James C. Bardin (1887-1959)-Part Two

Following are some of the writing credits of James C. Bardin, first from from The FictionMags Index:

• "Blue Shade," poem in Harper's Monthly Magazine (Mar. 1911)
• "The Watcher," poem in Harper's Monthly Magazine (Aug. 1911)
• "In the Magnolia Gardens," poem in The Smart Set (Sept. 1912)
• "The Strange Philanthropy of Juan Del Coronado," short story in Snappy Stories (1st, Jan. 1916)
• "Tiger-Lily," poem in Snappy Stories (2nd, Aug. 1916)
• "The Construction Gang," poem in Railroad Man's Magazine (Nov. 1916)
• "The Philanthropist," short story in People's (Nov. 1916)
• "Barren Sands," short story in Sea Stories Magazine (Feb. 1925)
• "Death," article in Weird Tales (Feb. 1925)
• "The Sobbing Bell," short story in Weird Tales (May 1925)
• "The Golden Fleece," short story in The Golden West Magazine (Jan. 1928)

Bardin's contributions to Virginia Quarterly Review, from the website of that journal:

• "The Last Available 'Place in the Sun'" (Autumn 1926)
• "The Hate of Those Ye Guard" (Spring 1927)
• "Lawrence" (Summer 1927)
• "Before Columbus" (Spring 1928)
• "Black Valley and the Tree of Life" (Autumn 1928) 
• "Gongorism? -- What of It?" (Summer 1929)
• "Mexico--And Indianismo" (Spring 1932)
• "The Mexican Revolution" (Winter 1934)
• "Thunder Over Latin America" (Winter 1939)

In Scientific American:

• "The Amazingly Accurate Calendar System of the Maya Indians" (Nov. 1925)

In The Bulletin of the Pan American Union:

• "A Song from Sor Juana" (1942) 

I have also found that Bardin wrote at least two stage plays:

• Penningtons, Too: A Play in One Act
• Second Samuel

I'm sure he had other writing credits, too.

James C. Bardin's Article & Short Story in Weird Tales
"Death" (Feb. 1925)
"The Sobbing Bell" (May 1925)

Further Reading
Numerous newspaper articles and, if you can find them, Bardin's own works.

Scientific American, November 1925, in which James C. Bardin's article on the Mayan calendar appeared. I don't know the name of the artist, but change the dress of the men in this illustration to something futuristic and it could easily have been on the cover of a science fiction magazine of the 1920s and '30s. This was when science was done in buildings that looked like barns by men and women who were true scientists. Now supposed "science" is carried out in multi-million-dollar facilities by people who believe in pseudoscience, anti-science, non-science, or simple nonsense. I can't tell what the two objects on the table are supposed to be, but they remind me of the Trylon and Perisphere at the New York World's Fair of 1939.

Acknowledgments to The FictionMags Index and the websites of Virginia Quarterly Review and Scientific American.

Original text copyright 2025 Terence E. Hanley