Critical Woodcuts

I.	Sherwood Anderson's Tales of the New Life	3
II.	D. H. Lawrence Cultivates His Beard	18
III.	Willa Cather and the Changing World	32
IV.	Floyd Dell on the Coast of Bohemia	49
V.	Ben Hecht and the Supermen	63
VI.	Ellen Glasgow: The Fighting Edge of Romance	73
VII.	Rose Macaulay and Women	83
VIII.	H. G. Wells	94

Second Gallery

IX.	Mr. Brownell on the Quest of Perfection	111
X.	Chekhov, Chekhovians, Chekhovism	122
XI.	Llewelyn Powys	138
XII.	R. L. S. Encounters the "Modern" Writers on Their Own Ground	156
XIII.	Anatole France: A Secretary and His "Immortal"	173
XIV.	Oscar Wilde: A Dandy of Letters and Acquainted With Grief	188
XV.	Pierre Loti and Exotic Love	200
XVI.	Don Marquis, Poet	209
XVII.	William Osler: The High Calling of Medicine	222
XVIII.	H. L. Mencken as Liberator	235
XIX.	Barrett Wendell: Farewell, New England	244

Third Gallery

XX.	Mandeville on the Seamy Side of Virtue	261
XXI.	Boswell on His Own Hook	271
XXII.	Laurence Sterne: A Graceless Man of God	284
XXIII.	George Washington as Diarist	296
XXIV.	Brigham Young: A Fundamentalist Who Got What He Wanted	311
XXV.	Interpreting Jesus	324
XXVI.	The Known Soldier	338

Illustrations

Stuart Sherman		Frontispiece
Sherwood Anderson		5
D. H. Lawrence		19
Willa Cather		33
Floyd Dell		51
H. G. Wells		95
W. C. Brownell		113
Anton Chekhov		123
Llewelyn Powys		139
Robert Louis Stevenson		157
Anatole France		175
Don Marquis		211
William Osler		223
Barrett Wendell		245
George Washington		297

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