A subtreasury of American humor /

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Contributors: White, E. B. 1899-1985, (Editor), White, Katharine Sergeant Angell, (Editor)
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Published: New York : Coward-McCann, Inc., [©1941]
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245 0 2 |a A subtreasury of American humor /  |c E.B. White and Katharine S. White, editors. 
260 |a New York :  |b Coward-McCann, Inc.,  |c [©1941] 
300 |a xxxii pages, 2 leaves, 3-814 pages :  |b illustrations ;  |c 22 cm 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a unmediated  |b n  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a volume  |b nc  |2 rdacarrier 
505 0 |a Stories and people -- Fables and other moral tales -- All sorts of dilemmas -- History, politics, and affairs of state -- Parodies and burlesques -- For (or against) children -- Satire--broad and otherwise -- Folklore and tall stories -- Nonsense -- The critics at work -- The reporters at work -- Verse -- Reminiscence. 
505 0 0 |g Stories and people.  |t Benny and the bird-dogs /  |r Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings --  |t Christopher K*a*p*l*a*n /  |r Leonard Q. Ross --  |t The Casting away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine  |g (Part I) /  |r Frank R. Stockton --  |t Gentleman Prefer Blondes  |g (Chapter I) /  |r Anita Loos --  |t George F. Babbitt starts the day /  |r Sinclair Lewis --  |t Lady's room /  |r John Mosher --  |t Two letters from a Rookie to his girl /  |r Edward Streeter --  |t Glory in the daytime /  |r Dorothy Parker --  |t Boggains in the Bronx /  |r Arthur Kober --  |t Mrs. Heywood Cox Broun /  |r Heywood Broun --  |t His grandfather's old ram /  |r Mark Twain --  |t Alibi Ike /  |r Ring Lardner. 
505 0 0 |g Fables and other moral tales.  |t Fables for our time.  |t The owl who was God ;  |t The shrike and the chipmunks ;  |t The moth and the star ;  |t The unicorn in the garden /  |r James Thurber --  |g Fables in slang.  |t The professor who wanted to be alone ;  |t The waist-band that was taut up to the moment it gave way ;  |t The ninny who swam away from the life preserver /  |r George Ade --  |t Fable of the iron dogs /  |r Don Marquis --  |t Ferry-tail from Keeng Mitas for Nize Baby /  |r Milt Gross --  |g Fantastic fables.  |t The disinterested arbiter ;  |t The party over there ;  |t Cat and King ;  |t Revenge ;  |t Officer and thug ;  |t Saint and soul /  |r Ambrose Bierce --  |t The Parable of the family which dwelt apart /  |r E.B. White. 
505 0 0 |g All sorts of dilemmas.  |t Confessions of a gallomaniac /  |r Frank Moore Colby --  |t An Affix for birds /  |r St. Clair McKelway --  |t An Invitation to a party /  |r Frederic S. Cozzens --  |t A Very dangerous invitation /  |r Max Adeler --  |t A Ride with Ralph /  |r Francis Steegmuller --  |t A Watch that "wanted cleaning" /  |r James T. Fields --  |t It's a wise parent /  |r Cornelia Otis Skinner --  |t Large coffee /  |r Ring Lardner --  |t "Doucement, doucement!" /  |r Donald Moffat. 
505 0 0 |g History, politics, and affairs of state.  |t The Most horrible battle ever recorded in poetry or prose /  |r Washington Irving --  |t The Latest improvements in artillery /  |r Orpheus C. Kerr --  |t Sumthin' in the pastoral line /  |r James Russell Lowell --  |t The Great presidential excursion /  |r Petroleum V. Nasby --  |t The Hunting of the cow /  |r Mark Twain --  |t Mr. Dooley on the power of music /  |r Finley Peter Dunne --  |t The Governor /  |r James M. Cain --  |t A Weekend at Lady Astor's /  |r Frank Sullivan. 
505 0 0 |g Parodies and burlesques.  |t Excerpts from the tribune primer /  |r Eugene Field --  |t Christmas afternoon ;  |t Happy childhood tales ;  |t The Blue sleeve garter ;  |t More songs for meller /  |r Robert C. Benchley --  |t Odd's bodkins /  |r Ring Lardner --  |t A Garland of ibids /  |r Frank Sullivan --  |t The Whiskey rebellion /  |r Donald Ogden Stewart --  |t Dusk in fierce pajamas /  |r E.B. White --  |t Selections from "The diary of our own Samuel Pepys" /  |r Franklin P. Adams --  |t Shakespeare, Here's Your Hat ;  |t Death in the Rumble Seat /  |r Wolcott Gibbs --  |t The Norris Plan /  |r Corey Ford --  |t If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox /  |r James Thurber --  |t Dr. C-dm-n's Daily /  |r Nunnally Johnson --  |t Jungle Folk /  |r Bret Harte --  |t Waiting for Santy /  |r S.J. Perelman. 
