McBride also published a series of travel books which he himself had written, some under the pen name Robert Medill or Marshall Reid.

[4] McBride published James Branch Cabell's twelfth book, Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice (1919), which was the subject of a celebrated obscenity case shortly after its publication.

The hero, Jurgen, who considers himself a "monstrous clever fellow", embarks on a journey through ever more fantastic realms, even to hell and heaven.

The case went on for two years before Cabell and McBride won: the "indecencies" were double entendres that also had a perfectly decent interpretation, though it appeared that what had actually offended the prosecution most was a joke about papal infallibility.

[5] McBride, then located at 200 East 37th Street, New York, declared bankruptcy (chapter XI), October 27, 1948.

He died in Philadelphia in 1970 and is buried at the West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Plymouth Section, Lot 14 (Oberholtzer Family).