FFB: Robert Arthur, editor: ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS: A MONTH OF MYSTERY (Random House 1969) (and paperback variants such as AHP: DATES WITH DEATH, Dell 1972)

Robert Arthur's 1969 Alfred Hitchcock Presents: anthology was his last book in the biannual adult anthology series; he died that year, and Harold Q. Masur would be tapped to continue the adult anthology series for Random house for another decade, until Hitchcock's death (while Henry Veit would assemble two more YA anthologies for the Random House Alfred Hitchcock's anthology line; Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and the anthologies drawn from it published by Dell and apparently edited by Scott Meredith or subordinates at the Scott Meredith Literary Agency, and then by AHMM editor Eleanor Sullivan after the magazine was purchased by Davis Publications in 1975, proceeded apace, as did Peter Haining's short series mostly for British publishers). This one hadn't been offered during my brief membership in the Doubleday Book Club, nor did I find it in the Enfield, CT, library which was my earliest source of anthology fixes, but I did read the first of the two Dell paperback volumes that reprinted from in in the summer of 1976, not too long after I finished The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn...and about the time I was reading a few other classics, such as Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, while visiting, with my parents and brother, my grandmother and other relations in West Virginia. A busy summer, also devoted to moving house from Enfield to Londonderry, NH. 

But AHP: Dates with Death, as the first Dell paperback was retitled, was a memorable reading experience, as were all the Random House "Hitchcock" volumes; Spider Robinson, writing in Galaxy magazine in the '70s, referred to them as "utterly reliable" and I'd agree. I'm only sorry it took me some decades to get around to the entire book. (Never did run across the second Dell volume drawn from Month.)

Contents of the hardcover original:

ix · If, Indeed, It Is Evening-- · Robert Arthur (attributed by implication to Hitchcock) · in

A Week of Crime
3 · The Dusty Drawer · Harry Muheim · ss Collier’s May 3 1952 
18 ·Drum Beat by Stephen Marlowe (ss) Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #2 1960
22 · South of Market by Joe Gores, first published as "Down and Out" (ss) Manhunt Jun 1959
38 · The Uses of Intelligence by "Matthew Gant" (Arnold Hano); 1952 (reprint: Sleuth Mystery Magazine Oct 1958)
50 · Love Will Find a Way by David Alexander (ss) 1960 
59 · Retribution by Michael Zuroy (ss) Manhunt Apr 1961
63 · The Queen's Jewel by James Holding, 1964

A Week of Suspense
75 · Pool Party by "Andrew Benedict" (Robert Arthur) (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Oct 1969
88 · That Touch of Genius by William Sambrot (ss) Escapade Jan 1967
97 · The Crooked Road by Alex Gaby (ss) Argosy Jan 1958
112 · A Taste for Murder by Jack Ritchie (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jan 1963
116 · The Twelve-Hour Caper by Mike Marmer (ss) Cosmopolitan May 1961
126 · The Amateur by Michael Gilbert [Insp. (Supt.) Hazlerigg series], (ss) John Bull Nov 19 1949, as “Amateur in Violence”
137 · Death Wish by Lawrence Block (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Mar 1967

A Week of Detection
149 · The Singing Pigeon by "Ross Macdonald" (Kenneth Millar) (ss) 1953, reprinted in Manhunt May 1964 (as by John Ross Macdonald) 
180 · Justice Magnifique by Lawrence Treat  (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jan 1958
193 · The White Hat by Sax Rohmer [Paul Harley series], (nv) The Story-teller Jun 1920 (Arthur had reprinted it in The Mysterious Traveler Magazine Mar 1952)
213 · Hard Sell by "Craig Rice" [ghost written by Lawrence Block; John J. Malone series], (ss) Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #1 1960
221 · Greedy Night by E. C. Bentley (ss) Parody Party, edited by Leonard Russell, Hutchinson 1936
232 · A Twilight Adventure by Melville Davisson Post [Uncle Abner series], (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Apr 1914
243 · Murder Matinee by Harold Q. Masur, ss 1946

