Bibliography of Ellis Parker Butler

Books

	The Water Goats and Other Troubles June, 1910 Click for larger image

1. The Water Goats and Other Troubles (June, 1910)   SEE CONTENTS.Tan cloth cover with illustration by Harrison Cady. Illustrated frontispiece also by Harrison Cady. Two interior plates by Gustavus C. Widney and one by Irma Deremeaux. New York: Doubleday, Page and Company.  [EPBLIB]

Other Material

1. BOOK: Wall Paper Hints (1906?)   A twenty-seven page booklet printed on behalf of Pittsburg Wall Papers. New York: American Colortype Company. Possibly reprinted 193?, 26 p, illustrated. San Francisco: L. Tozer & Son.  [HARPER]
2. VIGILANTES: What the Victory or Defeat of Germany Means to Every American (1917)   A single-page 27x15 cm. handbill or newspaper insert. New York: National Security League.  [HARPER]
3. Oshkosh Daily Northwestern (October 10, 1901)   "When Ida Puts Her Armor On"   A poem. Oshkosh (Wisconsin) Daily Northwestern; October 10, 1901; p 5.  [NPA]
4. ADAPTATION: Werner's Readings and Recitations #56: Dramatic (1915) "Who Ate the Cake"   Monologue. By Stanley Schell. Based on "Billy Brad and the Big Lie." New York: Edgar S. Werner. p 57-59.  [HARPER]
5. American Girl (April, 1932)   "Who's Who In This Issue"   A short biography of the author, with a photograph. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 54.  [EPBLIB]

	Illustrated Flushing and Vicinity 1917 Click for larger image

6. BOOK: Illustrated Flushing and Vicinity (1917) "Why I Live In Flushing" Complete title: "Illustrated Flushing And Vicinity, College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck, In The Third Ward, Queens Borough City Of New York." Compiled, Edited and Published by Darby Richardson under the auspices of Business Men's Association Of Flushing, Flushing Association, Upper Flushing Association. 1917. Press of Isaac Goldmann Company. New York. 9 1/4 x 6". 72 pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. p 7-10.  [EPBLIB]
7. VIGILANTES: Why We Are at War; Why You Must Help; What You Can Do (1917)   A twelve page booklet urging thrift, support of the government and military preparedness. (Uncredited and unconfirmed.) New York: National Security League.  [HARPER]
8. VIGILANTES: Steven's Point Gazette (October 24, 1918) "Why We Did It"   Article about Flushing. Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Gazette; October 24, 1918; p 10.  [NPA]
9. Betzville Tales (September 9, 1909)   "Will Finch and the Belgian Lapdog"   Illustrated by Peter Newell. Printed this date in the Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Daily Press. Printed September 1, 1901 in the Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Gazette.  [NPA]
10. New York Times (September 16, 1937)   "Writers Among 200 at Butler Funeral"   A notice of the funeral of Ellis Parker Butler.  [NYTIMES]
11. Hampton's Magazine (March, 1909)   "Writers and Their Work"   page 436.  [HARPER]

Anthologies

1. Sherlock Holmes in America (1981) "Watson, Once Epaminondas, Joins Deteckative Gubb"   A Philo Gubb story. Reprinted from a story issued by the McClure Syndicate. Illustrated by Thornton Fisher. ISBN: 0-8109-1609-6. p 115-120.  [EPBLIB]
2. Modern Literature for Oral Interpretation (1920) "Where There's A Will"   By Gertrude E. Johnson. "Practice Book for Vocal Expression." Reprinted from Lippincott's. p 159-168.  [GOOGLE BOOKS]
3. The American Dream (1964) "Why I Live in a Suburb"   An essay. "A Half-Century View from American Magazine" Edited by John K. M. McCaffery. Doubleday & Company, Inc. Garden City, New York.  [EPBLIB]

Periodicals (Prose)

