Author:
Marquis, Don, 1878-1937.
Imprint:Garden City, NY : Garden City Books, [c1939]
Description669 p. ; 18 cm.
Note:Selections from: The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel. - Archy's life of Mehitabel. - Archy does his part. - The Old Soak and Hail and Farewell. - The Old Soak's history of the world. -- SHORT STORIES: selections from The revolt of the oyster: The revolt of the oyster ; How Hank signed the pledge. - from Sun dial time: The Rivercliff gold killings. - from When the turtles sing: When the turtles sing ; O'Meara, the Mayflower...and Mrs. MacLirr. - from A variety of people: In the bulrushes. - from Chapters for the orthodox: Miss Higginbotham declines; God, the devil and Old Man Murtrie; Satan goes to church; The golden legend. -- UNCOLLECTED SHORT STORIES: Country doctor. - The crack of doom. - The referee says... - Homer O'Meara and Helen of Troy. -- Selections from : Prefaces; Hermione and her little group of serious thinkers; The almost perfect state. -- Serious poetry: selections from The awakening and other poems; from Poems and portraits. -- Humorous poetry: selections from Love sonnets of a cave man; Noah an' Jonah an' Cap'n John Smith; The Old Soak and Hail and Farewell; Sonnets to a red-haired lady.
