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LISTS OF CONTENTS OF ROBERT BENCHLEY BOOKS, PAGE 1 OF 12
20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA OR AFTER 1903--WHAT [B1]
DAVID COPPERFIELD [B24] Harper and Brothers, 1938
Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1928 Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*]
Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*] 1 Ladies' Wild [N407]
3 Political Parties and Their Growth [E443] 8 Dream Cases [E121]
7 The Low State of Whippet Racing [E325] 12 An Old Subject, Made Older [N491]
16 Add Folk Plays [D008] 15 What Do You Mean, "Gay"? [N602]
23 Meeting the Boats [E337] 18 Anthology [N236]
33 "In this Corner " [E257] 21 Alterations Going On Inside [N233]
40 `Round and `Round and `Round [E478] 24 Cocktail Hour [N286]
45 The Cooper Cycle in American Folk Songs [E093] 27 Quiet in Ifni [N525]
49 Hockey Tonight! [E496] 30 How To Kill Time [N385]
56 "I am in the Book" [E249] 33 "Psychical Tic" [N521]
66 A Short History of American Politics [E498] 36 Culture [N293]
70 The Bridge of Sans Genre [E057] 39 What of Our Children? [N605]
77 Try-outs [D704] 42 Why Do We Laugh Or Do We? [E609]
83 African Sculpture [E370] 48 Old Wives' Tale [N493]
89 Football Sagas [E163] 50 Dress Complexes [N311]
95 Mr. Mencken Reviews Mr. Nathan and Vice Versa 53 Salami Barter [N537]
[E301] 55 Forgotten Money [N341]
98 Clinical Notes [E085] 57 The Party Spirit [N505]
101 The New Social Blight [E375] 60 Literary Forum [N417]
108 Passport Dope [E429] 63 From a Car Window [N346]
110 "Island Irish" [E273] 66 Parlor Experts [N504]
116 On the Air [E406] 69 Weather Records [N600]
126 Fascinating Crimes: 5. The Strange Case of the 72 How To Go Insane [N384]
Vermont Judiciary [] 74 Our Busy Bodies [N500]
131 The Problems of the Used Car [E458] 77 News From Home [N478]
134 Checking Up [E073] 80 Old Men's Contest [N488]
138 A Short (What There Is of It) History of American 83 Toning Down the News [N583]
Political Problems [E499]
86 Paying By Check [N506]
142 Cease Firing [E071]
88 "G" [N351]
148 The Great American Folly [E191]
90 Gooseboning vs. Science [N360]
156 Junior Drama [D314]
92 Budding Time [N265]
161 The Passing of the Cow [E427]
94 Card Lesson [N274]
166 Back to the Game [E031]
96 Bubble Time [N264]
176 It Seems There Were a Couple of Cells [E274]
98 Home Made Jokes [N377]
178 No Results Whatever in Our Own Straw Vote
100 Word Torture [N619]
[E386]
182 Two Editorials for "The Nation" [] 102 Form Letters [N342]
184 Mr. Kellogg's Dilemma [E361] 104 Americanisms [N234]
185 The Four-in-Hand Outrage [E170] 106 One Legend Less [N497]
190 Significant Results in Second Week of Our Own 109 Clean Sport [N284]
Straw Vote [E501] 112 Sermonette [N543]
193 The Packer's Assistant [E425] 114 Exam Time [N322]
198 The Birth of a College Comic Paper [E047] 116 Voice Culture [N595]
202 A Christmas Garland of Books [E081] 118 "Don't Quote Me, Boys" [N310]
212 The Woolen Mitten Situation [E612] 122 The Common Language [N289]
220 The Typical New Yorker [E562] 124 Gags From Science [N352]
127 A New Day [N474]
The codes that appear within square brackets after the titles of the books and of the essays are codes assigned to the books and
essays in ROBERT BENCHLEY, AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, Compiled by Gordon E. Ernst, Jr.
LISTS OF CONTENTS OF ROBERT BENCHLEY BOOKS, PAGE 2 OF 12
AFTER 1903--WHAT [B1] AFTER 1903--WHAT [B1]
Harper and Brothers, 1938 Harper and Brothers, 1938
Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*] Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*]
129 Cheer-O! [N279] 241 The Old Sea-Rover Speaks [N490]
131 The Job Situation [N397] 243 Insomnia Cure [N393]
133 The Art of Story-Telling [N239] 246 Is There Really a Moon? [N394]
136 Stamp Out Schistosomiasis! [E520] 248 Please Interrupt! [N513]
140 Hyacinths for Pamela [N389] 250 Glass Eye No. 311 [N356]
143 Men of Harlech! [N434] 252 A Protest [N520]
146 Block That Plot! [N254] 255 The Card [N273]
149 Wind Without Sails [N616] 258 Dinner à la Chart [N301]
152 Personal Taxes [N508] 260 Dress Regulations [N312]
155 Send Now! [N542] 262 Two Indians [N588]
158 That Nerve Strain [N570] 264 What's This? [N609]
161 Why Are You a Failure? [N613] 266 Aye-Aye, Sir [N244]
163 The Mysterious Miss Haniver [N464] 268 My Face [N452]
166 Scientific Salesmanship [N539] BENCHLEY BESIDE HIMSELF [B4]
169 The Secret of True Beauty [N541] Harper and Brothers, 1943
175 Summer Shirtings [N560]
Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*]
175 Midget Inferiorities [N435] 1 Polyp With a Past [E445]
178 The Ten Most People [N568] 4 The Young Idea's Shooting Gallery [E624]
180 Blue Again [N255] 10 Open Bookcases [N064]
182 "Okey Doke" [N486] 15 How to Sell Goods [N087]
