1919


Nothing Much Here, Alas!
The Smart Set/January, 1919

Sunrise on the Prairie
The Smart Set/February, 1919

Mainly Fiction
The Smart Set/March, 1919

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/April, 1919

Notes of a Poetry Hater
The Smart Set/May, 1919​

Répétition Générale
​The Smart Set/May, 1919

Prof. Veblen and the Cow
The Smart Set/May, 1919

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/June, 1919

The Infernal Mystery
The Smart Set/June, 1919

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/July, 1919

The Coroner's Inquest
The Smart Set/July, 1919

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/August, 1919

Novels, Chiefly Bad
The Smart Set/August, 1919

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/September, 1919

Along the Potomac
The Smart Set/September, 1919

Arnold Bennett
The Smart Set/September, 1919

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/October, 1919

Mark Twain
The Smart Set/October, 1919

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/November, 1919

Novels for Indian Summer
The Smart Set/November, 1919

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/December, 1919

Exeunt Omnes
The Smart Set/December, 1919


1920

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/January, 1920

The Flood of Fiction
The Smart Set/January, 1920

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/February, 1920

From the Diary
The Smart Set/February, 1920

A Carnival of Buncombe
Baltimore Evening Sun/February 9, 1920

Literary Note

Baltimore Evening Sun/February 23, 1920


Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/March, 1920

Roosevelt and Others
The Smart Set/March, 1920


The Millennium Dawns

Baltimore Evening Sun/March 8, 1920


The Intelligentsia

Baltimore Evening Sun/March 16, 1920


The So-Called Fair
The Smart Set/April, 1920

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/April 1920


On Journalism
The Smart Set/April, 1920

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/May, 1920

More Notes From a Diary
The Smart Set/May, 1920

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/June, 1920

Reflections on Poetry
The Smart Set/June, 1920


It's All in Wilson's Hands, Mencken Concludes After Looking Around at Frisco
Baltimore Evening Sun/June 29, 1920

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/July, 1920

Observations Upon the National Letters
The Smart Set/July, 1920


Mencken Says All's Set to Put "Young William" Over if Wilson Gives the Word
Baltimore Evening Sun/July 1, 1920

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/August, 1920

Books More or Less Amusing
The Smart Set/August, 1920

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/September, 1920

Notes and Queries
The Smart Set/September, 1920

Meditation in E Minor
The New Republic/September 8, 1920

Star-Spangled Men
The New Republic/September 29, 1920

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/October, 1920

Gropings in Literary Darkness
The Smart Set/October, 1920


On Being an American
Baltimore Evening Sun/October 11, 1920

A Litany for the Bibuli
The Smart Set/November, 1920

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/November, 1920

A Panorama of Patriots
The Smart Set/November, 1920

Notes in the Margin
The Smart Set/November, 1920

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/December, 1920

Converations: II. On Anatomy and Physiology
The Smart Set/December, 1920

Chiefly Americans
The Smart Set/December, 1920


A Pathological Movie
The Nation/December 8, 1920



H. L. Mencken (IV) 1917 - 1921

1921

A Panorama of Idiots
The Smart Set/January, 1921

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/January, 1921

Conversations: III. On Women
The Smart Set/January, 1921

Consolation
The Smart Set/January, 1921

Peasant and Cockney
Baltimore Evening Sun/January 3, 1921

Mr. Wells' History

Baltimore Evening Sun/January 10, 1921


Liberty Emerges from the Sewers

Baltimore Evening Sun/January 17, 1921


Chapters of Medical History
The Nation/January 19, 1921

List of 100 Recent American Books

Worth Reading

Baltimore Evening Sun/January 22, 1921


The Millennium

Baltimore Evening Sun/January 24, 1921


The Asses' Carnival

Baltimore Evening Sun/January 31, 1921


Things I Remember
The Smart Set/February, 1921

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/February, 1921

Conversations: IV. On Politics
The Smart  Set/February, 1921

The Anatomy of Ochlocracy
The Smart Set/February, 1921

Zechariah Chaffee, Jr.

