A Saturnalia of BunkH. L. Menckens reputation as a journalist and cultural critic of the twentieth century has endured well into the twenty first. His early contributions as a writer, however, are not very well known. He began his journalistic career as early as 1899 and in 1910 cofounded the Baltimore Evening Sun. The next year he initiated a columnThe Free Lancethat ran six days a week for four and a half years, until the Sun discontinued it, partially in response to