184 S.V.P. [N561] 21 When Not in Rome, Why Do as the Romans Do?
186 Sheep Dipping [N545] [N047]
189 Special Haircut [N553] 21 One Set of French Dishes [N222]
192 Tally-Ho [N566] 26 African Sculpture [E370]
194 Chips From an Old Philosopher [N283] 33 "In this Corner " [E257]
196 Gypsy Lore [N364] 40 "I am in the Book" [E249]
198 Honor for Cheeses [N379] 50 Hockey Tonight! [E496]
200 The Lost Joke [N423] 57 A Good Old-Fashioned Christmas [E188]
202 "There She Goes" [N572] 70 The New Wing [E378]
204 The Thinkers [N574] 75 When Genius Remained Your Humble Servant
208 My Squeak [N457] [N046]
208 "I Know Of It" [N389] 87 Shakespeare Explained [E494]
211 What Does It Mean? [N603] 91 Gardening Notes [E116]
213 What's In a Name, Anyway? [N608] 98 The Passing of the Orthodox Paradox [E428]
215 Too Many Harmonicas [N584] 103 The Church Supper [E084]
217 How Long Can You Live? [N381] 110 Horse-Sense Editorial [E226]
219 Easy Tests [N316] 112 Chemists' Sporting Extra [E078]
221 The Seasoned Traveler [N540] 116 How Much Does the Sun Jump? [E233]
223 Dangerous Age [N296] 119 Looking Shakespeare Over [E495]
225 Question and Answer Dept. [N523] 124 Evolution Sidelights [E138]
227 Facts [N328] 127 Teaching the Old Idea to Skate [E533]
229 Field Communication No. 1 [N333] 131 Cleaning Out the Desk [N206]
232 Three Men in the Dog House [N577] 138 Carnival Week in Sunny Las Los [E070]
234 Shattered Illusions [N544] 146 Another Uncle Edith Christmas Story [E018]
236 One Clean Slate [N495] 153 Community Singing [N202]
239 Nature Lesson [N467] 161 "Go Down, Sweet Jordan" [E185]
The codes that appear within square brackets after the titles of the books and of the essays are codes assigned to the books and
essays in ROBERT BENCHLEY, AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, Compiled by Gordon E. Ernst, Jr.
LISTS OF CONTENTS OF ROBERT BENCHLEY BOOKS, PAGE 3 OF 12
BENCHLEY BESIDE HIMSELF [B4] BENCHLEY LOST AND FOUND [B5]
Harper and Brothers, 1943 Dover Publications, 1972
Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*] Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*]
166 "One Minute, Please!" [N498] 116 More Work Ahead [E351]
173 The Mystery of Bridge Building [N219] 121 Ill Will Toward Men [E254]
180 "They're Off!" [E535] 125 A Trip to Spirit Land [E558]
187 Bringing Back the Morris Dance [E062] 130 Announcing a New Vitamin [E016]
193 The Treasurer's Report [E557] 135 Hiccoughing Makes Us Fat [E214]
200 The Homelike Hotel [N203] 140 A Little Sermon on Success [E318]
209 The Sunday Menace [N226] 145 Yesterday's Sweetmeats [E622]
223 A Dark Horse in British Sports Sports [E101] 150 Defying the Conventions [E104]
230 The Stranger Within Our Gates [E522] 160 What Are Little Boys Made Of? [E591]
237 One-Two-Three-Four! [N223] 164 The Big Coal Problem [E044]
245 The King's English: Not Murder But Suicide [E288] 168 Tell-Tale Clues [E534]
245 Ask Me a Question [N225] 172 What Does Your Boy Read? [E593]
259 Eight O'Clock Sharp [E130] 176 When the State Plays Papa [E603]
264 Penguin Psychology [N224] 180 Is the Sea Serpent a Myth or a Myther? [E271]
271 Now That You're Tanned What? [E396] BENCHLEY ROUND-UP [B7]
277 Sporting Life in America--Dozing [E513] Harper and Brothers, 1954
285 The Bathroom Revolution [N214]
Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*]
294 "What Shall We Say?" [E595] 1 "Take the Witness!" [E530]
298 A Vanishing Art [N227] 5 How to Get Things Done [N211]
BENCHLEY LOST AND FOUND [B5] 11 The Social Life of the Newt [E506]
Dover Publications, 1972 16 Football Rules or Whatever They Are [E162]
Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*] 20 The Tortures of Week-end Visiting [E552]
1 "They're Off!" [E535] 26 From Nine to Five [E175]
7 Sporting Life in America [] 33 Shakespeare Explained [E494]
12 The Return of the Bicycle [E470] 41 Family Life in America Part I [E145]
17 Ding-Dong, School Bells [E110] 42 Family Life in America Part II [E145]
21 Sand Trouble [E483] 43 Family Life in America Part III [E145]
26 The Truth About Thunderstorms [E559] 44 Do Insects Think? [E115]
31 "Abandon Ship" [E002] 46 The Stranger Within Our Gates [E522]
37 The Tourist Rush to America [E554] 51 Opera Synopses [E413]
42 Our News-Reel Life [E419] 57 Malignant Mirrors [E330]
48 Little Noise Abatement [E317] 59 How to Understand International Finance [E242]
52 "Accustomed as I Am " [E003] 61 Kiddie-Kar Travel [E285]
57 Back in Line [E032] 67 Uncle Edith's Ghost Story [E565]
62 A Brief Course in World Politics [E059] 71 French for Americans [E172]
67 "Here You Are Taxi!" [E212] 76 Is This the Missing Link? [E272]
76 The Helping Hand [E208] 79 The Mystery of the Poisoned Kipper [E367]
80 Atom Boy! [E028] 83 "Ask That Man" [E026]
84 What About Business? [E590] 87 Editha's Christmas Burglar [E126]
89 Laughter and Applause [E294] 92 What Does It Mean? [N603]
94 How Doggie Goes [E236] 94 A Talk to Young Men [E531]
99 The Railroad Problem [E462] 98 Paul Revere's Ride [E430]
103 The History of Playing Cards [E216] 103 Throwing Back the European Offensive [E546]
108 My Five- (or Maybe Six-) Year Plan [E157] 108 More Songs for Meller [E350]
112 Yarns of an Insurance Man [E621] 111 Compiling an American Tragedy [E089]
The codes that appear within square brackets after the titles of the books and of the essays are codes assigned to the books and
essays in ROBERT BENCHLEY, AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, Compiled by Gordon E. Ernst, Jr.
