INDEX
Reading edition
Abbott, Lyman, 497
Abolitionists, 58
Absolute, 166
Academic life, 95
Accident lawyers, 59
Acoustics, 159
Adams, Henry, 11, 77, 303, 547;
quoted on a school of literature, 196
Ade, George, 249
Administrative officers, 32, 33
Adolescence, 436
Adulteration, 406
Advertising, 381–395;
appeal, 383;
bibliography, 551;
effects on the writers, 384;
efficacy, 389;
honest, 387;
justification, 388;
newspaper, 44;
newspaper control, 46, 47;
objectionable, 395;
outdoor, 395;
over-production and, 390;
pro and con, 391;
signs, 293, 395;
solicitor and writer, 387;
value, 391, 392;
writers, 387
Æsthetic emotion, 204, 214, 480
Æsthetics, vii, 14, 100, 105, 108, 492, 497
Africa, association of negroes to establish empire, 369
“Age of Innocence, The,” 179
Agnosticism, 171
Agricultural implements, 402
Aiken, Conrad, on poetry, 215–226
Akins, Zoë, 248, 253
Alcohol, 451
Alcoholics, children of, 452, 453
Alien Land Laws, 364
Aliens, 337–350;
economics and, 339;
legislative attitude to, 343;
protection, 349
Alfieri, Vittorio, 104
Alimony, 331
Alleghany mountains, 4, 30, 399
Allied troops, 469
Alphabetical order, 469
Amalgamated Clothing Workers, 346
America, as economic support for Europe, 475;
feminization, 135, 143;
germinal energy, 148, 150;
original culture, 512;
provincialism, 286;
“real America,” 138
“America First” Publicity Association, 47
“American ideals,” 104
American infantry in Paris, 470
American Legion, 88
American literature. See Literature, American
American Philosophical Association, 177
American Revolution, 300, 399, 417, 515
Americanism, 133, 519
Americanization, 337, 344, 346, 347, 442, 528;
spirit, 88, 89
Americans, uniformity, 36, 109
Ames, Winthrop, 245
Amusements, 8, 13, 440;
music, 204, 205
Anæmia, intellectual, 491, 492, 495, 501
Ancestor worship, 506
Anderson, Sherwood, 137
Anglin, Margaret, 251
Anglo-American relations, 471, 473, 474, 476
Anglo-Saxonism, 320, 341, 442, 471, 504
Anthony, Katharine, on the family, 319–336
Anthropological groups, 353
Anthropology, 154
Anti-Saloon League, 29
Anti-Semitism, 356, 364
Appleseed, Johnny, 4
Applied science, 146, 155–156
Architecture, 238;
city, debasement, 10;
industrial city, 11
Aridity of American life, 480
Aristocracy, 193
Aristocrats, 441, 442
Armageddon, 440
Armory Show, 239
Art, 100, 204, 207, 227–241;
bibliography, 542;
colonial, 230, 231;
conditions and opportunities, 228;
definition, 107;
feminization, 229;
morals and, 101;
poetry, 225;
tariff on works of art, 230
Art for art’s sake, 102
Artists, advertising as a benefit, 391;
definition, 107;
respect for, 208
Asiatics. See Orientals
Associated Press, 47
Asylums, 334, 451
Athletics, 526, 527;
college, 117
Atlantic City, 9
Atlantic Monthly, 243
Attorney-General, 66
Austin, Mrs. Mary, 144
Australia, farm policy, 347, 348
Australian Courts of Conciliation, 73
Authority, 160;
educational, 85
Automobile industry, 400
Back to the land, 285
Backgrounds, historical, 308;
intellectual, 146
Bacteriologists, 454
Baking industry, 400
Ballot, 281
Bar Associations, 65–66
Bargaining, collective, 264;
see also Contract
Barnum, P. T., 292
Barrie’s “Peter Pan,” 246
Barrymore, John, 250
Baseball, 458
Baseball fans, 457
Beard, C. A., 532, 547
Beard, G. M., 430, 431, 432, 438
Beautiful necessity, 165, 168
Beauty, 14, 204, 238, 492, 535
Beer-garden, 10
Behaviour, 173;
crowd, 312
Behaviourism, 169
Belief, 171
Bell, Sanford, 436
Bergson, Henri, 167, 172
Bett, Miss Lulu, 320
Beyer, O. S., Jr., on engineering, 417–425
“Beyond the Horizon,” 243, 244, 248
Bibliographical notes, 531
Big business, 406, 407, 409
Bigness, contrary effect on English and Americans, 477, 478
Billboards, 293, 395
Billiards, 460
Billings, Frank, 449
Biochemistry, 456
Biographical notes on contributors to this volume, 559–564
Biographies, 96;
political, 532
Biology, 456;
experimental, 153
Birth control, 320, 321, 322, 323;
artificial, 321
Birth-rate, 321, 336
Black Star Line, 369
Blackburn, J. B., 231
Blashfield, E. H., 236
Blind Tom, 207–208
Board of Health, 304
Boas, Franz, 154
Bodenheim, Maxwell, 218, 221, 222, 223
“Book of Daniel Drew, The,” 72
Boosters, 293
Bosses, political, 24
Boston, 4, 15;
dramatic taste, 245;
marriage age, 328;
Public Library, 11, 235;
Trinity Church, 11
Boxing, 459
