Henry Mitchell, Any Day

Titles and pagination from the Indiana University Press edition (1997).

Essays (in part or whole) on gardens, plants, and animals:

Patriotism and Dumas Malone      4
Mouse Encounters of the First Kind      8
Miss Furbish's Lousewort      24
What Men Want for Christmas      83
Dragonflies       104
The Normandy Cemetery      138
Dreams of Summer at Home      159
Conservation       162
American Summer      189
Buckingham       207
Why the Bear Slides Down the Hill      210
Bushy-tailed Symbol of the Nation      232

Do-It-Yourself      1
Patriotism and Dumas Malone      4
Mouse Encounters of the First Kind      8
Hubbub in the Pew      10
A Cure for the King      15
Hound Cures      18
The Quality of Food      21
Miss Furbish's Lousewort      24
Hank as Hero      28
Prudence       32
They Took Their Stand      35
Courage       42
The End of Chivalry      45
Goodbye, Little Sheba      50
The Lure of Klondikes and Cheetos      53
Self-Praise and Ruin      56
Song and Spirit      60
The Reality of Images      63
Story Telling and History      65
Lincoln, Mozart, and the Mysteries of Art      68
Religious Passions      71
Bus Drivers      75
Savagery and Science      79
What Men Want for Christmas      83
When a Little Girl Dies      86
French Studies      89
Democracy in Ancient Greece      92
Life's Comedy of Errors      96
Surviving English Food      100
Dragonflies       104
What Love Is About      108
Letting Every Dog Have His Museum      112
E. B. White      115
The World's Horrors      119
A Few Words about Syllables      121
Snapshots      124
Advice       127
Of Destiny and Departure      130
Commencement Primer      133
The Normandy Cemetery      138
Survival, and What It Doesn't Mean      141
All the King's Men      145
The Eternal Rigors of Democracy      148
Individual Rights      151
Giving Donkeys Their Due      154
Dreams of Summer at Home      159
Conservation       162
The Nature of Greatness      165
Ties and Things      168
On Jimmy Swaggart      171
Drop Me Down in Mississippi      174
Our Republic for a Horse      176
Spiritual Revival      180
To Hell in a Hand Basin      183
Seer Suckers      186
American Summer      189
Olympic Torch      192
More Advice      195
Silencing the Neigh-Sayers      198
American in Paris      201
Art and the Common Man      204
Buckingham       207
Why the Bear Slides Down the Hill      210
Tripping on the Mother Tongue      214
The Razor and the Raucous Scene      217
Gentlemen and Scholars      220
Wallowing in Sweet Swelter      223
Jim the Wonder Dog      226
Shuddering at the Mere Thought      229
Bushy-tailed Symbol of the Nation      232
On the Curse of AIDS      235
Putting Technology in Its Place      238
Wonder Bread      241
Heroes       244
Tidbits Dropped from the Table      248