Bibliography of Ellis Parker Butler

Humor

1903

1. Leslie's Monthly (August, 1903)   "Alice and the Book Worm"   Humor with poetry. Illustrated. Later reprinted in Booklover's Magazine (September 1903). p 414-415. Indexed in the bound volume LVI (p iii) as "Alice in Book Land."  [HARPER]

1904

2. Leslie's Monthly (January, 1904)   "The Correspondence School of Poetry"   Humor with poetry. As Jim K. Hanna (James K. Hanna, unconfirmed). Illustrated. p 348-350.  [EPBLIB]

	Atlantic Monthly March, 1906 Click for larger image

1906

3. Atlantic Monthly (March, 1906)   "The Amalgamated Book Insurance Club" Humor. The author proposes insurance to help return borrowed books. Uncredited. p 427-30.  [HARPER]
4. _____ (June, 1906)   "On Phonetic Spelling"   Humor. Uncredited. Published in "The Contributor's Club" section. p 854-56.  [HARPER]
5. Success Magazine (August, 1906)   "The Funniest Stories I've Heard"   A collection of short humorous stories. Includes a photo of the author. p 562-3.  [HARPER]
6. _____ (September, 1906)   "How to Write Humorous Verse" Humor. "A Carefully Compiled Code for the Courageous." Illustrated by Clare V. Dwiggins. p 636-8.  [HARPER]

1910

7. Success Magazine (April, 1910)   "Our National Game" Humor. Illustrations by Charles Sarka. p 241-242, 277-278.  [HARPER]
8. _____ (June, 1910)   "On Jury Duty"   Humor. Illustrations by B. Cory Kilvert. p 397-8, 427.  [HARPER]
9. Architectural Record (November, 1910)   "Serio-Piffle Architecture" A humorous essay. Volume XXVIII. Number 5. p 329-334.  [RGTPL]

	Architectural Record November, 1910 Click for larger image

10. Good Housekeeping (December, 1910)   "What I Don't Want"   Humor. Butler's contribution to a short section titled "Gifts Which Embarrass." p 655.  [EPBLIB]

1911

11. Bookman (January, 1911)   "Unpublished Reviews"   Humor. Tongue-in-cheek reviews of books by Julius Caesar, Marco Polo, Baron von Munchhausen and the Greek poet Homer. p 544-45.  [RGTPL]
12. 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]
13. Atlantic Monthly (March, 1911)   "The Scenic Novel" Humor.  [RGTPL]
14. Bookman (June, 1911)   "A Brief Consideration"   Humor. Full title: "A Brief Consideration of the Present Disheartening Condition and Quality of Fictional Literature Written in the English Languages." p 399-401.  [RGTPL]
15. Judge (June 3, 1911)   "Uncle Ashdod and the Fishschutzenfest" Humor.  [HARPER]
16. Success Magazine (July, 1911)   "The Automatic Baby" Humor. "A New Generation of Infants Germless, Voiceless and Hopeless." Illustrated by Rodney Thomson. p 10, 43.  [HARPER]

1912

17. Judge (February 10, 1912)   "Washington and Egypt's First King" Humor. p 14, 16. (unnumbered).  [HARPER]

	Judge February 10, 1912 Click for larger image

18. Bookman (September, 1912)   "The Scarlet Orchid"   Humor. A short skit. p 80-83.  [RGTPL]

1913

19. Bookman (August, 1913)   "Shakespeare-Bacon Controversy Solved" Humor. p 675-677.  [RGTPL]

1916

20. Pleiades Club Year Book (1916)   "A Specimen of Prose Libre"   Satire. "Invented by Ellis Parker Butler" Illustrated by Jo Lemon. Book is dated 1915-1916. Printed by Howard A. Dudley Company, New York. p 84-85.  [HARPER]

1919

21. Judge (March 29, 1919)   "Uncle Jass Says" Humor. A selection of nine humorous and witty statements. p 7.  [HARPER]
22. _____ (April 12, 1919)   "Uncle Jass Says" Humor. A selection of ten humorous and witty statements. p 6 (unnumbered).  [HARPER]
23. Bookman (July, 1919)   "Getting Material"   Humor. Printed in the "Complaint Department." HARPER incorrectly lists this in the JUN-1919 issue, but does show the correct page numbers. Volume XLIX. Number 5. p 581-582.  [HARPER, RGTPL]
24. _____ (October, 1919)   "A Message from Mr. Barr Leecorn"   Humor. Printed in the "Complaint Department." p 187-9.  [RGTPL]

1921

25. Judge (September 17, 1921)   "Let's All Go Crazy!" Humor. p 5-6.  [HARPER]
26. _____ (October 8, 1921)   "Great Discoveries" Humor. p 5, 30.  [HARPER]

	Judge December 31, 1921 Click for larger image

27. _____ (December 31, 1921)   "Let Us Also Prohibit ----" Humor. p 3-4.  [HARPER]

1922

28. Popular Radio (September, 1922)   "I Install My Receiving Set"   An article. "This article is written for the purpose of giving sound and practical help to the layman who puts up his own radio apparatus with no more experience than that possesed by the author." Includes several black and white photographs of the author. p 26-33.  [HARPER]
29. Judge (September 30, 1922)   "Confessions of a Bank Burglar" Humor. Illustrated. p 4-5.  [HARPER]
30. Bookman (December, 1922)   "The Dit School of Fiction"   Humor. p 435-38.  [RGTPL]

