Contents
| Page | ||
| I. | Mr. Mencken, the Jeune Fille, and the New Spirit in Letters | 1 |
| II. | Tradition | 13 |
| III. | Franklin and the Age of Enlightenment | 28 |
| IV. | The Emersonian Liberation | 63 |
| V. | Hawthorne | 122 |
| VI. | Walt Whitman | 153 |
| VII. | Joaquin Miller | 186 |
| VIII. | A Note on Carl Sandburg | 239 |
| IX. | Andrew Carnegie | 246 |
| X. | Roosevelt and the National Psychology | 256 |
| XI. | Evolution in the Adams Family | 288 |
| XII. | An Imaginary Conversation With Mr. P. E. More | 316 |
