Something more equal to the centuries
Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.
The mountains are dead stone, the people
Admire or hate their stature, their insolent quietness,
The mountains are not softened nor troubled
And a few dead men’s thoughts have the same temper.
—ROBINSON JEFFERS
from “Wise Men in Their Bad Hours”
*
BIBLIOGRAPHY
As I expected to reread parts of these books, I wanted their titles available to me. Hence, I kept this listing of books read from 1930 to 1935 and in 1937.
(Asterisks represent books reviewed for The Oklahoman.)
BOOKS AND PLAYS READ IN 1930
1. Three Philosophical Poets, George Santayana
2. Winds of Doctrine, George Santayana
3. Reason in Society, George Santayana
4. Selected Stories, Joseph Conrad
5. Soliloquies, Friedrich Schleiermacher
6. Tales, Volume II, Edgar Allan Poe
7. Romances, Volume II, Voltaire
8. Romances, Volume I, Voltaire
9. The Hermit of Carmel, George Santayana
10. Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche
11. Black Sparta, Naomi Mitchison
12. The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells
13. Dynamo, Eugene O’Neill
14. Fruit-Gathering, Rabindranath Tagore
15. Circus Parade, Jim Tully
16. The Gardener, Rabindranath Tagore
17. Strange Interlude, Eugene O’Neill
18. Moon of Madness, Sax Rohmer
19. The Island of Dr. Moreau, H. G. Wells
20. The Wisdom of the East, Volume I
21. In Search of a Villain, Robert Gore-Brown
22. The Master Mind of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs
23. Poems, Henry Van Dyke
24. The Hairy Ape, Eugene O’Neill
25. Mountain City, Upton Sinclair
26. The Dreamy Kid, Eugene O’Neill
27. Terror Keep, Edgar Wallace
28. The Emperor Jones, Eugene O’Neill
29. The Author’s Mind, Laurence Conrad
30. Marco Millions, Eugene O’Neill
31. Anna Christie, Eugene O’Neill
32. The Case of Sergeant Grischa, Arnold Zweig
33. Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. The Long Voyage Home, Eugene O’Neill
