Bibliography of Ellis Parker Butler

Books

1. The Strack Platform Readings (1925)   SEE CONTENTS.   A collection of twenty-four of Butler's stories. Arranged by Lilian Holmes Strack. Boston: Walter H. Baker Company.  [EPBLIB]
2. Swatty, a Story of Real Boys (1920)   Fourteen stories. Illustrations by W. B. King. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.  [EPBLIB]

Other Material

1. Newark Daily Advocate (June 18, 1896)   "A Satisfactory Reform"   A poem. Reprinted from Truth. This newspaper is from Newark Ohio. p 4.  [NPA]
2. Boston Sunday Post Magazine (February 25, 1917)   "Scratch-Cat"   A story. Illustrations by William van Dresser. Bruce Barton, Editor. Includes a photo of the author.  [EPBLIB]
3. MOTION PICTURE: The Shadow and the Shade (1915)   Selig. Director: Edward J. LeSaint. Screenwriter: Ellis Parker Butler. Performers: Stella Razeto, Lamar Johnstone.  [HARPER]
4. Writer's Monthly (July, 1917)   "A Snapshot of Ellis Parker Butler"   By Harry M. East, Jr. p 3-5.  [HARPER]
5. 20 Best Short Stories in Ray Long's 20 Years as an Editor (April, 1932) "Some Amazing Figures"   This book includes a two-page discourse by editor Ray Long on the way Philo Gubb developed from the first story in the May 1913 edition of Red Book magazine.  [EPBLIB]

	Hobbies for Everybody 1934 Click for larger image

6. BOOK: Hobbies for Everybody (1934) "Stamp Collecting" Edited by Ruth Lampland. New York: Harper. p 335-40.  [EPBLIB]
7. MOTION PICTURE: The Stolen Umbrella (1921)   Clever Comedies. Director: Webster Cullison. Performers: Victor Potel, Billie Rhodes, Willard Louis, Lucie K. Villa, Peggy O'Neill.  [HARPER]
8. Bookman (March, 1914)   "Story of Pigs is Pigs"   Printed in the "Chronicle and Comment" section, this is a short telling of how "Pigs is Pigs" came to be written and published. p 14.  [RGTPL]
9. Betzville Tales (July 15, 1909)   "Sue Granger and the Lamp Post"   Illustrated by Peter Newell. Printed this date in the Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Daily Press.  [NPA]
10. Breezy Suzanne (May 3, 1914)   "Suzanne Hits the High Places"   A Perkins of Portland story. Illustrated. Fort Wayne Journal Gazette; May 3, 1914; p 13.  [NPA]
11. _____ (May 15, 1914)   "Suzanne on the Point of View"   A Perkins of Portland story. Illustrated. Fort Wayne Journal Gazette; May 15, 1914; p 20.  [NPA]

Anthologies

1. Taken From Life (1897) "The Secret Combination"   A poem. Images from Sixth Edition (1902?). p 22-23.  [GOOGLE BOOKS]
2. The Book of Humorous Verse (1920) "The Secret Combination"   Edited by Carolyn Wells. p 210-10. Revised editions were printed in 1934 (p 209) and 1947. New York: George H. Doran.  [HARPER, ROTH]

	100 Crooked Little Crime Stories 1994 Click for larger image

3. 100 Crooked Little Crime Stories (1994) "The Silver Protector" This is "Our First Burglar" with the alternate title. Edited by Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz and Martin H. Greenberg. New York: Barnes and Noble Books. p 460-466. ISBN 156619556X. Reprinted by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. May 28, 2004. Paperback. ISBN 140271100X.  [EPBLIB]
4. Twelve American Crime Stories (1998) "The Silver Protector"   This is "Our First Burglar" with the alternate title. Selected and Introduced by Rosemary Herbert. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-288047-0.  [EPBLIB]
5. New Horizons (1998) "Solander's Radio Tomb" Book is subtitled "Yesterday's Portraits of Tomorrow." Editor August Derleth. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House Publishers, Inc. p 134-141. ISBN 0-87054-174-9.  [EPBLIB]
6. Junior Fun in Bed: Making a Holiday of Convalescence (1935) "The Stolen Mascot"   Virginia Kirkus and Frank Scully, editors. New York: Simon and Shuster.  [HARPER]

Periodicals (Prose)

1. Washington Post (June 9, 1918)   "The Sad Reverse of Uncle"   A story. Illustrated. p MF2.  [WASHPOST]
2. Radio News (March, 1924)   "The Sad Story of AZZ"   A story. HARPER calls this "The Sad Story of A22."  [HARPER]