Boyd, Ernest, on American civilization, 489–507
Brady, W. A., 244
Brandeis, L. D., brief on Oregon law, 73
Branford, V. V., 531
“Brass Check, The,” 41
Breasted, J. H., 547
Brewer, Justice P. J., 73–74
Brill, A. A., 434
British Institution of Civil Engineers, 418, 419
Britten, Clarence, on school and college life, 109–133
Broadway, 8
Brokers, 405
Bronson-Howard, George, 249
Brooke, Rupert, 503
Brookline, Mass., 15
Brooks, Van Wyck, iii;
on the literary life, 179–197
Brown, H. C., on philosophy, 163–177
Brown University, 125
Brunetière, Ferdinand, 498, 503
Bryan, W. J., 25, 429, 440, 451, 497
Bryce, James, 196, 490, 532, 536
Buddhism, 373
Bundling, 315
Bush Terminal Tower, 12
Business, 397–415;
American conception, 482;
bibliography, 551;
blind sequence, 414;
government and, 48;
honour, 405, 409, 410, 430;
individual and corporate, 409, 410;
revolution of methods, 405;
State and, 264
Business education, 80
Business life, 186
Business man’s chivalry, 324
Business world, 143
Butler, Samuel, 188, 547
California, early law, 54;
gold discovery, 403;
Land Laws, 365;
race-prejudice, 357, 364
Calvinism, 164, 168
Cambridge, Mass., 4, 6
Canals, 403
Canning industry, 401
Capital, 404, 405
Capital and labour, engineers and, 420
Capitalism, 544;
case for, 257, 261
Captains of industry, 517
Carnegie, Andrew, 18
Carnegie Institution, 158
Case-system, 68, 69
Castberg, Johan, 332
Caste system in college, 121
Catechism, Negro, 370
Catholic Church, 193
Cattell, J. Nick, 538
Cavalier and Puritan, 512, 513, 514
Celibacy, 321, 328
Cézanne, Paul, 239, 240
Chafee, Zechariah, Jr., on the law, 53–75
City, bibliography, 531
Chain-store, 407
Chambers, R. W., 192
Character in business, 409
Charm, personal, 112
Chase, W. M., 234, 235
Chastity, 454
Chautauqua, 6, 83, 142
Chekhov, A. P., 190
Chemistry of proteins, 456
Chesterton, G. K., 477;
on American genius, 183
Chicago, 8, 10, 403;
dramatic taste, 245
Chickens, alcoholic, 452
Chief Justice, 67
Child labour, 275, 329
Childhood, family influence, 335;
shortness, 185
Children, fewer and better, 452;
on farms, 321;
sexuality, 436;
spoiling, 334
Children’s Bureau, 320
Chinese, 373;
Californians and, 364;
in America, 357
Chiropractors, 444
Chivalry of the business man, 324
Christian Science, 438, 443
Christianity, 166, 167
Church, 35, 77, 85, 146
Church-college, 163, 168
Cincinnati, 4, 8
Circus parade, 292
Cirrhosis of the liver, 452
Cities, 3–20;
architectural debasement, 10;
civic equipment, 16;
civic life, 16;
country versus, 17;
drama, outside New York, 245;
future, 19;
growth and improvement, 15;
improvements, 14;
industrial, 9, 10;
provincial, 3;
shifts of population and institutions, 7;
spiritual failure, 9;
State legislatures and, 24;
three periods, 3
Citizenship, good, 175
City Beautiful movement, 14
Civil engineers, 417
Civil War, 139
Civilization, human, 508;
Roman, 509
Civilization, American, as seen by an Englishman, 469–488;
as seen by an Irishman, 489–507;
as seen by an Italian, 508–528
Clark University, 434
Classics, 79, 81, 94, 146
Cleanliness, 392
Clients and lawyers, 59
Clouston, T. S., 452
Clubs, college, 121, 128
Coeducational forms, 129
Cohan, G. M., 249, 457
Cohen, M. R., 168
Colby, F. M., on humour, 463–466
Cole, R., 444
Collective bargaining, 264
College “Bible,” 118
College life, 109–133;
athletics, 117;
avocations, 128;
bibliography, 536;
caste system, 121;
clubs, 121, 128;
course system, 126;
democracy, 118;
examination and passing, 126;
extra-collegiate social regimen, 129;
fellowship, 123;
moral crusades, 124–125;
political management of affairs, 124;
recreation, 130;
sex lines and forms, 129;
social life, 117–118;
study, 125;
traditions, 118
College professors, 491;
see also Professors
College stories, 536
Colleges, early church-college, 163, 168;
see also Education
Colonial culture, 138
Colonial law, 54
Colonialism, 97
Colonies, 301, 493
Colonists, 398
Colour of God, 370
Commercial city, 5
Commercial God, 480, 481, 483
Commercialism, 484
Common Law, American conditions and, 56;
New England and, 54
Communist parties, 279, 280
Community, New England, 5
Compensation acts, 72
Competition, 259, 260, 406, 482
Composers, 199, 208, 210
Compromise, 284
Compulsions, 439, 440
Concord, Mass., 4
Coney Island, 13
Conformity, 439, 520;
college, 118
Congress, 31
