A choice of days : essays from happy days, newspaper days, and heathen days / by H.L. Mencken ; selected and with an introd. by Edward L. Galligan.

Cont.: Introduction to the universe -- The caves of learning -- The Baltimore of the eighties -- The head of the house -- The training of a gangster -- Larval stage of a bookworm -- Strange scenes and far places -- Allegro con brio -- Drill for a rookie -- The days of the giants -- Recollections of notable cops -- A girl from Red Lion, P.A. -- The synthesis of news -- Fire alarm -- Adventures of a Y.M.C.A. lad -- The tone art -- Gore in the Caribbees -- Romantic intermezzo -- The noble experiment -- Vanishing act.