which he lived, the dream he summoned us to realize. And it issues now like a gallant command out of the space left vacant by his passing. VAN WYCK BROOKS. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION, ix HISTORY OF A LITERARY RADICAL, 1 OUR CULTURAL HUMILITY, 31 SIX PORTRAITS, 45 FIRST--KAREN, 47 SECOND--SOPHRONISBA, 57 THIRD--MON AMIE, 66 FOURTH--FERGUS, 82 FIFTH--THE PROFESSOR, 91 SIXTH--ONE OF OUR CONQUERORS, 98 THIS OLDER GENERATION, 107 A MIRROR OF THE MIDDLE WEST, 128 ERNEST: OR PARENT FOR A DAY, 140 ON DISCUSSION, 168 THE PURITAN’S WILL TO POWER, 176 THE IMMANENCE OF DOSTOEVSKY, 188 THE ART OF THEODORE DREISER, 195 THE USES OF INFALLIBILITY, 205 IMPRESSIONS OF EUROPE, 1913-14, 230 TRANS-NATIONAL AMERICA, 266 FRAGMENT OF A NOVEL, 300 HISTORY OF A LITERARY RADICAL