Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- A Note on this Edition -- Prologue -- Henry Louis Mencken (1905) -- Memories of a Long Life -- Early Days -- Old Days -- Surdi Audiunt -- The Passing of "The Hill" -- West Baltimore -- Mr. Kipling -- Man of Means -- Tale of a Traveller -- An Evening on the House -- Baltimoriana -- Obsequies in the Grand Manner -- Love Story -- The Life of an Artist -- James Huneker -- The Life of Tone -- Author and Journalist -- A Footnote on Journalism -- Reminiscences of the Herald -- On Breaking into Type -- Walter Abell and the Sun -- Twenty-five Years of the Evening Sun -- A Word about the Smart Set -- Foreword to A Bibliography of the Writings -- Five Years of the American Mercury -- Ten Years of the American Mercury -- Memoirs of an Editor -- The Worst Trade of Them All -- Why I Am Not a Book Collector -- Thinker -- Off the Grand Banks -- Meditations at Vespers -- What Is This Talk about Utopia? -- What I Believe -- On the Meaning of Life -- "Generally Political" -- World Traveler -- At the Edge of the Spanish Main -- The Beeriad -- At Large in London -- Reminiscences of 1917 -- The Black Country -- West Indian Notes -- Our Footloose Correspondents -- Foreign Parts -- The Adriatic: East Side -- Epilogue -- Henry Louis Mencken (1936) -- Notes -- Glossary of Names -- Bibliography of Original Appearances -- Index.