Pale druggists in remote towns of the Epworth League and flannel nightgown belts, endlessly wrapping up bottles of Peruna.... Women hidden away in the damp kitchens of unpainted houses along the railroad tracks, frying tough beefsteaks.... Lime and cement dealers being initiated into the Knights of Pythias, the Red Men or the Woodmen of the World.... Watchmen at lonely railroad crossings in Iowa, hoping that they’ll be able to get off to hear the United Brethren evangelist preach.... Ticket-choppers in the subway, breathing sweat in its gaseous form.... Family doctors in poor neighborhoods, faithfully relying upon the therapeutics taught in their Eclectic Medical College in 1884.... Farmers plowing sterile fields behind sad meditative horses, both suffering from the bites of insects.... Greeks tending all-night coffee-joints in the suburban wildernesses where the trolley-cars stop.... Grocery-clerks stealing prunes and ginger-snaps, and trying to make assignations with soapy servant-girls.... Women confined for the ninth or tenth time, wondering helplessly what it is all about.... Methodist preachers retired after forty years of service in the trenches of God, upon pensions of $600 a year.... Wives and daughters of Middle Western country bankers, marooned in Los Angeles, going tremblingly to swami séances in dark, smelly rooms.... Chauffeurs in huge fur coats waiting outside theaters filled with folks applauding Robert Edeson and Jane Cowl.... Decayed and hopeless men writing editorials at midnight for leading papers in Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama.... Owners of the principal candy-stores in Green River, Neb., and Tyrone, Pa.... Presidents of one-building universities in the rural fastnesses of Kentucky and Tennessee. ... Women with babies in their arms weeping over moving-pictures in the Elks’ Hall at Schmidtsville, Mo.... Babies just born to the wives of milk-wagon drivers.... Judges on the benches of petty county courts in Virginia, Vermont and Idaho.... Conductors of accommodation trains running between Kokomo, Ind., and Logansport....
3
Eminence
The leading Methodist layman of Pottawattamie county, Iowa.... The man who won the limerick contest conducted by the Toomsboro, Ga., Banner. ... The secretary of the Little Rock, Ark., Kiwanis Club.... The president of the Johann Sebastian Bach Bauverein of Highlandtown, Md.... The girl who sold the most Liberty Bonds in Duquesne, Pa.... The captain of the champion basket-ball team at the Gary, Ind., Y. M. C. A.... The man who owns the best bull in Coosa county, Ala.... The tallest man in Covington, Ky.... The oldest subscriber to the Raleigh, N. C, News and Observer. ... The most fashionable milliner in Bucyrus, O.... The business agent of the Plasterers’ Union of Somerville, Mass.... The author of the ode read at the unveiling of the monument to General Robert E. Lee at Valdosta, Ga.... The original Henry Cabot Lodge man.... The owner of the champion Airedale of Buffalo, N. Y.... The first child named after the Hon. Warren Gamaliel Harding.... The old lady in Wahoo, Neb., who has read the Bible 38 times.... The boss who controls the Italian, Czecho-Slovak and Polish votes in Youngstown, O.... The professor of chemistry, Greek, rhetoric and piano at the Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Tex.... The boy who sells 225 copies of the Saturday Evening Post every week in Cheyenne, Wyo.... The youngest murderer awaiting hanging in Chicago.... The leading dramatic critic of Pittsburgh.... The night watchman in Penn Yan, N. Y., who once shook hands with Chester A. Arthur.... The Lithuanian woman in Bluefield, W. Va., who has had five sets of triplets. ... The actor who has played in “Lightning” 1,600 times.... The best horse doctor in Oklahoma.... The highest-paid church-choir soprano in Knoxville, Tenn.... The most eligible bachelor in Cheyenne, Wyo.... The engineer of the locomotive which pulled the train which carried the Hon. A. Mitchell Palmer to the San Francisco Convention.... The girl who got the most votes in the popularity contest at Egg Harbor, N. J....
