H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism

By: H. L. Mencken, William H. Nolte (Editor)

Paperback | 26 December 2000 | Edition Number 2

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"One finds in Mr. Nolte's selection the original reviews, then so unconventional, of Conrad, Huneker, and Dreiser...I am glad to find old pieces I remember and that Mencken never collected - especially the summaries of periods in his life...And it is therefore very much worth while to have Mr. Nolte's collection of Mencken's earlier, more spontaneous work."
-Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker

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Editor's Introduction	p. xi
American Culture	p. 1
Diagnosis of Our Cultural Malaise	p. 2
Our Literary Centers	p. 9
Critics and Criticism	p. 15
William Lyon Phelps and Others	p. 15
The Professor Doctors	p. 19
Paul Elmer More	p. 21
Private Reflections	p. 23
Professor Pattee and Professor Sherman	p. 26
The Art of Fiction	p. 30
The Novelist as Messiah	p. 31
A Definition	p. 34
O. Henry	p. 38
The Raw Material of Fiction	p. 39
Point of View	p. 45
The Drama and Some Dramatists	p. 49
On Playgoers--And on Hauptmann, Synge, and Shaw	p. 49
Getting Rid of the Actor	p. 54
Chesterton's Picture of Shaw	p. 57
Shaw as Platitudinarian	p. 60
Strindberg--A Final Estimate	p. 64
The Greatest Stylist of Modern Times	p. 68
Poetry	p. 72
Lizette Woodworth Reese	p. 73
Ezra Pound	p. 76
The Troubadours A-Twitter	p. 79
Holy Writ	p. 88
Music	p. 95
Huneker in Motley	p. 96
An Apostle of Rhythm	p. 99
A First-Rate Music Critic	p. 103
Autobiographies	p. 106
Hall Caine and John D. Rockefeller	p. 106
George Moore	p. 109
Henry Ford	p. 111
In the Altogether	p. 115
Politics and Politicians	p. 117
The Style of Woodrow	p. 119
Vox Populi	p. 121
Psychology	p. 131
The Taste for Romance	p. 132
The New Thought, Dreams, and Christian Science	p. 133
Zuleika Dobson	p. 137
Havelock Ellis	p. 142
Osculation Anatomized	p. 144
The Advent of Psychoanalysis	p. 147
The Anatomy of Ochlocracy	p. 151
The Critic as Demolition Expert	p. 157
The Way to Happiness	p. 158
To Drink or Not to Drink	p. 159
A Novel Thus Begins	p. 160
The Story of a Resourceful Wife	p. 161
A Non-Cure for the World's Ills	p. 161
A Faded Charmer	p. 162
Earnest Messages	p. 163
Brief Dismissals	p. 165
Mush for the Multitude	p. 166
Lachrymose Love	p. 170
Literati	p. 175
Mark Twain
Popularity Index	p. 176
Twain and Howells	p. 178
Our One Authentic Giant	p. 179
Final Estimate	p. 182
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Prophet of the Superman	p. 190
Transvaluation of Morals	p. 194
James Gibbons Huneker
Importer of Foreign Flavors	p. 199
Huneker's Confessions	p. 204
Oscar Wilde
A Note on Oscar Wilde	p. 207
The Accounting of a Tartuffe	p. 208
Portrait of a Tragic Comedian	p. 210
H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells Redivivus	p. 218
Joseph Conrad
Probing the Russian Psyche	p. 224
Conrad's Self-Portrait	p. 230
Victory	p. 232
A Good Book on Conrad	p. 237
Conrad Revisited	p. 239
Theodore Dreiser
A Modern Tragedy	p. 244
The Creed of a Novelist	p. 248
De Profundis	p. 256
Anatole France
A Gamey Old Gaul	p. 260
Willa Cather
Her First Novel	p. 263
Willa Cather vs. William Allen White	p. 264
Youth and the Bright Medusa	p. 266
James Branch Cabell
A Refined Scoffer	p. 268
Sherwood Anderson
Something New under the Sun	p. 272
The Two Andersons	p. 273
Muddleheaded Art	p. 276
Sinclair Lewis
The Story of an American Family	p. 279
Portrait of an American Citizen	p. 282
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Two Years Too Late	p. 286
A Step Forward	p. 287
Miscellany	p. 289
A Book for the Gourmet	p. 290
The Nature of Vice	p. 292
Novels to Reread	p. 294
A Review of Reviewers	p. 298
An Autobiographical Note	p. 302
The Incomparable Billy	p. 303
The Irish Renaissance	p. 309
Taking Stock	p. 314
The Negro as Author	p. 320
Scherzo for the Bassoon	p. 322
Epilogue	p. 324
Fifteen Years	p. 324
Index	p. 335
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