In his late 30s and into his 40s, Benjamin De Casseres really hit his stride as a writer. His collaborations with editors like Elbert Hubbard – who published Roycrofter periodicals such as The Fra, The Philistine and The Papyrus – and regular submissions to other magazines and journals like Camera Work, The International and Puck set up his turn in the middle of this decade to writing more regularly for various newspapers. In particular, he became an opiner and critic for all three of the big New York papers: The Sun, The Herald and The New York Times.
Creatively, De Casseres also continued to dabble in poetry during the decade. His first book of poetry, The Shadow-Eater, was published in 1915, and is a collection of pieces published in the early part of the decade, along with some previously unpublished items.
In 1914, De Casseres’ first (and apparently only) science fiction story, “Arcvad the Terrible,” appeared in The Forum. It is a satirical piece about an Martian looking down on Earth and deciding that it’s time to do away with us Earthlings for good.
The bibliography below is unlikely to ever be complete, but I will continue adding items as I find them.
Publications
| Title | Periodical(s) | Date | Page(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Physiognomy of the New Yorker | Camera Work | Jan. 1910 | 35 |
| Ghosts and Their Makers | The New York Times | June 12, 1910 | L13, L20 |
| The Brain and the World | Camera Work | July 1910 | 27 – 28 |
| Decadence and Mediocrity | Camera Work | Oct. 1910 | 31-32 |
| Life is a paradox… | The Philistine | Oct. 1910 | 150 – 158 |
| Fornaro and His Work | Mortals and Immortals | 1911 | n/a |
| Bankrupt Science | The Sun | Jan. 3, 1911 | 6 |
| Rodin and the Eternality of the Pagan Soul | Camera Work | April-July 1911 | 13 – 14 |
| The Divinity of Genius | The Sun | Aug. 14, 1911 | 4 |
| The Unconscious in Art | Camera Work | Oct. 1911 | 17 |
| Solitude | The Papyrus | Oct. 1911 | 19 |
| The Pantheon | The Feather Duster | 1912 | 73 – 74 |
| The Dash of Jamake | The Feather Duster | 1912 | 75 – 81 |
| Modernity and the Decadence | Camera Work | Jan. 1912 | 17 – 19 |
| The Ironical in Art | Camera Work | April 1912 | 17 – 19 |
| The Anatomy of Satire | The Fra | June 1912 | 68 – 71 |
| The Mocker | Camera Work | July 1912 | 35 – 36 |
| Pierre Loti | The Forum | Sept. 1912 | 369 – 372 |
| Books and Bookmakers | The Fra | Nov. 1912 | ii – iii |
| Jules de Gaultier: Super-Nietzschean | The Forum | Jan. 1913 | 86 – 90 |
| The Minutes | Camera Work | Jan. 1913 | 21 – 23 |
| The Renaissance of the Irrational | Camera Work | June 1913 | 22 – 24 |
| Karma | The Sun | June 24, 1913 | 8 |
| Thirst of a Superman | The Sun | Aug. 5, 1913 | 6 |
| Insincerity: A New Vice | Camera Work | Nov. 1913 | 15 – 17 |
| Stendhal: Geometrical Don Juan | The International | Nov. 1913 | 326 |
| Arcvad the Terrible | The Forum | Jan. 1914 | 1 – 8 |
| Thomas Hardy: The Latest Recipient of the Nobel Prize | The International | Jan. 1914 | 20 – 21 |
| Emmeline Pankhust | The Fra | March 1914 | 182 – 183 |
| Spinoza: The Superman of the Jews | The International | March 1914 | 90 – 91 |
| The New Beauty | Puck | March 28, 1914 | 10 – 11 |
| Diabolistic Idealists: Shaw, D’Annunzio, Tolstoi | The International The Philistine |
April 1914 Dec. 1914 |
129 – 130 20 – 28 |
