Second Mencken Chrestomathy by Mencken, H.L. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

About the Author Other Books by This Author Title Page Copyright Contents Editor’s Introduction I. Americana

The Commonwealth of Morons The Pushful American The Metaphysic of Rotary The Yokel Varieties of Envy The Immigration Problem Utopia in Little Bring On the Clowns

II. Politics

The Politician Under Democracy The Joboisie The Men Who Rule Us Liberty and Democracy Leaves from a Note-book The True Immortal The Same Old Gang Reflections on Government The End of an Era The Suicide of Democracy The Last Ditch Liberalism

III. War

The War Against War Summary Judgment The Next Round The Art of Selling War Onward, Christian Soldiers! War Without Art Memorials of Dishonor

IV. Criminology

The Nature of Liberty The Beloved Turnkey Cops and Their Art Jack Ketch as Eugenist The Humanitarian Fallacy One Size Fits All More and Better Psychopaths The Arbuckle Case

V. Law and Lawyers

Stewards of Nonsense Over the Side The Judge

VI. First Things

The Genesis of a Deity Christian Origins The Root of Religion The Mask The Eternal Mob The IQ of Holy Church Literary Theologians The Believing Mind The Road of Doubt Veritas Odium Parit

VII. Brethren of the Cloth

Playing with Fire Shock Troops Story Without a Moral Divine Virtuosity

VIII. Man and Superman

The Great Illusion Ethical Origins The Flesh Is Weak The Supreme Curse Thrift The Genealogy of Etiquette At the Mercy of the Mob The Goal The Superman Heredity Happiness The Horns of the Dilemma

IX. Men and Women

The Curse of Man Le Vice Anglais Sex on the Stage Women as Spectacles Venus at the Domestic Hearth Clubs Efficiency as Charm Woman and the Artist Martyrs Issue The Burnt Child On Connubial Bliss Divorce Cast a Cold Eye

X. Progress

Aubade Thomas Henry Huxley The Eternal Riddle Two Benefactors of Mankind Elegy Sketch Maritime Penguin’s Eggs

XI. Making a Living

The Professions Dazzling the Public The Puppet’s Pretension The Emancipated Housewife Honest Toil The Rewards of Virtue

XII. Places to Live

Totentanz Metropolis The Devil’s Deal The Utopia of Tolerance Closed Shop Washington Interlude in the Socratic Manner San Francisco: A Memory Boston Philadelphia

XIII. The Writer in America

The National Letters The Emperor of Wowsers Transcendentalism The Man of Letters They Also Serve Once More, with Feeling

XIV. The Novel

The Novel Defined Second Chorus On Realism The Ultimate Realists The Face Is Familiar The Hero Problem New England Twilight

XV. European Novelists

Jane Austen Robert Louis Stevenson Stevenson Again The Father of Them All Freudian Autopsy upon a Genius H. G. Wells Arnold Bennett Somerset Maugham Scherzo for the Bassoon D. H. Lawrence

XVI. American Novelists

The Puritan Abroad George Ade James Branch Cabell Not in French Jack London Dreiser as Philosopher Dreiser as Stylist Abraham Cahan Mrs. Wharton Disaster in Moronia

XVII. Playwrights and Poets

George Bernard Shaw Ibsen the Trimmer Edgar Lee Masters Dichtung und Wahrheit Walt Whitman

XVIII. The Critic’s Trade

The Pursuit of Ideas The Cult of Hope Cassandra’s Lament Criticism of Criticism of Criticism A Novel a Day Meditation at Vespers

XIX. Present at the Creation

A Novel of the First Rank Marginal Note An American Novel

XX. Constructive Criticism

The Uplift as a Trade A New Constitution for Maryland Hooch for the Artist Notice to Neglected Geniuses

XXI. Unfinished Business

Another Long-Awaited Book Advice to Young Men

XXII. The Public Prints

The End of the Line The Professional Man Reflections on Journalism The New York Sun The Baltimore Sunpaper The Pulitzer Prizes The Muck-Rakers Acres of Babble

XXIII. Professors

The Public-School The War upon Intelligence Katzenjammer The Golden Age of Pedagogy A Liberal Education The Lower Depths Pedagogues A-flutter Prima Facie The Philosopher The Saving Grace

XXIV. Music

The Tone Art The Joyless Master De Profundis Dvořák Tschaikowsky Russian Music The Bryan of Bayreuth Debussy and Wagner

XXV. The Pursuit of Happiness

Alcohol The Great American Art Night Club The Peaceable Kingdom The Home of the Crab Hot Dogs Reminiscence in the Present Tense

XXVI. Lesser Eminentoes

Portrait of an Immortal Soul A Texas Schoolma’am For Rotary and God Flamingo in Blue Stockings The Incomparable Bok Dr. Townsend and His Plan One Who Will Be Missed The End of a Happy Life

XXVII. Ironies

Wild Shots Between the Lines The Fat Man Sunday Afternoon Interlude Sentimentale Elegy in C Minor The Jocose Gods

XXVIII. Nietzsche

The Bugaboo Nietzsche on Christianity

XXIX. Credos

H. L. Mencken, by Himself Salutatory Further Exposition An American Mercury Circular Starting Point Petition

XXX. Self-Portrait

The Man and His Shadow Personal Record The Tight-Rope Categorical Imperatives Behind the Mask The Popinjay Note for an Honest Autobiography For the Defense Coda

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