	Collier's February 27, 1926 Click for larger image

3. Collier's (February 27, 1926)   "Safety First" A story. "He had never been killed at a railway crossing and it was pretty safe to bet that he never would." Illustrated by August Henkel. p 18-19, 36.  [RGTPL]
4. Pictorial Review (January, 1922)   "Sane Hearts" A story. "Nailing the Bloom on the Rose of Love." Illustrated by Reginald Birch. p 24-25.  [EPBLIB]
5. Blue Book (July, 1916)   "Saturday Afternoon" A Jabez Bunker story. One illustration. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. "Jabez Bunker, the amateur bunco-steerer from Iowa who comes East to take in the Wise Men of Gotham, evolves a Machiavellian plot and engineers his coup with subtle artistry." Volume XXIII. Number 3.  [EPBLIB, FICTIONMAGS, PULP]
6. Rotarian (June, 1923)   "Save Your Neck"   An essay. Illustrations by Worth D. Griffin. p 333-335, 360-361.  [EPBLIB]
7. Target (November 19, 1927)   "Saved"    [HARPER]
8. Boys' Life (July, 1917)   "The Sawbuck Patrol" A story.  [EBAY]
9. College Humor (October, 1930)   "Say Wen" A story. "I consider it decidedly undignified for a dean of a co-educational college to hold a professor of Higher Mathematics on her lap." Illustrated by Ray Rohn. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 30-31, 114-116.  [EPBLIB]
10. Munsey's Magazine (August, 1923)   "Scarlet Hours" A novel. "The story of Roger Haddard, the literary genius of Lewisville, and the business and social upheaval of which he was the center." Volume LXXIX. Number 3. Pages 385-427.  [EPBLIB, PULP]

	Munsey's Magazine August, 1923 Click for larger image

11. Bookman (September, 1912)   "The Scarlet Orchid"   Humor. A short skit. p 80-83.  [RGTPL]
12. Atlantic Monthly (March, 1911)   "The Scenic Novel" Humor.  [RGTPL]
13. Lippincott's Monthly Magazine (June, 1911)   "The Scoop"   A story.  [RGTPL]
14. National Magazine (February, 1898)   "Scraps"    [HARPER]
15. Snappy Stories (November 4, 1918)   "Scratch a Russian"  [HARPER]
16. Every Week (February 26, 1917)   "Scratch-Cat" A story. Illustrations by William van Dresser. p 5-8. Same issue as the Boston Sunday Post Magazine.  [HARPER]
17. Up to Date (June 27, 1896)   "Seasonable"    [HARPER]
18. Woman's Home Companion (August, 1925)   "The Second Husband"   A story. "And he always wiped the dishes and said he enjoyed it." Illustrated by John Alonzo Williams.  [BEST, RGTPL]
19. Argosy (UK) (March, 1931)   "The Second Husband"   A story. Vol. IX No. 58. p 29+.  [FICTIONMAGS]
20. Century Magazine (June, 1904)   "The Sectional House" A story. "A Tale of Iowa." Pictures by (Frederic) F. R. Gruger.  [RGTPL]

	Century Magazine June, 1904 Click for larger image

21. Judge (May 13, 1911)   "The Seed Catalog"    [HARPER]
22. Writer's Digest (November, 1932)   "Selling 'Second Rights'" An essay. The phrase "Ellis Parker Butler tells how to sell a story again and again" appears on the cover. p 41-3.  [HARPER]
23. Architectural Record (November, 1910)   "Serio-Piffle Architecture" A humorous essay. Volume XXVIII. Number 5. p 329-334.  [RGTPL]
24. Century Magazine (December, 1896)   "The "Setting Out" at Big'Low's" A story. With pictures by Jay Hambidge. Published in the "In Lighter Vein" section.  [MOA]
25. Grit (Story Section) (April 12, 1942)   "The Seven Echoes"   A story. Reprint of "The Cave Men". p 6-7,23-24. Illustrated.  [EPBLIB]
26. Bookman (August, 1913)   "Shakespeare-Bacon Controversy Solved" Humor. p 675-677.  [RGTPL]
27. Judge (December 22, 1906)   "The Shame of the Seasons"   "Or, Christmas, Corrupt and Contented."  [HARPER]
28. _____ (December 31, 1910)   "Shampoo, Sir?"    [HARPER]