Congressional Record, 27, 532, 544
Congressmen, character, 22, 27, 33
Conjugal fidelity, 309
Connecticut, early land act, 55
Conservatives, 273
Constitution, U. S., 140, 506, 515
Contingent fee, 60
Contract, 275;
right of, 259, 262, 264
Contract labour law, 343
Contributors to this volume, brief biographies, 559–564
Control of industry, 257, 263, 419
Conventions, 291;
“iron hand of convention,” 182
Conventionalities, 252, 491;
college, 129
Co-operative movement, 284
Copley, J. S., 231, 232, 233, 237
Cornell University, tradition, 120
Corporation lawyers, 59
Corporations, 406, 411, 412;
State and, 412
Corrective Eating Society, 444
Correspondence schools, 385
Country, 287, 288;
envy of the city, 17;
social life, 294;
see also Small town
County fair, 295
Crisis-emotion, 315
Courage in journalism, 40
Courts, diversity, 71
Craftsmanship, 413
Crane, Frank, 44
Cranks, 147
Craven, Frank, 248
Credit, 405, 410, 413
Credulity, 454;
medical, 444
Criminal law, 60, 70
Criminals and lawyers, 60
Criticism, 497, 503;
American, 99;
bibliography, 535;
definition, 100, 108;
dogmatic or intellectual, 100, 108;
music, 209;
need, 105;
scholarship and, 93–108;
scholarship the basis, 99;
schools of, 100
Cross of Gold, 440
Crowd behaviour, 312
Culture, 93, 106, 175, 508;
original American, 512
Curiosity, 130, 131, 175
Daly, Arnold, 251
Dancing, 526
Dante, scholarship, 96
Darwin, Charles, 163
Days of grace, 64
Declaration of independence, 132, 133, 140, 506
Decorators, 236
De Leon, Daniel, 545
Demand and supply, 261
Dementia præcox, 434
Democracy, college, 118
Denmark, farmers, 347
Department stores, 8;
advertising in the newspapers, 389;
newspapers and, 46;
private tribunals, 70
Dependence, habits of, 401
Deportation, 342, 344, 348
Devil, 439, 440
Dewey, John, 168, 540;
on education, 175;
psychology, 173;
weakness of his philosophy, 176
Dickinson, Emily, 218
Differentiations, regional, 111
Diphtheria, 450
Diplomacy, shirt-sleeve, 489
Discipline, 471, 480, 482, 488
Disease, 443, 445, 449, 455;
prevention, 449
Dishonesty in business, 405, 409, 410, 430
Divorce, attitude to, 309, 310;
growing prevalence, 330
Doctors, 443;
see also Disease; Physicians
Dogmatic criticism, 100, 108
Domestic Relations Courts, 72, 331, 332
Double personality, 433
Dowden, Edward, 504
Drachsler, Julius, 375, 376, 377
Drama. See Theatre
Drama League, 247
Dreadnought Hams, 386
Dreiser, Theodore, 181, 182, 189, 196, 286
East, the, 112
Economic democracy, 339
Economic liberty, 276
Economic opinion, 255–270;
basis and value, 270;
opportunities, 346;
bibliography, 543;
radicalism, 276, 277, 278;
volume, 269–270
Economics, classical, 259;
facts and statistics, 268;
“fundamental,” 273;
immigration and, 338;
newer, 544;
protest, 263;
system, 517;
waste, 284
Eddy, Mrs. Mary Baker, 443, 498
Edison, T. A., 436
Editors, 36
Education, 77–92, 524, 525;
bibliography, 534;
corrupt practices, 90;
Dewey’s philosophy, 175;
engineering, 423, 424;
enthusiasm for, 109;
feminization, 317;
general and special, 81;
medical, 455;
State and, 89;
superficial, 82;
superstitious mood toward, 77, 78
Edwards, Jonathan, 164, 165
Efficiency, 471, 478, 481, 482, 484;
social, 175
Egoism, 197
Eight-hour day, 275
Elderton-Pearson report, 453
Election machinery, 281
Elections, 281
Elective system in education, 79, 119
Electric lighting, 14
Electrical engineers, 417
Eliot, C. W., 79
Eliot, T. S., 218, 221, 222, 223, 224
Elizabethan literature, 220
Ellis Island, 341
Emerson, R. W., 138, 164, 165, 184, 195, 494
Emotion, 203, 209;
crisis, 315;
lack, vii;
mother-love, 437, 438;
sex, 310, 317
Emotionality, 176
“Emperor Jones,” 360
Empiricism, 172
Employer and employé, 483
Employés’ welfare, 484
Employment, 482
Engineering, 417–425;
bibliography, 552;
bulwark and inspiration, 424;
new problems, 418
Engineers, capital and labour, relation to, 420;
educational background, 423, 424;
formulating a policy, 420;
intellectual limitations, 423;
intelligence, 455;
larger function, 418;
original function, 418;
position, 432;
symbolic speculations, 423;
typical, 417
England, 512;
bond with America, 473;
competition with America, and courses open, 474;
proletariat, 485, 487;
war and post-war conditions, 487
English language professors, 96
Englishman’s view of American civilization, 469–488
