Henry Mitchell, Any Day
Site compiled by David Neumeyer
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
Complete table of contents:
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