Fables and other moral tales
History, politics, and affairs of state
For (or against) children
Folklore and tall stories
Stories and people. Benny and the bird-dogs / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings --
Christopher K*a*p*l*a*n / Leonard Q. Ross --
The Casting away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine (Part I) / Frank R. Stockton --
Gentleman Prefer Blondes (Chapter I) / Anita Loos --
George F. Babbitt starts the day / Sinclair Lewis --
Lady's room / John Mosher --
Two letters from a Rookie to his girl / Edward Streeter --
Glory in the daytime / Dorothy Parker --
Boggains in the Bronx / Arthur Kober --
Mrs. Heywood Cox Broun / Heywood Broun --
His grandfather's old ram / Mark Twain --
Alibi Ike / Ring Lardner.
Fables and other moral tales. Fables for our time. The owl who was God ; The shrike and the chipmunks ; The moth and the star ; The unicorn in the garden / James Thurber --
Fables in slang. The professor who wanted to be alone ; The waist-band that was taut up to the moment it gave way ; The ninny who swam away from the life preserver / George Ade --
Fable of the iron dogs / Don Marquis --
Ferry-tail from Keeng Mitas for Nize Baby / Milt Gross --
Fantastic fables. The disinterested arbiter ; The party over there ; Cat and King ; Revenge ; Officer and thug ; Saint and soul / Ambrose Bierce --
The Parable of the family which dwelt apart / E.B. White.
All sorts of dilemmas. Confessions of a gallomaniac / Frank Moore Colby --
An Affix for birds / St. Clair McKelway --
An Invitation to a party / Frederic S. Cozzens --
A Very dangerous invitation / Max Adeler --
A Ride with Ralph / Francis Steegmuller --
A Watch that "wanted cleaning" / James T. Fields --
It's a wise parent / Cornelia Otis Skinner --
Large coffee / Ring Lardner --
"Doucement, doucement!" / Donald Moffat.
History, politics, and affairs of state. The Most horrible battle ever recorded in poetry or prose / Washington Irving --
The Latest improvements in artillery / Orpheus C. Kerr --
Sumthin' in the pastoral line / James Russell Lowell --
The Great presidential excursion / Petroleum V. Nasby --
The Hunting of the cow / Mark Twain --
Mr. Dooley on the power of music / Finley Peter Dunne --
The Governor / James M. Cain --
A Weekend at Lady Astor's / Frank Sullivan.
Parodies and burlesques. Excerpts from the tribune primer / Eugene Field --
Christmas afternoon ; Happy childhood tales ; The Blue sleeve garter ; More songs for meller / Robert C. Benchley --
Odd's bodkins / Ring Lardner --
A Garland of ibids / Frank Sullivan --
The Whiskey rebellion / Donald Ogden Stewart --
Dusk in fierce pajamas / E.B. White --
Selections from "The diary of our own Samuel Pepys" / Franklin P. Adams --
Shakespeare, Here's Your Hat ; Death in the Rumble Seat / Wolcott Gibbs --
The Norris Plan / Corey Ford --
If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox / James Thurber --
Dr. C-dm-n's Daily / Nunnally Johnson --
Jungle Folk / Bret Harte --
Waiting for Santy / S.J. Perelman.
For (or against) children. The Peterkins Celebrate the Fourth of July / Lucretia P. Hale --
Appreciation of Art / Sally Benson --
Whitey / Booth Tarkington --
Huck and Jim Talk about Kings / Mark Twain --
To a Small Boy Standing on My Shoes While I am Wearing Them / Ogden Nash --
Savage Homecoming / Clifford Orr.
Satire: broad and otherwise. The Shakers / Artemus Ward --
The Greatest Man in the World / James Thurber --
Three Love Letters / Benjamin Franklin --
The Wedding: A Stage Direction / H.L. Mencken --
Six Thoughts without Words / Clarence Day --
Portrait / Kenneth Fearing --
the Cambridge ladies / e. e. cummings --
Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer ; First Families, Move Over! / Ogden Nash --
Infiexible Logic / Russell Maloney --
Mr. Dooley on the Education of the Young ; Mr. Dooley on Golf / Finley Peter Dunne --
Mother Taft's Chickens / Geoffrey Hellman --
The Jukes Family / Frank Sullivan --
On Conversation / Ring Lardner.
Folklore and tall stories. A Fish Fry / Marc Connelly --
A Mississippi Pilot / Mark Twain --
Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit / Joel Chandler Harris --
Going to Bed before a Young Lady / "M" --
Why There Are No Trees on the Desert / Glen Rounds --
Natural History / A.J. Liebling --
Mrs. Yardley's Quilting / George W. Harris --
The Man from Yellowhouse / Alfred Henry Lewis --
The Adulteration of Old King David / Roark Bradford.