LISTS OF CONTENTS OF ROBERT BENCHLEY BOOKS, PAGE 4 OF 12
BENCHLEY ROUND-UP [B7] BENCHLEY ROUND-UP [B7]
Harper and Brothers, 1954 Harper and Brothers, 1954
Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*] Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*]
114 Inter-Office Memo [E264] 289 Summer Shirtings [N560]
124 Back to the Game [E031] 292 Word Torture [N619]
130 The Typical New Yorker [E562] 294 "I Know Of It" [N389]
138 Carnival Week in Sunny Las Los [E070] 296 The Card [N273]
143 Another Uncle Edith Christmas Story [E018] 299 How Long Can You Live? [N381]
149 If These Old Walls Could Talk! [E253] 301 My Face [N452]
152 Happy Childhood Tales [E197] 305 Easy Tests [N316]
155 The Sunday Menace [N226] 307 Encore [N319]
160 Can We Believe Our Eyes? [E069] 309 Hey, Waiter! [N210]
164 The King's English: Not Murder But Suicide [E288] 314 Sporting Life in America--Turkish Bathing [E515]
169 "One Minute, Please!" [N498] 319 "Why I am Pale" [N614]
174 Looking Shakespeare Over [E495] 322 Whoa! [E606]
178 How I Create [E229] 323 The Menace of Buttered Toast [E339]
183 First--Catch Your Criminal [E156] 326 Do I Hear Twenty Thousand? [E114]
187 The Noon Telephone Operator [E388] BENCHLEY--OR ELSE! [B6]
190 Fall In! [E144] Harper and Brothers, 1947
194 "Could You Tell Me . . .?" [E095]
Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*]
198 The Wreck of the Sunday Paper [E618] 1 Down With Pigeons [E119]
201 What--No Budapest? [N604] 8 "Awake! Awake!" [N243]
204 Mind's Eye Trouble [E345] 12 The Helping Hand [E208]
210 How to Understand Music [E243] 17 Stop Those Hiccoughs! [N558]
214 The King and the Old Man [E286] 21 J'Accuse [N396]
217 The Real Public Enemies [E465] 24 Inherent Vice: Express Paid [E261]
222 Matinees--Wednesdays and Saturdays [E335] 29 Botany Exam [E052]
227 The Chinese Situation [E079] 33 End of the Chanticleer! [N320]
230 Saturday's Smells [N538] 36 Ladies' Wild [N407]
233 Route Nationale 14 [E479] 42 Sporting Life in America--Following the Porter
239 Naming Our Flowers [N466] [E514]
241 Johnny-on-the-Spot [N475] 49 The Lost Locomotive [N424]
244 Down With Pigeons [E119] 51 "Take the Witness!" [E530]
249 Contributors to This Issue [N291] 56 The New Strokes [N477]
251 No Pullmans, Please! [N483] 59 Fun With Animals [N348]
253 Mysteries from the Sky [N463] 61 The Truth About Thunderstorms [E559]
255 Isn't It Remarkable? [N395] 67 Rapping the Wrapper! [N528]
257 Do Dreams Go By Opposites? [N304] 70 Good Bison News [N358]
259 News From Home [N478] 73 Back in Line [E032]
262 The Children's Hour [N281] 79 The Chinese Situation [E079]
264 Back to Mozart [N247] 84 Nature's Prizes [N469]
266 Spy Scares [N556] 86 "One Minute, Please!" [N498]
268 Artist's Model Succumbs [N240] 89 Filling That Hiatus [E154]
270 Ladies' Wild [N407] 93 What Are Little Boys Made Of? [E591]
275 Cocktail Hour [N286] 98 Elevator Weather [E133]
277 Why Do We Laugh Or Do We? [E609] 103 Garbled Favorites [N353]
281 Weather Records [N600] 106 How I Create [E229]
283 Home Made Jokes [N377] 111 Toddling Along [N580]
285 Men of Harlech! [N434]
The codes that appear within square brackets after the titles of the books and of the essays are codes assigned to the books and
essays in ROBERT BENCHLEY, AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, Compiled by Gordon E. Ernst, Jr.