A Week of the Macabre
261 · A Humanist by Romain Gary (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 26 1963
266 · The Oblong Room by Edward D. Hoch [Captain Leopold series], (ss) The Saint Magazine Jul 1967
276 · Love Me, Love Me, Love Me by M.S. Waddell (aka Martin Waddell), (ss) The Sixth Pan Book of Horror Stories edited by Herbert van Thal, Pan 1965
283 · Special Handling by John Keefauver, (ss) 1969 (possibly a story original to this anthology) 
288 · Dead Man's Story by Howard Rigsby (ss) Argosy Aug 27 1938, as “I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead” (reprinted by Arthur in The Mysterious Traveler Magazine Nov 1951 under new title)
299 · The Legend of Joe Lee by John D. MacDonald (ss) Cosmopolitan Oct 1964
310 · Crooked Bone by Gerald Kersh (nv) The Saturday Evening Post Aug 10 1968

A Short Week of Long Ones
335 · The Janissaries of Emilion by Basil Copper (nv) The Eighth Pan Book of Horror Stories edited by Herbert van Thal (Pan 1967)
354 · Chinoiserie by Helen McCloy (nv) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jul 1946
377 · Soldier Key by Sterling E. Lanier [Brigadier Ffellowes series], (nv) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Aug 1968

The delightful conceit of 31 stories, a menu for four weeks and the extra three days, was about as high-concept as Arthur had chosen to go with with his anthologies ghosted for Hitchcock, and unfortunately the paperbacks, theoretically out of necessity, had to abandon that schtick. 

The story rundowns for the two Dell volumes:
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Dates with Death (Stories from A Month of Mystery Volume 1 as subtitle on the 1972 edition but dropped from the 1976)

ix · If, Indeed, It Is Evening-- · Robert Arthur ("signed" by Hitchcock) · in
1 · The Dusty Drawer · Harry Muheim · ss Collier’s May 3 1952 
17 ·Drum Beat by Stephen Marlowe (ss) Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #2 1960
21 · The Uses of Intelligence by "Matthew Gant" (Arnold Hano); 1952 (reprint: Sleuth Mystery Magazine Oct 1958)
33 · The Queen's Jewel by James Holding, 1964
44 · That Touch of Genius by William Sambrot (ss) Escapade Jan 1967
53 · The Crooked Road by Alex Gaby (ss) Argosy Jan 1958
69 · The Amateur by Michael Gilbert [Insp. (Supt.) Hazlerigg series], (ss) John Bull Nov 19 1949, as “Amateur in Violence”
80 · The Singing Pigeon by "Ross Macdonald" (Kenneth Millar) (ss) 1953, reprinted in Manhunt May 1964 (as by John Ross Macdonald) 
114 · Justice Magnifique by Lawrence Treat  (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jan 1958
129 · Greedy Night by E. C. Bentley (ss) Parody Party, edited by Leonard Russell, Hutchinson 1936
141 · A Humanist by Romain Gary (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 26 1963
147 · The Oblong Room by Edward D. Hoch [Captain Leopold series], (ss) The Saint Magazine Jul 1967
157 · Dead Man's Story by Howard Rigsby (ss) Argosy Aug 27 1938, as “I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead” (reprinted by Arthur in The Mysterious Traveler Magazine Nov 1951 under new title)
169 · The Janissaries of Emilion by Basil Copper (nv) The Eighth Pan Book of Horror Stories edited by Herbert van Thal (Pan 1967)
190 · Chinoiserie by Helen McCloy (nv) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jul 1946







































AHP: Terror Time (Dell 1972) [can't find any page numbers for this one; I'm not sure, but would be surprised if the introduction wasn't reprinted here as well. TM]

