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Mencken Studies - William Manchester: H.L. Mencken: Disturber of the Peace. (New York, N. Y.: ColIier Books, 1962, 7s 6d; paper) Pp. 382. Introduction by Gerald W. Johnson. - M.K. Singleton: H.L. Mencken and the AMERICAN MERCURY Adventure. (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1962: London: Cambridge University Press, 48s.) Pp. vii, 269. - H.L.M.: The Mencken Bibliography. Compiled by Betty Adler with the assistance of Jane Wilhelm. Published for The Enoch Pratt Free Library on the occasion of its 75th anniversary. (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins Press, 1961: London, O.U.P., 60s.) Pp. xi, 367.
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It is interesting to note that a similar intellectual development into educated Toryism is documented in Wells's The New Machiavelli (1911), a book which Mencken admired and which influenced his plans for The American Mercury. Mencken also bears some striking intellectual similarities to Shaw. One might add that Wells's powerful influence on American populist thought is nicely indicated in Mark Schorer's recent study of Sinclair Lewis, which, incidentally, corrects some of Manchester's false emphases with regard to the relationship between Mencken and Lewis.