The Vintage Mencken. [electronic resource] Gathered by Alistair Cooke.

"K-25."

Introduction to the universe -- The Baltimore of the eighties -- Adventures of a Y.M.C.A. lad -- Text for newspaper days -- First appearance in print -- Recollections of notable cops -- Theodore Dreiser -- Gore in the Caribbees -- Pater patriae -- Quid est veritas -- The art eternal -- The skeptic -- The incomparable buzz-saw -- A blind spot -- Abraham Lincoln -- Lodge -- Cavia cobaya -- The national letters -- Star-spangled men -- The archangel Woodrow -- The libertine -- The lure of beauty -- The good man -- The Anglo-saxon -- Holy writ -- Masters of tone -- The noble experiment -- The artist -- Chiropractic -- The hills of Zion -- In memoriam: W.J.B. -- The author at work -- Valentino -- A glance ahead -- The libido for the ugly -- Travail -- A good man gone wrong -- The comedian -- Mr. Justice Holmes -- The calamity of Appomattox -- The new architecture -- The nomination of F.D.R. -- A good man in a bad trade -- Coolidge -- The Wallace paranoia -- Mencken's last stand -- Sententiae -- Exeunt omnes -- Epitaph.