Englishmen, as immigrants, 472;
character, 476, 477, 478
Erie Railroad, 72, 409
Ethics, 174
Ettinger, W. L., 87, 88
Eucken, R. C., 167
Europe, American attitude to, 486;
attraction, 238, 239;
civilization and culture, 511;
history, 510;
impoverishment, 473;
problem, 511
Evangelical literature, 496, 497
Evening Sun, 250
Exchange, 413
Exercise, 458, 461
Factory workers, 9
Facts, 313
Faith, 78;
defending, 163;
intellectual, 515
Faithful servant, 320
Family, 319–336;
bibliography, 548;
financial arrangements, 324;
income, and distribution, 323;
influence on children 335;
nomadic habit, 333;
public opinion, 319;
reduction in size, 320;
reunions, 294
Farmer-Labour Party, 280
Farming and alien immigrants, 346, 347
Fear, 340, 341
Federated Press, The, 50
Feminization, 135, 143;
education, 317;
music, 205
Ferguson, O. G., 359
Fiction, American, 495;
college, 536;
sporting, 554
Fish phosphates, 431
Fiske, John, 185
Five and ten cent store, 9
Fletcher, J. G., 218, 220, 221, 222, 223, 226
Flexner, Simon, 154
Focal infection, 448, 449
Folin, Otto, 456
Folksong, 211
Food, children’s, 334
Food products, 401
Football, 459
Ford, Henry, 298, 299
Foreign relations, 486
Foreign trade, 414
Foreign views of American civilization, bibliography, 555;
Englishman’s, 469–488;
Irishman’s, 489–507;
Italian’s, 508–528
Foreigners, 275, 441;
musical composers, 199;
see also Aliens; Immigration
Fosdick, Raymond, 70
Foster, W. Z., 282
France, journalism, 39;
medicine, 434
France, Anatole, 142, 180, 494
Francis Galton Laboratory, 453
Fraternal orders, 6, 34, 290, 291
Fraternities, 5, 6
Freedom, 275, 489, 490, 491, 519;
in love, 309;
sexes in youth, 313, 315;
speech, 74, 75;
thought, 86, 87;
see also Liberty
Freeman, 51
Frémont, J. C., 151
French, D. C., 236
Freshmen, 119, 120
Freud, Sigmund, 433, 434, 435, 436, 437;
books on, 435
Friedenwald, Julius, 452
Front parlour, 297
Frontier, 301
Frost, Robert, 184, 218, 221, 222, 226, 503
Freude, J. A., on Americans, 184
Fugitive slave law, 58
“Fundamental economics,” 273
“Fussing,” 129
Ga-Ga, 449
Galileo, 152
Galli-Curci, Amelita, 206
Galsworthy, John, 243, 244, 250
Galton (Francis) Laboratory, 453
Garrett, Garet, on business, 397–415
Gary, Ind., 12
Gauguin, Paul, 189
Geddes, Patrick, 531
Generosity, 523
Genius, 183, 188, 190, 194
Genteel tradition, the, 147, 148, 163, 167
“Gentleman and scholar,” 94
Georgia, legislature, 64
German beer-garden, 10
German idealism, 164
German State, 302
Ghost Dance, 372
Gibbs, Willard, 152
Gilbert, G. K., 153
Gimbel Brothers, 46
Glad hand, 5
God, 166, 439;
colour of, 370
Gold in California, 403
Golf, 459
Gopher Prairie, 19
Gorgas, W. C., 450
Gorky, Maxim, 180, 190, 192
Gould, Jay, 410
Gourmont, Rémy de, 494
Government, 275;
business and, 48
Grade schools, 84
Graham, Stephen, 365
Grandeur, 397
Grape juice, 451
“Great American novel,” 93
Greatness, 190, 191
Greeley, Horace, 37, 330
Griffes, Charles, 212
Group medicine, 446–447
Group opinions, 161
Grub Street, 189
Guinea-pigs, 452
Gullibility, 443, 449
Hamilton, W. H., on economic opinion, 255–270
Hamsun, Knut, 180, 192
Hancock, John, 399
Hardy, Thomas, 180, 190
Harris, William, Jr., 245
Harvard College, 78, 79;
democracy, 119
Harvard Medical School, 443
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 185, 195
“H. D.,” 221, 223
Health, exercise and, 458;
politics and, 451
Health, Board of, 304
Health crusade, 450
Hearst newspapers, 43, 139, 501
Heathen, 450
Helmholtz, H. L. F. von, 159, 160
Herbert, Victor, 209
Herd sense, 311
Hero-worship, 461
High schools, 83, 114, 525
Highbrow, 131, 209
Higher law, 58
Hill, G. W., 153
Historians, 95, 302, 306, 307;
scientific, 303, 304
History, 95, 297–38, 509;
American, 298, 299;
as an art, 303;
bibliography, 547;
early settlers, 300;
popular estimate, 298, 308
Hoar, E. R., quoted on law and private judgment, 58
Hocking, W. E., 167, 168, 172
Holmes, Justice O. W., quoted on criminal law, 70;
quoted on the law, 75
Holt, E. B., 435
Home, 332
Homer, Winslow, 233, 234, 236, 237
Honesty in business, 405, 409, 410
Honourables, 295
Hopkins, Arthur, 245, 251, 253
Hopkins, E. M., quoted on propaganda, 86
Hopwood, Avery, 249
Horse racing, 459
Hotels, 293
Hours of work for women, 73
Housewife, 325
Howe, F. C., on the alien, 337–350
Howells, W. D., 184, 191, 192, 194
