Charles Scribner's Sons
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Critical Woodcuts
By
Stuart Sherman
Illustrated with portraits engraved on wood
By
Bertrand Zadig
Charles Scribner's Sons
New York · London
1926
Copyright, 1926, by
Charles Scribner's Sons
Copyright, 1924, 1925 by
New York Tribune, Inc.
Printed in the United States of America
Contents
| Page | ||
| Introductory | xi |
| 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 | 73 |
| VII. | Rose Macaulay and Women | 83 |
| VIII. | H. G. Wells | 94 |
| 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 | 173 |
| XIV. | Oscar Wilde | 188 |
| XV. | Pierre Loti and Exotic Love | 200 |
| XVI. | Don Marquis, Poet | 209 |
| XVII. | William Osler | 222 |
| XVIII. | H. L. Mencken as Liberator | 235 |
| XIX. | Barrett Wendell | 244 |
| XX. | Mandeville on the Seamy Side of Virtue | 261 |
| XXI. | Boswell on His Own Hook | 271 |
| XXII. | Laurence Sterne | 284 |
| XXIII. | George Washington as Diarist | 296 |
| XXIV. | Brigham Young | 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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