A Mencken Chrestomathy

I. Homo Sapiens

The Life of Man
Man’s Place in Nature
Meditation on Meditation
Coda

II. Types of Men

The Romantic
The Skeptic
The Believer
The Toiler
The Physician
The Scientist
The Business Man
The King
The Metaphysician
The Average Man
The Truth-Seeker
The Relative
The Relative-in-Law
The Friend
The Philosopher
The Altruist
The Iconoclast
The Family Man
The Bachelor
The Good Man
The Eternal Male
The Slave

III. Women

The Feminine Mind
Women as Outlaws
The Cold Woman
Intermezzo on Monogamy
The Libertine
The Lure of Beauty
The Incomparable Buzz-Saw
The War Between Man and Woman
The Nature of Love
The Eternal Farce
The Helpmate
The Sex Uproar
Women as Christians
The Lady of Joy
A Loss to Romance
The Balance Sheet
Compulsory Marriage
Cavia Cobaya
Art and Sex
Offspring
Sex Hygiene
Eugenics
The Double Standard
The Supreme Comedy
Woman as Realpolitiker
After-Thoughts
Romantic Interlude
Apologia

IV. Religion

The Cosmic Secretariat
The Nature of Faith
The Restoration of Beauty
Holy Clerks
The Collapse of Protestantism
Immune
A New Use for Churches
Free Will
Sabbath Meditation
The Immortality of the Soul
Miracles
Quod est Veritas?
The Doubter’s Reward
Holy Writ
The Powers of the Air
Memorial Service

V. Morals

The Origin of Morality
The Good Citizen
Free Will Again
An Ethical Dilemma
Honor

VI. Crime and Punishment

The Criminal Law
The Penalty of Death
On Hanging a Man
Cops and Their Ways

VII. Death

On Suicide
Under the Elms
Exeunt Omnes
Clarion Call to Poets

VIII. Government

Its Inner Nature
More of the Same
The Politician
Governmental Theories
Note on a Cuff

IX. Democracy

Its Origins
A Glance Ahead
The Democratic Citizen
A Blind Spot
Rivals to Democracy
Last Words

X. Americans

The Anglo-Saxon
American Culture

XI. The South

The Sahara of the Bozart
The Confederate Mind
The Calamity of Appomattox
A Class A Blunder

XII. History

Historians
Forgotten Men
Revolution
New England
New Deal No. 1
The Greeks
War
A Bad Guess
Undying Glories

XIII. Statesmen

Pater Patriæ
Abraham Lincoln
Portrait of an Immortal
A Good Man in a Bad Trade
Roosevelt I
In Memoriam: W. J. B.
The Archangel Woodrow
Coolidge
Imperial Purple

XIV. American Immortals

Mr. Justice Holmes
Professor Veblen
John D.

XV. Odd Fish

A Good Man Gone Wrong
Valentino
An American Bonaparte
Sister Aimée

XVI. Economics

To Him That Hath
Capitalism
On Getting a Living
Personal Note
XVII. Pedagogy

The Educational Process
Travail
Classical Learning
The Boon of Culture
Bearers of the Torch

XVIII. Psychology

Psychologists in a Fog
The Mind of the Slave
The Crowd
The Art Eternal

XIX. Science

Hypothesis
Darwin
Caveat Against Science
The Eternal Conundrum
The Universe
The Boons of Civilization

XX. Quackery

Christian Science
Chiropractic
The Fruits of Comstockery
The Foundations of Quackery
Hooey from the Orient
The Executive Secretary
The Husbandman
Zoos

XXI. The Human Body

Pathological Note
The Striated Muscle Fetish
Moral Tale
Comfort for the Ailing
Eugenic Note

XXII. Utopian Flights

A Purge for Legislatures
A Chance for Millionaires
The Malevolent Jobholder
Portrait of an Ideal World

XXIII. Souvenirs of a Journalist

The Hills of Zion
Dempsey vs. Carpentier
How Legends are Made
Lodge
The Perihelion of Prohibition
The End of Prohibition
The New Deal

XXIV. Criticism

The Critical Process
Examination for Critics

XXV. Literature

The Divine Afflatus
The Poet and His Art
The New Poetry
On Style
Authorship as a Trade
The Author at Work
Foreign Poisons
The Blue-Nose
Folk-Literature
The Literary Amenities
The Author’s League

XXVI. Literati

The Moonstruck Pastor
Aristotelian Obsequies
Poe
Whitman
Memorial Service
Footnote
Credo
The Man Within
The Dean
Ambrose Bierce
Stephen Crane
Hamlin Garland
Henry James
Dreiser
Ring Lardner
Huneker: a Memory
Joseph Conrad

XXVII. Music

Beethoven
Schubert
Brahms
Wagner
More of the Same
Johann Strauss
Tempo di Valse
Richard Strauss
Bach at Bethlehem
Opera
Music as a Trade
The Music-Lover
The Reward of the Artist
Masters of Tone

XXVIII. The Lesser Arts

Hand-Painted Oil Paintings
Art Critics
The New Architecture
Art Galleries
Art and Nature
The Artist
The Greenwich Village Complex
Reflection on the Drama
Actors
The Comedian
Arrière-pensée
Oratory
The Libido for the Ugly

XXIX. Buffooneries

Death: a Philosophical Discussion
The Declaration of Independence in American
The Visionary
A Neglected Anniversary
Star-Spangled Men
The Incomparable Physician
A Smart Set Circular
Suite Américaine
People and Things

XXX. Sententiæ

The Mind of Man
Masculum et Feminam Creavit Eos
The Citizen and the State
Arcana Cœlestia
This and That

XXXI. Appendix

Catechism
Epitaph