Hubbard, Elbert, 42
Hughes, C. E., 50, 63
Human civilization, 508
Humanism, 509;
Italy, 510
Humboldt, Alexander von, 151
Humour, viii, 463–466
Husbands, 316;
as providers, 324, 325
Hypnotism, 433
Hypocrisy, 252, 338
Hysteria, 433, 438
Ibsen, Henrik, 197, 503
Idealism, advertising, 385, 394;
American, 164;
German, 164;
peculiar American, 515;
reaction to, 167
Ideas, 501;
political, 28;
real test, 144
Ignorance, 113
Illusion, 295
Imagination, 102, 103, 461
Immigrants, 440;
English, 472;
law and, 57;
neurosis, 441;
protection, 349;
rapid rise and progress, 345;
savings, 348
Immigration, 301, 404;
cause, 338;
constructive policy, 347;
economic cause, 338;
hostility, 340;
old and new, 338;
percentage law, 344;
problem, 337
Immortality, 171, 436
Impressionism, 105
Impressionist criticism, 108
Impressionists, 235
Inalienable rights, 274
Incest-complex, 438
Independence Hall, 11
Indian reservations, 363
Indians, American, 351, 356;
Americanization, 363;
art influence, 227–228;
bibliography, 550;
culture and education, 371;
marriage with whites, 376;
religious movement, 372;
treatment, 362
Individual, 258
Individualism, 287, 311, 439, 506
Individuality, lack, 36
Industrial accidents, 72, 73
Industrial management, 419, 421
Industrial revolution, 266, 516
I. W. W., 276, 282
Industrialism, birth, 9–10;
city life, 9, 10, 11;
culture and, 12;
disputes, 72;
system, 260;
see also Labour movement
Industry, control, 257, 263, 419;
secrets, 421
Inhibitions, 478
Injustice, 341
Inness, George, 233
Insanity, 452
Instrumentalism, 145, 168, 521
Intellect, 521;
distrust of, 519, 520;
needs, 527
Intellectual anæmia, 491, 492, 495, 501
Intellectual faith, 515
Intellectual life, 135–150, 523;
backgrounds, 146;
bibliography, 537;
contempt for real values, 145;
cranks and mountebanks, 147;
pioneer point of view and, 136
Intellectualist, 100
Intellectualist criticism, 108
Intelligence, 174
International Exhibition of 1913, 239
Interstate Commerce Commission, 68
Intolerance, 430
Investigators, 156
Ireland, 493
Irish, 338
Irishman’s view of American civilization, 489–507
Irving, Washington, 186
Isolation, 188, 287
Italian’s view of American civilization, 508–528
Italy, humanism, 510
James, Henry, 183, 190, 503
James, William, 82, 540;
eminence, 152, 154, 155;
on genius, 194;
pragmatism, 171;
psychology, 170
Janet, Pierre, 433
Japanese, 373;
Californians and, 364;
dislike and fear of, 357
Jefferson, Thomas, 274, 275, 276
Jensen, J. V., 180
Jews, 351;
bibliography, 551;
jealousy and fear of, 356;
manifestations of prejudice against, 363;
mixed marriages, 376;
place, 372;
religion, 373
Jim Crow regulations, 358, 360
Joan of Arc, canonization, 428
Johnson, Lionel, 499
Jokes, 463
Journalism, 35–51, 180, 501;
bibliography, 533;
England, 38;
European continent, 39;
musical, 209
Journalists, 36;
courage and integrity, 40;
“training and outlook,” 41
Judges, 65;
selection and training, 66;
unfair treatment, 67
Judiciary, 66
Jumel Mansion, 231
Jung, C. G., 436
Justice, Minister of, 66
Kallen, H. M., quoted on control of education, 91
Kansas, 429;
industrial court, 73
Kempf, E. J., 435
Kent, James, 56, 62
Keynes, J. M., 506
King, Willford, 324, 326
Knowledge, 131
Kodak, 18
Korsakow’s disease, 451
Kraepelin, Emil, 433
Kreymborg, Alfred, 221, 223, 224
Ku Klux Klan, 290, 359
Kuttner, A. B., on nerves, 427–442
Labour, American and English, 485, 486
Labour movement, 193, 277, 278, 281, 282;
engineers and, 420
Labour organization, 72
Labour-saving devices, 402
La Forge, John, 235
Laissez-faire economics, 256, 257, 543
Land, colonies and settlement, 347, 348;
free, 339, 343;
immigration and, 339;
speculation, 7, 8, 347
Landscape painters, 232
Langdell, C. C., 69
Language of American leaders, 478, 479
Lanier, Sidney, 187
Lardner, R. W., on sport and play, 457–461
Law, 53–75;
bibliography, 533;
delays, expenses, etc., 71;
disrespect for, 57, 58;
early hostility to English, 54, 56;
flings at, 53;
lack of progress, 63;
newspaper discussion needed, 63;
obligation, 57, 58;
private judgment and, 58;
real defect, 62
Law schools, 68
Lawyers, 53;
changing function, 58–59;
laymen and, 60, 61
Laziness, 366
Leadership, industrial, 425
League of nations, 53
Learning, 96, 108
Legal aid societies, 72, 331
Legal education, 68
Legal systems, various, 65