South of Market by Joe Gores, first published as "Down and Out" (ss) Manhunt Jun 1959
Love Will Find a Way by David Alexander (ss) 1960 
Retribution by Michael Zuroy (ss) Manhunt Apr 1961
Pool Party by "Andrew Benedict" (Robert Arthur) (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Oct 1969
A Taste for Murder by Jack Ritchie (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jan 1963
The Twelve-Hour Caper by Mike Marmer (ss) Cosmopolitan May 1961
Death Wish by Lawrence Block (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Mar 1967
The White Hat by Sax Rohmer [Paul Harley series], (nv) The Story-teller Jun 1920 (Arthur had reprinted it in The Mysterious Traveler Magazine Mar 1952)
Hard Sell by "Craig Rice" [ghost written by Lawrence Block; John J. Malone series], (ss) Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #1 1960
A Twilight Adventure by Melville Davisson Post [Uncle Abner series], (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Apr 1914
Murder Matinee by Harold Q. Masur, ss 1946
Love Me, Love Me, Love Me by M.S. Waddell (aka Martin Waddell), (ss) The Sixth Pan Book of Horror Stories edited by Herbert van Thal, Pan 1965
Special Handling by John Keefauver (ss) 1969 (possibly a story originally in the hardcover edition) 
The Legend of Joe Lee by John D. MacDonald (ss) Cosmopolitan Oct 1964
Crooked Bone by Gerald Kersh (nv) The Saturday Evening Post Aug 10 1968
Soldier Key by Sterling E. Lanier [Brigadier Ffellowes series], (nv) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Aug 1968

Yes, yes, but what of the stories? Well, the Howard Rigsby is very good indeed, and I can see why it went to Argosy rather than Weird Tales (Argosy could pay at least five times as much if they were of a mind to do so), involving a dogged agent of law enforcement who isn't going let decedence impede execution of his duty. Arnold Hano's story is another I've written about here before, due to its inclusion in a horrible-children anthology; it managed to be both anti-intellectual and anti-youth at the same time, and (perhaps unsurprisingly) presuming that a high IQ score allows for improbable hands-on supervillainy. I chose to be mildly offended on both counts, but apparently not only Arthur but the MWA representatives who edited and co-published Sleuth magazine were chuckling. 

"The Dusty Drawer" is one of those stories where an overlooked drawer in a bank allows for hideaway larceny; the AHP: television series  dramatized another story rather similar to this one, and I've read a half-dozen others over the years...this one is reasonably deft. I was reading "Greedy Night" before I'd actually heard of, much less read, Sayers or "Gaudy Night", but nonetheless enjoyed it, and the Basil Copper story was a fine introduction to his work, resolutely old-fashioned but not stuffy horror-fiction. "The Oblong Room" is almost certainly the most-reprinted of Edward Hoch's stories, or at very least was at one time, and one can see why...it runs relentlessly to its conclusion, verging on horror and getting at the root of horror, and perverse tragedy. John Keefauver and even more Mike Marmer were professional humorists (though perhaps Marmer's Lancelot Link tv series was less indicative of that than most of his work in literary and audio/visual matters), and there is no lack of gallows humor in this and other Arthur (and Masur) books, none of it more indicative of Avram Davidson's "the laugh with a little bubble of blood in it" than the Romain Gary story, one of those gathered shortly after magazine publication in the volume Hissing Tales. And, as you probably have noted by now, this, like the other AHP: volumes  feature no lack of fantasy and horror, even a little sf, mixed in with the suspense and mystery fiction, and even a merely shadowy character study on occasion...since I didn't have half the book until recently, the not altogether dissimilar Judith Merril The Year's Best S-F annual for 1965, featuring 1964 stories for the most part, was my source for another Romain Gary and for this volume's John D. MacDonald fantasy, "The Legend of Joe Lee", a couple of years after I read the Dates with Death paperback...Dell, who were the primary force behind the Merril books except for several volumes where Simon & Schuster intrusively edited over Merril's shoulder, clearly liked eclectic anthologies. Sorry I missed the Joe Gores and Lawrence Block stories (both the latter) for so long...and there's very little in this book and its variations that isn't a good example of what the authors could do. 






































The British hardcover edition, above (possibly only offered through a book club). Below, the first UK paperback from A Month (not sure if they divided the stories as Dell did, or for that matter who at Dell was doing the splitting of the baby, or if they let Robert Arthur and Harold Masur do it themselves...that certainly would explain why presumably Arthur would replace the novels from some of te Random House hardcovers with stories from Arthur's YA anthologies for Random House, such as Alfred Hitchcock's Monster Museum, in some of the Dell paperback editions. 

