The Silver Stallion
Writing about Cabell in Books
This section of the Bibliography covers books not specifically about Cabell, but which contain critical or biographical writing about him, Sometimes these include a chapter or article wholly or largely concerned with him; sometimes they handle other matters in which Cabell is discussed or mentioned. Books which mention Cabell or Jurgen only once or twice in passing are often not included unless the mention is felt to have significance. Until we find the time to list all these items, as found in Brewer, Hall, Duke, and other sources, we are posting only such items as we have had occasion to link to from the Bibliographies or other places on the site. In the meantime most of this material can be seen in Brewer, pp. 117-150 or 165-182, and in Duke (1979).
| Brewer Code | Title of Book | Title of Cabell Entry | Author (or Editor) |
| A6 | Men Who Make Our Novels (1924) | James Branch Cabell | C.C. Baldwin |
| A10 | Outlook for American Prose (1926) | Holy Bottle | J.W. Beach |
| A11 | Twentieth Century Novel (1932) | Hors d'Oeuvres: Cabell | J.W. Beach |
| A14 | The Literary Renaissance in America (1923) | James Branch Cabell | C.E. Bechhofer |
| A18 | Literary Spotlight (1924) | James Branch Cabell | E.H. Bierstadt / ed. J.C. Farrar |
| A21 | American Literature (1931) | James Branch Cabell | Russell Blankenship |
| A22 | Das grosse Bestiarum der modernen Literatur (1922) |
Cabell | Franz Blei |
| A25 | Portraits, Real and Imaginary (1924) | James Branch Cabell | E.A. Boyd |
| A27 | America in Contemporary Fiction | James Branch Cabell | P.H. Boynton |
| A31 | Nonsenseorship (1922) | none - scattered references | H. Broun & others |
| A36 | American Estimates (1929) | James Branch Cabell | H.S. Canby |
| A45 | Innocence Abroad (1931) | James Branch Cabell | Emily Clark |
| A48 | Books and Battles (1937) | Discussions of the Influence of Jurgen during the 1920's and of Mr. Cabell's Life and Character |
Irene & Allen Cleaton |
| A49 | Current Reviews (1926) | James Branch Cabell | A.W. Colton |
| A55 | The Elect and the Damned (1936) | Cabell and De Gaultier | Benjamin De Casseres |
| A58 | Forty Immortals (1926) | James Branch Cabell | Benjamin De Casseres |
| A63 | The Art of the Novel from 1700 to the Present Time (1933) |
Two Anti Realists: Willa Cather and Cabell |
Pelham Edgar |
| A68 | To the Pure (1928) | References to Jurgen (from the legal point of view) |
M.L. Ernst & William Seagle |
| A75 | Anthologie de la Litterature Americaine (1926) |
James Branch Cabell | B.M. Gagnot / ed. B.M. Gagnot &C. Cestre |
| A88 | Foreground of American Fiction (1934) | The Journeys of Jurgen | Harry Hartwick |
| A92 | Frontier of American Literature (1927) | Escape to Poictesme | L.L. Hazard |
| A96 | Mai Amerikai Dekameron (1935) | James Branch Cabell | Andras Hevesi |
| A98 | The Great Tradition (1935) | Two Roads | Granville Hicks |
| A105 | Before I Forget (1937) | Anti-Cabellum: an Answer to Mr. Cabell's Paper Ultra Crepidam |
Rupert Hughes (in Burton Rascoe, Before I Forget) |
| A107 | Intimate Letters of James Gibbons Huneker (1924) |
Letter on Jurgen | Josephine Huneker, ed. |
| A109 | After the Genteel Tradition (1937) | James Branch Cabell Period | P.M. Jack / ed. M. Cowley |
| A111 | On Strange Altars (1924) | James Branch Cabell | Paul Jordan-Smith |
| A112 | Sixteen Authors to One (1928) | James Branch Cabell | David Karsner |
| A117 | Living Authors: A Book of Biographies (1931) |
James Branch Cabell | Dilly Tante (pseud. of S.J. Kunitz) |
| A118 | Twentieth Century Authors (1942) | James Branch Cabell | eds. S.J. Kunitz & H. Haycraft |
| A122 | I Hear America (1937) | Cap and Bells | V. Loggins |
| A128 | Lucifer at Large (1937) | Something More about Cabell | C.J. McCole |
| A129 | Letters on Contemporary American Authors (1921) |
Letter: On James Branch Cabell |
Martin MacCoullough (pseud. of Samuel W. Tait, Jr.) |
| A138 | Study of the Modern American Novel (1928) | James Branch Cabell | A.R. Marble |
| A141 | I Live in Virginia (1935) | Henrico | J.R. Meade |
| A148 | Les Romanciers Americains (1931) | James Branch Cabell | Regis Michaud / ed. V. Llona |
| A149 | American Novel Today (1928) | James Branch Cabell and the |
Regis Michaud |
| A150 | Le Roman Americain d'aujourd'hui (1926) | James Branch Cabell ou l'Ironie |
Regis Michaud |
| A151 | Advancing South (1926) | James Branch Cabell | Edwin Mims |
| A160 | Southern Renascence (1953) | James Branch Cabell | E.W. Parks / ed. L.D. Rubin & R.D. Jacobs |
| A161 | Beginnings of Critical Realism in America (1930) |
The Incomparable Mr. Cabell | V.L. Parks |
| A163 | The New American Literature (1930) | James Branch Cabell | F.L. Pattee |
| A164 | Later American Writers, Part 2 (1927) | James Branch Cabell | L.W. Payne |
| A168 | American Fiction (1936) | James Branch Cabell | A.H. Quinn |
| A174 | A Bookman's Daybook (1929) | various - several articles | Burton Rascoe |
| A187 | Changing South (1927) | James Branch Cabell | W.J. Robertson |
| A191 | Literary America (1952) | James Branch Cabell | D.E. Scherman & R. Redlich |
| A198 | Money Writes (1927) | The Charmpoacher | Upton Sinclair |
| A212 | Heavens (1922) | The Heavens above Storisende | Louis Untermeyer |
| A214 | Modern American Poetry (1921) | James Branch Cabell | Louis Untermeyer |
| A216 | American and British Literature (1925) | James Branch Cabell | Carl Van Doren |
| A217 | Contemporary American Novelists, 1900-1920 (1922) |
James Branch Cabell | Carl Van Doren |
| A222 | American Novel 1789-1939 (rev. ed. 1940) | Romance, Comedy, Satire | Carl Van Doren |
| A224 | Fragments from an Unwritten Autobiography (1955) |
Mr. Cabell of Richmond and Poictesme |
Carl Van Vechten |
| A226 / A228 (rev.) |
Cavalcade of the American Novel (rev. version 1952) |
Cabell: A Reconsideration / (rev. as) James Branch Cabell: The Anatomy of Romanticism |
Edward Wagenknecht |
| A232 | American Novelists of Today (1951) | James Branch Cabell | H.R. Warfel |
| A234 | The Impuritans (1929) | James Branch Cabell | Harvey Wickham |
| A235 | Our Short Story Writers (1926) | James Branch Cabell | B.C. Williams |
| A237 | Panorama of American Literature (1947) | James Branch Cabell | W.T. Witham |
