Contents
| Page | ||
| I. | Towards an American Type | 1 |
| II. | Forty and Upwards | 29 |
| III. | Unprintable | 47 |
| IV. | For the Higher Study of American Literature | 75 |
| V. | W. C. Brownell | 87 |
| VI. | On Falling in Hate | 127 |
| VII. | On Falling in Love | 137 |
| VIII. | American Style | 151 |
| IX. | An Apology for Essayists of the Press | 171 |
| X. | The Significance of Sinclair Lewis | 187 |
| XI. | Where There Are No Rotarians | 219 |
| XII. | Mr. Tarkington on the Midland Personality | 227 |
| XIII. | Oscar S. Straus | 235 |
| XIV. | Brander Matthews and the Mohawks | 249 |
| XV. | A Note on Gertrude Stein | 261 |
| XVI. | Samuel Butler | 269 |
| XVII. | The Disraelian Irony | 291 |
| XVIII. | George Sand and Gustave Flaubert | 325 |
