Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

by Clifton Fadiman

  Wordsworth 1: F. Muir, Irreverent Social History; 2: L. Missen, Quotable Anecdotes; 3: E. Marsh, A Number of People

  Wren 1: N. Lo Bello, European Detours

  Wright, F., 1: The Johnson Foundation

  Wright, O., 1: H. and D. L. Thomas, Living Adventures in Science

  Wright, R., 1: C. Webb, Richard Wright: A Biography, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA

  Wycherley 1: J. Spence, Anecdotes

  Wylie 1: V. S. Carr, The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA

  Xerxes 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 2: D. George, A Book of Anecdotes

  Yeats 1: L. MacNeice, The Strings Are False; 2: M. Cowley, The View from 80

  Yusupov 1: S. Marx, Mayer and Thalberg

  Zaharias 1: M. Biggs, ed., Women’s Words: The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women

  Zangwill 2: P. Mahony, Barbed Wit and Malicious Humor

  Zeno 1: W. Durant, The Story of Civilization, II

  Zeuxis 1: T. Fuller, The Holy State

  Zhou Enlai 1: D. Edgar, “Apparatchat,” review of F. Burlatsky’s Khrushchev and the First Russian Spring, Literary Review, Aug. 1991

  Zoeller 1: R. T. Sommers, Golf Anecdotes

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  The bibliography is divided into two sections: Books and Periodicals. In many instances, old or classical references do not have specific publication data.

  BOOKS

  Abbott, Willis J. Notable Women in History. Philadelphia: Winston, 1913.

  Abdy, Jane, and Charlotte Grere. The Souls. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1984.

  Ace, Goodman. The Book of Little Knowledge: More Than You Want to Know About Television. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1955.

  Ackroyd, Peter. T. S. Eliot. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984.

  Acton, Harold. Memoirs of an Aesthete. London: Methuen, 1948.

  Acton, Harold. More Memoirs of an Aesthete. London: Methuen, 1970.

  Acton, Harold. Nancy Mitford: A Memoir. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.

  Adair, John. The Royal Palaces of Britain. London: Thames & Hudson, 1981.

  Adams, Ansel. Ansel Adams: An Autobiography. Boston: NYGS/Little, Brown, 1985.

  Adams, W. Davenport. Treasury of Modern Anecdote. London: Thomas D. Morison, 1886.

  Adamson, Joe. Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Sometimes Zeppo: A History of the Marx Brothers and a Satire on the Rest of the World. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984.

  Adler, Bill. Baseball Wit. New York: Crown, 1986.

  Adler, Bill. My Favorite Funny Story, by Billy Graham… and Others. New York: Four Winds Press, 1967.

  Adler, Bill, and Bill Adler, Jr. The Reagan Wit. Aurora, Ill.: Caroline House, 1981.

  Adler, Mortimer. Philosopher at Large: An Intellectual Biography. New York: Macmillan, 1977.

  Agate, James. Rachel. New York: Viking, 1928.

  Alexander, Shana. Talking Woman. New York: Delcorte, 1976.

  Alifano, Roberto. Twenty-Four Conversations with Borges. New York: Grove Press, 1984.

  Allen, Steve. Funny People. New York: Stein & Day, 1981.

  Allen, Walter E. As I Walked Down New Grub Street: Memories of a Writing Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.

  Alsop, Em Bowles, ed. The Greatness of Woodrow Wilson, 1856–1956. New York: Rinehart, 1956.

  Alsop, Susan Mary. Yankees at the Court: The First Americans in Paris. New York: Doubleday, 1982.

  American Jest Book, 1789.

  Amos, William. The Originals: An A-Z of Fiction’s Real-Life Characters. New York: Little, Brown, 1986.

  Anderson, Dave. The Red Smith Reader. New York: Random House, 1982.

  Anson, Robert Sam. Exile: The Unquiet Oblivion of Richard M. Nixon. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984.

  Ardoin, John Louis, and Gerald Fitzgerald. Callas. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1974.

  Arendt, Hannah. Men in Dark Times. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1971.

  Arlen, Michael J. Exiles. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970.

  Arlott, John. Cricket: The Great Ones. London: Pelham Books, 1967.

  Arlott, John. John Arlott’s Book of Cricketers. London: Sphere, 1982.

  Arnold, Thurman. Fair Fights and Foul: A Dissenting Lawyer’s Life. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1965.

  Arvine, Kazlitt. Cyclopaedia of Anecdotes of Literature and the Fine Arts. Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1851. Rpt. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1967.

  A Sense of History. New York: American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., 1985.

  Asimov, Isaac. Asimov’s Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. New York: Doubleday, 1964.

  Asimov, Isaac. Isaac Asimov’s Treasury of Humor. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971.

