Bibliography
- Poems by Two Friends. 1860. (With John J. Piatt.)
- Life of Abraham Lincoln. 1860.
- Venetian Life. 1866.
- Italian Journeys. 1867.
- No Love Lost: A Romance of Travel. 1869. (Poems.)
- Suburban Sketches. 1871.
- Their Wedding Journey. 1871.
- Poems. 1873.
- A Chance Acquaintance. 1873.
- A Foregone Conclusion. 1875.
- The Parlor Car. 1876. (Farce.)
- A Day’s Pleasure. 1876.
- Out of the Question. 1877. (Comedy.)
- A Counterfeit Presentment. 1877. (Comedy.)
- *The Lady of the Aroostook. 1879.
- The Undiscovered Country. 1880.
- A Fearful Responsibility, and Other Stories. 1881.
- A Day’s Pleasure, and Other Sketches. 1881.
- Dr. Breen’s Practice. 1881.
- *A Modern Instance. 1882.
- The Sleeping-Car. 1883. (Farce.)
- A Woman’s Reason. 1883.
- Three Villages. 1884.
- The Register. 1884. (Farce.)
- *The Rise of Silas Lapham. 1884.
- The Elevator. 1885. (Farce.)
- Five O’Clock Tea. 1885. (Farce.)
- Indian Summer. 1885.
- The Garroters. 1886. (Farce.)
- Tuscan Cities. 1886.
- Poems. 1886.
- The Minister’s Charge. 1887. (= The Apprenticeship of Lemuel Barker.)
- Modern Italian Poets. 1887.
- *April Hopes. 1888.
- A Sea-Change or Love’s Stowaway. 1888. (Farce.)
- Annie Kilburn. 1889.
- *A Hazard of New Fortunes. 1889.
- The Mouse Trap, and Other Farces. 1889.
- The Shadow of a Dream. 1890.
- A Boy’s Town. 1890. (Autobiographical.)
- The Albany Depot. 1891. (Play.)
- Criticism and Fiction. 1891.
- An Imperative Duty. 1892.
- *The Quality of Mercy. 1892.
- A Letter of Introduction. 1892. (Farce.)
- A Little Swiss Sojourn. 1892.
- Christmas Every Day, and Other Stories for Children. 1893.
- My Year in a Log Cabin. 1893. (Autobiographical.)
- The Unexpected Guests. 1893. (Farce.)
- The World of Chance. 1890.
- Evening Dress. 1893. (Farce.)
- The Coast of Bohemia. 1893.
- A Likely Story, 1894. (Farce.)
- A Traveler from Altruria. 1894. (Romance.)
- My Literary Passions. 1895. (Autobiographical.)
- Stops of Various Quills. 1895. (Poems.)
- The Day of Their Wedding. 1896.
- A Parting and a Meeting. 1896.
- Impressions and Experiences. 1896.
- Idyls in Drab. 1896.
- The Landlord at Lion’s Head. 1897.
- A Previous Engagement. 1897. (Comedy.)
- An Open-Eyed Conspiracy. 1897.
- Stories of Ohio. 1897.
- The Story of a Play. 1898.
- The Ragged Lady. 1899.
- Their Silver Wedding Journey. 1899.
- An Indian Giver. 1900. (Comedy.)
- Room Forty-five. 1900. (Farce.)
- The Smoking Car. 1900. (Farce.)
- Bride Roses. A Scene. 1900.
- Literary Friends and Acquaintances. 1900.
- A Personal Retrospect of American Authorship. 1900.
- Doorstep Acquaintance and Other Sketches. 1900.
- A Pair of Patient Lovers. 1901. (5 stories.)
- Poems. 1901.
- Heroines of Fiction. 1901.
- The Kentons. 1902.
- Literature and Life. 1902.
- The Flight of Pony Baker. A Boy’s Town Story. 1902.
- Minor Dramas. 1902. (19 Farces.)
- Letters Home. 1903.
- Questionable Shapes. 1903. (3 stories.)
- The Son of Royal Langbrith. 1904.
- Miss Bellard’s Inspiration. 1905.
- London Films. 1905.
- Certain Delightful English Towns. 1906.
- Between the Dark and the Daylight. 1907. (7 stories.)
- Through the Eye of the Needle. 1907. (Romance.)
- Mulberries in Pay’s Garden. 1907.
- Roman Holidays and Others. 1908.
- Fennel and Rue. 1908.
- The Mother and the Father. Dramatic Passages. 1909.
- Seven English Cities. 1909.
- Imaginary Interviews. 1910.
- My Mark Twain. 1910.
- Parting Friends. 1911. (Farce.)
- New Leaf Mills. 1913.
- Familiar Spanish Travels. 1913.
