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  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”

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  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

  79. Criminology, Wellington Scott

  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<
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  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