University of Virginia Library

Non-Academic Writings

As an Undergraduate

• [Unsigned news stories and editorials], Brown Daily Herald, September 1921-May 1925. [FTB was on the Herald staff during this period, and from 3 May 1924 to 1 May 1925 he was Editor-in-Chief.]

  The Anthology of English 3,4. Edited by Hans J. Gottlieb, Fredson T. Bowers, and J. Durward Miner. Providence: Brown University Department of English, 1923. [Including a story by FTB, "Release," pp. 1-11.]

  "The Street That Ends in the Sea," Casements, 2.1 (November 1923), [8-9]. [An allegory.]

  "The Passing Show," Casements, 2.2 (January 1924), [3-5]. [Parodies of Frederick O'Brien, Theodore Dreiser, amy Lowell, and D. H. Lawrence.]

  "Whitney Warren," Casements, 2.3 (March 1924), 9-13. [Story.]

  "A Coat of Arms for Prom Hosts," Brown Jug, May 1924, p. 12. [Verse.]

  [Unsigned items], Brown Jug, May, June, November, December 1924; January, February 1925. [FTB is listed as a "Juggler" in these issues.]

  "Herald Reviews Latest Number of Casements," Brown Daily Herald, 6 May 1924, pp. 1, 2.

  "The Bookstall," Brown Daily Herald, 30 September 1924, p. 4. [Review of May Sinclair's Arnold Waterlow.]

  "The Bookstall," Brown Daily Herald, 7 October 1924, pp. 2, 4. [Review of Anne Douglas Sedgwick's The Little French Girl.]

  "The Bookstall," Brown Daily Herald, 10 November 1924, p. 4. [Review of Ernest Brace's Commencement.]

  "The Plastic Age," Brown Jug, February 1925, p. 22. [Verse.]

  "College Slang a Language All Its Own," The Literary Digest, 84.11 (14 March 1925), 64-65. [The editor presents this piece as taken from an article by FTB "as summarized by the Providence Journal and the Brooklyn Eagle"; the same topic is addressed more seriously in "Diction on the Campus," an editorial in the Brown Daily Herald, 23 February 1925, p.2.]

  "The Bookstall," Brown Daily Herald, 24 March 1925, pp. 2, 3, 4. [Review of Sarah Gertrude Millin's God's Stepchildren.]

On Dogs

• book
• The Dog Owner's Handbook. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1936. xviii, 274 pp. Reprint: New York: Sun Dial Press, 1940.

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• "Irish Wolfhounds," American Kennel Gazette, 51.3 (1 March 1934)-57.12 (December 1940). [From March 1934 through July 1937, FTB occasionally contributed letters and columns to this monthly department; see the numbers for March and June 1934, August 1935, June and September 1936, and January and July 1937—this last piece was reprinted as "Morris and Essex K. C. Show, Madison, New Jersey (Club Specialty)," in The Irish Wolfhound Club of America . . . Annual Reports [for 1936 and 1937] (Battle Creek, Mich., 1938), pp. 70-75. From December 1937 through December 1940, FTB was the regular columnist; thirty columns of his appeared, in every number except those for September and October 1938, July through October 1939, and July 1940.]

  "Training Dogs for the Street," American Kennel Gazette, 51.10 (1 October 1934), 28-32, 156-158.

  "Novices All Need the Sympathetic Judging of Their Dogs," American Kennel Gazette, 52.4 (1 April 1935), 15-20.

  "English Notes and Comments," The Irish Wolfhound Club of America . . . Annual Reports [for 1934 and 1935] (Battle Creek, Mich., 1936), pp. 72-77.

  "A Feud between Ireland and England Caused a Dog Canard to be Born," American Kennel Gazette, 56.5 (1 May 1939), 8-12, 174-175.

  "Tie a Piece of String on Your Thumb," The Irish Wolfhound Club of America . . . Annual Reports [for 1938 and 1939] (Battle Creek, Mich., 1940), pp. 58-60.

  "Random Notes on the Standard," The Irish Wolfhound Club of America . . . Annual Reports [for 1946 and 1947] (Battle Creek, Mich., 1948), pp. 21-26.

  "The 1948 Specialty Show," News Bulletin—Irish Wolfhound Club of America, 2.1 (Autumn 1948), [1-4].

  "The Specialty Show," Harp & Hound, 5.3 (Summer 1954), 80.