- The Seen and the Unseen at Stratford-on-Avon. A Fantasy. 1914.
- Years of my Youth. 1916. (Autobiographical.)
- Buying a Horse. 1916.
- The Leatherwood God. 1916.
- The Daughter of the Storage and Other Things in Prose and Verse. 1916.
- The Vacation of the Kelwyns. 1920.
- Mrs. Farrell. 1921.
For complete bibliography, see Cambridge, III (IV), 663.
Studies and Reviews
- Boynton.
- Cambridge, III, 77.
- Clemens, S. L. What is Man? and Other Essays. 1917.
- Follett.
- Halsey.
- Harkins.
- Harvey, A. William Dean Howells. 1917.
- Macy.
- Phelps. (Modern Novelists.)
- Robertson, J. M. Essays toward a Critical Method. 1889.
- Underwood.
- Van Doren, Carl.
- Ath. 1920, 1: 634.
- Atlan. 91 (’03): 77; 119 (’17): 362.
- Bookm. 21 (’05): 566; 25 (’07): 2 (portrait), 67; 45 (’17): 1 (Hamlin Garland); 49 (’19): 549; 51 (’20): 385.
- Bookm. (Lond.) 23 (’03): 214; 52 (’17): 88 (portrait).
- Cath. World, 111 (’20): 445.
- Cent. 100 (’20): 674 (portrait).
- Critic, 38 (’01): 165.
- Cur. Lit. 52 (’12): 461.
- Cur. Op. 54 (’13): 411; 60 (’16): 352 (portrait); 62 (’17): 278, 357 (portrait); 63 (’17): 270; 69 (’20): 93 (portrait).
- Fortn. 115 (’21): 154.
- Forum, 32 (’02): 629; 49 (’13): 217.
- Harp. 113 (’06): 221 (Mark Twain)=Cur. Lit. 41 (’06): 48 (condensed); 134 (’17): 903; 141 (’20): 265 (portrait), 346.
- Harp. W. 46 (’02): 929 (portrait), 947; 56 (’12): Mar. 9, pp. 5, 27 (portrait).
- Ind. 72 (’12): 533 (portrait).
- J. Educ. 65 (’07): 311.
- Lit. Digest, 44 (’12): 485; 65 (’20): My. 29, p. 34, Je. 12, p. 53 (portrait), Je. 19, pp. 37, 56.
- Liv. Age, 294 (’17): 173; 306 (’20): 98; 308 (’21): 304; 312 (’21): 304.
- Lond. Mer., 2 (’20): 133.
- Lond. Times, Dec. 7, 1916: 585.
- Nation, 31 (’80): 49 (W. C. Brownell); 104 (’17): 261; 110 (’20): 673.
- New Repub. 10 (’17): supp. p. 3; 22 (’20): 393; 26 (’21): 192.
- New Statesman, 15 (’20): 195.
- No. Am. 176 (’03): 336; 195 (’12): 432 (portrait), 550; 196 (’12): 339; 212 (’20): 1 (portrait), 17.
- Outlook, 69 (’01): 712 (portrait); 111 (’15): 786, 798 (portrait); 129 (’21): 187 (portrait).
- R. of Rs. 61 (’20): 562 (portrait), 644.
- Sat. Rev. 91 (’01): 806.
- Spec. 98 (’07): 450; 117 (’16): 834.
- Westm. R. 178 (’12): 597.
- World’s Work, 18 (’09): 11547. (Van Wyck Brooks.)
- Yale Rev. n. s. 10 (’20): 99.
- Cf. also Cambridge, III (IV), 665.
Born at Philadelphia, 1860. Graduate of Roth’s Military Academy, Philadelphia, 1873. Studied law five years at the Law Academy, Philadelphia. Studied piano in Paris and was for ten years associated with Rafael Joseffy, as teacher of piano at the National Conservatory, New York. Musical and dramatic critic of the New York Recorder, 1891-5; of the Morning Advertiser, 1895-7; also musical, dramatic, and art critic of the New York Sun. Died in 1921.
For an understanding of Mr. Huneker’s criticisms, it is well to begin with his autobiography (Steeplejack).
Bibliography
- Mezzotints in Modern Music. 1899.
- Melomaniacs. 1902.
- Overtones. 1904.
- Iconoclasts—A Book of Dramatists. 1905.
- Visionaries. 1905.
- Egoists—A Book of Supermen. 1909.
- Promenades of an Impressionist. 1910.
- The Pathos of Distance. 1913.
- Ivory Apes and Peacocks. 1915.
- New Cosmopolis. 1915.
- Unicorns. 1917.
- Steeplejack. 1919.
- Painted Veils. 1920.
- Bedouins. 1920.
- Variations. 1921.