Ambrose Bierce Articles

Ingersoll, The Dead Lion
San Francisco Examiner/July 30, 1899

A Voice from the Tomb
San Francisco Examiner/August 6, 1899

The Passing Show
San Francisco Examiner/August 6, 1899
San Francisco Examiner/August 13, 1899
San Francisco Examiner/August 20, 1899

Immortality and Reincarnation
San Francisco Examiner/August 20, 1899

The Passing Show
San Francisco Examiner/September 3, 1899
San Francisco Examiner/September 10, 1899

1900

Administration's Philippine Policy
Voiced in Congress
San Francisco Examiner/January 10, 1900

The Survival of the Fittest
San Francisco Examiner/January 14, 1900

Enemies of the Canal Fail
San Francisco Examiner/January 17, 1900

The Passing Show
San Francisco Examiner/January 28, 1900

British Soldier Shows His Fighting Qualities

at Spion Kop Battle
San Francisco Examiner/February 3, 1900

The Passing Show
San Francisco Examiner/February 4, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/February 25, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/March 4, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/March 11, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/March 18, 1900

San Francisco Examiner/March 25, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/April 1, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/April 8, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/April 15, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/May 6, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/May 13, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/May 27, 1900

Ambrose Bierce Says:

Public Opinion is Responsible for Many Fallacies
San Francisco Examiner/June 1, 1900

The Passing Show
San Francisco Examiner/June 3, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/June 10, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/June 17, 1900

We Should Hold
Minister Wu Ting-Fang as a Hostage
San Francisco Examiner/June 23, 1900

The Passing Show
San Francisco Examiner/June 24, 1900
San Francisco Examiner/July 8, 1900

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Ingersoll, The Dead Lion
San Francisco Examiner/July 30, 1899

A Voice from the Tomb
San Francisco Examiner/August 6, 1899

The Passing Show
San Francisco Examiner/August 6, 1899
San Francisco Examiner/August 13, 1899
San Francisco Examiner/August 20, 1899

Immortality and Reincarnation
San Francisco Examiner/August 20, 1899

The Passing Show
San Francisco Examiner/September 3, 1899
San Francisco Examiner/September 10, 1899

1900

Administration's Philippine Policy
Voiced in Congress
San Francisco Examiner/January 10, 1900

The Survival of the Fittest
San Francisco Examiner/January 14, 1900

Enemies of the Canal Fail
San Francisco Examiner/January 17, 1900

The Passing Show
San Francisco Examiner/January 28, 1900

British Soldier Shows at Spion Kop Battle His Fighting Qualities
San Francisco Examiner/February 3, 1900

The Passing Show
San Francisco Examiner/February 4, 1900

San Francisco Examiner/July 8, 1900

1902

For the Canal
New York American/April 8, 1902

For Secretary of Something
New York American/April 16, 1902

The Bald Campaigner
San Francisco Examiner/May 10, 1902

Some Needed Words
New York American/May 19, 1902

The Bald Campaigner
New York American/May 31, 1902

The Curmudgeon Philosopher
San Francisco Examiner/June 19, 1902

Concerning One Beslubbered
San Francisco Examiner/July 1, 1902

The Age Romantic
San Francisco Examiner/October 4, 1902

The Eyes of Chowa Maha Vajiravudh
New York American/October 22, 1902

The Nations That Drink Too Much
San Francisco Examiner/November 6, 1902

The Crime of 1902
San Francisco Examiner/November 22, 1902

The Man and the Bird
New York American/December 11, 1902

Venezuela as a Regrettable Phenomenon
New York American/December 16, 1902

1903

A Social Nuisance

San Francisco Examiner/January 18, 1903

A Gifted Millionaire

San Francisco Examiner/May 27, 1903

Habitual Criminals and What to Do With Them

San Francisco Examiner/June 11, 1903

The Curmudgeon Philosopher and What Ails Him

San Francisco Examiner/August 10, 1903

1904

The Passing Show

San Francisco Examiner/March 6, 1904

San Francisco Examiner/March 13, 1904

1905

The Views of One

San Francisco Examiner/July 6, 1905

San Francisco Examiner/October 23, 1905

San Francisco Examiner/October 24, 1905

1907

Small Contributions

Cosmopolitan/February, 1907

Cosmopolitan/August, 1907

Small Contributions: The Writer Folk

Cosmopolitan/September, 1907

1908

Small Contributions:

The Rise and Fall of the Aeroplane

Cosmopolitan/October, 1908

If Reform Reformed

Cosmopolitan/December, 1908

1909

Small Contributions: The Writer Folk

Cosmopolitan/January, 1909

"For years and years California’s position on the Chinese question has been conspicuously contemptible. We have been imploring Congress to save us from ourselves—to avert from our undeserving heads the consequences of our own selfishness. We have prayed that the Chinese might be kept away from us, in order that we might not hurt ourselves by employing them. Within the past fifteen years I have myself repeatedly submitted, with all due deference, that we need not employ them nor purchase of them if we did not wish, and that we merited no outside assistance so long as we did. Others spoke to the same effect, but we were a feeble and unheeded few.
"All eyes were turned to Washington, all hopes were centered in Congress. It is not surprising that the relief we got was grudgingly given, for our sincerity was open to disproof. If there had been no Congress to help us we should long ago have helped ourselves. But for our own apathy and greed there would not be today enough Chinamen in California to carry a lightweight Polish refugee into the Board of Education."

"Prattle," The Wasp, April 3, 1886

Mr. George R. Sims, writing in the London Referee, wants a short and convenient name for the offense known as “traveling in a class of railway carriage superior to that for which the defendant had taken a ticket.” It is a ludicrous fact that the offense has never had another name, nor is it quite easy to invent one off-hand. I should like to know what it is in Volapuk. We have in this country certain clumsy phrases which might advantageously be condensed into single words. For example, to “join in the holy bonds of wedlock” might become to “jedlock.” The society editor would be spared much labor if he could say of the unhappy couple that they were “jedlocked,” or “lemaltared,”—the latter word meaning, of course, “led to the matrimonial altar.” Many of the ordinary reporter's favorite expressions could be treated in the same practical fashion. The familiar “much-needed rest” would become simply “mest.” The “devouring element” would be “delement,” and have done with it. When it was, as it so frequently is, necessary to say that something “reflects great credit” on somebody, the verb “to refledit” would serve an honorable and useful purpose. Instead of writing of a man freshly dead that he was “much esteemed by all who knew him,” we should say that he was much “estewed.” By such simple and rational devices as these the language would be notably improved, and an account of a dog-fight in the street, instead of occupying three columns, could be compressed into two, and space saved for the preliminary maneuvers of another dog fight.

"Prattle"

San Francisco Examiner

September 25, 1887

1868

Confessions of a Weak-Minded Man

San Francisco News Letter/March 7, 1868

Confessions of a Weak-Minded Man--No. 2

San Francisco News Letter/March 14, 1868

Confessions of a Weak-Minded Man--No. 3

San Francisco News Letter/March 21, 1868

Letters from a Hkdhoite--No. 1