INDEX
Adam, Villiers de l’Isle, [73]
Adams, Henry, [162]
Addams, Jane, [218]
Addison, Joseph, [148]
American Legion, [18], [49], [194], [256]
American Protective League, [141]
Annabel Lee, [94]
Anti-Saloon League, [11], [18], [32], [229]
Arnold, Matthew, [87], [92]
Asch, Sholom, [42]
Asquith, Mrs., [33]
Astor, Lady, [34]
Atlantic Monthly, [320]
Augier, Emile, [301]
Bach, J. S., [91], [143]
Baker, Newton D., [218]
Balfour, A. J., [21], [32]
Baltimore Sun, [38]
Balzac, H., [17]
Barton, William E., [171]
Beerbohm, Max, [77]
Beethoven, Ludwig van, [17], [85], [95], [99], [121], [143], [165], [191], [204], [290]
Belasco, David, [67]
Bennett, Arnold, [188], [202], [204]
Benson, Admiral, [136], [137]
Bentham, Jeremy, [285]
Berliner Tageblatt, [42]
Berlioz, Hector, [66]
Bible, [62], [97], [131], [148], [168], [194]
Bierbaum, Otto Julius, [35]
Birkenhead, Lord, [33], [48]
Bismarck, Otto von, [30], [290]
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, [38], [48], [49]
Böhlau, Helene, [203]
Bolshevism, [55], [112], [194]
Boston Transcript, [144]
Bottomley, Horace, [48]
Boyd, Ernest A., [41]
Brady, Diamond Jim, [109]
Brahms, Johannes, [17], [67], [69], [75], [81], [107], [143], [248]
Brandes, Georg, [41], [75]
Brieux, Eugene, [40], [306]
Browning, Robert, [154], [161]
Bryan, William Jennings, [20], [29], [54], [59], [119], [129], [174], [213]
Bryce, James, [32], [142]
Burleson, A. S., [144]
Butler, Nicholas Murray, [63], [213]
Cabell, James Branch, [107], [148], [204], [206]
Capitalism, [56]
Carlyle, Thomas, [39], [87], [92], [95], [290]
Cather, Willa, [203], [204], [209]
Catt, Carrie Chapman, [218]
Cawein, Madison, [179] ff.
Cézanne, Paul, [66], [75]
Chamberlain, Joseph, [48]
Chopin, F., [66], [69]
Churchill, Winston, [48]
Cicero, [148]
Civil War, [43], [52], [112]
Clemenceau, Georges, [42]
Clemens, Samuel L., [76], [94], [187]
Clutton-Brock, A., [33], [70]
Congress, [20], [32], [140]
Congressional Record, [63]
Conrad, Joseph, [17], [91], [203]
Constitution, U. S., [134], [292]
Coolidge, Calvin, [53]
Cooper, J. Fenimore, [34]
Cox, James M., [60]
Crane, Frank, [53], [213]
Creel, George, [141]
Criticism, [84] ff.
Curtis, Cyrus K., [53], [183]
D’Annunzio, Gabrielle, [67]
Darwin, Charles, [19], [129], [161]
Dawes, Rufus, [99]
Debs, Eugene, [24]
Declaration of Independence, [166]
Dempsey, Jack, [24], [58]
Dillon, Dr., [38]
Disarmament Treaty, [29], [56]
Dixie, [94]
Dreiser, Theodore, [66], [85], [86], [107], [187], [203], [204], [210]
Dryden, John, [166]
Dumas, Alexandre fils, [300]
Dunsany, Lord, [148]
Duse, Eleanora, [67]
Dvorak, Antonin, [43], [67]
Edwards, Jonathan, [176]
Ehrlich, Paul, [144]
Ellis, Havelock, [189] ff.
