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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]
  2. 1904

  3. 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]
  4. 'The Amalgamated Book Insurance Club' from Atlantic Monthly magazine (March, 1906)

    1906

  5. Atlantic Monthly (March, 1906)   "The Amalgamated Book Insurance Club" Click here to see a picture of this item.Humor. The author proposes insurance to help return borrowed books. Uncredited. p 427-30.  [HARPER]
  6. _____ (June, 1906)   "On Phonetic Spelling"   Humor. Uncredited. Published in "The Contributor's Club" section. p 854-56.  [HARPER]
  7. 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]
  8. _____ (September, 1906)   "How to Write Humorous Verse" Click here to see a picture of this item.Humor. "A Carefully Compiled Code for the Courageous." Illustrated by Clare V. Dwiggins. p 636-8.  [HARPER]
  9. 1910

  10. Success Magazine (April, 1910)   "Our National Game" Click here to see a picture of this item.Humor. Illustrations by Charles Sarka. p 241-242, 277-278.  [HARPER]
  11. _____ (June, 1910)   "On Jury Duty"   Humor. Illustrations by B. Cory Kilvert. p 397-8, 427.  [HARPER]
  12. Architectural Record (November, 1910)   "Serio-Piffle Architecture" Click here to see a picture of this item.A humorous essay. Volume XXVIII. Number 5. p 329-334.  [RGTPL]
  13. 'Serio-Piffle Architecture' from Architectural Record magazine (November, 1910)
  14. Good Housekeeping (December, 1910)   "What I Don't Want"   Humor. Butler's contribution to a short section titled "Gifts Which Embarrass." p 655.  [EPBLIB]
  15. 1911

  16. Bookman (January, 1911)   "Unpublished Reviews"   Humor.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]
  17. 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]
  18. Atlantic Monthly (March, 1911)   "The Scenic Novel" Click here to see a picture of this item.Humor.  [RGTPL]
  19. 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]
  20. Judge (June 3, 1911)   "Uncle Ashdod and the Fishschutzenfest" Click here to see a picture of this item.Humor.  [HARPER]
  21. Success Magazine (July, 1911)   "The Automatic Baby" Click here to see a picture of this item.Humor. "A New Generation of Infants Germless, Voiceless and Hopeless." Illustrated by Rodney Thomson. p 10, 43.  [HARPER]
  22. 1912

  23. Judge (February 10, 1912)   "Washington and Egypt's First King" Click here to see a picture of this item.Humor. p 14, 16. (unnumbered).  [HARPER]
  24. 'Washington and Egypt's First King' from Judge magazine (February 10, 1912)
  25. Bookman (September, 1912)   "The Scarlet Orchid"   Humor. A short skit. p 80-83.  [RGTPL]
  26. 1913

  27. Bookman (August, 1913)   "Shakespeare-Bacon Controversy Solved" Click here to see a picture of this item.Humor. p 675-677.  [RGTPL]
  28. 1916

  29. 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]
  30. 1919

  31. Judge (March 29, 1919)   "Uncle Jass Says" Click here to see a picture of this item.Humor. A selection of nine humorous and witty statements. p 7.  [HARPER]
  32. _____ (April 12, 1919)   "Uncle Jass Says" Click here to see a picture of this item.Humor. A selection of ten humorous and witty statements. p 6 (unnumbered).  [HARPER]
  33. 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]
  34. _____ (October, 1919)   "A Message from Mr. Barr Leecorn"   Humor. Printed in the "Complaint Department." p 187-9.  [RGTPL]
  35. 1921

  36. Judge (September 17, 1921)   "Let's All Go Crazy!" Click here to see a picture of this item.Humor. p 5-6.  [HARPER]
  37. _____ (October 8, 1921)   "Great Discoveries" Click here to see a picture of this item.Humor. p 5, 30.  [HARPER]
  38. 'Let Us Also Prohibit ----' from Judge magazine (December 31, 1921)
  39. _____ (December 31, 1921)   "Let Us Also Prohibit ----" Click here to see a picture of this item.Humor. p 3-4.  [HARPER]
  40. 1922

  41. 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]
  42. Judge (September 30, 1922)   "Confessions of a Bank Burglar" Click here to see a picture of this item.Humor. Illustrated. p 4-5.  [HARPER]
  43. Bookman (December, 1922)   "The Dit School of Fiction"   Humor. p 435-38.  [RGTPL]
  44. 1924