Baltimore Evening Sun/February 7, 1921


Zell, A New Novel That is

Original and Meritorious

Baltimore Evening Sun/February 12, 1921


James Huneker
Baltimore Evening Sun/February 14, 1921

Ad Imginem Dei Creavit Illum...
The Smart Set/March, 1921

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/March, 1921

The Cat and His Shadow
The Smart Set/March, 1921

A Soul's Adventures
The Smart Set/March, 1921

Harding Faces Task With Air of Confidence
Baltimore Evening Sun/March 4, 1921

Gamalielese
Baltimore Evening Sun/March 7, 1921

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/April, 1921

Melomania
The Smart Set/April, 1921

Conversations: V. Literature
The Smart Set/April, 1921

Notes on Poetry
The Smart Set/April, 1921

A Short View of Gamalielese
The Nation/April 27, 1921

Dianthus Caryophyllus
The Smart Set/May, 1921

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/May, 1921

Conversations: VI. On Dress
The Smart Set/May, 1921

The Land of the Free
The Smart Set/May, 1921

A Panorama of Holy Clerks
The Smart Set/June, 1921

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/June, 1921

Conversations: VII. On Editing a Magazine
The Smart Set/June, 1921

Books About Books
The Smart Set/June, 1921

The American Language
The Bookman/June, 1921

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/July, 1921

Conversations: VIII. On Marriage
The Smart Set/July, 1921

Literary Notes
The Smart Set/July, 1921

Brief Battle Was
Hopeless for Carpentier From the First
Baltimore Evening Sun/July 2, 1921

How Legends Are Made
Baltimore Evening Sun/July 5, 1921

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/August, 1921

The South Begins to Matter
The Smart Set/August, 1921

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/September, 1921

From the Diary of a Reviewer
The Smart Set/September, 1921

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/October, 1921

Notes on Books
The Smart Set/October, 1921

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/November, 1921

Iron Infallibility
The Smart Set/November, 1921

More Notes on Books
The Smart Set/November, 1921

Essay in American
​Baltimore Evening Sun/November 7, 1921

Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/December, 1921

Variations Upon a Familiar Theme
The Smart Set/December, 1921

1917


Sufferings Among Books
The Smart Set/January, 1917

The Rough-House on Parnassus
The Smart Set/February, 1917

The Books of the Irish
The Smart Set/March, 1917

The Infernal Feminine
The Smart Set/April, 1917

Shocking Stuff
​The Smart Set/May, 1917

The Genius
The Smart Set/June, 1917

The Plague of Books
The Smart Set/June, 1917

Ludendorff
The Atlantic/June, 1917

The Conclusions of a Man of Sixty
The Smart Set/July, 1917

The Cult of Dunsany
The Smart Set/July, 1917


The Conclusions of a Man of Sixty
The Smart Set/August, 1917

Criticism of Criticism of Criticism
The Smart Set/August, 1917


Prohibition Hypocrisy
Due to Job-Changing "Statesmen"
New York Evening Mail/August 27, 1917

Si Mutare Potest Aethiops Pellum Sua
The Smart Set/September, 1917

Woman, Lovely Woman!
The Smart Set/October, 1917


Whoopers and Twitterers
The Smart Set/November, 1917


Mark Twain's Americanism
​New York Evening Mail/November 1, 1917

The Sahara of the Bozart
New York Evening Mail/November 13, 1917

Addenda to Wilstach
The Smart Set/December, 1917

Critics Wild and Tame
The Smart Set/December, 1917


Virtuosi of Virtue
Chicago Daily Tribune/December 2, 1917


A Neglected Anniversary

New York Evening Mail/Dec. 28, 1917


1918

Seven Pages about Books
The Smart Set/January, 1918

The National Letters
The Smart Set/February, 1918

Literae Humaniores
The Smart Set/March, 1918

Unmentionables: An Inquiry into the Advertising Pages
The Smart Set/April, 1918

Business
The Smart Set/April, 1918

The American
New York Evening Mail/May 3, 1918


The Stream of Fiction
The Smart Set/May, 1918

Hark, Hark, the Lark!
The Smart Set/June, 1918

The Public Prints
The Smart Set/July, 1918

The Carousel
The Smart Set/August, 1918

A Sub-Potomac Phenomenon
The Smart Set/August, 1918

Rattling the Subconscious
The Smart Set/September, 1918

Suite Elegiaque
The Smart Set/October, 1918

Dithyrambs against Learning
The Smart Set/November, 1918

The Late Mr. Wells
The Smart Set/December, 1918