1928

The Sweet Singer of Michigan: The Collected Poems of Julia A. Moore.
Chicago: P. Covici, 1928.

"Burlesques in Nineteenth Century American Humor," American Literature, 2 (1930), 236–247.

"Popularity of Nineteenth–Century American Humorists," American Literature, 3 (1931). 175–194.
Review of Rourke, Constance. American Humor: A Study of the National Character. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1931; in American Literature, 3 (1931–32), 340–343.

Review of Clemens, Cyril. Mark Twain the Letter Writer. Boston: Meador Publishing Co., 1932; in American Literature, 4(1932–33), 403–404.
Review of DeVoto, Bernard. Mark Twain’s America. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1932; in American Literature, 4 (1932–.33), 399–403.
Review of Masson, Thomas L. Our American Humorists. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1931; in American Literature, 4(1932–33), 90.

Mike Fink, King of Mississippi Keelboatmen. 1933; rpt. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1971. [co-author, F. J. Meine.]

Approaches to Poetry. 1935; rpt. New York: Appleton–Century, 1953. [co-editor, W. K. Chandler.]

Candidate for Murder. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1936. [pseud. Mortimer Post; co-author, C. Kerby-Miller.]
Review of Hudson, Arthur Palmer. Humor of the Old Deep South. New York: Macmillan, 1936; in American Literature, 8 (1936–37), 478–480.
Review of Leacock, Stephen. The Greatest Pages of American Humor. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1936; in American Literature, 8 (1936–37), 478.
"Sut Lovingood." Saturday Review of Literature, 15 (7 November 1936), 3–4, 16.

Native American Humor. 1937; rpt. San Francisco: Chandler, 1960.
Outline History of World Literature. Chicago: University of Knowledge, 1937, 1938.

[Professor Blair’s essays are "The Beginnings of Literature," "Greek and Latin Literature," "American Literature to
1900," and "Contemporary American Prose."]

"Mark Twain’s Way with Words." University Review, 5 (1938), 60–62.
Review of Stewart, George R. John Phoenix, Esq., The Veritable Squibob: A Life of Captain George H Derby, U. S. A. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1937; in American Literature, 10 (1938–39), 235–236.

"Inquisitive Yankee Descendants in Arkansas." American Speech, 14 (1939), 11–22.
"Mark Twain, New York Correspondent." American Literature, 11 (1939), 245–259.
"On the Structure of Tom Sawyer." Modern Philology, 37 (1939), 75–88.
Review of Clark, Thomas D. The Rampaging Frontier: Manners and Humors of Pioneer Days in the South and Middle West. New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1939]; in American Literature, 11 (1939–40), 323–325.
Review of Ellis, Elmer (ed.). Finley Peter Dunne: Mr. Dooley at His Best. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1938; in American Literature, 11 (1939–40), 323.

"Roots of American Realism." University Review, 6 (1940), 275–281.
"Six Davy Crocketts." Southwest Review, 25 (1940), 443–462.

Review of Hemminghaus, Edgar H. Mark Twain in Germany. New York: Columbia University Press, 1939; in American Literature, 13 (1941–42), 87.

"Color, Light and Shadow in Hawthorne’s Fiction." New England Quarterly, 15 (1942), 74–94.
Horse Sense in American Humor. 1942; rpt. New York: Russell & Russell, 1962.
Review of De Voto, Bernard. Mark Twain at Work Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1942; in American Literature, (1942–43), 447–449.

Manual of Reading. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman, 1943.
"The Technique of ‘The Bear of Arkansas.’" Southwest Review, 28 (1943), 426–435.

"Emerson’s Literary Method." Modern Philology, 42 (1944),79–95. [co-author, Clarence Faust.]

"Poe’s Conception of Incident and Tone in the Tale." Modern Philology, 41 (1944), 228–240.
Review of Ferguson, DeLancey. Mark Twain: Man and Legend. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943; in American Literature, 16 (1944–45), 143–145.
Tall Tale America. New York: Coward McCann, 1944.

Better Reading: Factual Prose. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman, 1945, 1949, 1954, 1959. [co-editor, John Gerber.]
"Laughter in Wartime America." College English, 6 (1945), 361–367.

Review of Hoole, W. Stanley. Sam Slick in Texas. San Antonio, Texas: The Naylor Company, 1945; in American Literature, 18 (1946–47), 173–174.

Literature of the United States. (2 vols.) Glenview, Ill.: Scott Foresman, 1947, 1953, 1954, 1961, 1966, 1969, 1970. [co-editors, Theodore Hornberger and Randall Stewart.]