Legislation and lawyers, 60
Legislatures and law reforms, 64
Leisure, 139, 141
Leisure class, 491, 505
Lenin, Nicolai, lying about, 49
Lewis, Sinclair, 192
Liberals, 273
Liberty, 485;
economic, 276;
see also Freedom
Libido theory, 436
Lick Observatory, 158
Lindsay, Vachel, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222
Lippmann, Walter, quoted on journalism, 40, 43
Literary test, 344
Literary theory, 108
Literature, morals and, 101;
three conceptions, 101
Literature, American, 93, 492–493;
absence, and reasons therefor, 504;
bibliography, 540;
colonial, 195;
impotence of creative spirit, 179;
lack of leadership, 189;
namby-pamby books, 495–496;
radical, 501, 502;
school, 196;
variety, 216
Little red school-house, 302
Lloyd George, David, 50
Lodge, G. C., 183, 184
Loeb, Jacques, 456
London, Jack, 182, 183, 192
London Labour Herald, 50
London Times, 38, 63
Long haul, 408
Longevity, 328
Louisiana, early law, 56
Love, as an art, 318;
freedom in, 309
Lovett, R. M., on education as degradation of energy, 77–92
Low-browism, 526
Lowell, Amy, 218, 220, 221, 222, 223, 226;
on our poetry, 215
Lowie, R. H., on science—lack of fruitful background, 151–161
Lusk Committee, 546
Lusk law, 88, 90
Lyceum, 6
Lynching, 359, 360
Mabie, H. W., 496
McCormick reaper, 402
MacDowell, E. A., 210
Mach, Ernst, 155, 156, 161, 539
Machine politics, 24, 26
Machinery, 402, 404
McKim, C. F., 11
Macy, John, on journalism, 35–51
Madison Square Garden, 11
Magazines, 189;
radical, 272, 273
Maiden aunt, 320
Main Street, 14, 204, 248, 287, 307
Malnutrition, 334
Manchester Guardian, 38
Mandarins, 493, 494, 500
Manet, Edouard, 240
Mania a potu, 451
Mann, Horace, 84
Marden, O. S., 496, 497
Marriage, 314, 315, 316;
ages for, 327, 328;
Indians and whites, 376;
mixed, 374, 375, 376;
Negroes and whites, 374, 375;
protection, 310;
war and, 331
Married persons, 316
Mars, visitor from, and his thoughts, 109
Martians, 110
Martin, E. D., 312
Martin, Homer, 233
Masculine and feminine, 143
Masefield, John, 503
Mass fatalism, 196
Mass production, 408
Masters, E. L., 184, 218, 221, 222
Masturbation, 311, 454
Materialism, 97, 354, 481, 494, 516
Mather, F. J., 188
Mating, 310
Maury, M. F., 151
Mayflower, 350
Mazzini, Giuseppe, 511
Meat-packing, 401;
idealism, 385
Mechanical engineers, 417
Mechanics’ Hall, 10
Medical education, 455
Medicine, 443–456;
art of healing in America, 446;
bibliography, 553;
French, 434;
preventive, 449;
preventive, contamination by religion, 454;
preventive, retrogression, 450;
science and, 444;
specialization, and “group medicine,” 446
Melville, Herman, 188
Men and women, dichotomy, 142
Mencken, H. L., on aristocracy, 193;
on politics, 21–34
Mental hygiene, 334
Metaphysics, 176, 433
Metropolitan Opera House, 199
Metropolitanism, 16, 17, 19
Michelson, A. A., 152
Microbes, 448
Middle classes, 326
Middle West, towns, 5
Migration, 301
Miller, C. G., 46
Milling industry, 401
Milton, John, and Satan, 103
Minister of Justice, 66
Minorities, racial, 351–379
Mitchell, S. Weir, 432
Mob tyranny, 441
Money, 112, 140;
in college, 118
Morality, vi, 526;
alien population, 346;
art and literature and, 101;
business, 405, 409, 410;
realistic, 170
More, P. E., 493, 498, 499, 500, 503, 544
Morellet, Abbe, 103
Morgan, L. H., 154
Morgan, T. H., 154
Mormon Church, 430
Morrill Act, 417
Morse telegraph code, 403
Moses, M. J., 180
Mosquitoes and yellow fever, 450
Mother-love, 437, 438
Motion pictures, 13;
music accompaniment, 212
Motley, J. L., 195, 303
Mulattoes, 374
Mumford, Lewis, on the city, 3–20
Municipal Art societies, 14
Munsey’s Magazine, 243
Murry, J. M., on our poetry, 215
Music, 199–214;
American spirit, 214;
bibliography, 541;
classical and popular, 209;
composers, 210;
criticism, 209;
exotic, 211;
feminization, 205;
German, 210;
journalism, 209;
motion pictures and, 212;
Negro, 211;
technique, 159
Musical comedy, 208
Musical festivals, 207
Musical Quarterly, 209
Mysticism, 172, 519
Mythology, 514, 515
Napoleonic code, 56
Nathan, G. J., on the theatre, 243–253
National Education Association, 78, 88
National Federation of Musical Clubs, 205
National Research Council, report on intelligence, 454
Nationality, 511
Natural resources, 257, 260
Natural science, 80
Nature, 164, 168
Necessity, 165, 168
Negro Catechism, 370
