PREJUDICES
FIFTH SERIES

By H. L. MENCKEN

PUBLISHED AT THE BORZOI · NEW YORK · BY
ALFRED · A · KNOPF

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
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PREJUDICES: FIFTH SERIES

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