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
Répétition Générale
The Smart Set/March, 1920
Roosevelt and Others
The Smart Set/March, 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 (III.) 1916 - 1920
1916
Partly About Books
The Smart Set/January, 1916
The Traffic in Babies in Baltimore
Baltimore Evening Sun/January 11, 1916
Mobilizing the Mountebanks
Baltimore Evening Sun/January 31, 1916
Saved!
The Smart Set/February, 1916
A Massacre in a Mausoleum
The Smart Set/February, 1916
The Curtain Rings Down on the Vice Report
Baltimore Evening Sun/February 2, 1916
Eine Kleine Sinfonie in F Dur
Baltimore Evening Sun/February 9, 1916
The Great American Art
The Smart Set/March, 1916
Halls
The Smart Set/April, 1916
The Publishers Begin Their Spring Drive
The Smart Set/April, 1916
America Produces a Novelist
The Forum/April, 1916
Tra la-la! Tra la-la!
The Smart Set/May, 1916
A Contribution Toward a List of Euphemisms for "Drunk"
The Smart Set/June, 1916
A Soul's Adventures
The Smart Set/June, 1916
Joseph Conrad
Baltimore Evening Sun/June 20, 1916
The Puritan
The Smart Set/July, 1916
Savonarolas A-Sweat
The Smart Set/July, 1916
More Notes for a Work on the Origins and Nature of Puritanism
Baltimore Evening Sun/July 19, 1916
A Footnote on the Duel of Sex
The Smart Set/August, 1916
A Panorama of Babies
The Smart Set/August, 1916
Degenerate Days
The Smart Set/August, 1916
A Litany for Hangmen
The Smart Set/August, 1916
The Ulster Polonius
The Smart Set/August, 1916
Two Dreiser Novels
Baltimore Evening Sun/August 4, 1916
Portrait of a Tragic Comedian
The Smart Set/September, 1916
The Creed of a Novelist
The Smart Set/October, 1916
Professors at the Bat
The Smart Set/November, 1916
Chanson d'Amour a la Carte
The Smart Set/December, 1916
The Literary Shambles
The Smart Set/December, 1916
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
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