	Red Book November, 1914 Click for larger image

1. Red Book (November, 1914)   "Waffles and Mustard" A story. Later printed in Philo Gubb. Illustrated by Rea Irvin. "Philo Gubb, the Correspondence-School Detective takes the trail of a lost will." p 172-182.  [HARPER]
2. Woman's Home Companion (August, 1906)   "The Wage of Sin"   The story about how Samuel Mills came to be known as Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent. Illustrated by Frank Ver Beck. This story is retold later in chapter 5 of Kilo titled "Sammy Mills." Not indexed in RGTPL.  [EPBLIB]
3. _____ (January, 1929)   "Wanted: A Burglar"   A story. Illustrated by Herbert Paus.  [RGTPL]
4. Printer's Ink (October 31, 1929)   "Wanted -- A Gas Mask for the Oversold Customer"    [HARPER]
5. Snappy Stories (March 18, 1918)   "The War and Mr. Haskins"    [HARPER]
6. Esquire (July, 1936)   "War Is Something" A story. "A satire." "The lady never fed atheists or militarists so Bill and Joe did a little fast talking."  [EPBLIB, ESQUIRE]
7. Pleiades Club Year Book (1918)   "War Stuff"   Book is dated 1917-1918. "Edition-de-luxe." 500 copies printed. Contains contributions by Ellis Parker Butler, Harry Kemp, Amy Lowell, and others. p 42. Bound in tan paper boards; printed in blue; tan endpapers. New York: Pleiades Club.  [HARPER, WORLDCAT]
8. Truth (March 25, 1897)   "The Wars of Julius Caesar"   This piece is a variation on "The Death of Caesar" published in the National Magazine in August 1897.  [HARPER]

	Judge January 25, 1919 Click for larger image

9. Judge (January 25, 1919)   "Was Patagonia Neutral?" A story. Illustrations by Wilfred Jones. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. "But all might still have been well had we not run aginst th' question iv th' loyalty iv th' Republic iv Patagonia."  [EPBLIB]
10. _____ (February 10, 1912)   "Washington and Egypt's First King" Humor. p 14, 16. (unnumbered).  [HARPER]
11. Washington Post (October 6, 1918)   "Himself Plus"   "When he had been two years in New York Dick Mallon was beginning to feel discontented. He had come to New York because of a 'Help Wanted' he had seen in the Times." pg. SM10, 2.  [WASHPOST]
12. Red Book (December, 1910)   "Washington Wiggles and the Hot-Air Balloon"    [HARPER]
13. American Magazine (May, 1917)   "Wasted Effort"   A Swatty story. "Swatty's brilliant plan to save the day." Illustration by W. B. King.  [RGTPL]
14. Authors' League Bulletin (February, 1917)   "Wasting Time"    [HARPER]
15. Burr McIntosh Monthly (January, 1910)   "The Water Goats" A story. Illustrations by Harrison Cady. Later published in The Water Goats and Other Troubles. p 17-28.  [EPBLIB]
16. American Magazine (August, 1923)   "Water-Logged Willies" "That's what I call people who are soaked in debt -- I have been there myself, and 'never again!' for me." An essay.  [RGTPL]

	American Magazine August, 1923 Click for larger image

17. Red Book (June, 1914)   "Waw Waw"   Mentioned in the May 1914 issue as an upcoming "circus freaks" story.  [HARPER]
18. New York Times (February 15, 1903)   "The Weather Prophet of Bad Leg"   A story. p SM6.  [NYTIMES]
19. This Week (June 9, 1935)   "Wedding Guest"    [HARPER]
20. Christian Herald (October, 1934)   "Wedding Presents"    [HARPER]
21. New York Times (February 8, 1914)   "Well-known Authors Act in Their Own Plays in Movies"   An article. Includes details about the 1914 Vitagraph film "Pigs is Pigs." Illustrated with photographs, including one of John Bunny as Mike Flannery. p SM5. Also in Dallas Morning News, same date, titled "Noted Authors in Movie Films".  [NYTIMES, DALLAS]
22. American Magazine (June, 1907)   "Wetter New York"   A story. "A Tale of New York in 1913." "Illustrated with 'photographs' by A. B. Phelan." p 160-168.  [RGTPL]
23. Association Men (January, 1924)   "What, a Campaign? Never Again!"    [HARPER]
24. Story World and Photodramatist (November, 1921)   "What Ails the Pictures?"    [HARPER]
25. Authors' League Bulletin (August, 1918)   "What Are Publishers' 'Profits'?"    [HARPER]
26. Success Magazine (May, 1906)   "What Did Dugan Do To 'Em?"   A story. Illustrated by Horace Taylor.  [EPBLIB]