505 0 0 |g For (or against) children.  |t The Peterkins Celebrate the Fourth of July /  |r Lucretia P. Hale --  |t Appreciation of Art /  |r Sally Benson --  |t Whitey /  |r Booth Tarkington --  |t Huck and Jim Talk about Kings /  |r Mark Twain --  |t To a Small Boy Standing on My Shoes While I am Wearing Them /  |r Ogden Nash --  |t Savage Homecoming /  |r Clifford Orr. 
505 0 0 |g Satire: broad and otherwise.  |t The Shakers /  |r Artemus Ward --  |t The Greatest Man in the World /  |r James Thurber --  |t Three Love Letters /  |r Benjamin Franklin --  |t The Wedding: A Stage Direction /  |r H.L. Mencken --  |t Six Thoughts without Words /  |r Clarence Day --  |t Portrait /  |r Kenneth Fearing --  |t the Cambridge ladies /  |r e. e. cummings --  |t Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer ;  |t First Families, Move Over! /  |r Ogden Nash --  |t Infiexible Logic /  |r Russell Maloney --  |t Mr. Dooley on the Education of the Young ;  |t Mr. Dooley on Golf /  |r Finley Peter Dunne --  |t Mother Taft's Chickens /  |r Geoffrey Hellman --  |t The Jukes Family /  |r Frank Sullivan --  |t On Conversation /  |r Ring Lardner. 
505 0 0 |g Folklore and tall stories.  |t A Fish Fry /  |r Marc Connelly --  |t A Mississippi Pilot /  |r Mark Twain --  |t Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit /  |r Joel Chandler Harris --  |t Going to Bed before a Young Lady /  |r "M" --  |t Why There Are No Trees on the Desert /  |r Glen Rounds --  |t Natural History /  |r A.J. Liebling --  |t Mrs. Yardley's Quilting /  |r George W. Harris --  |t The Man from Yellowhouse /  |r Alfred Henry Lewis --  |t The Adulteration of Old King David /  |r Roark Bradford. 
505 0 0 |g Nonsense.  |t In Old Chinatown ;  |t The Idol's Eye /  |r S.J. Perelman --  |t Fpafm /  |r Frances Warfield --  |t Limericks Long after Lear /  |r Morris Bishop ; Pictures by Richard Taylor --  |t Sit Still /  |r Ring Lardner --  |t Miss Albina McLush /  |r N.P. Willis --  |t The Poodle ;  |t The Mule /  |r Josh Billings --  |t The Cow ;  |t The Gnu ;  |t The Hen ;  |t The Horse /  |r Oliver Herford --  |t The Strange Case of Mr. Fortague's Disappointment ;  |t Requiem /  |r Ogden Nash --  |t A Short History of Man /  |r Will Cuppy --  |t archy and mehitabel. i the coming of archy ;  |t ii mehitabel was once cleopatra ;  |t iii the song of mehitabel ;  |t iv the old trouper /  |r Don Marquis. 
505 0 0 |g The critics at work.  |t Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses /  |r Mark Twain --  |t Let's Stay Home and Make Friends /  |r Ogden Nash --  |t "Manhattan" ;  |t Capsule Criticism /  |r Alexander Woollcott --  |t Down with the Restoration! /  |r S.J. Perelman --  |t Getting Gertie's Ida ;  |t Faulkner, Extra-Special, Double-Distilled /  |r Clifton Fadiman --  |t When Nature Lovers Write Books ;  |t Novels and Hats ;  |t The Loeb Classics /  |r Frank Moore Colby --  |t Crying in the Wilderness ;  |t The Theatre in Flushing /  |r Wolcott Gibbs --  |t La Presse Perverse /  |r Robert C. Benchley --  |t William Ellery Channing /  |r Edgar Allan Poe --  |t Lengthy Symphony /  |r Persis Greely Anderson --  |t Public Journal /  |r Phyllis McGinley --  |t Back to Methuselah /  |r George Jean Nathan --  |t The Highly Recurrent Mr. Hamilton ;  |t Re-enter Margot Asquith /  |r Dorothy Parker. 
505 0 0 |g The reporters at work.  |t Time ... Fortune ... Life ... Luce /  |r Wolcott Gibbs ; Illustration by Will Cotton --  |t Tanya /  |r Joseph Mitchell --  |t How to Become a Great Writer /  |r Alva Johnston --  |t Owl Man /  |r Sanderson Vanderbilt --  |t At Home with the Paleys /  |r E.J. Kahn, Jr. --  |t Atheist Hit by Truck /  |r John McNulty --  |t In Mulberry Street /  |r A.J. Liebling --  |t Suits for Jimmy ;  |t Isadora's Brother ;  |t Tea Party ;  |t Gtde Stein ;  |t Under the Lindens ;  |t The Japanese Army ;  |t Wind and Water ;  |t Pastoral Scene ;  |t Young Man in the Bed /  |r The Talk of the Town --  |t Boy Meets Bullfinch /  |r Geoffrey Hellman --  |t Who ls This King of Glory? /  |r St. Clair McKelway and A.J. Liebling. 
