were rejected as having leftist sympathies.

Metropolitan Magazine frequently contained articles critical of United States President Woodrow Wilson during World War I. In 1918, the New York postmaster was told to be on his guard for issues of the magazine commenting on Wilson's foreign policy. There were rumors that the post office was considering revoking the publication's second class mail privileges. However, all issues of the magazine were delivered.