	Judge November 13, 1926 Click for larger image

27. Judge (November 13, 1926)   "What Happens When a Chicken Crosses the Road?" Humor. Also included in Hunting the Wow. p 11, 24.  [HARPER]
28. Good Housekeeping (December, 1910)   "What I Don't Want"   Humor. Butler's contribution to a short section titled "Gifts Which Embarrass." p 655.  [EPBLIB]
29. Dutch Treat Club Year Book (1923)   "What Is the Dutch Treat Club?" A tongue-in-cheek history of the Dutch Treat Club. Illustrations by Herb Roth, R. M. Brinkerhoff and others. p 7-13.  [EPBLIB]
30. Cosmopolitan (May, 1925)   "What it Cost Me To Score One Big Success" An autobiographical essay. Includes a full-page photo of the author. This publication was titled "Hearst's International combined with Cosmopolitan." p 56-57,134.  [HARPER]
31. Stamps (August 5, 1933)   "What Should the Adult Beginner Collect?" An article. Adult and beginning stamp collectors are advised to start with current US issues and work in both directions. p 197.  [EPBLIB]
32. _____ (February 4, 1995)   "What Should the Adult Beginner Philatelist Collect?"   A reprint of the 1933 article of the same title. Worldcat lists this as the January 30, 1995 issue.  [WORLDCAT]
33. Goblin (May, 1928)   "What to Do Till the Doctor Comes" Humor. p 9. Later printed in Hunting The Wow.  [HARPER]
34. Writer's Review (February, 1935)   "What to Write"    [LOCKE]

	National Magazine December, 1899 Click for larger image

35. National Magazine (December, 1899)   "What Tom Said About It" A story. Published in the "'Twixt Smiles and Tears" section. p 342-344.  [EPBLIB]
36. Saturday Evening Post (June 24, 1922)   "What Would the Boys We Were Think of Us Now?" An autobiographical essay. "The Boy I Used to be Decided That He Must be a Blacksmith. I Confess I Have Failed the Young Man." Includes a photo of Butler, aged 7. Illustrated by M. L. Blumenthal. p 8-9, 82, 85-6.  [RGTPL]
37. 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]
38. Association Men (July, 1924)   "What's Inside of a Dumbbell?"    [HARPER]
39. Rotarian (May, 1924)   "What's This Success Thing?" An essay. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. p 7-9,62. Short bio on page 6.  [EPBLIB]
40. Fruit Garden and Home (May, 1924)   "What's Wrong with the Home?" An essay. "Not a Home Has Been Broken Up On My Street in Sixteen Years." Includes a photo of the author. p 15-16.  [HARPER]
41. Up to Date (February 27, 1897)   "Wheels"    [HARPER]
42. Everybody's Magazine (August, 1914)   "When is a 'Possum?"   A story. Illustrations by Will Crawford. Volume XXXI. Number 2. p 209-217.  [RGTPL]
43. Every Week (May 10, 1915)   "When John Fixed the Cuckoo Clock"    [HARPER]

	Fruit Garden and Home May, 1924 Click for larger image

44. American Magazine (April, 1916)   "When the Ice Goes Out"   A Swatty story. "A story showing how a married man's bark may be worse than his bite." Illustrated by W. B. King.  [RGTPL]
45. Delineator (December, 1925)   "Where Is My Father?"   A story. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. "A story you will never forget." "Christmas brings the answer to a nameless child." Illustrations by Joseph M. Clement. p 6-7,81-82.  [RGTPL]
46. Iowa Magazine (November, 1922)   "Where's This Iowa?"    [HARPER]
47. American Magazine (November, 1927)   "Where There Isn't a Will There's a Way" A story. "Two is company except when they're both grooms, then it's an awful crowd -- Ask Effie May." Illustrated by R. M. Brinkerhoff. Pages 40-43,133-136.  [RGTPL]
48. Lippincott's Monthly Magazine (August, 1911)   "Where There's a Will"   A story.  [RGTPL]
49. Red Book (July, 1911)   "The Whiggin"   A story. "Later She Married a Plipp." One of the "Built-by-Speculator" series. p 546-49.  [EPBLIB]
50. Buick Bulletin (May, 1918)   "The Whiggin" A story. "The Fannings had heard of Westcote, no matter how, and the solemn-faced real estate man had personally conducted them from house to house." This periodical is a publication of the Buick Motor Company. "Published monthly in the behalf of Buick Interests Everywhere." Volume 6. Number 5. Illustrated.  [EPBLIB]
51. Blue Book (October, 1915)   "A Whirl at Banking"  [HARPER]
52. American Girl (November, 1936)   "The White Blackbird Mystery" A Betty Bliss story. "Betty Bliss's Detective Club is faced with a new and baffling mystery which calls forth all of their ingenuity and skill before a solution is reached." Illustrated by Leslie Turner. p 19-20, 39, 42-3.  [HARPER]

