The Periodical Works library now has 21 full transcriptions, from a 1907 essay on public opinion to a 1938 column on political language. This first roundup brings the catalog together in one place.

Poetry

• D’Annunzio · Flying, February 1919. Four stanzas salute the Italian poet Gabriele D’Annunzio with figures drawn from mythology, literature, and war.
• Threshold · The Sun, January 11, 1920. A fleeting thought at the edge of consciousness becomes a butterfly, a strain of music, and a hint of forgotten ecstasy.
• The Sea · The Sun, January 25, 1920. The sea speaks in its own voice, claiming lightning, rainbows, and the reach of the heavens.

Books Reviewed

• Psychic Phenomena and Humble Horseradish · New York Times Book Review, April 18, 1920. DeCasseres uses three books on psychic powers and spirit communication to satirize the vogue for the supernatural. Books reviewed include Your Psychic Powers and How to Develop Them by Hereward Carrington, Modern Spiritism by A. T. Schofield, and Voices from the Void by Hester Travers Smith.
• A Moving Story · New York Times Book Review, May 2, 1920. A couple’s restless search for the perfect country home gives DeCasseres a way to write about a world on the move. The book is E. Temple Thurston’s Sheepskins and Grey Russet.

The Syracuse Journal columns

Many of these columns take up the expansion of federal power during the Great Depression, from public spending to regulation and labor policy. The National Archives’ introduction to the New Deal gives the context for the policies DeCasseres was arguing against.

• Communists and Civil Rights · Syracuse Journal, December 21, 1934. The deportation case of Alexius Karllson prompts DeCasseres to argue over civil liberties and the people he believes would abolish them.
• Mr. Tugwell · Syracuse Journal, January 15, 1935. DeCasseres takes on New Deal adviser Rexford Guy Tugwell’s arguments about rugged individualism and economic power.
• Matriarchy? · Syracuse Journal, March 9, 1935. Lillian D. Rock’s campaign for a woman president and vice president gives DeCasseres an occasion to imagine women in national office.
• New American Primer · Syracuse Journal, March 20, 1935. A mock primer recasts the political labels DeCasseres finds in the American press.
• American Parade · Syracuse Journal, March 28, 1935. A satirical procession puts New Deal officials, political figures, and burdened taxpayers on parade.
• America Last! · Syracuse Journal, April 1, 1935. DeCasseres takes issue with a Yale student editorial on Communism and Fascism and urges Congress to reject the Wheeler–Rayburn bill.
• Billion Paranoia · Syracuse Journal, April 2, 1935. DeCasseres turns the language of paranoia into a satire on federal borrowing, taxation, and spending.
• “Reactionaries” · Syracuse Journal, April 29, 1935. DeCasseres disputes the label “reactionary” and makes the case that individualism drives change.
• ‘Down With EVERYTHING!’ · Syracuse Journal, May 29, 1935. A series of mock slogans frames DeCasseres’s attack on what he sees as the New Deal’s destructive impulses.
• Who Is President? · Syracuse Journal, June 22, 1935. DeCasseres compares the Democratic and Socialist platforms of 1932 and argues that Roosevelt governed on Norman Thomas’s program.
• Fatal Ballyhoo · Syracuse Journal, October 10, 1935. DeCasseres argues that Roosevelt’s attacks on private wealth deepen the divide between capital and labor.

Other essays and articles

• The Borrowed Mirror · Cosmopolitan, March 1907. Public opinion becomes a puppet master in this defense of independent judgment.
• The Unconquerable Jew · Harper’s Weekly, May 6, 1916. DeCasseres reflects on Jewish survival and dispersion, drawing on biblical imagery and stereotypes of his era.
• Little Scenarios · The Smart Set, March 1920. Seven miniature scenes juxtapose everyday life with grand claims about economics, government, and peace.
• The Pan-Baiters · Judge, April 3, 1920. The god Pan becomes a figure for pleasure and freedom in a satire on censorship and moral policing.
• Word Meanings · Genesee Country Express and Advertiser, January 20, 1938. A short column examines how political labels such as “democracy,” “reactionary,” and “liberal” change in use.