LISTS OF CONTENTS OF ROBERT BENCHLEY BOOKS, PAGE 5 OF 12
BENCHLEY--OR ELSE! [B6] CHIPS OFF THE OLD BENCHLEY [B9]
Harper and Brothers, 1947 Harper and Brothers, 1949
Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*] Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*]
114 Those Dicta [N575] 1 The New Bone-Dust Theory of Behavior [E372]
117 My Face [N452] 4 Bayeux Christmas Presents Early [E037]
121 The Soothsayer [N456] 7 The Last of the Heath Hens [E292]
125 What of Our Children? [N605] 10 On or Before March 15 [N221]
127 Why Do We Laugh Or Do We? [E609] 17 The Menace of Buttered Toast [E339]
132 Dress Complexes [N311] 22 A Belated Tribute [E040]
135 "East, West, Home's Best!" [N315] 26 Art Revolution No. 4861 [E024]
139 How to Understand Music [E243] 30 Ding-Dong, School Bells [E110]
144 Truffle Poisoning [N587] 35 My Five- (or Maybe Six-) Year Plan [E157]
146 Word Torture [N619] 39 Boost New York! [E051]
148 Can We Believe Our Eyes? [E069] 42 Advice to Gangsters [E004]
153 The Wreck of the Sunday Paper [E618] 47 "He Travels Fastest --" [E203]
157 Mistaken Notions [N436] 52 "Greetings From " [E192]
160 The Calf in the Closet [N269] 58 So You're Going to New York [E504]
164 How to Avoid Colds [N382] 62 Future Man: Tree or Mammal? [E178]
167 How To Kill Time [N385] 67 Encore [N319]
171 The Ten Most People [N568] 69 Sporting Life in America--Watching [E516]
173 Toning Down the News [N583] 75 Sporting Life in America--Turkish Bathing [E515]
176 The Railroad Problem [E462] 81 Take a Letter, Please [E528]
182 Route Nationale 14 [E479] 87 The Mysteries of Radio [N218]
189 Little Noise Abatement [E317] 94 Your Boy and His Dog [E625]
194 Culture [N293] 99 "Good Luck" [N359]
197 The Real Public Enemies [E465] 101 "Safety Second" [E482]
203 Love in Hollywood [N426] 106 Tiptoeing Down Memory Lane [E548]
206 Rule of Thumb [N535] 112 What Time Is It? [E597]
209 Old Suits For New [N492] 118 Do I Hear Twenty Thousand? [E114]
213 Taking Up the Cudgels [N563] 128 Imagination in the Bathroom [E255]
215 The Party Spirit [N505] 134 Music Heavenly Music [N448]
218 Literary Forum [N417] 138 Perrine's Return [E433]
220 Sluggards, Ahoy! [N548] 141 Books and Other Things [N153]
222 Who Killed Alfred Robin? [N612] 145 Browsing Through the Passport [E064]
225 Maxims from the Chinese [N430] 152 Memoirs [N433]
227 Forgotten Money [N341] 154 Looking at Picture Books [N422]
230 How to Eat [N383] 158 Old Days in New Bottles [E402]
233 Phobias [N511] 165 The Lure of the Rod [E326]
235 Fiction Stranger Than Truth [N332] 171 Good Luck, and Try and Get It [E186/N359]
238 Love Among the Thinkers [E322] 176 The Letter Box [N414]
245 Voice Culture [N595] 179 How To Travel in Peace [E241]
248 Dogs and Public Service [N308] 185 Down in Front [E118]
252 Stamp Out Schistosomiasis! [E520] 190 Confession [N290]
255 Cocktail Hour [N286] 193 On Saying Little at Great Length [E405]
257 Our Busy Bodies [N500] 199 The Dying Thesaurus [E124]
259 My Personal Beaver [N455] 202 Brain-Fag [N259]
262 My Untold Story [N460/N461] 205 Plans for Eclipse Day [E437]
211 In the Beginning [E256]
216 Are You an Old Master? [N237]
The codes that appear within square brackets after the titles of the books and of the essays are codes assigned to the books and
essays in ROBERT BENCHLEY, AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, Compiled by Gordon E. Ernst, Jr.
LISTS OF CONTENTS OF ROBERT BENCHLEY BOOKS, PAGE 6 OF 12
CHIPS OFF THE OLD BENCHLEY [B9] FROM BED TO WORSE, OR COMFORTING
Harper and Brothers, 1949 THOUGHTS ABOUT THE BISON [B11]
Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*] Harper and Brothers, 1934
219 Bird Lore [N251] Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*]
222 The United States Senate Chamber [E566] 46 Rapping the Wrapper! [N528]
232 The First Pigeon of Spring [N336] 50 Good Bison News [N358]
234 Vox Populi [E581] 54 Off to the City for the Week-End [E400]
236 "Why I am Pale" [N614] 63 An Old Problem Revived [N489]
240 My Own Arrangement [N454] 67 Bright Sayings of Parents [N260]
244 Hey, Waiter! [N210] 70 Elevator Weather [E133]
251 How to Get Things Done [N211] 76 Garbled Favorites [N353]
259 Morale in Banking [N438] 80 The Curse of Efficiency [N484]
262 The Questionnaire Craze [N225] 86 What Are Little Boys Made Of? [E591]
270 Home Sweet Home [N378] 92 Facing Facsimiles [N327]
273 Literary Notes [N419] 95 One of Three [E409]
276 The Correspondent School Linguist [E094] 100 Music for Children [N447]
279 Learn to Write [N412] 105 The Chinese Situation [E079]
281 Knowing the Flowers [N406] 111 The Vanishing Father [N592]
286 A Warning in the Matter of Preparedness [E583] 114 My Achilles Heel [N450]
292 My Subconscious [N458] 118 Divorce in the US [N303]
295 Professional Pride [N519] 122 Black Magic [N252]
298 A Writer's Code [N620] 125 Wind [N615]
301 Doing Your Bit in the Garden [E116] 129 The Drift to One Eye [N496]
307 Picking French Pastry; a Harder Game Than Chess 133 Pleasures of the Senses [N514]
[N032] 138 Route Nationale 14 [E479]
310 The Perfect Audience [E432] 147 My Personal Beaver [N455]
314 "Writers--Right or Wrong!" [N621] 151 Who Killed Alfred Robin? [N612]
317 Your Change [N624] 154 The Care of Fish [N275]
321 Inter-Office Memo [E264] 158 "Awake! Awake!" [N243]
329 The Dear Dead Table d'Hôte Days [E103] 163 Bargains [N249]
334 Mea Culpa [E336] 170 Naming Our Flowers [N466]
336 "One Hundred Years Ago Today--" [E408] 170 How to Eat [N383]
343 A Word About Hay Fever [E613] 174 Fusillade Near Toulon [N350]
349 À Bas the Military Censor [E001] 177 Fatigue Without Work [N331]
354 Why Does Nobody Collect Me? [E607] 181 Calory Spending [N270]
FROM BED TO WORSE, OR COMFORTING 184 Fiction Stranger Than Truth [N332]
THOUGHTS ABOUT THE BISON [B11] 188 Love Among the Thinkers [E322]
Harper and Brothers, 1934 197 How to Avoid Colds [N382]
Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*] 201 Two Loves [N589]
1 J'Accuse [N396] 205 How I Learned Tennis [E230]
5 This Week's Horoscope [E542] 210 Old Suits For New [N492]
9 A Brief Study of Dendrophilism [E060] 215 Bobbing For Words [E049]
15 Saturday's Smells [N538] 220 A Few Figures for Unproductive Labor [E153]
19 The Devil's Diamond [E107] 226 Those Frescos [N576]
26 How to Break 90 in Croquet [E239] 230 The Soothsayer [N456]
32 What Would Happen? [N607] 235 Life Begins at (fill in space) [N415]
36 Filling That Hiatus [E154] 238 Yesterday's Sweetmeats [E622]
41 How Sheamus Met the Banshee [E235] 246 Ghosts [D006]
251 Dogs and Public Service [N308]
The codes that appear within square brackets after the titles of the books and of the essays are codes assigned to the books and
essays in ROBERT BENCHLEY, AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, Compiled by Gordon E. Ernst, Jr.