505 0 0 |g Verse.  |t Three Sonnets to a Red-Haired Lady /  |r Don Marquis --  |t Woman Out of Taxi /  |r Angela Cypher --  |t Cat Naps Are Too Good for Cats ;  |t "My Child Is Phlegmatic ..."  |r (Anxious parent) --  |t The Song of Songs /  |r Ogden Nash --  |t Behold the Deeds! /  |r H.C. Bunner --  |t To a Thesaurus ;  |t Lines to Three Boys ;  |t Advice to Young Men /  |r Franklin P. Adams --  |t A.E. Housman Turns "Georgey Porgey" into a Shropshire Lad /  |r Louis Untermeyer --  |t Five Scenes from the Mesazoic /  |r Clarence Day --  |t Intermission, Please! /  |r Irwin Edman --  |t For City Spring /  |r Stephen Vincent Ben<U+fffd>et --  |t Famous Baths and Bathers /  |r Carolyn Wells --  |t Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing ;  |t Love Song /  |r Samuel Hoffenstein --  |t Sonnets to Baedeker /  |r David McCord --  |t Anthologistics ;  |t Sea-Chill /  |r Arthur Guiterman --  |t Ode to the End of Summer ;  |t Song from New Rochelle ;  |t A Hobby a Day Keeps the Doldrums Away /  |r Phyllis McGinley --  |t The Passionate Professor /  |r Bert Leston Taylor --  |t A Worm-Chorus ;  |t Ozymandias Revisited /  |r Morris Bishop --  |t Little Words ;  |t The Searched Soul ;  |t Tombstone for an Actress /  |r Dorothy Parker --  |t Ain't There at Least One Gen'leman Here? /  |r Clarence H. Knapp --  |t Harper to Mifflin to Chance /  |r E.B. White --  |t The Mesecks /  |r Kenneth Allan Robinson --  |t Caco<U+fffd>ethes Scribendi /  |r Oliver Wendell Holmes. 
505 0 0 |g Reminiscense.  |t The Noblest Instrument /  |r Clarence Day --  |t The Downfall of Fascism in Black Ankle County /  |r Joseph Mitchell --  |t What Did You Do, Grandfather /  |r Richard Lockridge --  |t Farewell, My Lovely! /  |r Lee Strout White --  |t The Sock Hunt /  |r Ruth McKenney --  |t Memoirs of a Master /  |r M.R.A. --  |t Ring Out, Wild Bells /  |r Wolcott Gibbs --  |t Brief Gust of Glory /  |r H.L. Mencken --  |t The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse /  |r William Saroyan --  |t The Night the Bed Fell /  |r James Thurber --  |t The Ballet Visits the Splendide's Magician /  |r Ludwig Bemelmans. 
541 0 |3 HSP Copy;  |c Gift;  |a Miriam Fisher Schaefer;  |d 4/21/23 
590 |a HSP Copy: In memory of George Fisher 
505 0 0 |g Verse.  |t Three Sonnets to a Red-Haired Lady /  |r Don Marquis --  |t Woman Out of Taxi /  |r Angela Cypher --  |t Cat Naps Are Too Good for Cats ;  |t "My Child Is Phlegmatic ..."  |r (Anxious parent) --  |t The Song of Songs /  |r Ogden Nash --  |t Behold the Deeds! /  |r H.C. Bunner --  |t To a Thesaurus ;  |t Lines to Three Boys ;  |t Advice to Young Men /  |r Franklin P. Adams --  |t A.E. Housman Turns "Georgey Porgey" into a Shropshire Lad /  |r Louis Untermeyer --  |t Five Scenes from the Mesazoic /  |r Clarence Day --  |t Intermission, Please! /  |r Irwin Edman --  |t For City Spring /  |r Stephen Vincent Benét --  |t Famous Baths and Bathers /  |r Carolyn Wells --  |t Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing ;  |t Love Song /  |r Samuel Hoffenstein --  |t Sonnets to Baedeker /  |r David McCord --  |t Anthologistics ;  |t Sea-Chill /  |r Arthur Guiterman --  |t Ode to the End of Summer ;  |t Song from New Rochelle ;  |t A Hobby a Day Keeps the Doldrums Away /  |r Phyllis McGinley --  |t The Passionate Professor /  |r Bert Leston Taylor --  |t A Worm-Chorus ;  |t Ozymandias Revisited /  |r Morris Bishop --  |t Little Words ;  |t The Searched Soul ;  |t Tombstone for an Actress /  |r Dorothy Parker --  |t Ain't There at Least One Gen'leman Here? /  |r Clarence H. Knapp --  |t Harper to Mifflin to Chance /  |r E.B. White --  |t The Mesecks /  |r Kenneth Allan Robinson --  |t Cacoëthes Scribendi /  |r Oliver Wendell Holmes. 
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