The Vintage Mencken: Gathered by Alistair Cooke

An Introduction To H. L. Mencken By Alistair Cooke.

1. Introduction To The Universe.
2. The Baltimore Of The Eighties.
3. Adventures Of A Y.M.C.A. Lad.
4. Text For Newspaper Days.
5. First Appearance In Print.
6. Recollections Of Notable Cops.
7. Theodore Dreiser.
8. Gore In The Caribbees.
9. Pater Patriae.
10. Quid Est Veritas.
11. The Art Eternal.
12. The Skeptic.
13. The Incomparable Buzz-Saw.
14. A Blind Spot.
15. Abraham Lincoln.
16. Lodge.
17. Cavia Cobaya.
18. The National Letters.
19. Star-Spangled Men.
20. The Archangel Woodrow.
21. The Libertine.
22. The Lure Of Beauty.
23. The Good Man.
24. The Anglo-Saxon.
25. Holy Writ.

Afterthoughts.

26. Masters Of Tone.
27. The Noble Experiment.
28. The Artist.
29. Chiropractic.
30. The Hills Of Zion.
31. In Memoriam: W.J.B.
32. The Author At Work.
33. Valentino.
34. A Glance Ahead.
35. The Libido For The Ugly.
36. Travail.
37. A Good Man Gone Wrong.
38. The Comedian.
39. Mr. Justice Holmes.
40. The Calamity Of Appomattox.
41. The New Architecture.
42. The Nomination Of  F.D.R.
43. A Good Man In A Bad Trade.
44. Coolidge.
45. The Wallace Paranoia.
46. Mencken'S Last Stand.
47. Sententiae.
48. Exeunt Omnes.
49. Epitaph.