  "Bowers' Comments," Harp & Hound, 15.2 (1964), 11.

  "I.W.s, People Need Training, Bowers Warns," Harp & Hound, 17.2 (1966), 14-15.

  "Fredson T. Bowers, 1939," Harp & Hound, 27.1 (1976), 36, 38-41. [Excerpts from seven of FTB's previously published columns in the American Kennel Gazette. This fiftieth-anniversary number contains six additional quotations from FTB on pp. 29, 38, 70, and 92, drawn from the Annual Reports and News Bulletin of the Irish Wolfhound Club of America and from Harp & Hound, as well as from the American Kennel Gazette.]

On Music

• "Music on Records" [later, after minor variations, "Music Off the Records" and finally, from 1950 on, "Music Off Records"], Richmond Times-Dispatch, 11 November 1939-6 November 1966. [1,162 columns in the

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  Sunday editions, except those for: 14 Dec. 1941; 24 May, 14 June-23 Aug., 6 Sept., 20 Sept.-6 Dec., 20-27 Dec. 1942; 1 Jan.-28 Feb., 14 Mar.-4 April, 2 May-27 June, 18 July, 1-15 Aug., 29 Aug.-3 Oct., 17, 31 Oct., 21 Nov., 12-19 Dec. 1943; 2-23 Jan., 6, 20 Feb., 5 March-9 April, 30 April, 7 May, 21 May-4 June, 18 June-16 July, 30 July, 13 Aug.-8 Oct., 29 Oct., 19-26 Nov., 24 Dec. 1944; 7 Jan., 21 Jan.-11 Feb., 4-18 March, 1-8 April, 6 May-24 June, 8, 22 July, 5-12 Aug., 2 Sept., 16 Sept.-7 Oct., 21 Oct., 4 Nov.-2 Dec., 16-23 Dec. 1945; 20 Jan.-10 Feb., 24 Feb., 3, 24 March, 12 May, 9, 30 June, 8, 29 Sept., 24 Nov. 1946; 26 Jan., 16-23 Feb., 9, 23 March, 6, 20 April, 11 May, 6 July, 10-17 Aug., 12 Oct., 16, 30 Nov., 28 Dec. 1947; 11 Jan., 4 July 1948; 26 June, 3, 17-24 July, 14, 28 Aug., 4 Sept. 1949; 19 March, 23 July, 27 Aug., 10-17 Sept. 1950; 4 Jan., 17 June, 1, 29 July, 2, 16 Sept., 30 Dec. 1951; 27 July, 7 Sept.-28 Dec. 1952; 4 Jan.-7 June, 8 Nov. 1953; 29 Aug. 1954; 5 April-2 Aug. 1959; 30 Jan. 1966. An unpublished checklist of FTB's reviews of classical records, compiled by John Denniston, is in the University of Virginia Library (Special Collections), where may also be seen the typescript of FTB's unpublished lecture, "The Ideal Record Collector," read at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 5 March 1961.]

  "What's Best Among New Type Phonograph Records?", Richmond Times-Dispatch, 10 April 1949, p. D-13.

  "Potential Buyers Should Test New Record Players," Richmond Times-Dispatch, 17 April 1949, p. D-17.

  [The London Music Scene], Richmond Times-Dispatch, 26 April 1953, p. 48.

On Stamps

• "A Checklist of RPO-HPO Changeover Postmarks," HPO Notes [journal of the National Highway Post Office Society], 7.2 (February 1956), 1-2; 7.3 (March 1956), 1-2; 7.4 (April 1956), 2.

  "Highway Post Office Cover Collection Can Be Called 'Recorded Postal History,'" Linn's Weekly Stamp News, 29.3 (26 March 1956), 3.

  "20 Cent Monticello First Day Covers," Western Stamp Collector, 30.82 (19 May 1956), 7.

  "More on the RPO-HPO Changeover Postmarks," HPO Notes, 7.7 (July 1956), 3-4; 7.8 (August 1956), 2.

  "Current HPO Steels," HPO Notes, 8.1 (January 1957), 5; 8.11 (November 1957), 3; 9.2 (February 1958), 5.

  "Notes on Recent Provisional HPO Postmarks," HPO Notes, 8.6 (June 1957), 2; 8.10 (October 1957), 1-3.

  "Collecting Provisional HPO Postmarks: A Real Challenge to Those Who Pursue Covers," Linn's Weekly Stamp News, 30.21 (29 July 1957), 14.