NEWSPAPER DAYSH. L MenckenKnopf ($3).
Like its immediate predecessor, Happy Days (about his boisterous Baltimore childhood), this is a book of reminiscences a rollicking account of Henry Mencken's start and rapid rise in journalism from 1899 to 1906. Interspersed are hilarious portraits of tavernkeepers, politicians, cops and other period fauna.
Mencken was city editor of the Baltimore Morning Herald at 23, managing editor of the Evening Herald at 25. His greatest feat was to write, after close study of maps and ship names, an imaginary account of the Russo-Japanese naval battle at Tsushimi, which...
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