	American Girl November, 1936 Click for larger image

53. Maclean's (December 15, 1932)   "The White Feather"    [HARPER]
54. American Girl (March, 1935)   "The White Rabbit Mystery" A Betty Bliss story. "There wasn't a crime in the neighborhood for the Detective Club to solve till Art's rabbits vanished." Illustrations by Leslie Turner. p 16-18, 42-43.  [HARPER]
55. Detective Story (May 21, 1918)   "Who Am I?"    [COOK+MILLER]
56. New York Herald Tribune (December 31, 1933)   "Who's Afraid of the New Year?"   Printed in the New York Herald Tribune Magazine. p 2.  [HARPER]
57. Red Book (December, 1916)   "Who Would Steal a Pump?"   A Philo Gubb story. Illustrated by Rea Irvin. p 354.  [EPBLIB]
58. New York Herald Tribune (November 12, 1933)   "Who's Who in Humor"   Printed in the New York Herald Tribune Magazine. p 2.  [HARPER]
59. Rotarian (November, 1924)   "Who's Your Friend?"   An essay. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Illustrations by Garrett Price. p 13-15, 69-72. Short bio on page 4. Also, letters written in the contest started in the July 1924 issue "Little Tin Godlets" are printed p 30,46-53.  [EPBLIB]
60. Green Book (June, 1916)   "Why He Married Her" A story. "She talked him to sleep and this won his love; one of Mr. Butler's best tales." Illustrated by Rea Irvin. p 1050-53.  [EPBLIB]

	Green Book June, 1916 Click for larger image

61. Printer's Ink (February, 1926)   "Why I Killed the Super-Salesman"    [HARPER]
62. American Magazine (March, 1927)   "Why I Live in a Suburb"   An essay. Includes a photo of the author by D. Jay Culver.  [RGTPL]
63. St. George's Sword and Shield (MidLent, 1926)   "Why Not Men? An Outsider's Point of View"    [HARPER]
64. Association Men (February, 1919)   "Why Step on Your Face, George?"    [HARPER]
65. Outlook (December 7, 1921)   "Why the Who's Are Who" An essay. This issue also includes a photograph and short bio of the author. p 561 and 583.  [HARPER]
66. Success Magazine (January, 1921)   "Why Worry?"   This publication's full title is "The New Success: Marden's Magazine." p 93-97+.  [HARPER]
67. St. Nicholas Magazine (December, 1935)   "Wiffenpoof Island"   A story. Illustrations are attributed to R. W. Brinkerhoff... do they mean R. M. Brinkerhoff?  [RGTPL]
68. Maclean's (October 1, 1931)   "The Wimple"    [HARPER]
69. Brown Book of Boston (July, 1903)   "The Windiest Corner in the World" An article. With photographs. About the Flat Iron Building in New York. Volume 7; Number 3. p 86.  [FICTIONMAGS]