Nonsense. In Old Chinatown ; The Idol's Eye / S.J. Perelman --
Fpafm / Frances Warfield --
Limericks Long after Lear / Morris Bishop ; Pictures by Richard Taylor --
Sit Still / Ring Lardner --
Miss Albina McLush / N.P. Willis --
The Poodle ; The Mule / Josh Billings --
The Cow ; The Gnu ; The Hen ; The Horse / Oliver Herford --
The Strange Case of Mr. Fortague's Disappointment ; Requiem / Ogden Nash --
A Short History of Man / Will Cuppy --
archy and mehitabel. i the coming of archy ; ii mehitabel was once cleopatra ; iii the song of mehitabel ; iv the old trouper / Don Marquis.
The critics at work. Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses / Mark Twain --
Let's Stay Home and Make Friends / Ogden Nash --
"Manhattan" ; Capsule Criticism / Alexander Woollcott --
Down with the Restoration! / S.J. Perelman --
Getting Gertie's Ida ; Faulkner, Extra-Special, Double-Distilled / Clifton Fadiman --
When Nature Lovers Write Books ; Novels and Hats ; The Loeb Classics / Frank Moore Colby --
Crying in the Wilderness ; The Theatre in Flushing / Wolcott Gibbs --
La Presse Perverse / Robert C. Benchley --
William Ellery Channing / Edgar Allan Poe --
Lengthy Symphony / Persis Greely Anderson --
Public Journal / Phyllis McGinley --
Back to Methuselah / George Jean Nathan --
The Highly Recurrent Mr. Hamilton ; Re-enter Margot Asquith / Dorothy Parker.
The reporters at work. Time ... Fortune ... Life ... Luce / Wolcott Gibbs ; Illustration by Will Cotton --
Tanya / Joseph Mitchell --
How to Become a Great Writer / Alva Johnston --
Owl Man / Sanderson Vanderbilt --
At Home with the Paleys / E.J. Kahn, Jr. --
Atheist Hit by Truck / John McNulty --
In Mulberry Street / A.J. Liebling --
Suits for Jimmy ; Isadora's Brother ; Tea Party ; Gtde Stein ; Under the Lindens ; The Japanese Army ; Wind and Water ; Pastoral Scene ; Young Man in the Bed / The Talk of the Town --
Boy Meets Bullfinch / Geoffrey Hellman --
Who ls This King of Glory? / St. Clair McKelway and A.J. Liebling.
Verse. Three Sonnets to a Red-Haired Lady / Don Marquis --
Woman Out of Taxi / Angela Cypher --
Cat Naps Are Too Good for Cats ; "My Child Is Phlegmatic ..." (Anxious parent) --
The Song of Songs / Ogden Nash --
Behold the Deeds! / H.C. Bunner --
To a Thesaurus ; Lines to Three Boys ; Advice to Young Men / Franklin P. Adams --
A.E. Housman Turns "Georgey Porgey" into a Shropshire Lad / Louis Untermeyer --
Five Scenes from the Mesazoic / Clarence Day --
Intermission, Please! / Irwin Edman --
For City Spring / Stephen Vincent Benét --
Famous Baths and Bathers / Carolyn Wells --
Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing ; Love Song / Samuel Hoffenstein --
Sonnets to Baedeker / David McCord --
Anthologistics ; Sea-Chill / Arthur Guiterman --
Ode to the End of Summer ; Song from New Rochelle ; A Hobby a Day Keeps the Doldrums Away / Phyllis McGinley --
The Passionate Professor / Bert Leston Taylor --
A Worm-Chorus ; Ozymandias Revisited / Morris Bishop --
Little Words ; The Searched Soul ; Tombstone for an Actress / Dorothy Parker --
Ain't There at Least One Gen'leman Here? / Clarence H. Knapp --
Harper to Mifflin to Chance / E.B. White --
The Mesecks / Kenneth Allan Robinson --
Cacoëthes Scribendi / Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Reminiscense. The Noblest Instrument / Clarence Day --
The Downfall of Fascism in Black Ankle County / Joseph Mitchell --
What Did You Do, Grandfather / Richard Lockridge --
Farewell, My Lovely! / Lee Strout White --
The Sock Hunt / Ruth McKenney --
Memoirs of a Master / M.R.A. --
Ring Out, Wild Bells / Wolcott Gibbs --
Brief Gust of Glory / H.L. Mencken --
The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse / William Saroyan --
The Night the Bed Fell / James Thurber --
The Ballet Visits the Splendide's Magician / Ludwig Bemelmans.
