Prejudices, second series

by H. L. Mencken

PREJUDICES

SECOND SERIES

By

H. L. MENCKEN

JONATHAN CAPE

11 GOWER STREET

LONDON

1921

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CONTENTS
I The National Letters, [9]
1. Prophets and Their Visions, [9]
2. The Answering Fact, [14]
3. The Ashes of New England, [18]
4. The Ferment Underground, [25]
5. In the Literary Abattoir, [32]
6. Underlying Causes, [39]
7. The Lonesome Artist, [54]
8. The Cultural Background, [65]
9. Under the Campus Pump, [78]
10. The Intolerable Burden, 87
11. Epilogue, [98]
II Roosevelt: an Autopsy, [102]
III The Sahara of the Bozart, [136]
IV The Divine Afflatus, [155]
V Scientific Examination of a Popular Virtue, [172]
VI Exeunt Omnes, [180]
VII The Allied Arts, [194]
1. On Music-Lovers, [194]
2. Opera, [197]
3. The Music of To-morrow, [201]
4. Tempo di Valse, [204]
5. The Puritan as Artist, [206]
6. The Human Face, [206]
7. The Cerebral Mime, [208]
VIII The Cult of Hope, [211]
IX The Dry Millennium, [219]
1. The Holy War, [219]
2. The Lure of Babylon, [222]
3. Cupid and Well-Water, [225]
4. The Triumph of Idealism, [226]
X Appendix on a Tender Theme, [229]
1. The Nature of Love, [229]
2. The Incomparable Buzzsaw, [236]
3. Women as Spectacles, [238]
4. Woman and the Artist, [240]
5. Martyrs, [243]
6. The Burnt Child, [244]
7. The Supreme Comedy, [244]
8. A Hidden Cause, [245]
9. Bad Workmanship, [245]