H.L. Mencken: Prejudices, first, second, and third series

First series. Criticism of criticism of criticism

The late Mr. Wells

Arnold Bennett

The dean

Professor Veblen

The new poetry movement

The heir of Mark Twain

Hermann Sudermann

George Ade

The Butte Bashkirtseff

Six members of the Institute : The Boudoir Balzac ; A stranger on Parnassus ; A merchant of mush ; The last of the Victorians ; A bad novelist ; A Broadway Brandes

The genealogy of etiquette

The American Magazine

The Ulster Polonius

The unheeded law-giver

The blushful mystery : Sex hygiene ; Art and sex ; A loss to romance ; Sex on the stage

George Jean Nathan

Portrait of an immortal soul

Jack London

Among the avatars

Three American immortals : Aristotelean obsequies ; Edgar Allan Poe ; Memorial service.

Second series. The National letters : Prophets and their visions ; The answering fact ; The Ashes of New England ; The ferment underground ; In the literary abattoir ; Underlying causes ; The lonesome artist ; The cultural background ; Under the campus pump ; The intolerable burden ; Epilogue

Roosevelt : an autopsy

The Sahara of the Bozart

The Divine Afflatus

Scientific examination of a popular virtue

Exeunt Omnes

The allied arts : On music-lovers ; Opera ; The music of to-morrow ; Tempo di Valse ; The Puritan as artist ; The human face ; The cerebral mime

The cult of hope

The dry millennium : The Holy War ; The lure of Babylon ; Cupid and well-water ; The triumph of idealism

Appendix on a tender theme : The nature of love ; The incomparable buzzsaw ; Women as spectacles ; Woman and the artist ; Martyrs ; The burnt child ; The supreme comedy ; A hidden cause ; Bad workmanship.

Third series. On being an American

Huneker : a memory

Footnote on criticism

Das Kapital

Ad Imaginem Dei Creavit Illum : The life of man ; The anthropomorphic delusion ; Meditation on meditation ; Man and his soul ; Coda

Star-spangled men

The poet and his art

Five men at random : Abraham Lincoln ; Paul Elmer More ; Madison Cawein ; Frank Harris ; Havelock Ellis

The nature of liberty

The novel

The forward-looker

Memorial service

Education

Types of men : The romantic ; The skeptic ; The believer ; The worker ; The physician ; The scientist ; The business man ; The king ; The average man ; The truth-seeker ; The pacifist ; The relative ; The friend

The dismal science

Matters of state : Le Contrat Social ; On minorities

Reflections on the drama

Advice to young men : To him that hath ; The venerable examined ; Duty ; Martyrs ; The disabled veteran ; Patriotism

Suite Américaine : Aspiration ; Virtue ; Eminence

Appendix: from My life as author and editor.

Fourth series. The American tradition

The husbandman

High and ghostly matters : The cosmic secretariat ; The nature of faith ; The devotee ; The restoration of beauty ; End-product ; Another ; Holy clerks

Justice under democracy

Reflections on human monogamy : The eternal farce ; Venus at the domestic hearth ; The rat-trap ; The love chase ; Women as realpolitiker ; Footnote for suffragettes ; The helpmate ; The mime ; Cavia Cobaya ; The survivor ; The veteran's disaster ; Moral indignation ; The man and his shadow ; The balance-sheet ; Yearning

The politician

From a critic's notebook : Progress ; The iconoclast ; The artists' model ; The good citizen as artist ; Definitive judgments

Totentanz

Meditations in the Methodist desert : The new Galahad ; Optimist vs. Optimist ; Caveat for the defense ; Portrait of an ideal world

Essay in constructive criticism

On the nature of man : The animal that thinks ; Veritas Odium Parit ; The eternal cripple ; The test ; National characters ; The goal ; Psychology at 5 A.M. ; The reward ; The altruist ; The man of honor

Bugaboo

On government

Toward a realistic aesthetic : The nature of art ; The one-legged art ; Symbiosis and the artist

Contributions to the study of vulgar psychology : The downfall of the Navy ; The mind of the slave ; The art eternal

The American novel

People and things : The capital of a great republic ; Ambassadors of Christ ; Bilder aus schöner Zeit ; The high seas ; The Shrine of Mnemosyne.

Fifth series. Four moral causes : Birth control ; Comstockery ; Capital punishment ; War

Four makers of tales : Conrad ; Hergesheimer ; Lardner ; Masters

In memoriam : W.J.B.

The hills of Zion

Beethoven

Rondo on an ancient theme

Protestantism in the Republic

From the files of a book reviewer : Counter-offensive ; Heretics ; The grove of academe ; The schoolma'm's goal ; The heroic age ; The woes of a 100% American ; Yazoo's favorite ; The father of service ; A modern masterpiece ; Sweet stuff

The fringes of lovely letters : Authorship as a trade ; Authors as persons ; Birth pangs ; Want ad ; Literature and the schoolma'am ; The critic and his job ; Painting and its critics ; Greenwich Village

Essay in pedagogy

On living in Baltimore

The last New Englander

The nation

Officers and gentlemen

Golden age

Edgar Saltus

Miscellaneous notes : Martyrs ; The ancients ; Jack Ketch as eugenist ; Heroes ; An historic blunder ; On cynicism ; Music and sin ; The champion ; Honor in America ; Notes in the margin of a treatise on psychology ; Definition

Catechism.

Sixth series. Journalism in America

From the memoirs of a subject of the United States : Government by bounder ; Constructive proposal ; The nature of government ; Freudian footnote ; Bach to Bach!

The human mind : On metaphysicians ; On suicide ; On controversy ; On faith

Clarion call to poets

Souvenirs of a book reviewer : The Emperor of Wowsers ; Thwacks from the motherland ; The powers of the air ; To the glory of an artist ; God help the South! ; The immortal Democrat ; Fides Ante Intellectum ; Speech day in the Greisenheim ; Professors of English

Five little excursions : Brahms ; Johann Strauss ; Poetry in America ; Victualry as a fine art ; The libido for the ugly

Hymn to the truth

The pedagogy of sex

Metropolis

Dives into quackery : Chiropractic ; Criminology ; Eugenics

Life under bureaucracy

In the rolling mills

Ambrose Bierce

The executive secretary

Invitation to the dance

Aubade

Appendix from Moronia : Note on technic ; Interlude in the Socratic manner ; Valentino.