	Country Home September, 1936 Click for larger image

29. Country Home (September, 1936)   "She Doted on Lobster" A story. Illustrated by E. F. Ward. p 20, 46-49.  [EPBLIB]
30. Green Book (March, 1917)   "She Liked His Face" A story. Illustrated by Rea Irvin. p 436-39.  [EPBLIB]
31. Pictorial Review (February, 1922)   "Short Skirts" A story. "And the War is to Blame for It All." Illustrations by Reginald Birch. p 26, 60-62.  [EPBLIB]
32. Judge (February 25, 1922)   "Show Your Colors"    [HARPER]
33. Short Stories (September, 1911)   "The Shyster"    [HARPER]
34. Blue Book (April, 1918)   "Sibb's Six Specifics"    [HARPER]
35. Pictorial Review (March, 1922)   "Sic Semper Susans"   A story. "A Successful Conspiracy -- for the Victim." p 23, 53, 60-2. Includes a photo and short bio of the author.  [HARPER]
36. Snappy Stories (December 4, 1918)   "The Silly-Billy"  [HARPER]
37. Pictorial Review (September, 1926)   "The Silver Bowl"   A story. "In Which We See Reflected the Folly of a Husband Attempting to Play a Practical Joke on His Dinner-Guests Without First Letting His Wife into the Secret." Illustrations by R. F. James.  [RGTPL]

	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine August, 1954 Click for larger image

38. Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (August, 1954)   "The Silver Protector" A story. This is "Our First Burglar" with the alternate title. p 75-80.  [PULP]
39. Short Stories (October, 1906)   "The Sins of Fya Fie"    [HARPER]
40. Cosmopolitan (July, 1907)   "The Sins of Simon"   A story. Illustrations by Horace Taylor. p 254+.  [RGTPL]
41. Short Stories (April, 1911)   "Sir Algernon Saint-Montgomery"    [HARPER]
42. This Week (August 18, 1935)   "Sitting Pretty"    [HARPER]
43. Red Book (February, 1912)   "The Skedaddle"   A story. One of the "Built-by-Speculator" series. "The Fannings desert the suburbs." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 661-65.  [HARPER]
44. Saturday Evening Post (July 8, 1916)   "Slim Finnegan" A Swatty story, but his name is "Ting Schwartz." Illustrated by Norman Rockwell. p 6-7, 65-66.  [HARPER]
45. Appleton's Magazine (April, 1909)   "The Sloop-Rigged Palfrey"   "An Unwritten Chapter from Alexander Dumas' The Count of Monte Christo." Illustrated by Horace Taylor. p 446-53.  [EPBLIB]
46. Ideal House (April, 1906)   "The Small Mirror"    [HARPER]

	Saturday Evening Post July 8, 1916 Click for larger image

47. Red Book (August, 1911)   "The Snuffle-Sneeze"   A story. One of the "Built-by-Speculator" series. p 669-72.  [HARPER]
48. Radio News (December, 1923)   "Solander's Radio Tomb" A story. One illustration by Frank R. Paul (b. 1884, d. 1963). p 696, 804-7. One of Butler's classic science fiction stories. Reprinted 4 more times, including in 1998.  [EPBLIB]
49. Amazing Stories (June, 1927)   "Solander's Radio Tomb" One original illustration (similar to the illustration in Radio News).  [EPBLIB, PULP]
50. _____ (April, 1956)   "Solander's Radio Tomb"   A story. One illustration.  [PULP]
51. Science Fiction Adventure Classics (Fall, 1969)   "Solander's Radio Tomb" A story. One illustration. p 32-39.  [EPBLIB]
52. Cosmopolitan (January, 1911)   "Something for the Kid"   Humor. Butler's contribution to a section called "An Up-to-the-Minute XMas." Illustrated in color by Horace Taylor. p 168-70.  [RGTPL]
53. Outdoor America (May, 1930)   "Something Unusual" A story. Drawings by Donald Hough. "In which an English Duke Lands a Rainbow Trout in an Extraordinary Manner and Observes American Fishing Customs." The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 5-7, 60.  [EPBLIB]