Image above, and some index assistance, from The Hitchcock Zone, as well as from ISFDB and particularly the FictionMags Index. The image below the back cover of AHP: Dates with Death. Frank Babics's Casual Debris (with some gaps and errors amid a very impressive lot of work) and the Internet Archive are always good to look at, as well.

And thanks as always to Patti Abbott for hosting FFB. Check here for more of today's books.

FFB: THE STUFFED OWL, edited by D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee (1930); PARODIES edited by Dwight Macdonald (1960)

Two volumes which I enjoyed in part in my earlier years, and which somewhat disappointed, (again) in part because I, unlike many for whom these books were uniformly delightful, had not always been willing (nor forced) to endure some of the targets of the parody, intentional and unintentional, of the work collected in them. Of course, none of the work collected in The Stuffed Owl was meant to be parody; Lewis and Lee simply ranged across the canon of major and near-major poets in English as it was widely understood in 1930 and chose the most purple and self-sabotaging examples they could find from the likes of Wordsworth and Poe, never afraid to go to ridiculous extremes, and others more tone-deaf, while avoiding, for the most part, the more minor and unheralded poets of the previous centuries. While it's difficult to defend much collected here, in what might well be a pioneering volume of its sort, the book taken in large doses at once is more than a little deadening; the worst examples of fustian from experts in fustian are simply well-refined fustian...but taken a bit at a time, the desired effect, of giving perspective to the enshrinement of these artists as unimpeachable (a ridiculous insistence felt much more sharply in 1930 than now, I suspect) is more thoroughly demonstrated.

Likewise, Dwight Macdonald's compilation was brighter for me in many spots than in others, not least the presumption that he should include untranslated material in French (at least untranslated Cervantes I could make a stab at, but surely few cultured Anglophones could be expected to know Spanish, much less the Castilian of his time, and all such people have a working reading knowledge of French!). But it did send me out after the balance of Max Beerbohm's A Christmas Garland, and was my first encounter with the entirety of Wolcott Gibbs's "TIME . . . FORTUNE . . . LIFE . . . LUCE" as opposed to a few choice lines ("Backwards ran sentences until reeled the mind" mostly). And it's a bug crusher, if not quite to the same extent of the more-eclectic if similarly hit-and-miss The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose edited by Frank Muir, so some material is simply more likely to be effective than other inclusions for almost any reader. It probably helped, in comparison, that Bennett Cerf "crowd-sourced" his choices for his YA anthology I recalled the other week, quizzing his kids and their friends and others for suggestions, at least in terms of making for a more satisfying reading experience, as well as perhaps oddly a more consistently interesting one, for the much younger me (and, I suspect, for many other readers) than either of these two more ambitious and many ways pioneering anthologies did for me as an adult. These books are rewarding, as well as monuments in their fields, but simply not as thoroughly delightful as one could hope...and while that's probably not why both are in a sort of shadowy in-print status (since this weekly exercise is all about books of some interest to utter brilliance that face such fates--the Cerf is utterly out of print, the Muir is similarly barely in print after initial publication in 1990...clearly, round number years are ripe for such volumes), it does help them both be more admired than loved.

For more of today's selections, please see Patti Abbott's blog. Barring a pre-emptive hurricane or somesuch, I will be the likely gatherer of links to others' reviews and citations next Friday. ("Be there. Aloha." as Jack Lord would peremptorily intone at the end of the teasers for the next week's episode of the original Hawaii Five-0.)


