TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mencken,H.L.
TI  - The bathtub hoax, and other blasts & bravos from the Chicago tribune
AV  - PS3525.E43 B3
U1  - 814 
PY  - 1958///
CY  - New York
PB  - Knopf
KW  - United States
KW  - Civilization
N1  - About H.L. Mencken; by Robert McHugh --; 1; American credulity; A neglected anniversary (The bathtub hoax) --; Melancholy reflections --; Hymn to the truth --; The believing mind --; 2; Land of the free; The Bill of Rights --; The Comstockian imbecility --; The anatomy of wowserism --; Padlocks --; The battle of ideas --; The birth control hullabaloo --; Equality before the law --; 3; The arts; Essay on constructive criticism --; Hints for novelists --; Yet more hints for novelists --; Poe's start in life --; The case of Dreiser --; H.L. Mencken on Mark Twain --; Robert Louis Stevenson --; Beethoven, obit. March 26, 1827 --; The music of the American Negro --; On realism --; View of literary gents --; The avalanche of books --; 4; Religion, ethics, and science; Fundamentalism: divine and secular --; The Rev. clergy --; Cousin Jocko --; Jacquerie --; Man as mammal --; Havelock Ellis --; On eugenics --; Human monogamy --; Another long-awaited book --; Holy Writ --; 5; Politics, government, jurisprudence; The United States Senate --; The national conventions --; Notes on government --; Blackmail made easy --; A long-felt want --; Vive le roi! --; 6; Education, philology; The pedagogue's Utopia --; On going to college --; The language we speak --; Babel --; The emperor of dictionaries --; 7; Miscellany; The American scene --; On connubial bliss --; Dreams of peace --; On human progress --; The South rebels again --; The sad case of Tennessee --; The movies --; The telephone nuisance --; Victualry as a fine art --; On controversy
UR  - http://www.archive.org/details/bathtubhoaxother00menc
UR  - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL6250773M
ER  -