H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism
Essays discuss Emerson, Shaw, Twain and Joyce, as well as teetotalers, Christian Scientists, politics, music, and psychoanalysis
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"One finds in Mr. Nolte's selection the original reviews, then so unconventional, of Conrad, Huneker, and Dreiser...I am glad to find old pieces I remember and that Mencken never collected - especially the summaries of periods in his life...And it is therefore very much worth while to have Mr. Nolte's collection of Mencken's earlier, more spontaneous work."-Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker
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