Negro Declaration of Independence, 370
Negroes, 351;
bibliography, 549;
culture, 371;
decreasing proportion, 355;
economic progress, 368;
education, 361;
exodus organization, 369;
exodus to the North, 360;
in literature, 360;
international convention, 370;
marriage with whites, 374, 375;
music and religion, 211, 368;
new defiance of whites, 367;
Northern prejudice against, 355, 359;
repression in the South, 358;
Southern feeling about, 354;
white friends, 361
Nerve tonics, 431
Nerves, 335, 427–442;
bibliography, 553
Neurasthenia, 430, 432, 433
Neuroses, 437
Neurotics, 427
New England, 179, 216, 301, 494, 502, 514;
common law, 54;
culture, 138;
early trade, 398;
surplus women, 327;
town, 3
New Jersey, 400
New Realism, 168
New Realists, 168, 169
New Republic, 51, 544;
exposure of false nature of Russian news, 49
New York (City), 16, 17;
dominance, 18;
plan, 7;
School Board and trial of a teacher, 86;
theatre, 243, 246
New York (State), early law, 55
New York Board of Health, 450
New York Call, 44
New York Code of Civil Procedure, 64
New York Globe, 44
New York Herald, 27
New York Nation, 46, 51, 544;
exposure of false nature of Russian news, 49
New York Sun, 250
New York Times, 27, 43, 46, 251;
on parenthood, 321;
Russian news, character, 49
New York Tribune, 36, 43
New York World, 36
New Yorkers, 285
Newcomb, Simon, 153, 155, 552
News, rough recipe, 38;
sensational, 45;
world, 48
News services, 47
Newspaper writers’ organization, 41
Newspapers, 483, 532;
advertising and corruption, 389;
advertisements, 44;
advertising, control by, 46, 47;
attitude toward the theatre, 249;
circulation, 35, 43;
Congressional reports, 27;
correspondents, 37;
counting-room control, 45;
influence, 35;
legal questions, 63;
readers uncritical, 43, 44;
stories, 45;
see also Journalism
Nietzsche, F. W., 187, 190
Nomadism, 333
Non-conformism, reasoned, 160
Non-conformists, 149
Nonpartisan League, 281
Novelists, 495, 496, 524
Ochs, Adolph, 49
Offences, minor legal, 70
Office-holders, 24
Oil industry, 400
Old Guard, 252
Omnistic philosophy, 433
On the make, 430, 440
One Big Union, 282
O’Neill, Eugene, 243, 244, 245, 248, 251, 360
Open shop, 346
Opera, 199
Ophthalmoscope, 159
Opinion, 148, 255;
see also Economic opinion
Opportunity, 522
Optimism, 517, 518
Orchestras, 199, 202
Orchestration, 201
Orders, fraternal, 6, 34, 290, 291
Orientals, 351, 357, 450;
bibliography, 551;
culture, 373;
mixed marriages, 376
“Origin of Species,” 163
Over-production, 413, 414;
advertising and, 390
Pach, Walter, on art, 227–241
Panama Canal, 450
Panics, 413
Parades, 291, 292
Paranoia, 434
Parenthood, 310, 321
Paresis, 453
Paris, entry of Allied troops on July 14, 1919, 469
Parsons, E. C., on sex, 309–318
Party system, 30
Parvenus, 106, 139
Pasteur, Louis, 446, 449, 539
Pattee, F. L., 498, 500
Patterson, J. M., 249
Paul, the Apostle, 314
Pavements, 14
Payne, S. H., 533
Pearl, Raymond, 452, 453
Pearson, Karl, 453
Pedants, 94, 97, 104, 108, 492
Peirce, Charles, 173
Pensions, widows’, 329
Perfectibility, 515
Periodicals, 50, 51
Perry, R. B., 170
Personal charm, 112
Personality, 106, 175;
double, 433;
home and, 335;
lack, 97;
university life and, 95;
women, 317, 318
Petting, 315
Phase rule, 152
Philadelphia, dramatic taste, 246
Philadelphia Press, 46
Philosophers, American, 522
Philosophy, 163–177, 517;
American, 521;
bibliography, 539
Phosphates of fish, 431
Physicians, importance, 443;
intelligence, rank, 454;
modern kind, 445–446;
quasi-religious rôle, 445;
testimony, 65
Piccoli, Raffaello, on American civilization, 508–528
Picnics, pioneer, 294
Pictures, 204, 236, 237
Pioneers, 97, 136, 137, 185, 193, 203, 294, 429, 441, 515, 516;
hostility to law, 57
Pittsburgh, 4, 10;
newspapers and the steel strike, 46
Pittsburgh Survey of 1908, 14, 531
Platitude, 497
Play, 457–461
Playwrights, 247, 248;
foreign and American, 249
Plough, 402
Plumbing, 14
Poe, E. A., 187, 194, 217
Poetry, 102, 215–226, 524;
bibliography, 541;
definition, 107;
modern vigorousness, 217;
the “nonsense” of, 103, 104;
poetic consciousness, 224, 225
Poetry: a Magazine of Verse, 217
Poets, 100, 102, 208;
definition, 108
Police and law enforcement, 70
Political biography, 532
Political economy, bibliography, 552
Political ideas, 28
Political machinery, 281
Politicians, 29;