| Rhythmic Dervishes | Puck | April 4, 1914 | 4 |
| Anthony Aphrodisiac | Puck | April 4, 1914 | 14 – 15 |
| America’s Tallest Tower, Plus Some Temperament | Puck | April 25, 1914 | 11 |
| Jules Laforgue | The International | May 1914 | 158 |
| Shaw and the Dictionary | Puck | May 23, 1914 | 9 |
| The Great American Sexquake | The International | June 1914 | 195 |
| Woman: The Superman | Life | June 4, 1914 | 1040 – 1042 |
| The Illusion of Renunciation | The Fra | July 1914 | 126 – 128 |
| Reuben of Uz | The International | July 1914 | 215 – 216 |
| Lifting the Lid | The International | Aug. 1914 | 250 – 251 |
| Keep Cool | The Sun | Sept. 3, 1914 | 6 |
| The Pasteboard Charlemagnes | Puck | Sept. 19, 1914 | 12 – 13 |
| En Route with a Conscience | Puck | Sept. 19, 1914 | 18 |
| The Man with the Gloves | The International | Nov. 1914 | 345 – 346 |
| The Inescapable Resultant | The Sun | Nov. 15, 1914 | 12 |
| A Conversation Between George Bernard Shaw and the Dictionary | The Smart Set | Dec. 1914 | 167 – 168 |
| Might and Right | The Sun | Dec. 28, 1914 | Sec. 6, p. 6 |
| The Gallic Lark and the Sow-on-the-Rhine | Harris Broadsides | 1915 | n/a |
| Gray and Scarlet | The International | Feb. 1915 | 60 |
| The Philosophy of Hypocrisy | The International | July 1915 | 222 – 223 |
| Astronomical Note | The Sun | July 28, 1915 | 6 |
| Sea Mania | The Sun | Aug. 1, 1915 | Sec. 3, p. 11 |
| Moth-Terror | The Sun | Aug. 22, 1915 | Sec. 3, p. 7 |
| From a Far Away Hippodrome | The New York Call | Sept. 12, 1915 | Magazine Section, p. 9 |
| Victor Hugo | The International | Nov. 1915 | 341 – 342 |
| Love and Sleep | The Poetry Journal | Nov. 1915 | 101 |
| To Emile Verhaeren | The Sun | Nov. 21, 1915 | Sec. 6, p. 11 |
| Mary Smith: Puritan | The Bang | Dec. 6, 1915 | 8 |
| Vision | The Sun | Jan. 9, 1916 | Sec. 6, p. 11 |
| The Mysterious Weaver | The Sun | Jan. 16, 1916 | Sec. 6, p. 11 |
| Birth of a Sword | The Sun | Feb. 6, 1916 | Sec. 6, p. 11 |
| W.S.: 1616 – 1916 | The Sun | Feb. 13, 1916 | Sec. 6, p. 11 |
| The Decoy | The Sun | Feb. 20, 1916 | Sec. 6, p. 11 |
| He Was Many, Being All | The New York Times (Shakespeare Tercentennial Supplement) |
March 19, 1916 | p. 3 |
| Hawthorne: Shadow Emperor | Godwin’s Weekly | April 3, 1916 | 16 – 17 |
| In the Ramble | The Sun | March 5, 1916 | Sec. 6, p. 11 |
| The Humorist | Life | March 16, 1916 | 486 |
| Across the Gulf | The Sun | March 26, 1916 | Sec. 6, p. 11 |
| The Haunted House | Others | May – June 1916 | 243 – 244 |
| The Unconquerable Jew | Harper’s Weekly | May 6, 1916 | 512 |
| The Thing Needful | Life | June 1, 1916 | 1028 |
| Fifty! | Life The Washington Post |
June 8, 1916 June 16, 1916 |
1078 6 |
| Shelley | The Poetry Journal | July 1916 | 19 – 23 |
| Nonsense | Life | July 20, 1916 | 108 |
| On Coney’s Beach | Judge | Aug. 12, 1916 | ? |
| Debts | Life | Nov. 9, 1916 | 818 |
| Diary of a Literary Censor | Life | Nov. 23, 1916 | 894 |
| In Every Key | Puck | Dec. 9, 1916 | 10 |
| In Every Key | Puck | Dec. 16, 1916 | |
| Imagination | Life The Arizona Republican The Evening Post The Quill |
Dec. 21, 1916 Jan. 19, 1917 April 28, 1917 Nov. 1918 |
1138 4 16 13 |
| In Every Key | Puck | Dec. 23, 1916 | 17 |
| Recipe for Making a Best Seller | Judge | Oct. 13, 1917 | ?? |
| Ballet of the Minutes | The Sun | Sept. 29, 1918 | Sec. 5, p. 8 |