1924

31. Fruit Garden and Home (March, 1924)   "Personally Painted" Humor. p 9, 44, 51.  [HARPER]

1925

32. Saturday Evening Post (January 24, 1925)   "The Memoir Aristocratic" Story subtitled "As Done by the English Upper Classes (Typed by Ellis Parker Butler)". Printed in the "Short Turns and Encores" section. p 26, 51.  [HARPER]
33. College Humor (October, 1925)   "Bull Hyde and Little Peewee" Humor. Illustration by Julian Brazelton. Volume 6. Number 3. p 85-6.  [EPBLIB]

1926

34. Bookman (April, 1926)   "My Greek Novel" Humor. With sketches by Clarence Day, Jr. Volume LXIII. Number 2. p 150-153.  [RGTPL]

	Judge September 11, 1926 Click for larger image

35. Judge (September 11, 1926)   "How to Raise Children" Humor. p 9. Not listed in HARPER.  [EPBLIB]
36. Atlantic Monthly (October, 1926)   "Poetification, A New Style"   Humor with poetry. p 545-47.  [RGTPL]
37. Judge (October 2, 1926)   "Behaviorism Made Plain" Humor. Illustrated by James Trembath. p 6, 28-29. Later printed in Hunting The Wow.  [HARPER]
38. _____ (November 13, 1926)   "What Happens When a Chicken Crosses the Road?" Humor. Also included in Hunting the Wow. p 11, 24.  [HARPER]

1927

39. Judge (January 15, 1927)   "How to Appreciate the Stars" Humor. Later appears in Hunting the Wow. p 11, 26.  [EPBLIB]

1928

40. College Humor (January, 1928)   "The Old Swimming Hole" Humor. p 63. Credited to Goblin.  [EPBLIB]
41. Goblin (May, 1928)   "What to Do Till the Doctor Comes" Humor. p 9. Later printed in Hunting The Wow.  [HARPER]
42. _____ (July, 1928)   "Health-Laughing" Humor. p 15-16.  [HARPER]

	Favorite Jokes of Famous People October, 1928 Click for larger image

43. ANTHOLOGY: Favorite Jokes of Famous People (October, 1928) "Favorite Joke" A story. "I'm glad that it is possible to reproduce Mr. Butler's favorite story in his own words -- a splendid example of his genius in writing humor". Edited and illustrated by Frank Ernest Nicholson. Includes a caricature of the author and a reproduction of the author's famous signature. New York: E. P. Dutton. p 46-50.  [EPBLIB]

1930

44. New Yorker (May 3, 1930)   "Let Us Jump" Humor. p 20-21.  [HARPER]
45. Atlantic Monthly (August, 1930)   "The Financial Structure" Humor. p252-255.  [RGTPL]
46. _____ (September, 1930)   "Easy as Pie"   Humor. Published in "the Contributor's Club" section. Butler's solution to the Prohibition question. Uncredited. p 420-421.  [HARPER]
47. New Yorker (September 13, 1930)   "The 'Interoceanic Magazine' Takes After the Radio" Humor. This piece (with many significant differences in the text) was also included in Hunting the Wow under the title "If Magazines Did." p 78-80.  [HARPER]
48. _____ (November 8, 1930)   "Cut That Waste!" Humor. p 67-68.  [HARPER]

1931

49. Saturday Evening Post (February 7, 1931)   "Graft Elimination" Humor. The author suggests that the United States get rid of political graft by adopting the election system of the Republic of Yump. p 92.  [RGTPL]
50. Atlantic Monthly (July, 1931)   "The Babaw Club"   Humor. The author suggests a "Burn a Book a Week" Club. Later printed in Hunting the Wow. p 120-121.  [HARPER]

1932

51. Saturday Review (June 11, 1932)   "Civilization Smashes Up"   Humor. CHAPIN lists this as the 16-Aug-1932 issue. p 780-81.  [CHAPIN, RGTPL]

	Red Book September, 1933 Click for larger image

1933

52. Red Book (September, 1933)   "The Synthetic Cow" Humor. p 26.  [HARPER]
53. Atlantic Monthly (November, 1933)   "The New Novel Menace"   Humor. The author rants about long novels. Uncredited. p 638-39.  [HARPER]
54. Saturday Evening Post (December 23, 1933)   "Charles Darwin" Humor. p 24.  [HARPER]

1938

55. Judge (January, 1938)   "Appropriate Telephone Numbers"   Humor. Reprinted from March 4, 1911 in a 12-page feature "THE JUDGE ALBUM 188l-1938" featuring the previously published work of James Montgomery Flagg, Carolyn Wells, Mark Twain, Ellis Parker Butler. p 32.  [EPBLIB]

1941

56. BOOK: The Tuscarora Club's Forty Year History: 1901-1941 (December, 1941) "The History of the Tuscarora Club"   Humor. The Tuscarora Club is located in the Mill Brook Valley, Delaware County of New York State. Portland ME: Southworth-Athoensen Press. p 31-36.  [HARPER]

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