ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO HL MENCKEN - Bad Request ...

Publication: Published January 2002. $29.95. 2000 copies printed. Not registered at Copyright
Office.
Printing: Set by Burt&Burt Studio, Macon, Ga.; printed and bound by Sheridan Books, Ann
Arbor, Mich.
Locations: RJS (dj), MChB, GHT (dj).
Notes: As with A 30 and A 32, the text consists of contributions to the American Mercury
edited by Mencken. Each of the eleven chapters for the years 1924 to 1933 and (post-Mencken)
1934-1941 begins with a comment by Hatchett.
A 90 H. L. MENCKEN ON AMERICAN LITERATURE
A 90.1.a Only edition, only printing (2002)
Title pages: [ii] 'H. L. | Ohio University Press / Athens' || [iii] 'Mencken | on American |
Literature | [ornament] Edited by S. T. Joshi'
Copyright page: 'Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701 | © 2002 by S. T. Joshi | Printed in
the United States of America | All rights reserved | Ohio University Press books are printed on
acid-free paper [infinity sign in circle] TM | 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 5 4 3 2 1 | Permission to
publish H. L. Mencken's review columns is granted by the Enoch Pratt | Free Library of
Baltimore, in accordance with the terms of the will of H. L. Mencken. | Jacket photograph of H.
L. Mencken by Edward Steichen reprinted with permission of | Joanna T. Steichen. | [nine lines
of Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data]'
8-15/16" x 5-7/8": [i-vi] vii-xx [xxi-ii] 1-233 [234] 235-75 [276] 277-84 [285-90] = 312 pp.
[1-2] 16 [3] 4 [4] 16 [5] 8 [6-11] 16 = 156 leaves.
Contents: p. i: half title; pp. ii-iii: title; p. iv: copyright; pp. v-vi: 'Contents'; pp. vii-xviii:
'Introduction'; pp. xix-xx: 'A Note on | This Edition'; p. xxi: half title; p. xxii: blank; pp. 1-233:
text; p. 234: blank; pp. 235-44: 'Notes'; pp. 245-75: 'Glossary of Names'; p. 276: blank; pp. 277-
84: 'Index'; pp. 285-90: blank.
Text: "Eight Years of Reviewing" ("The Books of the Irish"), "Books I Have Not Read" ("From
the Diary of a Reviewer"), "On Reviewing" ("The Monthly Feuilleton"), "Fifteen Years of Book
Reviewing" ("Fifteen Years"), "Mark Twain" ("The Burden of Humor," "Mark Twain"), "Edgar
Allen Poe" ("The Mystery of Poe"), "Ralph Waldo Emerson" ("The Moonstruck Pastor"),
"Henry James" ("George Bernard Shaw as a Hero," "A Stack of Novels," "Conrad, Bennett,
James et al."), "Theodore Dreiser" ("A Novel of the First Rank," "Dreiser's Novel," "Adventures
Among the New Novels," "A Literary Behemoth," "The Creed of a Novelist," "Dreiser in 840
Pages"), "Willa Cather" ("A Visit to a Short Story Factory," "Partly About Books," "Mainly
Fiction," "Chiefly Americans," "Portrait of an American Citizen," "Three Volumes of Fiction,"
"Fiction Good and Bad," "The Desert Epic"), "Sherwood Anderson" ("The Creed of a Novelist,"
"Critics Wild and Tame," "Novels, Chiefly Bad," "Chiefly Americans," "Frank Harris and
Others," "Some New Books," "Three Volumes of Fiction," "Fiction Good and Bad," "Literary
Confidences"), "James Branch Cabell" ("A Sub-Potomac Phenomenon," "Critics Wild and
Tame," "Mainly Fiction," "The Flood of Fiction," "The Land of the Free," "Three Gay Stories,"
"Cabell," "A Comedy of Fig-Leaves"), "F. Scott Fitzgerald" ("Books More or Less Amusing,"
"The Niagara of Novels," "Scott Fitzgerald and His Work"), "Sinclair Lewis" ("Consolation,"
"Portrait of an American Citizen," "'Arrowsmith'," "Man of God, American Style," "Escape and
Return," "A Lady of Vision"), "John Dos Passos" ("Variations Upon a Familiar Theme,"
50