INDEX

Abolitionists, 123, 231 Agnosticism, 14, 17 Alden, W. L., on Conrad, 53 "Almayer's Folly," 12, 16, 37, 42, 47, 51, 52, 56, 59 American Bible Society, 239 American mind, 25, 197-8, 207 et seq. "Amy Foster," 36 Anglo-Saxon point of view, 20-3 Animal behaviour, theory of, 135 "Anthony Comstock, Fighter," 254 n, 255 et seq. Anti-Saloon League, 244 et seq., 249-50 Art Students' League raid, 269

Balzac, H. de, 15, 73, 76, 113, 155, 202, 260 "Banks of the Wabash, The," 106 Beauty, Dreiser on, 126 Benedict, Judge Chas. L., and Comstockery, 267 n. Bennett, Arnold, 19, 26, 32, 48, 62, 78, 104, 137, 142, 143 Bible, declared obscene, 261-2 Bierce, Ambrose, 146, 202, 216, 224 "Blue Sphere, The," 126 Bohemian Magazine, 104 Bourne, Randolph, 147 n, 158, 237 n. Boynton, H. W., 134, 158 British mind, 25 Brooks, Van Wyck, 134 Butler, Edward Malia, 116 et seq., 119

Calvinism, 14, 139, 164, 197 et seq. Catholicism, Dreiser's, 75 Censorship, theatre, 241; moving picture, 242, 274 Century Magazine, 143, 221 "Chance," 37, 48, 56, 60 Chicago Vice Commission, report of, 269 "Children of the Sea," see "Nigger of the Narcissus, The" "Chopin: the Man and His Music," 166, 169 et seq. Clemens, S. L., see Twain, Mark Clifford, Hugh, 52, 54, 59 Comstock, Anthony, 253 et seq. Comstock Postal Acts of 1873, 241, 257 et seq. Comstocks, attack on Dreiser, 101-2, 140 et seq. Conrad, Joseph, birth and parentage, 20; first book, 51; early success, 53; pensioned, 54; his books as bibelots, 56; style, 36 et seq.; materials, 40 et seq.; irony, 13, 18; ethical agnosticism, 17, 29-32; on women, 33-5; statement of his task, 29; contrasted with other authors, 30, 45, 48-9, 88 et seq., 96 Cowperwood, Frank, 79, 114 et seq., 135, 201 Criticism in America, 153 et seq., 191-2 Curle, Richard, 60

Delineator, 104 de Pachmann, Vladimir, 171, 178 Dewey, John, 152-3 Dime novels, Dreiser as editor of, 103 Doubleday, Page & Co., 70, 100-1, 102 Drama League of America, 180, 182 Dreiser, Theodore, birth and parentage, 76-7, 106; early influences, 68 et seq.; career in journalism, 98-105; first book, 70, 98 et seq.; dates of books, 100, 105; plays, 105, 125-6; travel books, 105, 127-131; style, 79 et seq., 113; mysticism, 12; agnosticism, 88 et seq., 147; his novels criticized, 106 et seq.; academic attitude toward, 131 et seq.; attacked by Comstocks, 139 et seq.; contrasted with Conrad, 34, 88 et seq. Dresser, Paul 106, 130

"Egoists," 179, 181 "End of the Tether, The," 47

"Falk," 16, 36, 39, 47, 59, 64 Fiction, English, 18, 19 "Financier, The," 81, 86, 101, 105, 107, 114, 122, 138 Flaubert, Gustave, 73, 84, 136, 181 Follett, Wilson, 11, 13, 17, 60

Garnett, Edward, 52 "'Genius,' The," 80-81, 83, 86, 87, 93, 105, 107, 115, 122, 125, 139, 226, 270, 273, 282 Gerhardt, Jennie, 109-10, 119, 137 Gerhardt, Jennie's father, 96, 117 German mind, 25 "Girl in the Coffin, The," 125 Good Templars, 228-30 Goorall, Yanko, 12 Great Awakening of 1734, 227 Greenwich Village, 124, 145, 224

"Hand of the Potter, The," 105 Hanson, Minnie, 85 Hardy, Thomas, 16, 62, 69, 71, 72, 76, 260 Harper & Bros., 100-2, 105 Harvard, 163, 169, 177 "Heart of Darkness," 35, 36, 41, 64 Herrenmoral, 236 Heyst, 12, 34, 59 "Hoosier Holiday, A," 76, 86, 88, 92, 105, 106, 125, 127 et seq. Hope, Dreiser on, 126 Howells, W. D., 28, 58, 74, 76, 97, 156, 159, 188, 205, 217, 218, 275, 282 Hueffer, Ford Madox, 53, 54 Huneker, James, birth and parentage, 164; in journalism, 167, 183; as music student, 166-7; as a critic, 159 et seq., 190-4; books on music, 168-175; stories, 188-90; on Conrad, 59; his aims, 193; style, 180 et seq. Hurstwood, 99, 108-9