LISTS OF CONTENTS OF ROBERT BENCHLEY BOOKS, PAGE 7 OF 12
FROM BED TO WORSE, OR COMFORTING INSIDE BENCHLEY [B13]
THOUGHTS ABOUT THE BISON [B11] Harper and Brothers, 1942
Harper and Brothers, 1934 Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*]
Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*] 202 Shakespeare Explained [E494]
255 Johnny-on-the-Spot [N475] 207 Fascinating Crimes: 4. The Lynn Horse-Car
260 Tell-Tale Clues [E534] Murders [E151]
267 The Calf in the Closet [N269] 212 What College Did To Me [E592]
272 More Fauna [N439] 220 Uncle Edith's Ghost Story [E565]
275 Down With Pigeons [E119] 225 More Songs for Meller [E350]
283 Love in Hollywood [N426] 228 The Boys' Camp Business [E053]
238 Goethe's Love Life [E348]
INSIDE BENCHLEY [B13]
241 Old Program from the Benchley Collection [E404]
Harper and Brothers, 1942 249 The Low State of Whippet Racing [E325]
Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*]
258 The Cooper Cycle in American Folk Songs [E093]
1 The Social Life of the Newt [E506] 262 Fascinating Crimes: 5. The Strange Case of the
7 "Coffee, Megg and Ilk, Please" [N007] Vermont Judiciary []
15 Political Parties and Their Growth [E443] 267 The Passing of the Cow [E427]
18 Call for Mr. Kenilworthy! [N003] 271 A Short (What There Is of It) History of American
29 A Romance in Encyclopaedia Land [E476] Political Problems [E499]
37 Fascinating Crimes: 1. The Odd Occurance in the 274 Back to the Game [E031]
Life of Dr. Meethas [E148] 284 The Four-in-Hand Outrage [E170]
43 Christmas Afternoon [E080] 290 A Christmas Garland of Books [E081]
51 The Benchley-Whittier Correspondence [E041] 298 The Woolen Mitten Situation [E612]
55 A Christmas Spectacle [E083] 305 The World of Grandpa Benchley [E616]
60 "Roll Your Own" [E475] 313 Glossary of Terms []
65 Opera Synopses [E413] 314 Abbreviations []
73 The Tooth, the Whole Tooth, and Nothing But the 315 Bibliography []
Tooth [E551] 316 Special Index for Research Students []
84 Literary Lost and Found Department [N200]
89 Trout Fishing [N133]
LOVE CONQUERS ALL [B14]
93 Fascinating Crimes: 2. The Wallack Disapearances Henry Holt & Co., 1922
[E149] Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*]
97 Kiddie-Kar Travel [E285] 3 The Benchley-Whittier Correspondence [E041]
105 The Last Day [E291] 8 Family Life in America Part I [E145]
114 Family Life in America Part I [E145] 10 Family Life in America Part II [E145]
118 The Romance of Digestion [E477] 11 Family Life in America Part III [E145]
122 "Ask That Man" [E026] 13 This Child Knows the Answer -- Do You? [E541]
128 Cell-Formations and Their Work [E072] 16 Rules and Suggestions For Watching Auction
132 Editha's Christmas Burglar [E126] Bridge [E480]
138 A Short History of American Politics [E498] 23 A Christmas Spectacle [E083]
142 The Lost Language [E320] 29 How to Watch a Chess Match [E245]
146 Museum Feet [E364] 35 Watching Baseball [E584]
155 Traveling in Peace [E241] 41 How to Be a Spectator at Spring Planting [E238]
162 The Future of the Class of 1926--North Central 47 The Manhattador [E334]
Grammar School [E179] 50 What to Do While the Family is Away [E599]
165 Fascinating Crimes: 3. The Missing Floor [E150] 56 "Roll Your Own" [E475]
171 "Howdy, Neighbor!" [E247] 62 Do Insects Think? [E115]
180 A Talk to Young Men [E531] 65 The Score in the Stands [E487]
185 Biography by Inches [E046] 70 Mid-Winter Sports [E344]
195 Paul Revere's Ride [E430] 74 Reading the Funnies Aloud [E463]
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essays in ROBERT BENCHLEY, AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY, Compiled by Gordon E. Ernst, Jr.
