By Robert C. Benchley
Illustrated By Gluyas Williams
Printed October, 1922
They look him over as if he were a fresh air child being given a day’s outing.
Acknowledgment
The author thanks the editors of the following publications for their permission to print the articles in this book: Life, The New York World, The New York Tribune, The Detroit Athletic Club News, and The Consolidated Press Association.
Contents
- The Benchley-Whittier Correspondence
- Family Life in America
- This Child Knows the Answer – Do You?
- Rules and Suggestions for Watching Auction Bridge
- A Christmas Spectacle
- How to Watch a Chess-match
- Watching Baseball
- How to be a Spectator at Spring Planting
- The Manhattador
- What to do While the Family is Away
- “Roll Your Own”
- Do Insects Think?
- The Score in the Stands
- Mid-winter Sports
- Reading the Funnies Aloud
- Opera Synopses
- The Young Idea’s Shooting Gallery
- Polyp with a Past
- Holt! Who Goes There?
- The Committee on the Whole
- Noting an Increase in Bigamy
- The Real Wiglaf – Man and Monarch
- Facing the Boys’ Camp Problem
- All About the Silesian Problem
- “Happy the Home Where Books Are Found”
- When Not in Rome, Why Do as the Romans Did?
- The Tooth, The Whole Tooth, and Nothing But the Tooth
- Malignant Mirrors
- The Power of the Press
- Home for the Holidays
- How to Understand International Finance
- Twas the Night Before Summer
- Welcome Home – and Shut Up!
- Animal Stories – I
- Animal Stories – II
- The Tariff Unmasked
- Literary Department
- “Take Along a Book”
- Confessions of a Chess Champion
- “Rip Van Winkle”
- Literary Lost and Found Department
- “Old Black Tillie”
- “Victor Hugo’s Death”
- “I’m Sorry That I Spelt the Word”
- “God’s in His Heaven”
- “She Dwelt Beside”
- “The Golden Wedding”
- Answers
- “Dark Water”
- The New Time-Table
- Mr. Bok’s Americanization
- Zane Grey’s Movie
- Suppressing “Jurgen”
- Anti-Ibáñez
- On Bricklaying
- “American Anniversaries”
- A Week-end with Wells
- About Portland Cement
- Open Bookcases
- Trout-fishing
- “Scouting for Girls”
- How to Sell Goods
- “You!”
- The Catalogue School
- Effective House Organs
- Advice to Writers
- “The Effective Speaking Voice”
- Those Dangerously Dynamic British Girls
- Books and Other Things
- “Measure Your Mind”
- The Brow-Elevation in Humor
- Business Letters
- Notes