  Aslet, Clive. The Last Country Houses. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.

  Asquith, Cynthia. Portrait of Barrie. New York: Dutton, 1955.

  Asser’s Life of King Alfred, ed. W. H. Stevenson. London: Oxford University Press, 1959.

  Atherton, Gertrude Franklin. Adventures of a Novelist. New York: Liveright, 1932.

  Atkins, Harold, and Archie Newman, eds. Beecham Stories: Anecdotes, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Thomas Beecham. New York: St. Martin’s Press. 1979.

  Aubrey, John. Brief Lives and Other Selected Writings. Rpt. New York: Scribner, 1949.

  Aubrey, John. Miscellanies, ed. John Buchanan-Brown. Rpt. Arundel, England: Centaur Press, 1972.

  Auden, W. H. A Certain World: A Commonplace Book. New York: Viking, 1970.

  Aye, John. Humour in the Theatre. London: Universal Publications Ltd., 1932.

  Baer, Jean, The Self-Chosen: “Our Crowd” Is Dead — Long Live “Our Crowd!” New York: Priam/Arbor House, 1984.

  Bagust, Harold. London Through the Ages. Cheltenham, England: Thornhill Press, 1982.

  Baillén, Claude. Chanel Solitaire. New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Books, 1974.

  Bair, Deirdre. Samuel Beckett: A Biography. London: Jonathan Cape, 1978.

  Baker, Richard. Richard Baker’s Music Guide. North Pomfret, Vt.: David & Charles, 1979.

  Balanchine, George, and Francis Mason. Balanchine’s Complete Stories of the Great Ballets. Rev. and enl. ed. New York: Doubleday, 1977.

  Balderston, Katherine C., ed. Thraliana: The Diary of Mrs. Hester Lynch Thrale (Later Mrs. Piozzi) 1776–1809. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1942.

  Balsdon, Dacre. Oxford Now and Then. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1970.

  Barker, Edmund Hillary. Literary Recollections and Contemporary Reminiscences of Professor Porson and Others. London: J. R. Smith, 1852.

  Barmash, Isadore. “Always Live Better Than Your Clients”: The Fabulous Life and Times of Benjamin Sonnenberg, America’s Greatest Publicist. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1983.

  Barnett, Correlli. Bonaparte. London: Allen & Unwin, 1978.

  Barra, Allen. That’s Not the Way It Was. New York: Hyperion, 1995.

  Barrow, Andrew. Gossip. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978.

  Barson, Michael. The Illustrated Who’s Who of Hollywood Directors. Vol. I: The Sound Era. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1995.

  Bartlett, John. Familiar Quotations. 14th, 15th eds. Boston: Little, Brown, 1968, 1980.

  Barzun, Jacques. A Stroll with William James. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.

  Bayard, Jean Emile. The Latin Quarter, Past and Present, trans. Percy Mitchell. New York: Brentano’s, 1927.

  Beach, Scott, Musicdotes. Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press, 1977.

  Bede. History of the English Church and People. Rpt. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1968.

  Beebe, William. The Book of Naturalists. New York: Knopf, 1944.

  Beecham, Sir Thomas. A Mingled Chime. New York: Putnam, 1943.

  Behan, Beatrice, with Des Hickey and Gus Smith. My Life with Brendan. Los Angeles: Nash, 1974.

  Behrman, Samuel Nathaniel. Portrait of Max: An Intimate Memoir of Sir Max Beerbohm. New York: Random House, 1960.

  Bell, Eric Temple. Men of Mathematics. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1937
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  Bellow, Saul. Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories. New York: Harper & Row, 1984.

  Benchley, Nathaniel, Robert Benchley. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1955.

  Benny, Mary Livingstone, and Hilliard Marks, with Marcia Borie. Jack Benny. New York: Doubleday, 1978.

  Benson, E. F. The Kaiser and English Relations. London and New York: Longmans, Green, 1936.

  Benson, Ivan. Mark Twain’s Western Years. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1938.

  Benson, Jackson J. The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer. New York: Viking, 1984.

  Berger, Francesco. Reminiscences, Impressions, and Anecdotes. London: S. Low, Marston, 1913.

  Bernard, André. Now All We Need Is a Title: Famous Book Titles and How They Got That Way. New York: Norton, 1994.

  Bernard, André, ed. Rotten Rejections: A Literary Companion. Wainscott, N.Y.: Pushcart Press, 1990.

  Bernard, Robert. Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983.

  Bernstein, Burton. Thurber: A Biography. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1975.

  Bernstein, Jeremy. Einstein. New York: Penguin, 1973.

  Bernstein, Kenneth. Music Lover’s Europe: A Guidebook and Companion. New York: Scribner, 1983.

