1910

1. Bookman (September, 1910)   "Little Ballads of Timely Warning; I: On Dishonesty Arising from Ignorance"   A poem. p 25.  [RGTPL]
2. _____ (October, 1910)   "Little Ballads of Timely Warning; II: On Malicious Cruelty to Harmless Creatures"   A poem. p 130.  [RGTPL]
3. _____ (November, 1910)   "Little Ballads of Timely Warning; III: On Laziness and Its Resultant Ills"   A poem. p 247-8.  [RGTPL]
4. _____ (December, 1910)   "A Parisian Episode"   A poem. p 358-9.  [RGTPL]

1911

5. Bookman (January, 1911)   "Unpublished Reviews"   Humor.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]
6. _____ (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]
7. _____ (August, 1911)   "Djolan" A poem. A "djolan" is a bird (although you'll have trouble getting a dictionary that says so) and the "d" is silent, which is the whole point of the poem. p 625.  [RGTPL]
8. _____ (September, 1911)   "Reasonable Interest"   A poem in 24 verses. p 23.  [EPBLIB]
9. _____ (October, 1911)   "Mouths of Hippopotami and Some Recent Novels"   A poem. The apology is probably a reference to a series of similarly named articles by Frederic Taber Cooper in this publication. p 207.  [RGTPL]

1912

10. Bookman (May, 1912)   "Portrait"   Photo of Ellis Parker Butler and Don Marquis together with Mrs. Marquis. Other than the caption, there is no comment or article about either man. p 226. donmarquis.org has this caption for this picture: "Don, his first wife Reina, and author Ellis Parker Butler in 1912 at the New York City Public Library upon the occasion of the publication of Danny's Own Story"  [EPBLIB]
11. _____ (September, 1912)   "The Scarlet Orchid"   Humor. A short skit. p 80-83.  [RGTPL]

1913

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

1914

13. 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]

1919

14. 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]
15. _____ (October, 1919)   "A Message from Mr. Barr Leecorn"   Humor. Printed in the "Complaint Department." p 187-9.  [RGTPL]

1920

16. Bookman (April, 1920)   "The New Poet of Nature"   A story.  [RGTPL]

1922

17. Bookman (December, 1922)   "The Dit School of Fiction"   Humor. p 435-38.  [RGTPL]

1923

18. Bookman (June, 1923)   "Review"   Review of Ghosts What Ain't by Robert Benchley. p 456-7.  [HARPER]

1925

19. Bookman (March, 1925)   "The Idealist"   A story. Illustrations by Margaret Freeman. p 13-21.  [BEST, RGTPL]

1926

20. Bookman (April, 1926)   "My Greek Novel" Humor. With sketches by Clarence Day, Jr. Volume LXIII. Number 2. p 150-153.  [RGTPL]
21. _____ (May, 1926)   "Letter"   A letter to the editor by Butler.  [HARPER]

1930

22. Bookman (November, 1930)   "Letter from the author on book borrowing"    [RGTPL]

1932

23. Bookman (April, 1932)   "An Author Glares at Editors"   Uncredited and unconfirmed. p 26-31.  [HARPER]
24. _____ (June and July, 1932)   "Method In Their Madness"   By Edward Weeks. "Sidelights on the Writing Habits of Authors -- Part Two." There's a brief reference to Ellis Parker Butler on page 228. p 225-232.  [EPBLIB]

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