TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES: In the plain text version text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_) and small capitals are represented in upper case as in SMALL CAPS. A number of words in this book have both hyphenated and non-hyphenated variants. For the words with both variants present the one more used has been kept. Obvious punctuation and other printing errors have been corrected. The book cover was modified by the Transcriber and has been added to the public domain. * * * * * THE DOCTOR LOOKS AT BIOGRAPHY THE DOCTOR LOOKS AT BIOGRAPHY PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDIES OF LIFE AND LETTERS BY JOSEPH COLLINS AUTHOR OF “THE DOCTOR LOOKS AT LITERATURE,” “TAKING THE LITERARY PULSE,” “IDLING IN ITALY,” “MY ITALIAN YEAR,” ETC. [Illustration] NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY [Illustration] THE DOCTOR LOOKS AT BIOGRAPHY --B-- PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA _To_ LIGHTNER WITMER _Psychologist and Educator_ TO RECALL STUDENT DAYS IN GERMANY ACKNOWLEDGMENT The author expresses his thanks to the editors of _The Bookman_, _McNaught’s Monthly_, _The International Book Review_, and _The New York Sun_ for permission to elaborate material used by them into certain chapters of this volume. CONTENTS PART I: BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY PAGE I BIOGRAPHY 15 II AUTOBIOGRAPHY 43 PART II: INTERPRETATIONS III LITTERATEURS: AMERICAN WRITERS 63 Sherwood Anderson William D. Howells Lafcadio Hearn Mark Twain Henry Thoreau Henry James IV LITTERATEURS: FOREIGN WRITERS 98 Anatole France Sainte-Beuve Leonid Andreyev Joseph Conrad John Donne Thomas Burke Robert Louis Stevenson