Table of Contents (courtesy of Modern Library.com)

Parodies: An Anthology From Chaucer to Beerbohm—-and After

Table of Contents

Edited by Dwight MacDonald
Preface by Dwight MacDonald

PART ONE: THE BEGINNINGS
After by
MEDIEVAL ROMANCES Geoffrey Chaucer
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Alexander Pope
GEOFFREY CHAUCER W. W. Skeat
JOHN LYLY William Shakespeare
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE William Shakespeare
THOMAS NASHE William Shakespeare
JOHN DONNE Sir John Suckling
GEORGE HERBERT Christopher Hervey
JOHN DRYDEN George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham
ROBERT BOYLE Jonathan Swift
AMBROSE PHILIPS Henry Carey
JOHN MILTON John Philips
ALEXANDER POPE Isaac Hawkins Browne
JONATHAN SWIFT Isaac Hawkins Browne
ROBERT SOUTHEY G. Canning and J. H. Frere
THE SENTIMENTAL NOVEL Jane Austen

PART TWO: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
After by
GEORGE CRABBE James Smith
WILLIAM COBBETT James Smith
ROBERT BURNS Shirley Brooks
ROBERT BURNS James Clerk-Maxwell
LORD BYRON Thomas Love Peacock
LORD BYRON J. K. Stephen
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE James Hogg
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH J. K. Stephen
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH James Smith
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH John Keats
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Catherine Fanshawe
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH James Hogg
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH James Hogg
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH John Hamilton Reynolds
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Lord Byron
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Walter Savage Landor
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Hartley Coleridge
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER Bret Harte
EDGAR ALLAN POE Anonymous
EDGAR ALLAN POE Bayard Taylor
EDGAR ALLAN POE Thomas Hood, the Younger
HENRY W. LONGFELLOW Anonymous
HENRY W. LONGFELLOW J. W. Morris
HENRY W. LONGFELLOW George A. Strong
FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON H. D. Traill
EDWARD LEAR Samuel Foote
CHARLES DICKENS Robert Benchley
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON William Aytoun
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Algernon Charles Swinburne
ROBERT BROWNING J. K. Stephen
ROBERT BROWNING Bayard Taylor
ROBERT BROWNING Anonymous
ROBERT BROWNING H. D. Traill
ROBERT BROWNING C. S. Calverley
ROBERT BROWNING J. K. Stephen
EMILY DICKINSON Firman Houghton
WILLIAM MORRIS C. S. Calverley
WILLIAM MORRIS Anonymous
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI A. C. Hilton
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI H. D. Traill
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Mortimer Collins
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE A. C. Hilton
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Richard Le Gallienne
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Lewis Carroll
WALT WHITMAN J. K. Stephen
WALT WHITMAN Bayard Taylor
WALT WHITMAN E. B. White
HENRY JAMES Max Beerbohm
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Anthony Brode
RUDYARD KIPLING Guy Wetmore Carryl
RUDYARD KIPLING J. K. Stephen

PART THREE: BEERBOHM--AND AFTER

SOME LEAVES FROM MAX BEERBOHM'S A Christmas Garland
P.C., X, 36 ….............………... R*DY*RD K*PL*NG
Endeavour ..............…………. .JOHN G*LSW*RTHY
A Sequelula to The Dynasts…..TH*M*'S H*RDY
Scruts …………...................... ARN*LD B*NN*TT
Perkins and Mankind ....……...H. G. W*LLS
A Recollection ....………........ EDM*ND G*SSE
PLUS THREE TWIGS:
The Sorrows of Millicent …………….. M*R*E C*R*LLI
The Blessedness of Apple-Pie Beds ..... R*CH*RD L* G*LL*"NNE
The Defossilized Plum-Pudding ........... H. G.W*LLS

Post-Beerbohm:
after by
A. E. HOUSMAN Humbert Wolfe
WALTER DE LA MARE Samuel Hofjenstein
GERTRUDE STEIN Arthur Flegenheimer
THEODORE DREISER Robert Benchley
MENCKEN and NATHAN Robert Benchley
T. S. ELIOT Henry Reed
T. S. ELIOT "Myra Buttle"
ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Edmund Wilson
EZRA POUND Gilbert Highet
ROBERT FROST Firman Houghton
ALDOUS HUXLEY Cyril Connolly
J. P. MARQUAND Wolcott Gibbs
WILLIAM FAULKNER Peter De Vries
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Wolcott Gibbs
ERNEST HEMINGWAY E. B. White
THORNTON WILDER Kenneth Tynan
JAMES GOULD COZZENS Nathaniel Benchley
JAMES GOULD COZZENS Felicia Lamport
JAMES JONES Peter De Vries
JACK KEROUAC John Updike
ALLEN GINSBERG Louis Simpson

