CONTENTS

Introduction, ix
History of a Literary Radical, 1
Our Cultural Humility, 31
Six Portraits, 45
     First—Karen, 47
     Second—Sophronisba, 57
     Third—Mon Amie, 66
     Fourth—Fergus, 82
     Fifth—The Professor, 91
     Sixth—One of Our Conquerors, 98
This Older Generation, 107
A Mirror of the Middle West, 128
Ernest: or Parent for a Day, 140
On Discussion, 168
The Puritan’s Will to Power, 176
The Immanence of Dostoevsky, 188
The Art of Theodore Dreiser, 195
The Uses of Infallibility, 205
Impressions of Europe, 1913-14, 230
Trans-National America, 266
Fragment of a Novel, 300