"American Literature." The American Peoples Encyclopedia. Chicago: The Spencer Press, 1948. I, 735–747.
Better Reading: Literature. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman, 1948, 1954. 1959. [co–editor, John Gerber.]
Review of Kelley, Fred C. George Ade, Warmhearted Satirist. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1947; in American Literature 20 (1948–49), 350–351.

Review of Bellamy, Gladys Carmen. Mark Twain as Literary Artist. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1950; in American Literature, 22 (1950–51), 521–524.

Review of Andrews, Kenneth R. Nook Farm: Mark Twain’s Hartford Circle. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1950; in American Literature, 23 (1951–52), 258–259.

"Last of the Jongleurs." Saturday Review, 35 (30 August 1952), 9–10.
Review of Graham, Philip. Showboats: The History of an American Institution. Austin: The University of Texas Press, [1952] ; in American Literature, 24 (1952–53), 416–417.

Review of Hoole, W. Stanley. Alias Simon Suggs: The Life and Times of Johnson Jones Hooper. University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1952; in American Literature, 25 (1953–54), 105–106.

Review of Howard, Leon. Victorian Knight–Errant: A Study of the Early Career of James Russell Lowell. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1952; in American Literature. 25 (1953–54), 369–374.
"Traditions in Southern Humor." American Quarterly, 5 (1953), 132–42.

Davy Crockett: Frontier Hero. New York: Coward, McCann, 1955.
Review of Allen, Jerry. The Adventures of Mark Twain. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1954; in American Literature, 27 (1955–56), 124–125.

Half Horse Half Alligator: Growth of the Mike Fink Legend. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956. [co-editor, F. J. Meine.]
"Nathaniel Hawthorne." Eight American Authors. Edited by Floyd Stovall. 1956; rpt. and revised New York: W. W. Norton, 1971; pp. 100–152.
Review of Waggoner, Hyatt H. Hawthorne: A New Evaluation. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1956; in American Literature, 28 (1956–57), 526–5 30.
"Why Huck and Jim Went Downstream." College English, 18 (1956), 106–197.

"The French Revolution and Huckleberry Finn." Modern Philology, 55 (1957), 21–35.

Review of Yates, Norris W. William T. Porter and the "Spirit of the Times": A Study of the Big Bear School of Humor. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1957; in American Literature, 30 (1958–59), 122–123.
"When was Huckleberry Finn Written?" American Literature, 30 (1958–59), 1–25.

Mark Twain and Huck Finn. 1960; rpt. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1973.

"The Urbanization of American Humor." Voice of America Forum Lecture; rpt. in A Time of Harvest. Edited by R. S. Spiller. New York: Hill and Wang, 1962; pp. 50–60.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Boston: Hougton Mifflin, 1962.

The Art of "Huckleberry Finn:" Text, Sources, and Criticisms. 1962; rpt. San Francisco: Chandler, 1969. [co-editor, Hamlin Hill.]
Review of Salomon, Roger B. Twain and the Image of History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961; in American Literature, 34 (1962–63), 578–580.
Review of Stone, Albert E., Jr. The Innocent Eye: Childhood in Mark Twain’s Imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961; in American Literature, 34 (1962–63), 296–297.
Selected Shorter Writings of Mark Twain. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962.
"Some Values of American Humor." Scott Lecture, Marshall University; rpt. by Marshall University, 1962.

American Literature: A Brief History. 1964; rev. ed. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman, 1974. [co-authors, Theodore Hornberger and Randall Stewart.I
"Introduction." E. B. White. One Man’s Meat. New York: Harper Torch-books, Harper & Brothers, 1964; pp. vii–xix.
"Profile of a Humor Scholar: Franklin J. Meine." The Lovingood Papers 1964. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1964; pp. 7–9.

"Dashiell Hammett: Themes and Techniques." Essays in Honor of Jay B. Hubbell. Edited by Clarence Ghodes. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1967; pp. 295–306.
"Introduction to ‘Harris’s Best: Bill Ainsworth’s Quarter Race.’" The Lovingood Papers 1965. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1967; pp. 16–20.
Review of Kaplan, Justin. Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966; in American Literature, 39 (1967–68), 220–223.

Review of Bier, Jesse. The Rise and Fall of American Humor. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1968; in American Literature, 40 (1968–69), 551–53.

Mark Twain Papers: Mark Twain’s Hannibal, Huck & Tom. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969.

Review of Brown, William R. Will Rogers and the American Dream. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1970; in American Literature, 43 (1971–72), 470–471.

Omoo. New York: Hendricks House, 1972. [co-editor, Harrison Hayford.]

"Mark Twain’s Other Masterpiece: ‘Jim Baker’s Blue–Jay Yarn.’" Studies in American Humor, 1 (1975), 132–147.

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