LISTS OF CONTENTS OF ROBERT BENCHLEY BOOKS, PAGE 8 OF 12
LOVE CONQUERS ALL [B14] LOVE CONQUERS ALL [B14]
Henry Holt & Co., 1922 Henry Holt & Co., 1922
Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*] Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*]
78 Opera Synopses [E413] 291 Those Dangerously Dynamic British Girls [N021]
87 The Young Idea's Shooting Gallery [E624] 294 Books and Other Things [N153]
92 Polyp With a Past [E445] 298 "Measure Your Mind" [N096]
96 Holt! Who Goes There? [E221] 303 The Brow-Elevation in Humor [N076]
100 The Committee on the Whole [E086] 307 Business Letters [N158]
104 Noting an Increase in Bigamy [E393] MY TEN YEARS IN A QUANDARY AND
108 The Real Wiglaf: Man and Monarch [E466] HOW THEY GREW [B15]
113 Facing the Boys' Camp Problem [E143]
Harper and Brothers, 1936
116 All About the Silesian Problem [E012]
Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*]
120 Happy the Home Where Books Are Found [E198]
1 The Lost Locomotive [N424]
124 When Not in Rome, Why Do as the Romans Do?
4 "Take the Witness!" [E530]
[N047]
131 The Tooth, the Whole Tooth, and Nothing But the 10 The New Strokes [N477]
Tooth [E551] 13 Contributors to This Issue [N291]
144 Malignant Mirrors [E330] 16 Dog Libel [N307]
148 The Power of the Press [E449] 20 The Rope Trick Explained [N531]
150 Home for the Holidays [E225] 24 Toddling Along [N580]
157 How to Understand International Finance [E242] 27 No Pullmans, Please! [N483]
160 `Twas the Night Before Summer [N039] 31 Mysteries from the Sky [N463]
168 Welcome Home and Shut Up [E589] 34 The Evil Eye [N321]
174 Animal Stories: Georgie Dog [] 38 Stop Those Hiccoughs! [N558]
178 Animal Stories: Lillian Mosquito [E007] 43 Bad News [N248]
182 The Tariff Unmasked [E532] 46 Isn't It Remarkable? [N395]
187 "Take Along a Book" [E529] 49 Do Dreams Go By Opposites? [N304]
190 Confessions of a Chess Champion [N079] 53 My White Suit [N462]
195 "Rip Van Winkle" [N112] 56 Wear-Out-a-Shoe Week [N599]
200 Literary Lost and Found Department [N200] 60 Nature's Noises [N468]
206 "Darkwater" [N077] 63 Owl Data [N502]
211 The New Time-Table [N071] 66 As They Say in French: Other Times, Other
216 Mr. Bok's Americanization [N148] Customs [N241]
221 Zane Grey's Movie [N190] 69 Help! [N372]
227 Suppressing "Jurgen" [] 72 Nature's Prizes [N469]
231 Anti-Ibanez [N109] 75 Our Noisy Ghosts [N501]
236 On Bricklaying [N072] 80 Movie Boners [N442]
241 "American Anniversaries" [N122] 83 Let's Not Dance This! [N413]
245 A Week-end With Wells [N195] 88 The French, They Are [N344]
249 About Portland Cement [N116] 91 Duck, Brothers! [N313]
253 Open Bookcases [N064] 95 What--No Budapest? [N604]
257 Trout Fishing [N133] 99 MacGregor for Ataman! [N428]
261 "Scouting For Girls" [N125] 101 Do We Get Enough Sleep? [N305]
265 How to Sell Goods [N087] 105 High Life Among the Birds [N375]
270 "You!" [N128] 109 Do You Make These Mistakes? [N306]
274 The Catalogue School [N167] 112 The Word "Three" [N618]
277 "Effective House Organs" [N129] 116 Read and Eat [N529]
282 Advice to Writers [N075] 120 Talking Dogs [N565]
286 "The Effective Speaking Voice" [N186] 123 My Trouble [N459]
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LISTS OF CONTENTS OF ROBERT BENCHLEY BOOKS, PAGE 9 OF 12
MY TEN YEARS IN A QUANDARY AND MY TEN YEARS IN A QUANDARY AND
HOW THEY GREW [B15] HOW THEY GREW [B15]
Harper and Brothers, 1936 Harper and Brothers, 1936
Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*] Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*]
127 Hollywood's Loss [N376] 265 Blizzard Hysteria [N253]
130 Lights, Please! [N416] 269 The Moth Invasion [N441]
133 Did You Know That [N299] 272 Don't Get Lost! [N309]
135 Mutiny on the "Bounty" [N449] 276 Notes [N485]
138 The Dangers of Bass-Singing [N297] 279 Artist's Model Succumbs [N240]
142 Lucky World! [N427] 282 Those Dicta [N575]
145 "Name, Please?" [N465] 285 The Vigil [N594]
148 Eat More Worry [N317] 287 Haircut, Please! [N366]
151 Keep a Log [N404] 291 The Flying Flea [N338]
154 Lost Youth [N425] 293 Phobias [N511]
157 The Ice-Breaker [N390] 296 The Camel Market [N271]
159 The Piano-Playing Record [N512] 299 The Curse Shortage [N295]
163 Fun With Animals [N348] 302 First Aid [N335]
165 The Children's Hour [N281] 305 No More Nightmares [N481]
168 Back to Mozart [N247] 308 Ominous Announcements [N494]
171 Frog-Farming [N345] 312 "East, West, Home's Best!" [N315]
175 My Orchard [N453] 317 No More Bananas [N480]
178 Hedgehogs Wanted [N371] 322 You Mr. Grown-up! [N623]
180 Skol! [N547] 325 Sluggards, Ahoy! [N548]
184 Comes the Eclipse [N288] 328 Sweet Solitude [N562]
187 Autographs For Sale [N242] 332 Penguin Feud [N507]
191 Health and Work [N370] 336 Coffee Versus Gin [N287]
194 Experience Meeting [N325] 340 The Early Worm [N314]
198 Child-Holding [N280] 344 Truffle Poisoning [N587]
201 Rule of Thumb [N535] 347 My Untold Story [N460/N461]
