Prejudices: Fifth Series
by H. L. Mencken
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About this eBook
- Author
- Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956
- Title
- Prejudices, fifth series
- Original Publication
- New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926.
- Credits
- Emmanuel Ackerman, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- American essays -- 20th century
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 72510
- Release Date
- December 26, 2023
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.PREJUDICES FIFTH SERIES
- 3.Untitled
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.Untitled
- 6.I. FOUR MORAL CAUSES — 1 Birth Control — 2 Comstockery — 3 Capital Punishment — 4 War
- 7.II. FOUR MAKERS OF TALES — 1 Conrad — 2 Hergesheimer — 3 Lardner — 4 Masters
- 8.III. IN MEMORIAM: W. J. B.
- 9.IV. THE HILLS OF ZION
- 10.V. BEETHOVEN
- 11.VI. RONDO ON AN ANCIENT THEME
- 12.VII. PROTESTANTISM IN THE REPUBLIC
- 13.VIII. FROM THE FILES OF A BOOK REVIEWER — 1 Counter-Offensive — 2 Heretics — 3 The Grove of Academe — 4 The Schoolma’m’s Goal — 5 The Heroic Age — 6 The Woes of a 100% American — 7 Yazoo’s Favorite — 8 The Father of Service — 9 A Modern Masterpiece — 10 Sweet Stuff
- 14.IX. THE FRINGES OF LOVELY LETTERS — 1 Authorship as a Trade — 2 Authors as Persons — 3 Birth Pangs — 4 Want Ad — 5 Literature and the Schoolma’m — 6 The Critic and his Job — 7 Painting and its Critics — 8 Greenwich Village
- 15.X. ESSAY IN PEDAGOGY — 1 — 2 — 3 — 4
- 16.XI. ON LIVING IN BALTIMORE
- 17.XII. THE LAST NEW ENGLANDER
- 18.XIII. THE NATION
- 19.XIV. OFFICERS AND GENTLEMEN
- 20.XV. GOLDEN AGE
- 21.XVI. EDGAR SALTUS
- 22.XVII. MISCELLANEOUS NOTES — 1 Martyrs — 2 The Ancients — 3 Jack Ketch as Eugenist — 4 Heroes — 5 An Historic Blunder — 6 On Cynicism — 7 Music and Sin — 8 The Champion — 9 Honor in America — 10 Note in the Margin of a Treatise on Psychology — 11 Definition
- 23.XVIII. CATECHISM
- 24.INDEX
- 25.Untitled
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