In “Linda Condon,” and particularly in “Java Head,” Hergesheimer has dealt with similar topics. The hero of “Java Head” is a Puritan let loose. He brought back with him to Hawthorne’s old Salem a Manchu princess whom he married, thereby greatly scandalizing his relatives. The book is full of picturesque and tragic contrasts. “Linda Condon,” is a case of moral duplicity. Linda, bearing the weight of a loaded heredity, is a willful inhibitor. She leads two lives. Pure as a lily among roués, she abandons her carnal self to her husband, while devoting to a sculptor an ideal love wherein her real personality is gratified. There is a great temptation to include Waldo Frank among the Freudians. He is a master of the inner monologue. He has powerfully dramatized in “Chalk Face” a morbid case of double personality. “Chalk Face” is the story of a daydreamer, half insane, somewhat reminiscent of George Duhamel’s Salavin. The insanity of this person is the result of a divorce between his intentions and his will. His free will, lacking balance, has gone over to the side of blind instincts and unconscious desires. The hero of “Chalk Face” runs unconsciously to passionate crime, and finally jumps into a lime kiln, in hallucination of his own image. Waldo Frank is not a pure realist. He likes to transpose reality into lyrical and musical variations. His novel “A Holiday” should be compared with Sherwood Anderson’s “Dark Laughter.” There are in it many profound intuitions of the Negro soul. “City Block” is a mysterious panorama, but yet a lyrical one, of a modern city. The tableaux shown to us by the author appear through a fantastic and subjective atmosphere recalling Edgar Poe. The author of “Our America” is one of the most self-conscious artists of American literature and a high-class critic, with no tender feelings towards the Puritan tradition. CHAPTER XII _Ulysses’ Companions: Robert McAlmon, Ben Hecht, William Carlos Williams_