PART FOUR: SPECIALTIES
The NONSENSE POEMS IN THE Alice BOOKS, by Lewis Carroll;
with the Originals by Dr. Watts and Other Hands
SOME UNRELIABLE HISTORY, by Maurice Baring
THE REHEARSAL
JASON AND MEDEA
KING LEAR'S DAUGHTER
FROM THE DIARY OF MRS. JOHN MILTON
FRAGMENT OF A GREEK TRAGEDY, by A. E. HOUSEMAN
VARIATIONS ON A THEME
SALAD, by Mortimer Collins
THE POETS AT TEA, by Barry Pain
VARIATIONS OF AN AIR, by G. K. Chesterton
THAT ENGLISH WEATHER, by Ezra Pound and Anon
REVIEWS OF UNWRITTEN BOOKS, by "Baron Corvo" and/or Sholto Douglas
MACHIAVELLI'S DESPATCHES FROM THE BOER WAR
TACITUS'S Scripturae de Populis Consociatis Americae Septentrionalis
TIME . . . FORTUNE . . . LIFE . . . LUCE, by Wolcott Gibbs
The Literary Life on the TIMES
LITERARY LOST & FOUND DEPT., by Robert Benchley
SPEAKING OF BOOKS, by Donald Malcolm
ALF STRINGERSOLL'S REPORT ON BROOKLYN, by William Atwood
W. B. Scott:
CHICAGO LETTER: Agony, a Sense of Plight
GAETAN FIGNOLE: Pages de Journal
Cyril Connolly:
WHAT WILL HE DO NEXT?
YEAR NINE
Paul Jennings:
THE BOY'S GOT TALENT
RESISTENTIALISM
PRIMITIVISM—ENGLISH: from Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons
PRIMITIVISM—AMERICAN: from Torrents of Spring, by Ernest Hemingway
SOME EXCURSIONS INTO THE VERNACULAR
A BALLAD UPON A WEDDING, by Sir John Suckling
THE HUMBLE PETITION OF FRANCES HARRIS, by Jonathan Swift
GRANDFATHER'S OLD RAM, by Mark Twain
MUSEUM TOUR, by James Joyce
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE IN AMERICAN, by H. L. Mencken
THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS IN EISENHOWESE, by Oliver Jensen
THE WEST POINT ADDRESS, by Dwight David Eisenhower
INAUGURAL ADDRESS, by Warren G. Harding
THE AVANTGARDE VERNACULAR: by S. J. Perelman

SELF-PARODIES: Conscious
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Max Beerhohm
William Faulkner

SELF-PARODIES: Unconscious
Richard Crashaw
Abraham Cowley
Samuel Johnson
Edward Gibbon
George Crabbe
Lord Byron
Edgar Allan Poe
Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Wordsworth
Robert Browning
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Charles Dickens
Walt Whitman
Rudyard Kipling

SCIENTIFICATION (i): The Parameters of Social Movement, a Formal Paradigm,
by Daniel Bell
SCIENTIFICATION (ii): Struwwelpeter, a psychoanalytical interpretation
by Dr. Rudolph Friedmann

UN PEU DE FRANCAIS:
L'AFFAIRE LEMOINE, par Marcel Proust
Apres Balzac
Apres Flaubert
Apres Michelet
EXERCICES DE STYLE, par Raymond Queneau

THE OXEN OF THE SUN PARODIES, by James Joyce
THREE NONSENSE PLAYS, by Ring Lardner
Dinner Bridge
Clemo Uti (The Water Lilies)
I Gaspiri {The Upholsterers)

APPENDIX: SOME NOTES ON PARODY, by Dwight Macdonald
INDEX


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