204 Quick Quotations [N524] NO POEMS, OR AROUND THE WORLD
207 Spy Scares [N556] BACKWARDS AND SIDEWAYS [B16]
211 Mistaken Notions [N436]
Harper and Brothers, 1932
215 Maxims from the Chinese [N430]
Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*]
218 Excelsior! [N323]
1 How I Create [E229]
221 The Rule of 87 [N534]
8 The Mystery of the Poisoned Kipper [E367]
224 Jolly Good Fellows [N398]
14 How Doggie Goes [E236]
228 Taking Up the Cudgels [N563]
22 Swat the Tsk-Tsk Midge [E526]
230 Special Sale! [N554]
29 The Helping Hand [E208]
232 All Aboard for Dementia Praecox [N232]
36 A Trip to Spirit Land [E558]
235 For Release Monday [E165/N339]
43 "Abandon Ship" [E002]
238 One Minute, Please [N212]
54 First--Catch Your Criminal [E156]
241 Who Did It? [N611]
61 Growing Old With Football [E193]
243 Prodigal Sea-Lions [N518]
70 Inherent Vice: Express Paid [E261]
246 London's Oldest Rink [N421]
76 Happy Childhood Tales [E197]
249 Robot Rats [N530]
81 The Railroad Problem [E462]
251 End of the Chanticleer! [N320]
89 Botany Exam [E052]
255 Waiting for Bad News [N597]
95 Sporting Life in America--Following the Porter
259 Judgment-Day Rehearsal [N401]
[E514]
262 What to Loll In [N606]
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LISTS OF CONTENTS OF ROBERT BENCHLEY BOOKS, PAGE 10 OF 12
NO POEMS, OR AROUND THE WORLD OF ALL THINGS [B17]
BACKWARDS AND SIDEWAYS [B16] Henry Holt & Co., 1921
Harper and Brothers, 1932 Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*]
Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*] 102 Turning Over a New Ledger Leaf [N038]
103 Aubergine's Way [E029] 110 A Piece of Roast Beef [N034]
114 Yarns of an Insurance Man [E621] 121 The Community Masque as a Substitute for War
121 "Here You Are Taxi!" [E212] [E088]
130 Announcing a New Vitamin [E016] 130 Call for Mr. Kenilworthy! [N003]
137 The Truth About Thunderstorms [E559] 142 Football; Courtesy of Mr. Morse [N017]
145 The Eel-Snooper [E129] 153 A Little Debit in Your Tonneau [E316]
151 The Noon Telephone Operator [E388] 161 A Romance in Encyclopaedia Land [E476]
156 Back in Line [E032] 168 The Passing of the Orthodox Paradox [E428]
164 Fall In! [E144] 175 Shakespeare Explained [E494]
173 "Could You Tell Me . . .?" [E095] 180 The Scientific Scenario [E485]
181 Can We Believe Our Eyes? [E069] 187 The Most Popular Book of the Month [E352]
188 The Wreck of the Sunday Paper [E618] 193 Christmas Afternoon [E080]
192 "I Spy Backgammon" [E250] 200 Hail, Vernal Equinox! [E195]
200 Hiccoughing Makes Us Fat [E214] 213 Tabloid Edition: The American Magazine [E416]
207 Hunt-the-Cock [E248] 220 Tabloid Edition: Harper's Magazine [E415]
214 How to Understand Music [E243] 228 Tabloid Edition: The Saturday Evening Post [E417]
220 Ill Will Toward Men [E254] PLUCK AND LUCK [B20]
227 A Little Sermon on Success [E318] Henry Holt & Co., 1925
234 Mind's Eye Trouble [E345] Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*]
245 Indian Fakirs Exposed [E259] 3 Goethe's Love Life [E348]
252 The Big Gobi Desert Find [E509] 6 Kiddie-Kar Travel [E285]
259 Little Noise Abatement [E317] 16 The Story of a Lady Who Interested Only Herself
265 The Murder Without Interest [E363] and of a Gentleman Who Didn't Do Even That
273 More Work Ahead [E351] [E511]
280 The King and the Old Man [E286] 22 On the Floor of the Reebis Gulf [E407]
284 Around the World with the Gypsy Jockey [E021] 26 The Musical Clubs' Concert [E365]
291 All Sandy [E483] 36 Whoa! [E606]
298 What We Missed [E602] 38 A Mid-Winter Sport Carnival [E343]
307 The Lost Continent of Mee [E319] 45 A Christmas Pantomime [E082]
316 The Real Public Enemies [E465] 51 The Church Supper [E084]
324 Matinees--Wednesdays and Saturdays [E335] 59 Horse-Sense Editorial [E226]
62 Chemists' Sporting Extra [E078]
OF ALL THINGS [B17]
67 French for Americans [E172]
Henry Holt & Co., 1921 74 Early View of Broadway at Astor Place, New York
Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*] City [E312]
3 The Social Life of the Newt [E506] 77 The Last Day [E291]
10 "Coffee, Megg and Ilk, Please" [N007] 86 John Dwanley: A Life [E512]
18 When Genius Remained Your Humble Servant 93 Is This the Missing Link? [E272]
[N046] 97 Checking Up On the Prophets [E074]
32 The Tortures of Week-end Visiting [E552]
99 How It Can Be Done [E232]
43 Gardening Notes [E116]
102 "Bicycling," the New Craze [E042]
52 Lesson Number One [E299]
108 The Blue Sleeve Garter [E323]
65 Thoughts on Fuel Saving [E545]
118 Teaching the Old Idea to Skate [E533]
77 Not According to Hoyle [E389]
123 Looking Shakespeare Over [E495]
89 From Nine to Five [E175]
129 The Romance of Digestion [E477]
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LISTS OF CONTENTS OF ROBERT BENCHLEY BOOKS, PAGE 11 OF 12
PLUCK AND LUCK [B20] THE EARLY WORM [B10]
Henry Holt & Co., 1925 Henry Holt & Co., 1927
Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*] Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*]
134 How to Watch Football [E246] 78 An Interview With Theodore Dreiser []
143 Prize Breeding [E456] 80 Fascinating Crimes: 2. The Wallack Disapearances
149 For Release Monday [E165/N339] [E149]
157 Visitors' Day at the Joke Farm [E580] 84 Louis Dot Dope [E321]
161 Advice to Investors [E005] 88 The Rise and Fall of the Christmas Card [E473]
164 "Ask That Man" [E026] 96 The Henna Decade [E209]
170 Cell-Formations and Their Work [E072] 100 A Plan to Stabilize the Franc [E436]
174 "The King of Razbo-Jazbo" [E287] 106 Sex is Out [E493]
186 Biography by Inches [E046] 109 Uncle Edith's Ghost Story [E565]
197 Editha's Christmas Burglar [E126] 115 Fascinating Crimes: 3. The Missing Floor [E150]
204 The Lost Language [E320] 120 The End of the Season [E137]
208 Museum Feet [E364] 124 Exam Time [N322]
217 Traveling in Peace [E241] 127 Throwing Back the European Offensive [E546]
224 The Big Bridgeroom Revolt [E043] 134 An Interview With Vice-President Dawes []
231 How One Woman Kept the Budget From The Door 137 The "Life" Polar Expedition
[E234] [E304/E305/E306/E307/E308/E313/E314/E315]
234 Gay Life Back-stage [E180] 142 A Ghost Story [E184]
240 The Young Folks' Day [E623] 148 Discovering Weber and Fields [E111]
245 Article on Fishing [E326] 150 Water Football [E585]
251 How Much Does the Sun Jump? [E233] 159 More Songs for Meller [E350]
255 The Future of the Class of 1926--North Central 163 Fascinating Crimes: 4. The Lynn Horse-Car
Grammar School [E179] Murders [E151]
258 In the Beginning [E256] 168 The "Life" Polar Expedition
265 Justice For Mussels! [E281] [E304/E305/E306/E307/E308/E313/E314/E315]
268 Drama Cleansing and Pressing [E120] 172 An Interview with the Countess Karolyi []
274 Evolution Sidelights [E138] 174 The Boys' Camp Business [E053]
278 Here Come the Children [E210] 183 At Last a Substitute for Snow [E038]
282 "Howdy, Neighbor!" [E247] 190 The New Wing [E378]
291 Holiday! Holiday! [E218] 195 Uncle Calvin's No-Waste Games [E564]
200 The World of Grandpa Benchley [E616]
THE EARLY WORM [B10]
209 The "Life" Polar Expedition
Henry Holt & Co., 1927 [E304/E305/E306/E307/E308/E313/E314/E315]
Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*] 216 How to Start a Supper Club [E240]
3 A Talk to Young Men [E531] 223 The New Villainy [E376]
9 The Seed of Revolt [E488] 230 Time-Off From the Show [E547]
13 Paul Revere's Ride [E430] 237 The "Life" Polar Expedition
21 Fascinating Crimes: 1. The Odd Occurance in the [E304/E305/E306/E307/E308/E313/E314/E315]
Life of Dr. Meethas [E148] 241 Spying on the Vehicular Tunnel [E519]
27 Upsets [E576] 246 Compiling an American Tragedy [E089]
29 An Interview With Mussolini [] 251 Storm Warnings for New York []
32 The "Life" Polar Expedition 259 The "Life" Polar Expedition
[E304/E305/E306/E307/E308/E313/E314/E315] [E304/E305/E306/E307/E308/E313/E314/E315]
39 The Saving- "Old Ironsides" Habit [E484] THE TREASURER'S REPORT AND OTHER
41 A Good Old-Fashioned Christmas [E188]
ASPECTS OF COMMUNITY SINGING [B23]
56 Life in the Ritz Tenement [E302]
60 Old Program from the Benchley Collection [E404]
Harper and Brothers, 1930
Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*]
69 What College Did To Me [E592]
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LISTS OF CONTENTS OF ROBERT BENCHLEY BOOKS, PAGE 12 OF 12
THE TREASURER'S REPORT AND OTHER
ASPECTS OF COMMUNITY SINGING [B23]
Harper and Brothers, 1930
Page Essay Title [and Ernst Code*]
1 Seeing-Off [E489]
10 The People Who Had the House Before [E431]
18 The Stranger Within Our Gates [E522]
27 Cleaning Out the Desk [N206]
37 Carnival Week in Sunny Las Los [E070]
47 If These Old Walls Could Talk! [E253]
53 The Homelike Hotel [N203]
65 Another Uncle Edith Christmas Story [E018]
75 One-Two-Three-Four! [N223]
86 Congenial Souls Wanted [E091]
90 The Sunday Menace [N226]
102 Ask Me a Question [N225]
113 New Plays For Old [E373]
118 The King's English: Not Murder But Suicide [E288]
129 Community Singing [N202]
140 Exercise For Those at Sea [E140]
149 Law-Breaking at Its Source [E295]
157 French News []
166 Eight O'Clock Sharp [E130]
174 Football Rules or Whatever They Are [E162]
183 "Go Down, Sweet Jordan" [E185]
191 "One Minute, Please!" [N498]
202 The Mystery of the Parley [N220]
212 What to Read at Sea If Anything [E601]
220 Penguin Psychology [N224]
232 Now That You're Tanned What? [E396]
240 Sporting Life in America--Dozing [E513]
252 The Mystery of Bridge Building [N219]
264 The Bathroom Revolution [N214]
277 "They're Off!" [E535]
288 "What Shall We Say?" [E595]
295 Bringing Back the Morris Dance [E062]
304 One Set of French Dishes [N222]
313 A Dark Horse in British Sports Sports [E101]
323 A Vanishing Art [N227]
334 The Treasurer's Report [E557]
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