H.L. Mencken
Baltimore Evening Sun/January 22, 1921
*No attempt is made to arrange the titles in the order of merit.
**The name in parentheses is that of the publisher.
*** Yes, I have read them all.
Novels and Short Stories.
The Titan, by Theodore Dreiser (Boni).
My Antonia, by Willa Cather (Houghton).
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis (Harcourt).
Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson (Huebsch).
Zell, by Henry G. Aikman (Knopf).
Java Head, by Joseph Hergesheimer (Knopf).
The Good Girl, by Vincent O’Sullivan (Small).
Youth and the Bright Medusa, by Willa Cather (Knopf).
The Rivet in Grandfather’s Neck, by James Branch Cabell (McBride).
Jurgen, by James Branch Cabell (McBride).
Moon-Calf, by Floyd Dell (Knopf).
Object: Matrimony, by Montague Glass.
Penrod, by Booth Tarkington (Doubleday).
Salt, by Charles G. Norris (Dutton).
The Backwash of War, by Ellen La Motte (Putnam).
This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Scribner).
Poor White, by Sherwood Anderson (Huebsch).
The Cream of the Jest, by James Branch Cabell (McBride).
The Anthology of Another Town, by E. W. Howe (Knopf).
Miss Lulu Bett, by Zona Gale (Appleton).
Rebellion, by Joseph Medill Patterson (Harper).
The Groper, by Henry G. Aikman (Boni).
Iron City, by M. T. Hedges (Boni).
Bertram Cope’s Year, by Henry B. Fuller (Seymour).
The Rise of David Levinsky, by Abraham Cahan (Harper).
Mottke the Vagabond, by Sholom Ash (Luce).
The Three Black Pennies, by Joseph Hergesheimer (Knopf).
Painted Veils, by James Huneker (Boni).
Teepee Neighbors, by Grace Coolidge (Four Seas).
Stamboul Nights, by H. G. Dwight (Doubleday).
Poetry.
Chicago Poems, by Carl Sandburg (Holt).
Airs and Ballads, by John McClure (Knopf).
Spicewood, by Lizette Woodworth Reese (Remington).
Flame and Shadow, by Sara Teasdale (Macmillan).
Pictures of the Floating World, by Amy Lowell (Macmillan).
Profiles from China, by Eunice Tietjens (Seymour).
The Book of Self, by James Oppenheim (Knopf).
The Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters (Macmillan).
The Golden Whales of California, by Vachel Lindsay (Macmillan).
Lustra, by Ezra Pound (Matthews).
Plays.
Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural, by Theodore Dreiser (Lane).
Beyond the Horizon, by Eugene O’Neill (Boni).
The Moon of the Caribbees, by Eugene O’Neill (Boni).
The Gentile Wife, by Rita Wellman (Moffat).
Papa, by Zoe Akins (Kennerley).
Criticism.
Horizons, by Francis Hackett (Huebsch).
The Popular Theatre, by George Jean Nathan (Knopf).
Convention and Revolt in Poetry, by J. L. Lowes (Houghton).
The Spirit of American Literature, by John Macy (Doubleday).
Creative Criticism, by J. E. Spingarn (Holt).
The Story of a Style, by William Bayard Hale (Huebsch).
The Ordeal of Mark Twain, by Van Wyck Brooks (Dutton).
Beyond Life, by James Branch Cabell (McBride).
Studies in South American Literature, by Isaac Goldberg (Brentano).
Interpreters and Interpretations, by Carl Van Vechten (Knopf).
The Cambridge History of American Literature (Putnam).
Contemporary Portraits: Second Series, by Frank Harris (published by the author).
Unicorns, by James Huneker (Scribner).
William Dean Howells, by Alexander Harvey (Huebsch).
The Substance of Gothic, by Ralph Adams Cram (Jones).
Biography.
Oscar Wilde, by Frank Harris (published by the author).
Margaret Fuller, by Katherine Anthony (Harcourt).
Mark Twain, by A. B. Paine (Harper).
Steeplejack, by James Huneker (Scribner).
The Education of Henry Adams, by Henry Adams (Houghton).
Twelve Men, by Theodore Dreiser (Boni).
The Story of a Lover, anonymous (Boni).
An American Idyll, by Cornelia S. Parker (Atlantic Monthly).
The Story of Daniel Drew, by Bouck White (Doubleday).
One Man, by Robert Steele (Kennerley).
History.
The Fall of the Dutch Republic, by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (Houghton).
Mont St. Michel and Chartres, by Henry Adams (Houghton).
The Emancipation of Massachusetts, by Brooks Adams (Houghton).
The Great Steel Strike, by W. Z. Foster (Huebsch).
The Law of Civilization and Decay, by Brooks Adams (Macmillan).
The Heart of the Puritan, by Elizabeth D. Hanscom (Macmillan).
The Story of a Common Soldier, by Lenader Stilwell (published by the author).
Travel. A Hoosier Holiday, by Theodore Dreiser (Lane).
South American Travels, by Harry Stephens (published by the author).
White Shadows in the South Seas, by Frederick O’Brien (Century).
San Cristobal de la Habana, by Joseph Hergesheimer (Knopf).
Santo Domingo, by Otto Schoenrich (Macmillan).
New Rivers of the North, by Hulbert Footner (Doran).
Politics, Etc.
Liberalism in America, by Howard Stearns (Boni).
Our America, by Waldo Frank (Boni).
The Brass Check, by Upton Sinclair (published by the author).
Men and Steel, by Mary Heaton Vorse (Boni).
Ventures in Common Sense, by E. W. Howe (Knopf).
The Craft Sinister, by George Abel Schreiner (Geyer).
Scientific. Primitive Society, by Robert H. Lowie (Boni).
Man: An Adaptive Mechanism, by George W. Crile (Macmillan).
Psychology From the Standpoint of a Behaviorist, by John B. Watson (Lippincott).
Personality and Conduct, by Maurice Parmelee (Moffat).
Morbid Fears and Compulsions, by H. W. Frink (Moffat).
Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage, by W. B. Cannon (Appleton).
The Behavior of Crowds, by E. D. Martin (Harper).
The Organism as a Whole, by Jacques Loeb (Putnam).
Men of the Old Stone Age, by H. F. Osborn (Scribner).
Miscellaneous. Mark Twain’s Letters (Harper).
Hand Made Fables, by George Ade (Doubleday).
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