  45. Fruit Garden and Home (March, 1924)   "Personally Painted" Click here to see a picture of this item.Humor. p 9, 44, 51.  [HARPER]
  46. 1925

  47. Saturday Evening Post (January 24, 1925)   "The Memoir Aristocratic" Click here to see a picture of this item.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]
  48. College Humor (October, 1925)   "Bull Hyde and Little Peewee" Click here to see a picture of this item.Humor. Illustration by Julian Brazelton. Volume 6. Number 3. p 85-6.  [EPBLIB]
  49. 1926

  50. Bookman (April, 1926)   "My Greek Novel" Click here to see a picture of this item.Humor. With sketches by Clarence Day, Jr. Volume LXIII. Number 2. p 150-153.  [RGTPL]
  51. 'How to Raise Children' from Judge magazine (September 11, 1926)
  52. Judge (September 11, 1926)   "How to Raise Children" Click here to see a picture of this item.Humor. p 9. Not listed in HARPER.  [EPBLIB]
  53. Atlantic Monthly (October, 1926)   "Poetification, A New Style"   Humor with poetry. p 545-47.  [RGTPL]
  54. Judge (October 2, 1926)   "Behaviorism Made Plain" Click here to see a picture of this item.Humor. Illustrated by James Trembath. p 6, 28-29. Later printed in Hunting The Wow.  [HARPER]
  55. _____ (November 13, 1926)   "What Happens When a Chicken Crosses the Road?" Click here to see a picture of this item.Humor. Also included in Hunting the Wow. p 11, 24.  [HARPER]
  56. 1927

  57. Judge (January 15, 1927)   "How to Appreciate the Stars" Click here to see a picture of this item.Humor. Later appears in Hunting the Wow. p 11, 26.  [EPBLIB]
  58. 1928

  59. College Humor (January, 1928)   "The Old Swimming Hole" Click here to see a picture of this item.Humor. p 63. Credited to Goblin.  [EPBLIB]
  60. Goblin (May, 1928)   "What to Do Till the Doctor Comes" Click here to see a picture of this item.Humor. p 9. Later printed in Hunting The Wow.  [HARPER]
  61. _____ (July, 1928)   "Health-Laughing" Click here to see a picture of this item.Humor. p 15-16.  [HARPER]
  62. 'Favorite Joke' from Favorite Jokes of Famous People (October, 1928)
  63. ANTHOLOGY: Favorite Jokes of Famous People (October, 1928) "Favorite Joke" Click here to see a picture of this item.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]
  64. 1930

  65. New Yorker (May 3, 1930)   "Let Us Jump" Click here to see a picture of this item.Humor. p 20-21.  [HARPER]
  66. Atlantic Monthly (August, 1930)   "The Financial Structure" Click here to see a picture of this item.Humor. p252-255.  [RGTPL]
  67. _____ (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]
  68. New Yorker (September 13, 1930)   "The 'Interoceanic Magazine' Takes After the Radio" Click here to see a picture of this item.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]
  69. _____ (November 8, 1930)   "Cut That Waste!" Click here to see a picture of this item.Humor. p 67-68.  [HARPER]
  70. 1931

  71. Saturday Evening Post (February 7, 1931)   "Graft Elimination" Click here to see a picture of this item.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]
  72. 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]
  73. 1932

  74. Saturday Review (June 11, 1932)   "Civilization Smashes Up"   Humor. CHAPIN lists this as the 16-Aug-1932 issue. p 780-81.  [CHAPIN, RGTPL]
  75. 'The Synthetic Cow' from Red Book magazine (September, 1933)

    1933

  76. Red Book (September, 1933)   "The Synthetic Cow" Click here to see a picture of this item.Humor. p 26.  [HARPER]
  77. Atlantic Monthly (November, 1933)   "The New Novel Menace"   Humor. The author rants about long novels. Uncredited. p 638-39.  [HARPER]
  78. Saturday Evening Post (December 23, 1933)   "Charles Darwin" Click here to see a picture of this item.Humor. p 24.  [HARPER]
  79. 1938

  80. 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]
  81. 1941

  82. 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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