  Berra, Yogi. The Yogi Book. New York: Workman Publishing, 1998.

  Berton, Pierre. The Royal Family: The Story of British Monarchy from Victoria to Elizabeth. New York: Knopf, 1953.

  Bespaloff, Alexis. The Fireside Book of Wine. New York: World, 1971.

  Beste, Henry Digby. Personal and Literary Memorials. London: H. Colburn, 1829.

  Biggs, Mary, ed. Women’s Words: The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.

  Bing, Sir Rudolf. 5000 Nights at the Opera. New York: Doubleday, 1972.

  Bing, Sir Rudolf. A Knight at the Opera. New York: Putnam, 1981.

  Bingham, J. Courage to Change: An Introduction to the Life and Thought of Reinhold Niebuhr. New York: Scribner, 1972.

  Birmingham, Stephen. The Grandes Dames. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982.

  Birmingham, Stephen. The Late John Marquand: A Biography. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1972.

  Birmingham, Stephen. “The Rest of Us”: The Rise of America’s Eastern European Jews. Boston: Little, Brown, 1984.

  Bishop, Morris. The Exotics; Being a Collection of Unique Personalities and Remarkable Characters. New York: American Heritage, 1969.

  Bishop, Morris. A Gallery of Eccentrics. New York: Minton, Balch, 1928.

  Black, David. King of Fifth Avenue: The Fortunes of August Belmont. New York: Dial, 1981.

  Bland-Sutton, Sir John. The Story of a Surgeon. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930.

  Blount, Thomas. Boscobel. London: for H. Seile, 1662.

  Bogarde, Dirk. An Orderly Man. New York: Knopf, 1983.

  Bogarde, Dirk. Snakes and Ladders. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1979.

  Boissier, Gaston. Mme de Sévigné, trans. Arthur Stanley. Paris, 1887–1919.

  Boller, Paul. Hollywood Anecdotes. New York: Morrow, 1987.

  Boller, Paul, ed. Presidential Anecdotes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

  Boller, Paul. Presidential Wives: An Anecdotal History. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

  Boller, Paul. Presidential Campaigns. New York: Oxford University Press. 1984.

  Bolton, Sarah K. Famous Men of Science. New York: T. Y. Crowell, 1989.

  Bonavia, Ferruccio, ed. Musicians on Music. New York: McBride, 1956.

  Bone, James. The London Perambulator. New York: Knopf, 1925.

  Bonington, Christian. Quest for Adventure. New York: C. N. Potter, 1982.

  Boorstin, Daniel. The Creators. New York: Random House, 1992.

  Boorstin, Daniel J. The Discoverers. New York: Random House, 1983.

  Boswell, J. Life of Johnson. London: Oxford University Press, 1934 (first published in 1791). Botkin, B. A. A Civil War Treasury. New York: Random House, 1960.

  Botkin, B. A., ed. A Treasury of American Anecdotes. New York: Random House, 1957.

  Bouhier, Jean. Souvenirs de Jean Bouhier. Paris: Émile Voitelain, 1866.

  Bourrienne, Louis. Memoris of Napoleon Bonaparte. New York: P. F. Collier, 1891.

  Bowen, Catherine Drinker. Miracle at Philadelphia. Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1966.

  Bowen, Catherine Drinker. Yankee from Olympus. Boston: Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1944.

  Bowles, Paul. Two Years Beside the Straight: Tangier Journal 1987–1989. London: Owen, 1990.

  Bowra, Cecil Maurice. Memories 1898–1939. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1966.

  Boyd-Carpenter, John. Way of Life: The Memoirs of John Boyd-Carpenter. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1980.

  Boydell, Thomas. My Luck Was In: With Spotlights on General Smuts. Capetown: Stewart, 1947.

  Boyle, Andrew. Only the Wind Will Listen: Reith of the BBC. London: Hutchinson, 1972.

  Bradley, Omar Nelson, and Clay Blair. A General’s Life: An Autobiography. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983.

  Brady, Frank. Onassis: An Extravagant Life. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1977.

  Brandreth, Gyles. Great Theatrical Disasters. New York: St. Martin’s, 1982.

  Brandreth, Gyles. The Joy of Lex: How to Have Fun with 860,341,500 Words. New York: Morrow, 1980.

  Brandreth, Gyles. 871 Famous Last Words. New York: Bell Publishing, 1979.

  Braude, Jacob M. Braude’s Second Encyclopedia of Stories, Quotations and Anecdotes. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1957.

  Braude, Jacob M. Speaker’s and Toastmaster’s Handbook of Anecdotes by and About Famous Personalities. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1971.

  Bredsdorff, Elias. Hans Christian Andersen: The Story of His Life and Work 1805–75. New York: Scribner, 1975.