	Brown Book of Boston July, 1903 Click for larger image

70. Windsor Magazine (December, 1903)   "The Heart of a Man"   A story. Illustrated by Emilie Benson Knipe. p 131-137.  [EPBLIB]
71. Ladies' World (December, 1916)   "Wings" A Billy Brad story. "The story of a little boy who did not get what he wanted for Christmas." Illustrated by C. H. Taffs. p 6, 38.  [HARPER]
72. College Humor (October, 1927)   "The Winning of Daisy Doe"   Illustrated by Ray Rohn. p 76-77+.  [EBAY, HARPER]
73. Ideal House (August, 1906)   "Wisdom of Serpents"    [HARPER]
74. Green Book (January, 1920)   "Without a Clue"   A Jane Sprood story. p 76-79+.  [HARPER]
75. _____ (October, 1918)   "Without Money"    [HARPER]
76. Detective Story (July 11, 1931)   "The Witness" A story. "His ungovernable rage plunged him into murder." One illustration. p 127-128.  [COOK+MILLER]
77. Woman's World (September, 1910)   "Wodelbert's Pseudo-Uncle"   A story. Illustrations by Henry J. Soulen. p 5, 28.  [HARPER]

	Detective Story July 11, 1931 Click for larger image

78. Washington Post (June 23, 1907)   "Wolves in Iowa"   An article. "Iowa is a queer mixture of up-to-date Downeastness and genuine Wildwestness. It produces people like ex-Secretary Shaw and Tama Jim Wilson and also Ellis Parker Butler, the 'pigs is pigs' man." pg. MS1, 1 pgs.  [WASHPOST]
79. Judge (March 30, 1912)   "The Wonderful Kangaroo"    [HARPER]
80. Illustrated Sunday Magazine (December 25, 1910)   "The Wooing of the Muse"   p 9+.  [HARPER]
81. Blue Book (February, 1916)   "Working South"   A Jabez Bunker story. p 747-754.  [EPBLIB]
82. Ladies' World (November, 1915)   "The Worries of Wilma" A film story. Illustrations by George Brehm. The name "Ellis Parker Butler" appears on the cover. Also printed in Pearson's Magazine.  [HARPER]
83. National Magazine (March, 1898)   "Would You Rather--?"    [HARPER]
84. Every Week (November 19, 1932)   "Wreck and Ruin"   A story. Illustrated by Ethel Hays. Found in the Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune.  [NPA]

Periodicals (Poetry)

1. American Magazine (September, 1905)   "The Water Nymphs"   A poem in eight verses. With photograph by Alice Boughton. Not indexed in RGTPL. p 577.  [HARPER]

	Saturday Evening Post January 27, 1934 Click for larger image

2. Saturday Evening Post (January 27, 1934)   "Western" A poem. p 24.  [HARPER]
3. _____ (March 10, 1934)   "The Whale" A poem. p 24.  [HARPER]
4. Puck (April 6, 1898)   "What She Said"    [HARPER]
5. Truth (March 11, 1897)   "When Anna Reads to Me"   p 2.  [HARPER]
6. National Magazine (September, 1901)   "When Ida Puts Her Armor On"   p 692.  [HARPER]
7. Truth (January 19, 1898)   "Whom I Love"   p 17.  [HARPER]
8. Leslie's Monthly (May, 1903)   "Why I Went to the Foot"   A poem in 28 verses. With an illustration by B. Cory Kilvert. Volume 56. Number 1. p 100.  [HARPER]
9. Century Magazine (November, 1905)   "Why Washington Retreated"   A poem. p 161-162.  [RGTPL]
10. Up to Date (October 17, 1896)   "Why We Yearn"    [HARPER]
11. Leslie's Monthly (October, 1902)   "Womanly Qualms"   A poem. With an illustration by B. Cory Kilvert. p 620.  [HARPER]
12. American Magazine (September, 1905)   "The Wood Nymph"   A poem in eight verses. With photograph by Alice Boughton. Not indexed in RGTPL. p 576.  [HARPER]

	Life November, 1933 Click for larger image

13. Life (November, 1933)   "Would You Believe It?" A poem in 16 verses. p 17.  [EPBLIB]

Related Materials

1. Vanity Fair (June, 1925)   "We Nominate for the Hall of Fame"   By Robert H. Davis. Includes a photo of Butler. Ad/promotional item includes by name Theodore Dreiser, Ring Lardner, H.I. Phillips, Ellis Parker Butler, James J. Montague.  [EPBLIB]
2. Syracuse Herald (August 1, 1909)   "Writers and Artists Stung by a Clever Confidence Man"   Article. Syracuse Herald; August 1, 1909; p A-7.  [NPA]

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