Twentieth century parody, American and British

Introduction / Nathaniel Benchley

The feast by J*s*ph C*nr*d, P.C., X, 36 by R*d**rd K*pl*ng, The mote in the middle distance by H*nry J*m*s / Max Beerbohm

Custer's last stand (In the manner of Edith Wharton) / Donald Ogden Stewart

The blue sleeve garter (Sex and political economy as blended by Mr. Galsworthy) / Robert Benchley

Compiling an American tragedy (Suggestions as to how Theodore Dresier might write his next human document and save five years' work) / Robert Benchley

A note (To be entered in a notebook like Somerset Maugham's notebook if I were keeping one, which I'm not) / E. B. White

The man who knew Lewis / John Riddell

The Chinese situation / Robert Benchley

Scones and stones (After reading "Parents and children," "Men and wives," "Daughters and sons," and So on, by Ivy Compton-Burnett) / Peter de Vries

The courtship of Miles Standish (In the manner of F. Scott Fitzgerald) / Donald Ogden Stewart

Told in gath (with apologies to Mr. A*d* us H*xl*y / Cyril Connolly

A farewell to Josephine's arms (The Hemingway of all flesh) / H. W. Hanemann

A world of women (With acknowledgements to Elizabeth Bowen / J. Maclaren-Ross

Of nothing and the Wolfe / Clifton Fadiman

The Steinbeck party (To mark the publication of "The short novels") / Richard Mallett

A handful of bodies revisited (...written after reading "Men at arms" ... by Evelyn Waugh / Richard Mallett

John O'hara on Major Riddell's amateur hour / John Riddell

Requiem for a noun, or intruder in the dusk (What can come of trying to read William Faulkner while minding a child or vice versa) / Peter de Vries

First Saroyan / Richard Mallett

The salad of the bad cafe by C*rs*n McC*l*ers / J. Maclaren-Ross

Catch her in the oatmeal [In the manner of J. D. Salinger] / Dan Greenburg

From there to infinity (After reading "From here to eternity," by James Jones) / Peter de Vries

Lucky Goldilocks (with apologies to K*ngsl*y Am*s) / Anthony Brode

On the sidewalk (After reading, at Long last, "On the road," by Jack Kerouac) / John Updike

Mae West and John Riddell: a correspondence / John Riddell A word to Mr. Jones (Introductory note to "Miscegenation," a novel after H. G. Wells) / Hugh Kingsmill

How the Polish problem was resolved by the Right Hon. Sir W*nst*n Ch*rch*ll / Malcolm Muggeridge

Dithers and jitters (A brief digest of the intimate memoirs of Mabel Rudge Truman) / Cornelia Otis Skinner

Joseph (From "Eminent Egyptians" after Lytton Strachey) / Hugh Kingsmill

The night the bufflo came down the chimney (...episode from the early history of J*m*s Th*rb*r / Alex Atkinson

Inside John Gunther

The roundabout of history (With apologies to Professor Toynbee ) / John Bowles

The insider by C*l*n W*ls*n / Geoffrey Gorer

Strange interview / John Riddell

The best plays of 1945 ( A prophecy in one act) / Wolcott Gibbs

Charley's confidential aunt (In the manner of Mr. T. S. El**t) / Lionel Hale

Another part if the Hubbards or, When they were even younger (With an awed bow to their creator, Lillian Hellman) / Patricia Collinge

Waiting for Santy a Christmas playlet (with a bow to Mr. Clifford Odets) / S. J. Perelman

The doll's not for frying (Supposing Christopher Fry, and not Abe Burrows, had adpted Damon Runyon to the stage) / Peter de Vries

No telly-belly for Larry Gibb (A dual commemmoration of Dylan Thomas's "Under milk wood" and the ideal home exhibition) / J. B. Boothroyd

A tattooed streetcar named Rose (... a drama of men and women caught in the washwinger of life. Tennessee Williams was turning the handle when the author of this new drama spelled him for a while / Ira Wallach

Oklahomov! ("Kitty, wake!" adapted from Anton Chekhov's "The seagull" by R*ch*rd R*dg*rs and Osc*r H*mm*rst**n II) / Paul Dehn

Death to a salesman (In the manner, if not the spirit, of Arthur Miller's opus) Trump Macy

Look further back in anger / Alex Atkinson

"Invictus": A regurgitation ( A "New critic" ruminates upon an old poem) / Ira Wallach

The three limperary cripples (Musings between sleeping and waking, and immdiately after reading Joyce, by the literary editor of a Liberal Weekly / Edmund Wilson Reading time: eternity (After an evening with "the morning after the first night," in which Mr. George Jean Nathan ecpoiunds the ultimate criticism) / Wolcott Gibbs

A garland of ibids for Van Wyck Brooks, uneasy Brooks fan / Frank Sullivan

The N*w Y*rk*r: Books (to the comfort station )

A broadway garland (Ten metropolitan reviewers have a look at something called "Honored in the breach," by Mr.Foster Opdyke, which when last heard from, was at the Cosmos Theatre) / G. B. Archer-Beerbohm

Thou tellest me, comrade / Gilbert Highet

In defense of Exurbia / The Rev. Peter Salmon

Miscellany: Dickie Byrd at the South Pole / John Riddell

Chaps in chaps (A tale of the mighty west) / Richard Mallett

Family life in America / Robert Benchley

The keeper of the gelded unicorn (An historical romance which breathes life into a little-known episode in English history) / Ira Wallach

Bateman comes home (Written after reading several recent novels about the Deep South and confusing them a little-as the novelists themselves do-with "Tobacco road" and "God's little acre".) / James Thurber

Grandpop was a cut-up (When I was a child in China, Russia, Italy, Nevada, Kashmir, Columbus, Ohio, Providence, R.I., New York, England and Persia. But my kiddies are cute) Geoffrey Gorer.