  Brendon, Piers. The Life and Death of the Press Barons. New York: Atheneum, 1983.

  Brewer, Ebenezer Corham. Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1870). London: Cassell, 1923; Centenary Ed., ed. Ivor H Evans. New York: Harper & Row, 1981.

  Bridges, Robert Seymour. Three Friends: Memoirs of Digby Mackworth Dolben, Richard Watson Dixon, Henry Bradley. London: Oxford University Press, 1932.

  Brinkley, Alan. Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression. New York: Knopf, 1982.

  Brinton, Crane. The Lives of Talleyrand. New York: Norton, 1936.

  Brooks, Van Wyck. The Life of Emerson. New York: Dutton, 1932.

  Brougham, Henry, Lord. Men of Letters and Science Who Flourished in the Time of George III. Paris: Baudry’s European Library, 1845.

  Broughton, Lord. Recollections of a Long Life. London: J. Murray, 1909.

  Broun, Heywood Hale. Whose Little Boy Are You?: A Memoir of the Broun Family. New York: St. Martin’s, 1983.

  Brown, Anthony Cave. The Last Hero: Wild Bill Donovan. New York: Times Books, 1982.

  Brown, Ivor. A Charm of Names. London: The Bodley Head, 1972.

  Brownlow, Kevin. Hollywood: The Pioneers. New York: Knopf, 1979.

  Bryan III, J. Hodgepodge: A Commonplace Book. New York: Atheneum, 1986.

  Bryan III, J. Hodgepodge Two. New York: Atheneum, 1989.

  Bryant, Arthur. The Age of Elegance, 1812–22. New York: Harper, 1951.

  Bryson, Bill. The Mother Tongue. New York: Morrow, 1990.

  Buckle, Richard. In the Wake of Diaghilev. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1983.

  Buckle, Richard. Nijinsky. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971.

  Buckle, Richard, ed. Self-Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton, 1926–1974. New York: Times Books, 1979.

  Buckley, Tom. Violent Neighbors. New York: Times Books, 1983.

  Buckman, Peter. Lafayette. New York: Paddington Press, 1977.

  Buñuel, Luis. My Last Breath. New York: Knopf, 1983.

  Burgon, John. Lives of Twelve Good Men. New York: Scribner & Welford, 1888.

  Burney, Charles. A General History of Music from the Earliest Ages to t
he Present Period (1789), with Critical and Historical Notes by Frank Mercer. Rpt. New York: Dover, 1937.

  Burns, George. The Third Time Around. New York: Putnam, 1980.

  Burrows, Abe. Honest, Abe. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980.

  Bussard, Paul. The New Catholic Treasury of Wit and Humor. New York: Meredith, 1968.

  Butler, Peter, ed. The Wit of Prince Philip. New York: Hawthorne, 1966.

  Byrne, Robert. The 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said. New York: Atheneum, 1982.

  Byron, George Gordon, Lord. Byron’s Letters and Journals, ed. Leslie A. Marchand. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1973–1982.

  Cable, Mary. Top Drawer, New York: Atheneum, 1984.

  Caine, T. Hall. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Boston: Roberts Bros., 1883.

  Calder, Ritchie. Medicine and Man: The Story of the Art of Science and Healing. New York: American Library, 1958.

  Callières, Françoise de. Des Bons mots et des bons contes. Geneva: Slatkine Reprints, 1971.

  Cameron, Kenneth Neill. Shelley: The Golden Years. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1974.

  Campbell, Douglas, and John Higgins. Mathematics: People, Problems, Results. Vol. I. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1984.

  Canetti, Elias. Crowds and Power. New York: Viking, 1962.

  Canfield, Cass. Up and Down and Around: A Publisher Recollects the Times of His Life. New York: Harper’s Magazine Press, 1971.

  Cannon, Lou. President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.

  Cannon, Lou. Reagan. New York: Putnam, 1982.

  Cantor, N. F., and M. S. Werthman, eds. The History of Popular Culture. New York: Macmillan, 1968.

  Cardus, Neville. Sir Thomas Beecham: A Memoir. London: Collins, 1961.

  Cardus, Neville. Talking of Music. New York: Macmillan, 1957.

  Carey, John, ed. The Faber Book of Reportage. London: Faber & Faber, 1988.

  Caro, Robert A. The Years of Lyndon Johnson. Vol I: The Path to Power. New York: Knopf, 1982.

  Carpenter, Humphrey. W. H. Auden: A Biography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981.

  Carroll, James. Prince of Peace. Boston: Little, Brown, 1984.

  Carter, Harry. A History of the Oxford University Press. Vol. I. London: Oxford University Press, 1975.

  Carter, Jimmy. Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President. New York: Bantam, 1982.