[2][3] From 1880 until his death Bryan was also responsible for a successful trade publication, The Paper World, which was published in various iterations in Holyoke, Springfield, and finally out of the Pulitzer Building in New York City.

By the time the paper had been moved to the latter in 1898, Bryan retained little more than creative input,[4] and this sale to a separate company would ultimately fail.

[5][6] Bryan, who had lived to see his business empire in financial ruin, and wife and one of his sons had passed in recent years, took his life on January 23, 1899, with a pistol.

All of his publications were promptly discontinued, the sole exception being Good Housekeeping, which immediately found a purchaser, John Pettigrew, who would sell it to his printer George D. Chamberlain, who in turn sold it to E. H. Phelps, another former Springfield Republican associate, whose company, Phelps Publishing, had offices in Springfield and New York.

[1][7] The following is a list of those works authored by Bryan himself, it does not include the many publications which his company would publish for which he had no editorial role–