Masses and élite, in America, the feud between, 9, 10. Masters, Edgar Lee, 18. Mather, Cotton, his _Magnalia_, 10, 12. Maupassant, Guy de, his influence on the American novel, 281. Medical profession, the fakes of, satirized in “Arrowsmith,” 148. Mencken, Henry, a literary radical, 4; his magazine, 10; his arraignment of Puritanism, 16; his “The American Language,” 150. “Mid-American Chants,” 155. Middle West, 136. Mid-Victorians, the, 74, 75, 126. Milton, John, Puritanism the inspiration of his epic, 12. Milton Daggett, in “Free Air,” 128. “Miss Lulu Bett,” 250-254. Mississippi River, the, 197. “Modern Instance, A,” 64-66. Molière, J. B., his M. Jourdain, 144. _Monologue intérieur_, the, 53. Moody, Mary, Emerson’s aunt, a _clairvoyante_, 223. Moody, William Vaughn, a Puritan type of mind, 12. “Mother complex,” 20, 21, 21 _n._, 69, 136. “Movies,” 4, 14, 16 _n._, 20, 37; psychoanalysis in, 184 _n._, 278. Murger, H., his “Vie de Bohême,” 167. “My Antonia,” 241-245. “My First Thirty Years,” 270, 271. “My Mortal Enemy,” 248 _n._ Myers, W. L., his “The Later Realism,” 258 _n._ Mysticism and eroticism, 191. Nance McGregor, in “Marching Men,” 175-177. Negro music, 197. “New Englander, The,” 187-191. New Orleans, 198, 199. “New poetry,” 3. “New Year’s Day,” 61 _n._ Nonconformists, American, 10. Nordau, Max, his “Degeneracy,” 186 _n._ Novel, American, of the nineteenth century, 4, 7; the recent change in, 7; influence of the French novel on, 23, 281; influence of the Russian novel on, 23, 281; and the English novelists, 23, 282; in 1900, 74; drunkenness in, 187 _n._; cynicism and crudity in, 257; of adolescence, 262; as a true representative of American conditions, 282, 283. O’Higgins (Harvey) and Reede, their book on “The American Mind in Action,” 18. Ohio River, the, 197. “Old Maid, The,” 61 _n._ “One of Ours,” 246-248. O’Neill, Eugene, his “Desire Under the Elms,” 21 _n._; drunkenness in his plays, 187 _n._; stages a continuous monologue, 192 _n._ “Our America,” 256. “Our Mr. Wren,” 129, 130. Painting, the art of, 112, 113. Palladino, Eusebia, 50 _n._ Pearl, in “The Scarlet Letter,” 34. Personality, dissociation of, 27. “Personality picture,” 28, 142, 156, 170, 221, 223. Pessimism, in the United States, viii, ix, 8, 135; in recent American literature, viii, ix, 257, 260. Pirandello, 27. Poe, Edgar Allan, the standard of the short story set by, 4; the influence of Puritanism on, 12; had an artistic conscience, 47; haunted by the dead, 223. Poictesme, the land of, 203-205, 209, 215, 221, 225. Policeman, in the “movies,” 16 _n._ “Poor White,” 167, 181, 182.