Bibliography of Ellis Parker Butler

1926

1. Laughter (December 1925 - January, 1926)   "The Klassy Klose Drama"   Hamlet rewritten. p 10-14.  [HARPER]

	Better Homes and Gardens January, 1926 Click for larger image

2. Better Homes and Gardens (January, 1926)   "Is the Radish Unconstitutional?" An essay. "The First Thought of Man Is to Amend Something." p 17-18,45.  [HARPER]
3. Saturday Evening Post (January 16, 1926)   "Dictated to Doris" A story. Illustrated by R. M. Crosby. p 30, 32, 149, 150, 153.  [RGTPL]
4. American Magazine (February, 1926)   "How It Feels To Be The Father Of Twins"   An essay. Includes a photograph of the author and his twin daughters, Jean and Marjorie. p 24-25,66,68.  [RGTPL]
5. Canadian Magazine (February, 1926)   "The Ethiopian Dip"   A story. "A miss by the missus! She thinks she can throw!" Drawings by Reginald Birch. p 20-21, 34-35.  [RGTPL]
6. D. A. C. News (February, 1926)   "The Perambulator Poets"    [HARPER]
7. Laughter (February, 1926)   "Brain" According to an eBay auction, this issue is Vol 3, No 5., has only 64 pages, and the table of contents doesn't include the Butler story. HARPER shows the story on pages 70-72.  [HARPER]
8. Printer's Ink (February, 1926)   "Why I Killed the Super-Salesman"    [HARPER]
9. Outlook (February 17, 1926)   "Boom! Boom! Boom!"   A humorous essay. "All my life I have lived where the hot, coppery odor of expanding and bursting booms has drifted into my nostrils, but this is the first time a full-blown boom has sat down on my front porch and snorted like big money." p 258-64.  [HARPER]

	Collier's February 27, 1926 Click for larger image

10. 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]
11. St. George's Sword and Shield (MidLent, 1926)   "Why Not Men? An Outsider's Point of View"    [HARPER]
12. Better Homes and Gardens (March, 1926)   "Our Friends, the Bees" An essay. "The Bee Works Overtime to Make Gardens Possible." p 17, 68-69.  [HARPER]
13. Ladies' Home Journal (March, 1926)   "The Crisis" A story. Illustrated by F. Sands Brunner. p 40, 100, 103.  [RGTPL]
14. Laughter (March, 1926)   "Hawkins Tells the Truth" According to an eBay auction, this issue is Vol 3, No 6 and does not have a Butler story. HARPER shows the story on pages 23-29.  [HARPER]
15. Success Magazine (March, 1926)   "Fat Is Fat"   A story. p 40-44+.  [HARPER]
16. St. George's Sword and Shield (Whitsuntide, 1926)   "Church Influence: An Outsider's Point of View"    [HARPER]
17. _____ (Easter, 1926)   "Sunday School: An Outsider's Point of View"    [HARPER]
18. Bookman (April, 1926)   "My Greek Novel" Humor. With sketches by Clarence Day, Jr. Volume LXIII. Number 2. p 150-153.  [RGTPL]

	Cosmopolitan April, 1926 Click for larger image

19. Cosmopolitan (April, 1926)   "What Your Banker Knows about You" An essay. This publication was titled "Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan." Includes a photo of the author. p 102-03.  [HARPER]
20. Country Gentleman (April, 1926)   "Joe's Thesis"   A story. Illustrated by R. M. Brinkerhoff. "Now and then it plowed through a prairie-dog town or pushed a herd of cattle out of the way or broke a fence, but most of it was straight going -- and it went."  [EPBLIB]
21. D. A. C. News (April, 1926)   "The Private Life of Julius Caesar"    [HARPER]
22. New York Herald Tribune (April 11, 1926)   "Fish Out of Water"   A review of They Had to See Paris by Homer Croy. p 14 VII.  [HARPER]
23. Bookman (May, 1926)   "Letter"   A letter to the editor by Butler.  [HARPER]
24. Boston Evening Transcript (May 1, 1926)   "Ellis Parker Butler Emerges from the West"   By Louise Hubert Guyol. A biographical study. "Out of Muscatine Eastward Came the American Humorist as He Valiantly Climbed the Ladder of Fame." Includes a photo of the author by Robert H. Davis. Also reprinted in the Muscatine Journal.  [HARPER]
25. Target (May 15, 1926)   "Cured"    [HARPER]
26. Saturday Evening Post (May 22, 1926)   "Millennium" A poem. p 175.  [HARPER]
27. America's Humor (Summer, 1926)   "Amos Hopstone"   A story. p 42-45+.  [HARPER]