	American Magazine June, 1915 Click for larger image

54. American Magazine (June, 1915)   "The Son and Father Movement" A story. "Another Boy Story -- A Funny One." Illustrations by Leon M. Gordon.  [RGTPL]
55. Harper's Monthly Magazine (May, 1918)   "The Sorry Tale of Hennery K. Lunk"   p 913+  [BEST, RGTPL]
56. Iowa Heritage Illustrated (Fall, 2003)   "The Sorry Tale of Hennery K. Lunk" A story. A tall tale about a Mississippi River town south of "Deebuque." See: web. Vol. 84. Published by the State Historical Society of Iowa.  [WEB]
57. World Magazine (December 24, 1916)   "The Spanish Prisoner Game"   Same as "A Prisoner Pro Tem."  [HARPER]
58. Better Homes and Gardens (October, 1924)   "Spare Which -- The Rod or the Child?"   An essay. p 11-12, 43.  [HARPER]
59. New York Times (November 2, 1902)   "Speaking of the Weather"   A story. p SM12.  [NYTIMES]
60. Country Life in America (November, 1909)   "The Speckled Hen"   "The Adventures of a Suburbanite." Part two of seven. Illustrated with photographs by A. B. Phelan. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 45-47.  [RGTPL]
61. Short Stories (June, 1914)   "Spinach and Carrots"    [HARPER]
62. Green Book (September, 1917)   "Splendid Margaret"   A story. "Have you ever read of the hysteria call St. Vitus Dance which swept over Europe during the Middle Ages? Here is the intensely interesting account of a similar hysteria which grips the women of London and horrifies all England." p 539-576.  [HARPER]
63. Nickell Magazine (April, 1899)   "The Spotted Pig Mystery"    [BERCH]
64. Delineator (September, 1906)   "The Spotted Pony"    [EBAY]
65. Puck (July 10, 1915)   "Sprague Hennerby, Scientific Detective"    [HARPER]
66. Judge (February 6, 1904)   "Spring Styles in Verse"    [HARPER]
67. Sunset Magazine (July, 1925)   "Starboard Ahoy!"   A story. "We were plunging into the fog at the unsafe speed of twenty miles an hour, which was faster than I had heretofore driven a gas-propelled land vehicle." Illustrated by Louis Rogers. Volume 55. Number 1. p 9-11, 89-96.  [RGTPL]
68. Holiday (October, 1930)   "Step Right Inside!"   A story. "Custom cannot stale the infinite variety of the County Fair." The phrase "'Let's Go To the Fair! by Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 27, 62.  [HARPER]
69. Metropolitan (January, 1919)   "Sterling Steele"   Humor. Includes a cartoon by Tony Sarg. p 38.  [HARPER]
70. Good Housekeeping (December, 1912)   "The Stolen Christmas Tree"   A story. Illustrated by Charlotte Harding Brown.  [RGTPL]
71. American Girl (May, 1934)   "The Stolen Mascot" A Betty Bliss story. "Betty Bliss of the Tenth Street Yard Detectives follows a complicated clue." Illustrations by Leslie Turner. p 11-13, 42-43.  [HARPER]

	American Girl May, 1934 Click for larger image

72. Red Book (October, 1915)   "The Stolen Umbrella"   A Philo Gubb story. "Philo Gubb, the famous correspondence-school deteckative, confronts a baffling mystery." Illustrated by Rea Irvin. P 1133+.  [HARPER]
73. American Boy (August, 1929)   "Stoopid"   A Jibby Jones story. Illustrated by R. M. Brinkerhoff.  [EPBLIB]
74. Target (August 16, 1930)   "Stoopid Went Fishing"   A Jibby Jones story. Illustrated by R. M. Brinkerhoff. Volume XC. Number 33. "A Paper for Boys" "Continuing the Sunday School Advocate" Copyright 1930 by the Methodist Book Concern, 420 Plum Street, Cincinnati OH.  [HARPER]
75. Young's Magazine (December, 1914)   "The Story"    [HARPER]
76. Rotarian (June, 1926)   "Strike Your Average -- Early!"   An essay. Illustrations by Tony Sarg. p 14-16, 60-62.  [HARPER]
77. Blue Book (July, 1918)   "The Stump" A story. One illustration by Frank Hoban. "A boy story that will take you pleasantly back to bygone days. Mr. Butler knows boys and their older brothers, and you will find his quaint little tale refreshing indeed."  [EPBLIB]
78. Zest (January, 1927)   "Such a Country"    [HARPER]
79. Green Book (August, 1917)   "Suffering Carrots"   A story. "The quaint story of Eleanor and Henry Henderby, who were so tender-hearted they would eat no meat and became green from too much spinish." Illustrated by Rea Irvin. p 377-384.  [HARPER]
80. Judge (February 17, 1906)   "A Suggestion to Those Being Investigated"    [HARPER]

	Blue Book July, 1918 Click for larger image

81. St. George's Sword and Shield (Easter, 1926)   "Sunday School: An Outsider's Point of View"    [HARPER]
82. Blue Book (August, 1911)   "The Super-Cook" A story. "A lightsome tale of an amusing domestic dilemma." p 894-896. Text and images contributed by John Locke.  [LOCKE, PULP]
83. Authors' League Bulletin (October, 1916)   "A Supplementary Report from the Sub-Committee"   Full title: "A Supplementary Report from the Sub-Committee on Affiliation with the American Federation of Labor."  [HARPER]
84. Delineator (September, 1913)   "Susie" A story. The third installment of the serial, "The Jack-Knife Man." p 10-11, 60-62.  [RGTPL]
85. North American Magazine (June, 1931)   "Suspicion"   A story.  [RGTPL]
86. American Magazine (May, 1915)   "Swatty"   "A Story of Real Boys." Illustrations by F. E. Schoonover.  [RGTPL]
87. Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (April, 1947)   "The Sword Swallower Murder"   A Philo Gubb story that does not appear in the book. Includes a full-page discourse on Philo Gubb by the editor.  [EPBLIB, PULP]
88. Snappy Stories (June 4, 1918)   "The Symbol of Success"    [HARPER]
89. Red Book (September, 1933)   "The Synthetic Cow" Humor. p 26.  [HARPER]