35. The Moon of the Caribbees, Eugene O’Neill
36. Bound East for Cardiff, Eugene O’Neill
37. In the Zone, Eugene O’Neill
38. The Great God Brown, Eugene O’Neill
39. The Crime in the Crypt, Carolyn Wells
40. The Fountain, Eugene O’Neill
41. Bird in Hand, John Drinkwater
42. The Science of Hypnotism, L. E. Young
43. The Daughter of Fu Manchu, Sax Rohmer
44. Jew Süss, Lion Feuchtwanger
45. Memories and Studies, William James
46. Jorgenson, Tristan Tupper
47. Lazarus Laughed, Eugene O’Neill
48. The Dance of the Machines, Edward J. O’Brien
49. The War in the Air, H. G. Wells
50. Beyond the Horizon, Eugene O’Neill
51. Studies in Pessimism, Arthur Schopenhauer
52. Why We Behave Like Human Beings, George Dorsey
53. Bitter Bierce, C. Hartley Grattan
54. The Rope, Eugene O’Neill
55. Tales of Unrest, Joseph Conrad
56. Four Faces of Siva, Robert J. Carey
57. See Naples and Die, Elmer Rice
58. The Fifteen Cells, Stuart Martin
59. Gold, Eugene O’Neill
60. Men and Machines, Stuart Chase
61. Odyssey, Homer
62. The Man Of Destiny, George Bernard Shaw
63. Journey’s End, R. C. Sherriff
64. Erewhon, Samuel Butler
65. Ecce Homo, Friedrich Nietzsche
66. Ghosts, Henrik Ibsen
67. The Tavern Knight, Rafael Sabatini
68. The Birth of Tragedy, Friedrich Nietzsche
69. Marriage and Morals, Bertrand Russell
70. Liberty Under the Soviets, Roger N. Baldwin
71. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
72. Chéri, Colette
73. Condemned to Devil’s Island, Blair Niles
74. Mystery at Lynden Sands, J. J. Connington
75. Mérope, Voltaire
76. Bajazet, Jean Racine
77. Dom Juan, Molière
78. The World Set Free, H. G. Wells
80. The Art of Life, Havelock Ellis
81. Athalie, Jean Racine
82. All God’s Chillun Got Wings, Eugene O’Neill
83. Stendhal, Paul Hazard
84. Poems and Prose Poems, Charles Baudelaire
85. Winds of the World, Talbot Mundy
86. Plays, Anton Chekhov
87. Liliom, Ferenc Molnar
88. Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe
89. Rattling the Cup on Chicago Crime, Edward D. Sullivan
90. A Woman of No Importance, Oscar Wilde
91. The Mystic Will, Charles G. Leland
92. Trader Horn, A. A. Horn and Ethelreda Lewis
93. The Fan, Carlo Goldoni
94. The World of William Clissold, H. G. Wells
95. La Mandragola, Niccolò Machiavelli
96. Criminology, Horace Wyndham
97. Faery Lands of the South Seas, Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
98. Man and Superman, George Bernard Shaw
99. An Ideal Husband, Oscar Wilde
100. Egotism in German Philosophy, George Santayana
101. Laws of Mental Medicine, Thomson J. Hudson
102. Mental Fascination, William W. Atkinson
103. Mind-Energy, Henri Bergson
104. Repressed Emotions, Isador M. Coriab, M.D.
105. The Horla and Other Stories, Guy de Maupassant
106. What Is Civilization?, Maurice Maeterlinck, and others
107. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
108. (An Outline of) Philosophy, Bertrand Russell
109. The Power Within Us, Charles Baudouin
110. The Will to Power, Friedrich Nietzsche
111. Tantalus, F.C.S. Schiller
112. The Psychology of Insanity, Bernard Hart, M.D.
113. The Meaning of Dreams, Isador Coriab, M.D.
114. New Arabian Nights, Robert Louis Stevenson
115. The Mind of Mischief, William S. Sadler, M.D.
BOOKS AND PLAYS READ IN 1931
1. The Soul of Lilith, Marie Corelli
2. The Passionate Rebel, Kasimir Edschmid
3. The Garden of Kama and Other Love Lyrics from India, Laurence Hope
4. Songs of the Dead End, Patrick MacGill
5. Our Business Civilization, James Truslow Adams
6. Iconoclasts, James Huneker
7. Brand, Henrik Ibsen
8. The Devil’s Disciple, George Bernard Shaw
9. Plays, August Strindberg
10. The Hasîdah, Haji Abdû El-Yezdi
11. Poetry, Algernon Charles Swinburne
12. Castle Gay, John Buchan
13. The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli
14. Against the Grain, J. K. Huysmans
15. Cashel Byron’s Profession, George Bernard Shaw
16. Outline of Abnormal Psychology, William McDougall
17. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
18. The Time Machine, H. G. Wells
19. The Master Builder, Henrik Ibsen
20. Liberty, Everett Dean Martin
21. Behaviorism, John B. Watson
22. Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
23. Accepting the Universe, John Burroughs
24. The Credentials of Christianity, Martin J. Scott
25. The Personal Equation, Louis Berman, M.D.
26. The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler
27. This Believing World, Lewis Browne
