tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-256801828148573136.post5058432311060613985..comments2024-01-26T17:29:53.415-05:00Comments on Reader's Almanac: Marion Elizabeth Rodgers on the new, expanded edition of H. L. Mencken’s autobiographical trilogyThe Library of Americahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17586915922688562543noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-256801828148573136.post-16581228473298987842016-11-01T11:07:39.352-04:002016-11-01T11:07:39.352-04:00For Marion Elizabeth Rodgers. In the preface to Su...For Marion Elizabeth Rodgers. In the preface to Supplement Two of The American Language, Mencken suggests that he would like to do a third supplement and lists some subjects and says he has an enormous amount of notes preserved and piling up. Is there any thought to editing and printing this material?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-256801828148573136.post-73980947957976969112014-10-16T18:50:46.574-04:002014-10-16T18:50:46.574-04:00Thank you for the reply and answer. I looked at th...Thank you for the reply and answer. I looked at the blog again this morning (I was up at 5 a.m.), and didn't see a reply, so that must have been before you answered my query.<br /><br />Thanks again. I had supposed that when HL wrote that segment of Newspaper Days Hitler had already made a name for himself. Edward Clinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12160209827969614964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-256801828148573136.post-73036834661041796022014-10-16T11:30:24.784-04:002014-10-16T11:30:24.784-04:00Edward: No typo in the text. During the earliest y...Edward: No typo in the text. During the earliest years of World War I, and even before, Mencken was notably pro-German (or, perhaps more accurately, anti-anti-German). He was especially angered by fallacious media reports of “barbarous Huns” bayoneting Belgian babies and such.<br /><br />In his monograph "Germany and German thought in American literature and cultural criticism," the scholar Peter Freese singles out this sentence in "Newspaper Days" as one of Mencken's "rather casual, bitingly ironical" remarks--suggesting that Americans thought Germans were Nazis long before there were even Nazis.The Library of Americahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17586915922688562543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-256801828148573136.post-38441805781437041192014-10-15T00:56:00.460-04:002014-10-15T00:56:00.460-04:00On page 293 of "Newspaper Days," there i...On page 293 of "Newspaper Days," there is this statement by H.L., "...the immortal McKinley was done to death by one of Hitler's agents...." Unless there was another notorious Hitler at large at the time (Adolf was only 12 years old), is this a typo or was H.L. being abstrusely metaphorical?Edward Clinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12160209827969614964noreply@blogger.com