	Saturday Evening Post May 22, 1926 Click for larger image

28. _____ (Summer, 1926)   "Chris Marie Meeker"   A profile of one of the magazine's artists written by Butler. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 31.  [HARPER]
29. Amazing Stories (June, 1926)   "An Experiment in Gyro-Hats" A story. This science fiction magazine was published by Hugo Gernsback (b. 1884, d. 1967). One illustration by Frank R. Paul. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Volume 1, Number 3.  [PULP]
30. D. A. C. News (June, 1926)   "Musty Sunspots"   "A Twentieth Century Novel All Dolled Up in the Very Best Style for Intelligents and Morons, Male and Female."  [HARPER]
31. Rotarian (June, 1926)   "Strike Your Average -- Early!"   An essay. Illustrations by Tony Sarg. p 14-16, 60-62.  [HARPER]
32. Saturday Evening Post (June 26, 1926)   "Montana Golf" A story. Golf and romance at the Pokatuk Country Club. Illustrated by Raeburn Van Buren. p 48, 68-72.  [RGTPL]
33. Association Men (July, 1926)   "A 'Talk' on Vacation"    [HARPER]
34. Seng Book (July, 1926)   "Playing the Game" An essay. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Published by The Seng Company, World's Largest Makers of Furniture Hardware, 1450 Dayton Street, Chicago, Illinois. Illustrated by John Fullin (sp?). Vol. 1 No. 2. p 9-11, 35-37.  [EPBLIB]
35. Association Men (August, 1926)   "The Other Side of Vacationing"    [HARPER]

	Seng Book July, 1926 Click for larger image

36. Woman's Home Companion (August, 1926)   "Kennel and the Cat Coop"   A story. Illustrations by Frederick Chapman. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 24-25, 94-97.  [RGTPL]
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]
38. Judge (September 11, 1926)   "How to Raise Children" Humor. p 9. Not listed in HARPER.  [EPBLIB]
39. American Boy (October, 1926)   "Bebbin's Cow"   A story. Volume 27. Number 12. Illustrated by Tony Sarg. "We went down the road behind the cow, with the rain pouring down as if it was never going to stop."  [EPBLIB]
40. Atlantic Monthly (October, 1926)   "Poetification, A New Style"   Humor with poetry. p 545-47.  [RGTPL]
41. College Humor (October, 1926)   "Legg of Lamb" A story. Illustrated by Julian Brazelton. p 79-80, 94.  [EPBLIB]
42. D. A. C. News (October, 1926)   "The Thirteenth Door"   "A Murder Mystery Play in One Act."  [HARPER]
43. Zest (October, 1926)   "Everything Next"    [HARPER, PULP]

	Judge October 2, 1926 Click for larger image

44. Judge (October 2, 1926)   "Behaviorism Made Plain" Humor. Illustrated by James Trembath. p 6, 28-29. Later printed in Hunting The Wow.  [HARPER]
45. Better Homes and Gardens (November, 1926)   "How's Your Soil?" An essay. "The Soil in Which We Are Growing Should Furnish Us With Happiness." p 16, 36-7.  [HARPER]
46. Farm Life (November, 1926)   "Honoring Adam, the First Farmer" Humor. "It's five thousand years since he ceased to be and we ought to have a suitable celebration." p 12.  [HARPER]
47. Judge (November 13, 1926)   "What Happens When a Chicken Crosses the Road?" Humor. Also included in Hunting the Wow. p 11, 24.  [HARPER]
48. American Magazine (December, 1926)   The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover, but there is no Butler story in this issue.  [EPBLIB]
49. Zest (December, 1926)    [PULP]
50. New York Times (December 3, 1926)   "Verse Means to Get About Queens"   A verse from Ellis Parker Butler makes the news.  [NYTIMES]
51. John O'London's Weekly (December 4, 1926)   "Pigs is Pigs" Vol XVI. No. 398. Edited by Wilfred Whitten (John O'London). Published by George Newnes LTD., publishers of The Strand Magazine, etc.; London. Popular British literary magazine similar to T. P.'s Weekly with the backing of the Newnes distribution network. Considered by some critics to be PR fluff for publishers with literary gossip. Christmas Number.  [EBAY]

	John O'London's Weekly December 4, 1926 Click for larger image

52. Appleton Post Cresent (December 29, 1926)   "Merry Mary!"   A poem. Appleton (Wisconsin) Post Cresent; December 29, 1926; p 12.  [NPA]
53. ANTHOLOGY: American Boy Stories (1926) "Jibby Jones and the Fishing Prize" A story. "Selected stories from 'The American Boy' with an introduction by Griffith Ogden Ellis." Young Moderns Bookshelf. The Sun Dial Press, Inc. New York. Reprinted in 1949.  [EPBLIB]
54. ANTHOLOGY: Real Dogs: An Anthology of Short Stories (1926) "Dog Wanted: Male"   Edited by Charles Wright Gray. This version is taken from The Strack Platform Readings. New York: Garden City Publishing. Reprinted in 1937. New York: Sun Dial Press.  [EPBLIB]
55. ANTHOLOGY: The Best Humor of 1925 (1926) "The Memoir Aristocratic"   Edited by Nathan Haskell Dole and Harold S. Dole. p 59-63.  [HARPER]

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