28. Mystery Cities, Thomas Gann
29. Whither Mankind, Charles A. Beard
30. Civilization of the Mayas, J. Eric Thompson
31. Romance of the Machine, Michael Pupin
32. The Unconscious, Morton Prince
33. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
34. The Mind of Primitive Man, Franz Boas
35. Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation, Lafcadio Hearn
36. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
37. Twelve Bad Men, Sidney Dark
38. The Shadow-Line, Joseph Conrad
39. Nights and Days on the Gypsy Trail, Irving Brown
40. Figures of Seven Centuries, Arthur Symons
41. The Philosophy of Conflict, Havelock Ellis
42. Fifty Contemporary Plays, Shay and Loving, editors
43. The Red and the Black, Stendhal
44. King Mob, Frank V. Notch
45. America Set Free, Count Hermann von Keyserling
46. The Flame of Life, Gabriele D’Annunzio
47. Penguin Island, Anatole France
48. Men Like Gods, H. G. Wells
49. Hamlet, William Shakespeare
50. From India to the Planet Mars, Flournoy
51. Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Francis Yeats-Brown
52. Hypnotism, Dr. Albert Moll
53. Psychotherapy, Hugo Munsterberg
54. The Craft of Poetry, Clement Wood
55. The Psychology of Suggestion, Boris Sidis
56. The Laws of Psychic Phenomena, Thomas J. Hudson
57. Lost Ships and Lonely Seas, Ralph D. Paine
58. The Magic Island, W. B. Seabrook
59. In the Amazon Jungle, Algot Lange
60. Critical Essays, Thomas Carlyle
61. Creatures That Once Were Men, Maxim Gorky
62. Major Barbara, George Bernard Shaw
63. An Introduction to the Theory of Relativity, L. Bolton
64. Salammbô, Gustave Flaubert
65. Savage Messiah, H. S. Ede
66. Roman Holiday, Upton Sinclair
67. The Strange Death of President Harding, Gaston B. Means
68. The Changing Years, Norman Hapgood
69. Coronado’s Children, J. Frank Dobie
70. From Day to Day, Ferdynand Goetel
71. Dwarf’s Blood, Edith Olivier
72. The Ring of the Löwenskölds, Selma Lagerlöf
73. The Outlaw Years, Robert M. Coates
74. Marius the Epicurean, Walter Pater
75. The Windmill on the Dune, Mary E. Waller
76. Edge of the Jungle, William Beebe
77. The Candidate, Gustave Flaubert
78. The Castle of Hearts, Gustave Flaubert
79. Anthology of Revolutionary Poetry, Marcus Graham, editor
80. Bouvard and Pécuchet, Gustave Flaubert
81. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
82. The Temptation of Saint Anthony, Gustave Flaubert
83. Over Strand and Field, Gustave Flaubert
84. A Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert
85. Yet She Follows, Edna La Moore Waldo
86. The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann
87. The Whispering Gallery, Ex-Diplomat
88. Lo!, Charles Fort
89. The Last Mile, John Wexley
90. The Road to Rome, Robert E. Sherwood
91. Black Tents, Achmed Abdullah
92. Desire Under the Elms, Eugene O’Neill
93. Welded, Eugene O’Neill
94. Making a Newspaper, John L. Given
95. Olympia, Ferenc Molnar
96. The Chief Thing, Nicolas Eureinoff
97. Arms and the Man, George Bernard Shaw
98. The Mob, John Galsworthy
99. Peer Gynt, Henrik Ibsen
100. Candida, George Bernard Shaw
101. The New Humanism, Leon Samson
102. Law and Rights, W. E. Hocking
103. The Post Office, Rabindranath Tagore
104. Meteor, S. N. Behrman
105. The Guardsman, Ferenc Molnar
106. Mary Stuart, John Drinkwater
107. On Mediterranean Shores, Emil Ludwig
108. Costa’s Daughter, Konrad Bercovici
109. Holiday, Philip Barry
110. Claire Lenoir, Villiers de L’Isle-Adam
111. Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand
112. Death Takes a Holiday, Walter Ferris
113. Hypnotism, Milne Bramwell
114. East of Suez, W. Somerset Maugham
115. The Waltz of the Dogs, Leonid Andreyev
116. Great Philosophers, Elbert Hubbard
117. Brains, Martin Flavin
118. The Bhagavad Gita, Arthur Ryder, translator
119. An Enemy of the People, Henrik Ibsen
120. The Criminal Code, Martin Flavin
BOOKS AND PLAYS READ IN 1932
1. Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche
2. Assorted articles, D. H. Lawrence
3. Hollyhocks and Goldenglow, Elbert Hubbard
4. Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Symons
5. Psychotherapy, Edward W. Taylor
6. N by E, Rockwell Kent
7. The Book of the Damned, Charles Fort
8. Bystander, Maxim Gorky
9. Success, Lion Feuchtwanger
10. A Preface to Morals, Walter Lippmann
11. Deluge, S. Fowler Wright
12. Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D. H. Lawrence
