{{italic title}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} thumb|Volume 1, issue 1, April 1905 '''''Smith's Magazine''''' was a Street & Smith magazine published monthly from April 1905 to February 1922.<ref name="ref1">[https://books.google.com/books?id=kygsBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA266 Pioneers, Passionate Ladies, and Private Eyes], p. 266 (1996)</ref>
Created for the "John Smiths" of the world, Theodore Dreiser was its initial editor; after a year, he moved to ''Broadway Magazine''.<ref name="dre1">Newlin, Keith. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Qqsc3zwrDtIC&pg=PA340 A Theodore Dreiser Encyclopedia], pp. 340-41 (2003)</ref> By the time Dreiser departed, the magazine had a circulation of 125,000.<ref name="natural">Appelgate, Edd. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2CscJ6GBO-wC&pg=PA109 American Naturalistic and Realistic Novelists: A Biographical Dictionary], p. 409 (2002)</ref>
Charles A. MacLean became editor of ''Smith's'' as well as another, more successful Street & Smith magazine, ''The Popular Magazine'', for many years.<ref name="maclean">McCourtie, William Bloss. [https://books.google.com/books?id=jqI3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA7 Where and how to Sell Manuscripts: A Directory for Writers], p. 7 (1920)</ref><ref name="mac2">(13 October 1905). [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1905/10/13/101421024.pdf MacLean - Thomas (wedding announcement)], ''The New York Times''</ref><ref name="obitmac">(19 January 1928). [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1905/10/13/101421024.pdf Charles T. A. MacLean, Novelist, Dies at 47], ''The New York Times''</ref>
Originally a story magazine directed at the general public, it later focused on a female audience. When the magazine ended its run, Street & Smith merged it and its mainly female readership into the newer, eventually even more successful ''Love Story Magazine''.
''Smith's'' was the first magazine to publish author Ben Ames Williams, in July 1915.<ref name="editor">[https://books.google.com/books?id=buNTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA110 Ben Ames Williams], ''The Editor'' (July 15, 1917)</ref>
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==External== *{{commons category-inline}} * [http://www.philsp.com/mags/smiths.html Archive of selected magazine covers]
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