Emerson, R. W., [ 39]
Faust, [94]
Finck, Henry T., [69]
Flower, B. O., [218]
Foch, Ferdinand, [55]
Ford, Henry, [314]
France, Anatole, [17], [41], [148]
Franklin, Fabian, [177], [214]
Freud, Sigmund, [158]
Gale, Zona, [209]
Galileo, [19]
Garland, Hamlin, [218]
Garrett, Garet, [279]
George, W. L., [42]
Gilman, Daniel, C., [162]
Goethe, J. W., [17], [35], [39], [87], [92], [94], [140], [290]
Goldmarck, Karl, [204]
Gorky, Maxim, [43]
Gounod, Charles, [67]
Gourmont, Remy de, [19]
Grant, U. S., [31], [133]
Greenwich Village, [12], [17]
Hamilton, Alexander, [28], [117]
Hamlet, [94]
Hamsun, Knut, [42]
Harding, W. G., [11], [53], [60], [63], [146]
Harris, Frank, [69], [164], [182] ff.
Hartleben, O. E., [40]
Harvey, George B., [63]
Hauptmann, Gerhart, [41], [303]
Hazlitt, William, [87], [95]
Heart of Darkness, [163], [188]
Hergesheimer, Joseph, [202]
Hillis, Newell Dwight, [144]
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, [35]
Howells, William Dean, [67], [72]
Huch, Ricarda, [203]
Huckleberry Finn, [94]
Hughes, Charles E., [53], [57]
Huneker, James G., [65] ff.
Huxley, T. H., [129], [148], [162], [191], [242]
Huysmans, J. K., [40], [73]
Ibsen, Henrik, [41], [67], [75], [206], [301] ff.
Iconoclasts, [70]
Intellectuals, Young, [9], [10]
Irving, Washington, [34]
Jackson, Andrew, [28], [29], [31]
James, Henry, [12], [20]
Jefferson, Thomas, [28], [166]
Jespersen, Otto, [146]
Jordan, David Starr, [218]
Josef’s Legend, [68]
Kerr, Alfred, [40]
Kipling, Rudyard, [156], [157], [191], [206]
Klebs, Edwin, [43]
Knights of Pythias, [36], [137], [247], [253], [259], [321]
Know Nothings, [26]
Krehbiel, Henry, [69]
Ku Klux Klan, [11], [18], [26], [32], [49], [138], [134], [194], [201]
Kürnberger, Ferdinand, [42]
Lagerlöf, Selma, [203]
Lanier, Sidney, [152]
Lee, Robert E., [20], [44]
Lewes, George Henry, [87]
Lewisohn, Ludwig, [41]
Lincoln, Abraham, [20], [166], [171], ff.
Lindsey, Ben B., [218]
Liszt, Franz, [66]
Lloyd-George, David, [32], [48], [110], [119], [190]
Lodge, Henry Cabot, [57], [323]
Lodge, Oliver, [131], [189]
London Times, [36], [184]
Lowell, James Russell, [34], [87]
Lowes, J. L., [167]
Ludwig, Karl, [144], [242]
Luther, Martin, [131]
Lyly, John, [166]
Mabies, Hamilton Wright, [104]
Macaulay, T. B., [87], [92], [148]
Mann, Thomas, [35]
March, General, [136], [137]
Marden, Orison Swett, [301]
Marlowe, Christopher, [152]
Martial, [61]
Masefield, John, [42]
Mendelssohn, Felix, [17]
Meredith, George, [204]
Methodists, [25], [26], [32], [36], [74], [172], [280]
Mill, J. S, [285]
Miller, Joaquin. [152]
Milton, John, [89]
Mlle. New York, [77]
Mobile Register, [144]
Moody, John, [279]
Moore, George, [67], [148], [187]
More, Paul Elmer, [21], [70], [104], [176] ff.
