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]