and major donors. The World War II Liberty Ship was named in his honor. Selected published works "Stories of the Streets and of the Town" (a series of newspaper columns published from 1894 to 1900) What a Man Sees Who Goes Away from Home (1896) Circus Day [1896] Artie (1896) Pink Marsh (1897) Doc' Horne (1899) Fables in Slang (New York, 1900)) More Fables (1900) American Vacations in Europe (1901) Forty Modern Fables (1901) The Girl Proposition (1902) The Sultan of Sulu (1902–03), a comic opera and a one-act play Peggy from Paris (1903), a musical comedy The County Chairman (1903 and 1924), a play In Babel (1903) People You Know (1903)) Handsome Cyril (1903,Strenuous Lad's Library, no. 1) Clarence Allen (1903, Strenuous Lad's Library, no. 2) Rollo Johnson (1904, Strenuous Lad's Library, no. 3 Breaking into Society (1904) The Sho-gun (1904), a comic opera The College Widow (1904 and 1924), adapted as Leave It to Jane, a musical by Jerome Kern, Guy Bolton, and P. G. Wodehouse in 1917. True Bills (1904) The Bad Samaritan (1905), a play Just Out of College (1905 and 1924), a play In Pastures New (1906) Round about Cairo, with and without the Assistance of the Dragoman or Simon Legree of the Orient (1906), from In Pastures New The Slim Princess (1907) The Fair Co-ed (1908), a musical Father and the Boys (1908), a comedy-drama The Old Town (1910), a musical I Knew Him When: A Hoosier Fable Dealing with the Happy Days of Away Back Yonder (1910 Hoosier Hand Book and True Guide for the Returning Exile (1911) Verses and Jingles (1911) On the Indiana Trail (1911) The Revised Legend for One Who Came Back (1912) Knocking the Neighbors (1912) Ade's Fables (1914) The Fable of the Busy Business Boy and the Droppers-In (1914) The Fable of the Roistering Blades (1915) Invitation to You and Your Folks from Jim and Some More of the Home Folks (1916) Marse Covington (1918), a one-act play Hand-made Fables (1920) Single Blessedness and Other Observations (1922) Mayor and the Manicure (1923), a one-act play Nettie (1923), a one-act play Speaking to Father (1923), a one-act play Thirty Fables in Slang (1926; reprinted in 1933) Bang! Bang! (1928) Old-time Saloon: Not Wet—Not Dry, Just History (1931) One Afternoon with Mark Twain (1939) Notes & Reminiscences (with John T. McCutcheon) (1940) Collected works The America of George Ade, 1866–1944;