ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Permission to reprint the essays herein has been graciously granted by the original copyright owners specified below. Since publication, however, the ownership of the several copyrights has been transferred to the author’s son, Dr. Francis Jay Nock.

The American Mercury:

What the American Votes For. February 1933

The Atlantic Monthly:

If Only—August 1937

Sunday in Brussels. September 1938

Snoring As a Fine Art. November 1938

The Purpose of Biography. March 1940

Epstean’s Law. October 1940

Utopia in Pennsylvania: The Amish. April 1941

The Bookman:

Bret Harte as a Parodist. May 1929

Harper’s Magazine:

Alas! Poor Yorick! June 1929

The King’s Jester: Modern Style. March 1928

Scribner’s Magazine:

Henry George: Unorthodox American. November 1933

Life, Liberty, And—March 1935

The Sewanee Review.

Advertising and Liberal Literature. Winter 1918