“Story Teller’s Story, A,” quoted, 160, 161. Strenuous life, America the land of, 186, 186 _n._ Style, of American fiction writers, 202, 203. Subconscious, the, 26, 181. Suggestive language, the, 165 _n._ “Summer,” 60, 61. Superman, the, of Dreiser, 85, 93-95, 105, 111; imagined by Emerson, 222. Suppression. _See_ Inhibition. “Tar,” 155, 155 _n._, 157 _n._, 162 _n._ Tartuffe, 151 Tchekhov, A. P., 23. Thea Kronburg, in “Song of the Lark,” 240, 241. Thoreau, Henry David, a Puritan type of mind, 12; disguises himself, 223. “Titan, The,” 71-73, 108-111. Transcendental idealism, 258, 259. Transcendentalists, the, 16, 222. “Traveller at Forty, A,” 98, 101. “Triumph of the Egg, The,” 167, 187-191, 193. Twain, Mark, 68, 261; voted for American philistinism, 49; and the Mississippi and the Ohio, 197; his “The Mysterious Stranger,” 224. “Twelve Men,” 72, 74, 98. Undine Spragg, in “The Custom of the Country,” 56. Utilitarianism, and idealism, 258, 259. Vechten, Carl van, 279 _n._ Vildrac, Charles, his “Paquebot Tenacity,” 21 _n._ “Village,” 262-269. Wendell, Barrett, 187 _n._ Wharton, Edith, 22; specialized in the society novel, 54; her process, 55; not introspective, 55; indifferent to social and political problems, 56; her satire of American life and society, 56; her “The Custom of the Country,” 56; her “The Age of Innocence,” 57; the spiritual and moral indigence of her characters, 57-59; her psychological insight, 59; on the relation of the sexes, 59, 60; her psychoanalysis, 60, 61; her “Summer” and “Ethan Frome,” 60, 61; her article on “The Great American Novel,” 200 _n._ “What Maisie Knew,” 52. Whistler, J. A. M., 18. Whitman, Walt, a standard set by, 4; the United States a cornucopia to, 49; his influence on Dreiser, 154; his influence on Anderson, 154, 155; his “I Walt Whitman, a Cosmos,” 195; his changes, 223. Will, function of the, 118. Williams, William Carlos, one of founders of “Contact,” 262; his “The Great American Novel,” 277, 278; his idea of American art of the future, 278; on imagination, 279. Wilson, Edmund, on Henry James’ typical American virgin, 52 _n._ “Windy McPherson’s Son,” 156-158, 168-171. “Winesburg, Ohio,” 158, 182-187. “Wings of the Dove, The,” 52, 53. “Wish-fulfillment,” 14. Words, physical characteristics of, 165, 166, 166 _n._ Young America, in quest of a new ideal, 280, 281. Zola, Émile, 23; essay by James on, 54 _n._; his influence on the American novel, 281. FOOTNOTES [1] _Nos actes nous suivent._