A subtreasury of American humor / E.B. White and Katharine S. White, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985, editor.

White, Katharine Sergeant Angell, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985 editor.

White, E. B.

American wit and humor.

White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985.

Genre:

American wit and humor.

humor.

Humor

Humor.

Physical Description:

xxxii pages, 2 leaves, 3-814 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Coward-McCann, Inc., [©1941]

Contents:

Stories and people

Fables and other moral tales

All sorts of dilemmas

History, politics, and affairs of state

Parodies and burlesques

For (or against) children

Satire

broad and otherwise

Folklore and tall stories

Nonsense

The critics at work

The reporters at work

Verse

Reminiscence.

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 Ben<U+fffd>et

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

Caco<U+fffd>ethes 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.

For City Spring / Stephen Vincent Benét

Cacoëthes Scribendi / Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Local Notes:

HSP Copy: In memory of George Fisher

Other Format:

Online version: White, E.B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985. Subtreasury of American humor.

OCLC:

336431