A Subtreasury Of American Humor (G-73)
E. B. White and K.S. White, Eds.
STORIES AND PEOPLE
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Benny and the Bird-Dogs
Leonard Q. Ross
Christopher K*a*p*l*a*n
Frank R. Stockton
The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine (part I)
Anita Loos
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Ch.I)
Sinclair Lewis
George F. Babbitt Starts the Day
John Mosher
Lady’s Room
Edward Streeter
Two Letters from a Rookie to His Girl
Dorothy Parker
Glory in the Daytime
Arthur Kober
Boggains in the Bronx
Heywood Broun
Mrs. Heywood Cox Broun
Mark Twain
His Grandfather’s Old Ram
Ring Lardner
Alibi Ike
FABLES AND OTHER MORAL TALES
James Thurber: Fables for Our Time
The Owl Who Was God
The Shrike and the Chipmunks
The Moth and the Star
The Unicorn in the Garden
George Ade: Fables in Slang
The Professor Who Wanted to Be Alone
The Waist-Band That Was Taut up to the Moment It Gave Way
The Ninny Who Swam Away from the Life Preserver
Don Marquis
Fable of the Iron Dogs
Milt Gross
Ferry-Tail from Keeng Mitas for Nize Baby
Ambrose Bierce: Fantastic Fables
The Disinterested Arbiter
The Party Over There
Cat and King
Revenge
Officer and Thug
Saint and Soul
E.B. White
The Parable of the Family Which Dwelt Apart
ALL SORTS OF DILEMMAS
Frank Moore Colby
Confessions of a Gallomaniac
St. Clair McKelway
An Affix for Birds
Frederic S. Cozzens
An Invitation to a Party
Max Adeler
A Very Dangerous Invention
Francis Steegmuller
A Ride with Ralph
James T. Fields
A Watch That “Wanted Cleaning”
Cornelia Otis Skinner
It’s a Wise Parent
Ring Lardner
Large Coffee
Donald Moffat
“Doucement, Doucement!”
HISTORY, POLITICS, AND AFFAIRS OF STATE
Washington Irving
The Most Horrible Battle Ever Recorded in Poetry or Prose
Orpheus C. Kerr
The Latest Improvements in Artillery
James Russell Lowell
Sunthin’ in the Pastoral Line
Petroleum V. Nasby
The Great Presidential Excursion
Mark Twain
The Hunting of the Cow
Finley Peter Dunne
Mr. Dooley on the Power of Music
James M. Cain
The Governor
Frank Sullivan
A Weekend at Lady Astor’s
PARODIES AND BURLESQUES
Eugene Field
Excerpts from “The Tribune Primer”
Robert C. Benchley
Christmas Afternoon
Happy Childhood Tales
The Blue Sleeve Garter
More Songs for Meller
Ring Lardner
Odd’s Bodkins
Frank Sullivan
A Garden of Ibids
Donald Ogden Stewart
The Whisky Rebellion
E.B. White
Dusk in Fierce Pajamas
Franklin P. Adams
Selections from “The Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys”
Wolcott Gibbs
Shakespeare, Here’s Your Hat
Death in the Rumble Seat
Corey Ford
The Norris Plan
James Thurber
If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox
Nunnally Johnson
Dr. C-dm-n’s Daily
Bret Harte
Jungle Folk
S.J. Perelman
Waiting for Santy
FOR (OR AGAINST) CHILDREN
Lucretia P. Hale
The Peterkins Celebrate the Fourth of July
Sally Benson
Appreciation of Art
Booth Tarkington
Whitey
Mark Twain
Huck and Jim Talk about Kings
Clifford Orr
Savage Homecoming
SATIRE—BROAD AND OTHERWISE
Artemus Ward
The Shakers
James Thurber
The Greatest Man in the World
Benjamin Franklin
Three Love Letters
H.L. Mencken
The Wedding: A Stage Direction
Kenneth Fearing
Portrait
Russell Maloney
Inflexible Logic
Finley Peter Dunne
Mr. Dooley on the Education of the Young
Mr. Dooley on Golf
Geoffrey Hellman
Mother Taft’s Chickens
Frank Sullivan
The Jukes Family
The Vanderbilt Convention
Ring Lardner
On Conversation
FOLKLORE AND TALL STORIES
Marc Connelly
A Fish Fry
Mark Twain
A Mississippi Pilot
Joel Chandler Harris
Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit
“M.”
Going to Bed before a Young Lady
Glen Rounds
Why There Are No Trees on the Desert
A.J. Liebling
Natural History
George W. Harris
Mrs. Yardley’s Quilting
Alfred Henry Lewis
The Man from Yellowhouse
Roark Bradford
The Adulteration of Old King David
NONSENSE
S.J. Perelman
In Old Chinatown
The Idol’s Eye
Frances Warfield
Fpafm
Morris Bishop
Limericks
Ring Lardner
Sit Still
N.P. Willis
Miss Albina McLush
Josh Billings
Animated Natur
Ogden Nash
The Strange Case of Mr. Fortague’s Disappointment
Will Cuppy
A Short History of Man
Don Marquis
archy and mehitabel
THE CRITICS AT WORK
Mark Twain
Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses
Alexander Woollcott
“Manhattan”
Capsule Criticism
S. J. Perelman
Down with the Restoration!
Clifton Fadiman
Getting Gertie’s Ida
Faulkner, Extra-Special, Double Distilled
Frank Moore Colby
When Nature Lovers Write Books
Novels and Hats
The Loeb Classics
Wolcott Gibbs
Crying in the Wilderness
The Theatre in Flushing
Robert C. Benchley
La Presse Perverse
Edgar Allen Poe
William Ellery Channing
Persis Greely Anderson
Lengthy Symphony
Phyllis McGinley
Public Journal
George Jean Nathan
Back to Methuselah
Dorothy Parker
The Highly Recurrent Mr. Hamilton
Re-enter Margot Asquith
THE REPORTERS AT WORK
Wolcott Gibbs
Time…Fortune…Life…Luce
Joseph Mitchell
Tanya
Alva Johnston
How to Become a Great Writer
Sanderson Vanderbilt
Owl Man
E.J. Kahn, Jr.
At Home with the Paleys
John McNulty
Atheist Hit by Truck
A.J. Liebling
In Mulberry Street
The Talk of the Town
Suits for Jimmy
Isadora’s Brother
Tea Party
Gtde Stein
Under the Lindens
The Japanese Army
Wind and Water
Pastoral Scene
Young Man in the Bed
Geoffrey Hellman
Boy Meets Bullfinch
St. Clair McKelway and A.J. Liebling
Who Is This King of Glory?
REMINISCENCE
Clarence Day
The Noblest Instrument
Joseph Mitchell
The Downfall of Fascism in Black Ankle County
Richard Lockridge
What Did You Do, Grandfather?
Lee Strout White
Farewell, My Lovely!
Ruth McKenney
The Sock Hunt
M.R.A.
Memoirs of a Master
Wolcott Gibbs
Ring Out, Wild Bells
H.L. Mencken
Brief Gust of Glory
William Saroyan
The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse
James Thurber
The Night the Bed Fell
Ludwig Bemelmans
The Ballet Visits the Splendide’s Magician
Thanks to the
contributor:
John Peterson