Ibsen, Henrik, 15, 23, 24, 40, 83, 124, 156, 160-1, 162, 182, 200 "Iconoclasts," 169, 170, 179, 181 "Inheritors, The," 42, 53, 56 "In the Dark," 126 "Ivory, Apes and Peacocks," 59

James, Henry, 58, 62, 113, 217, 218, 283 "Jennie Gerhardt," 16, 71, 76-7, 82, 84, 96, 101, 105-9, 111-2, 117, 124, 276 Jesup, Morris K., 257 et seq. Jim, Lord, 12, 16, 38, 39, 42, 59 Jones, Althea, 80-1, 85 Joseffy, Rafael, 167, 178

Kellner, Leon, 197 et seq. Kultur-Novellen, Huneker's, 188 et seq. Kurtz, 12, 16, 34, 38, 39, 59

Libraries, Dreiser's books in American, 143-5 n. "Life, Art and America," 86, 88, 92, 105 "Lord Jim," 36, 47, 56, 60 Lord's Day Alliance, 242 Love, Dreiser on, 126

MacWhirr, Capt., 12, 37, 42 Mann Act, 241, 251-2, 258 Marlow, 36, 37 Meeber, Carrie, 40, 85, 99, 109 et seq., 126, 137 "Melomaniacs," 188 et seq. Men and Religions Forward Movement, 239 Methodism, 139, 197, 277 "Mezzotints in Modern Music," 168 "Mirror of the Sea, The," 50, 56 "Morals, Not Art or Literature," 253

Naturalism, German, 77 "New Cosmopolis," 165, 183 et seq. Nietzsche, F. W., 15, 29, 90, 93, 136, 158, 162, 173, 180, 181, 183, 192, 193 "Nigger of the Narcissus, The," 50, 52, 56 Norris, Frank, 15, 70, 71, 100, 108, 122, 163, 191, 224 "Nostromo," 12, 38, 42, 45, 46-7, 48, 56

"Old Fogy," 170 et seq., 179, 181 "Old Ragpicker," 125 "Outcast of the Islands, An," 37

Page, Walter H., 102 "Pathos of Distance, The," 164 "Personal Record, A," 37, 51, 88 Pilsner, 165, 184-5 "Plays of the Natural and the Supernatural," 105, 125 Poe, Edgar Allan, 73, 151, 152, 154, 180-1, 189, 214, 221 "Point of Honor, The," 42, 47 Prague, 165, 185-6 Prohibition, 228-9, 244 et seq. Prudery, American, 228

Razumov, 12, 34, 49 Resignationism, 14 "Return, The," 42 "Romance," 56 Ruiz, Gaspar, 12 Russia, Conrad's picture of, 49-50

Sea, Conrad's pictures of, 50-1 "Secret Agent, The," 42, 48, 59, 60 "Set of Six, A.," 56 "Shadow Line, The," 12, 13, 47 Shakespeare, Wm., 14-5, 61, 155, 121, 199, 204 Shaw, G. B., 15, 16, 19, 26, 121-2, 161, 182, 269 "Sister Carrie," 58, 70, 71, 73, 81, 84, 95, 97, 98 et seq., 105, 107, 108, 109, 111, 112-3, 117, 119, 126, 143, 201 Sklavenmoral, 22, 235 Slav, qualities of, 14 "Some Reminiscences," 37, 56. (See also "Personal Record, A.") Sons of Temperance, 228 Street & Smith, 103-4 Symons, Arthur, 19, 28-9, 39

"Tales of Unrest," 52, 56 "Titan, The," 60, 77, 82, 86, 101, 105, 106, 111, 114, 117 et seq., 129, 138, 201, 275 Train, George Francis, 261-2 "Traveler at Forty, A.," 76, 82, 105, 125, 127 Truth, Dreiser on, 126 Twain, Mark, 15, 17, 30, 90, 131-2, 133, 143, 151, 202, 203-4, 217, 222 "Typhoon," 12, 47, 50, 53

"Under Western Eyes," 36, 42, 47, 48, 49, 56, 59

"Victory," 13, 33, 42, 48, 55, 56 "Visionaries," 188 et seq.

Webb Law, 230, 241, 258 Wells, H. G., 19, 32, 38, 48, 53, 62, 135, 142, 144, 281 Wille zur Macht, the Puritan 237, 246 Witla, Eugene, 122 et seq., 137, 140 et seq.

Young Men's Christian Association, 230, 238, 240, 256 "Youth," 12, 13, 37, 41, 48, 53, 54, 56, 64

Zola, Emile, 15-6, 63, 71-2, 76, 78, 113, 124, 136, 202, 216, 260