13. The Psychology of Mental Disorders, Abraham Myerson, M.D.
14. The Art of Thinking, Ernest Dimnet
15. Harlem Shadows, Claude McKay
16. The Function of Reason, Alfred North Whitehead
17. The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Sigmund Freud
18. The Misuse of Mind, Karin Stephen
19. Psychology, Everett Dean Martin
20. The Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer
21. Mysticism and Logic, Bertrand Russell
22. The Meaning of Culture, John Cowper Powys
23. Philosophy, Nicholas Murray Butler
24. Lectures on Ethics, Immanuel Kant
25. R.v.R., Hendrik Willem Van Loon
26. Pat Hunley: The Story of an American, Parker La Moore
27. King Lear, William Shakespeare
28. That Man Heine, Lewis Browne
29. The Golden Bough, James G. Frazer
30. The Volga Falls to the Caspian Sea, Boris Pilnyak
31. Jefferson and Monticello, Paul Wilstach
32. Our Capital on the Potomac, Helen Nicolay
33. Dialogues: On Poetic Inspiration, Plato
34. The Travel Diary of a Philosopher, Hermann Keyserling
35. Data of Ethics, Herbert Spencer
36. Essays, Francis Bacon
37. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
38. The Meaning of a Liberal Education, Everett Dean Martin
39. Plays, Molière
40. Torrents of Spring, Ivan Turgenev
41. Tartuffe, Molière
42. Smoke, Ivan Turgenev
43. The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, Anatole France
44. Hard Times, Charles Dickens
45. The Man Who Laughs, Victor Hugo
46. The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym, Edgar Allan Poe
47. Plays, Euripides
48. Lectures and Speeches, Wendell Phillips
49. Poetical Works, Oscar Wilde
50. Poetry, Edgar Allan Poe
51. Socialism in America, John Macy
52. Representative Men, Ralph Waldo Emerson
53. On Liberty, John Stuart Mill
54. Faust, Goethe
55. Essays, Henry David Thoreau
56. Lyrics of Lowly Life, Paul Laurence Dunbar
57. The Rise of Silas Lapham, William Dean
Howells
58. Law for the American Farmer, John B. Green
59. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I, John W. Draper
60. The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot
61. Gillespie, J. MacDougall Hay
62. The White Company, Arthur Conan Doyle
63. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume II, John W. Draper
64. Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare
65. As You Like It, William Shakespeare
66. The Law of Biogenesis, J. Howard Moore
67. Socialism and Philosophy, Antonio Labriola
68. The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare
69. Dakota, Edna La Moore Waldo
70. Josephus, Lion Feuchtwanger
71. Thaïs, Anatole France
72. “Endymion,” John Keats
73. Pericles, Prince of Tyre, William Shakespeare
74. Antony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare
75. Macbeth, William Shakespeare
76. Othello, William Shakespeare
77. The Winter’s Tale, William Shakespeare
78. Venus and Adonis, William Shakespeare
79. All’s Well That Ends Well, William Shakespeare
80. Henry VIII, William Shakespeare
81. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume I, Edward Gibbon
82. The Last Days of Pompeii, Edward Bulwer-Lytton
83. Greek Heroes, Charles Kingsley
84. The Rivals, Richard Brinsley Sheridan
85. She Stoops to Conquer, Oliver Goldsmith
86. The Positive Outcome of Philosophy, Joseph Dietzgen
87. Evolution: Social and Organic, Arthur M. Lewis
88. The Merry Wives of Windsor, William Shakespeare
89. Henry IV, Part I, William Shakespeare
90. Richard III, William Shakespeare
91. The Comedy of Errors, William Shakespeare
92. Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare
93. Ethic, Spinoza
94. The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare
95. Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare
96. Love’s Labour’s Lost, William Shakespeare
97. Richard II, William Shakespeare
98. Two Gentlemen of Verona, William Shakespeare
99. Henry IV, Part II, William Shakespeare
100. Henry V, William Shakespeare
101. Twenty-four Hours, Louis Bromfield
102. Gyfford of Weare, Jeffery Farnol
103. Hanging Johnny, Myrtle Johnston
104. They Still Fall in Love, Jesse Lynch Williams
105. Snobs, M. A. Dormie
106. The World’s Best 100 Detective Stories, Volume 8
107. The World’s Best 100 Detective Stories, Volume 1
108. The World’s Best 100 Detective Stories, Volume 2
109. The World’s Best 100 Detective Stories, Volume 3
110. The World’s Best 100 Detective Stories, Volume 4
111. The World’s Best 100 Detective Stories, Volume 5