Periodicals (Poetry)

1. Truth (June 13, 1896)   "A Satisfactory Reform"   p 5.  [HARPER]
2. New York Times (December 28, 1902)   "Says Mister Doojabs"   A poem. p SM16.  [NYTIMES]
3. Up to Date (October 31, 1896)   "The Secret of It"   p 5.  [HARPER]
4. Puck (November 3, 1897)   "Sectional Literature"    [HARPER]
5. Up to Date (February 13, 1897)   "A Serenade"    [HARPER]
6. Smart Set (August, 1912)   "Shakespeare to His Wife"    [HARPER]

	Saturday Evening Post December 30, 1933 Click for larger image

7. Saturday Evening Post (December 30, 1933)   "The Sheep" A poem. p 24. The cover has a New Year's illustration drawn by J. C. Leyendecker.  [HARPER]
8. Top-Notch (August 29, 1914)   "So Sudden"   A story.  [PULPGEN]
9. Truth (August 1, 1896)   "Solitude"   p 6.  [HARPER]
10. New Yorker (November 22, 1930)   "Song For Heroes" A poem. p 44.  [HARPER]
11. Reader Magazine (December, 1907)   "Sorrows of the Joneses" A poem. "Or, the Touching Sympathy of Women For Man in Distress Exemplified." Illustrated by Egbert Norman Clark. p 66-67. Illustrated Monthly Published by Bobbs-Merrill Co. Indianapolis IN.  [RGTPL]
12. Judge (November 27, 1920)   "Speaking of Operations" A poem. "Respectfully dedicated to Irv Cobb." p 7.  [HARPER]
13. Leslie's Monthly (February, 1903)   "A St. Valentine's Day Tragedy" A poem in ten verses. Illustrated by B. Cory Kilvert. p 436.  [EPBLIB]
14. _____ (January, 1902)   "A Study in Feeling"   A poem. HARPER calls this "A Story in Feeling." p 384.Commentary. Four verses of this poem were reprinted in Dallas Morning News, February 2, 1902.  [EPBLIB, HARPER]
15. Judge's Library (March, 1911)   "The Suffra-Jane and the Suffra-Joseph"   "(A Prefectly Idiotic Suffra-Jingle)"  [HARPER]

	Leslie's Monthly February, 1903 Click for larger image

16. Puck (June 1, 1898)   "The Sun"    [HARPER]
17. Up to Date (August 22, 1896)   "A Sure Harvest"    [HARPER]
18. _____ (January 30, 1897)   "The Sweetest Kiss"    [HARPER]

Related Materials

1. BOOK: Sketches of 21 Magazines, 1905-1930 (1968)   By Frank Luther Mott. With a cumulative Index to the Five Volumes. Vol V of A History of American Magazines. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.  [HARPER]
2. New York Times (March 29, 1911)   "A Solemn Protest"   A letter to the editor by Mrs. R. P. Mulligan. The last of four letters in a series. p 12.  [NYTIMES]

	Dutch Treat Club Year Book 1925 Click for larger image

3. Dutch Treat Club Year Book (1925)   "Some Memoirs of a Very, Very, Very Old Dutch Treater" By Julian Street. There is no material attributed to Butler in this volume, but he is referenced extensively in this humorous tribute to several Dutch Treat Club members. p 21-28. Butler is also listed as a member of the Board of Governors for the club. p 7.  [EPBLIB]
4. The Book of Wonders (1915) "The Story in Pigs is Pigs" Article. Edited and Arranged by Rudolph John Bodmer. "The Book of Wonders, gives plain and simple answers to the thousands of everyday questions that are asked and which all should be able to, but cannot answer." "Fully illustrated with hundreds of educational pictures which stimulate the mind and give a bird's eye view of the wonders of nature and the wonders produced by man." Article on page 374 tells of the production of the 1914 film starring John Bunny, illustrated with several photographs. Presbrey Syndicate, Inc. New York. 1915.  [EPBLIB]

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