Morgan, J. Pierpont, [20], [30], [115]
Müller, Johannes, [144]
Murray, Gilbert, [190]
Murry, Middleton, [70]
Musical Courier, [77]
Nathan, George Jean, [41]
National Institute of Arts and Letters, [81], [184]
National Security League, [140]
Nearing, Scott, [218], [282], [287]
New Republic, [144], [176]
New York Evening Journal, [63], [178]
New York Sun, [77]
New York Times, [36], [77], [88], [144], [184], [213], [257]
New York Tribune, [142], [144]
Nicoll, Robertson, [33]
Nietzsche, F. W., [41], [66], [69], [72], [75], [129], [148], [278], [287], [290]
Northcliffe, Lord, [49]
Ochs, Adolph S., [177], [183], [214]
Odd Fellows, [26], [137], [247]
Old Fogy, [69], [70], [71]
Othello, [151]
Painted Veils, [69], [70], [71]
Palmer, A. Mitchell, [144], [324]
Parsifal, [94]
Pershing, John J., [21], [24], [135], [138]
Philadelphia Ledger,[144]
Pinchot, Gifford, [218]
Pirquet, Clemens von, [42]
Plato, [85]
Poe, Edgar Allan, [71], [94], [99], [103], [152]
Poetry, [146] ff., [205]
Pound, Ezra, [12]
Prescott, F. C. [153]
Puck, [77]
Reading, Lord, [21], [48]
Red Cross, American, [46]
Reed, James A., [228]
Reese, Lizette Woodworth, [159]
Reventlow, Count zu, [38]
Ricardo, David, [285]
Roosevelt, Theodore, [54], [80], [119], [183]
Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr., [57], [63]
Root, Elihu, [57]
Rops, Félicien, [107]
Rosetti, Christina, [156]
Rotary Club, [11], [194], [201], [255]
Rothert, Otto A., [179]
Russell, Bertrand, [190]
Russell, Lillian, [67]
St. Augustine, [131]
Sainte-Beuve, C. A., [87], [92]
St. John, [131]
Santayana, George, [42]
Saturday Evening Post, [19]
Schmidt, Annalise, [42]
Schubert, Franz, [151]
Schumann, Robert, [17], [151]
Schwab, Charles M., [19]
Scott, Evelyn, [203]
Scribner’s, Charles, Sons, [69]
Seidl, Anton, [66]
Senate, U. S., [63]
Serao, Mathilda, [203]
Shakespeare, William, [17], [94], [164], [165], [170], [185], [262]
Shaw, George, Bernard, [40], [66], [129], [164], [303] ff.
Sheik, The, [163]
Sherman, S. P., [177]
Sienkiewicz, Henryk, [42]
Sims, Admiral, [136], [137]
Sinclair, May, [203]
Sinclair Upton, [204], [209], [213] ff.
Smith, Adam, [279]
Sousa, J. P., [134]
Spencer, Herbert, [129], [162], [248], [292]
Staël, Mme. de, [203]
Stearns, Harold, [12]
Steed, Wickham, [38]
Steeplejack, [79]
Strauss, Richard, [17], [68], [69], [75], [143], [170]
Strindberg, August, [306]
Sumner, William G., [162], [242]
Sunday, William A., [53], [59], [316]
Supreme Court of the United States, [10], [11], [295], [297] ff.
Swedenborg, Emanuel, [131]
Swinburne, A. C., [114], [152], [156], [157], [166]
Taft, William H., [53]
Thoma, Ludwig, [35]
Thompson, Francis, [156]
Thoreau, H. D., [118]
Town Topics, [34]
Tumulty, J. P., [45]
Underwood, Oscar, [57]
U’Ren, W. S., [218]
Van Dyke, Henry, [144]
Verlaine, Paul, [73]
Viebig, Clara, [203]
Vigilantes, [144], [184]
Volstead, Andrew, [24]
Wagner, Cosima, [66]
Wagner, Richard, [17], [66], [73], [91], [107], [143], [290]
Washington, George, [28]
Wassermann, Jacob, [204]
Weber, Gottfried, [99]
Wedekind, Frank, [43]
Wells, H. G., [204]
Wesley, John, [173]
Whitman, Walt, [67], [171]
Wilson, Woodrow, [20], [21], [33], [48], [53], [110], [126], [140], [183], [208], [213]
Wolsogen, Ernst von, [42]
Wood, James N., [53]
Wood, Leonard A., [53]
Woodberry, George E., [103]
Yeats, W. B., [156]