CONTENTS

I Four Moral Causes,[ 9]
1. Birth Control,[ 9]
2. Comstockery,[ 15]
3. Capital Punishment,[ 21]
4. War,[ 27]
II Four Makers of Tales,[ 34]
1. Conrad,[ 34]
2. Hergesheimer,[ 42]
3. Lardner,[ 49]
4. Masters,[ 56]
III In Memoriam: W. J. B.,[ 64]
IV The Hills of Zion,[ 75]
V Beethoven,[ 87]
VI Rondo on an Ancient Theme,[ 95]
VII Protestantism in the Republic,[ 104]
VIII From the Files of a Book Reviewer,[ 120]
1. Counter-Offensive,[ 120]
2. Heretics,[ 127]
3. The Grove of Academe,[ 133]
4. The Schoolma’m’s Goal,[ 141]
5. The Heroic Age,[ 146]
6. The Woes of a 100% American,[ 152]
7. Yazoo’s Favorite,[ 159]
8. The Father of Service,[ 164]
9. A Modern Masterpiece,[ 169]
10. Sweet Stuff,[ 172]
IX The Fringes of Lovely Letters,[ 175]
1. Authorship as a Trade,[ 175]
2. Authors as Persons,[ 180]
3. Birth Pangs,[ 185]
4. Want Ad,[ 190]
5. Literature and the Schoolma’m,[ 196]
6. The Critic and His Job,[ 202]
7. Painting and Its Critics,[ 208]
8. Greenwich Village,[ 214]
X Essay in Pedagogy,[ 218]
XI On Living in Baltimore,[ 237]
XII The Last New Englander,[ 244]
XIII The Nation,[ 255]
XIV Officers and Gentlemen,[ 263]
XV Golden Age,[ 270]
XVI Edgar Saltus,[ 277]
XVII Miscellaneous Notes,[ 283]
1. Martyrs,[ 283]
2. The Ancients,[ 283]
3. Jack Ketch as Eugenist,[ 284]
4. Heroes,[ 286]
5. An Historic Blunder,[ 291]
6. On Cynicism,[ 292]
7. Music and Sin,[ 293]
8. The Champion,[ 296]
9. Honor in America,[ 300]
10. Note in the Margin of a Treatise on Psychology,[ 302]
11. Definition,[ 302]
XVIII Catechism,[ 304]
Index,[ 305]

PREJUDICES
FIFTH SERIES

PREJUDICES: FIFTH SERIES