local, 22, 23
Politics, 21–34;
bibliography, 532;
health movements and, 451
Pool, 460
Poor. See Poverty
Poor whites, 355
Population policies, 322
Pound, Ezra, 217, 221, 223
Poverty, 187, 188, 277, 346;
college life, 118;
injustice, 71, 72;
our forebears, 337
Power, 397
Practical, the, 186
Pragmatism, 145, 170, 171, 173, 192, 521
Preaching and practice, vi
Prendergast, M. B., 240
Preparatory school, 116
Presidency, 31
Presidential campaigns, 25
Press. See Journalism; newspapers
Prevention of disease, 449;
see also Disease; Medicine
Prices, open, 409
Primitiveness, 479
Primogeniture, 55
Prince, Morton, 433
Private property, 259, 262
Production, engineers and, 421;
mass, 408
Professionalism, 554
Professors, 96, 97, 193, 491, 527
Profit, private, 412, 413
Profit-making, 265
Progress, legal lack of, 63
Prohibition, 24, 29, 440, 451, 495, 505;
consequences, 71;
origin of movement, 287
Promenade, 8
Promiscuity, 438, 502
Promised Land, 515
Propaganda, 85, 86, 312, 440
Property, governmental power over, 74;
private, 259, 262;
rights, 259, 262, 412
Protection, beginnings, 399;
see also Tariff
Protest, economic, 263
Provincial city, 3
Provincialism, 286, 287, 366
Prostitution, 316, 317
Prussia, educational system, 84;
family income, 323
Psychoanalysis, 434, 435, 437
Psychoanalysts, 435, 437
Psychology, James’, 170
Psychotherapy, 433
Public Health Service, 450
Public opinion. See Economic opinion; Opinion
Public service commissions, 72
Publicists, writings, 496, 501
Publicity pamphlets, 483
Publishing, 112, 188; music, 210
“Punch,” American, 482
Pure-food acts, 406
Puritan and Cavalier, 512, 513, 514
Puritanism, 54, 57, 101, 104, 130, 203, 209, 212, 238, 252, 314, 439, 494, 504;
culture, 513;
morbidity, 502;
original spirit, 519;
remnants, 520
Pushkin, A. S., 190
Quackery, 431, 433, 443, 444
Quality of commodities, 406
Race-prejudice, 352, 353, 355, 377;
manifestations, 358;
questions, 378–379
Race suicide, 322
Races, a quality or inequality, 352, 353
Rachmaninoff, S. V., 206
Racial minorities, 351–379;
attitude, in face of race-prejudice, 367;
bibliography, 549;
biological results, 374;
four most important, 351;
questions, 378–379
Radicalism, 131, 174, 271–284, 505, 519;
associations of the word, 271;
bibliography, 545;
definition, 274;
economic, 276, 277, 278;
historic American, 274, 275;
reality and, 283;
tendency, 283
Radicals, 272
Railroad stations, 293
Railroads, 265, 401, 402, 403, 407, 411;
rates and hauls, 407, 408;
rebates, 408
Rank, Otto, 437
Rates, railroad, 407, 408
Raw materials, 257
Reactionaries, 273
Realism, 169, 204;
new, 168;
small town, 286
Realistic morality, 170
Realists, 168, 169
Reaper, 402
Rebates, 408
Reconstruction, 307
Recreation, 457;
college, 130
Reform, 174
Reformation, Protestant, 510
Reformers, 439–440
Regional differentiations, 111
Registration areas, 320
Registration of deeds, 55
Reid, L. R., on the small town, 285–296
Relativity, 152
Religion, v, 78, 167, 176, 427, 439, 508;
founders, 428;
Puritan, 513
Religious movements, 518
Renaissance, 94, 509;
England, 512
Representatives, 21
Research, 156, 157
Resources, natural, 257, 260
Responsibility in business, 410
Results, 174
Revolution, 280;
England, prospect, 474;
Russian, 278
Revolutionary War, 300, 399, 417, 515
Rhode Island, Colonial legal training, 55
Richardson, H. H., 11
Riesenfeld, Hugo, 213
Rights and duties, 72, 274
Robinson, E. A., 184, 217, 221, 222, 226
Robinson, G. T., on racial minorities, 351–379
Robinson, J. H., vi, 547
Rockefeller Institute, 158
Rome, civilization, 509
Roosevelt, Theodore, 26, 440;
on race suicide, 322
Rosenau’s “Preventive Medicine and Hygiene,” 453
Rothafel, S. L., 212
Rowland, H. A., 153, 158
Royce, Josiah, 165;
ethics, 166;
philosophy of religion, 167
Russia, false news, 49
Russian Revolution, 278
Ryder, A. P., 187, 233, 234, 237, 542
Rymer, Thomas, 103
St. Louis, Mo., 8, 10
Sainte-Beuve, C. A., 498
Salesmanship, 405
Sandburg, Carl, 103, 220, 221, 222
Sanitariums, 431
Sanitary engineers, 454
Sankey, Justice, 68
Santayana, George, 539, 540
Sargent, J. S., 234, 235
Satire, 247
Saturday Evening Post, 248, 286, 507
Savings of aliens, 348
Scholarship, definition, 94, 105, 108
Scholarship and criticism, 93–108;
bibliography, 535
School and college life, 109–133;
bibliography, 536
School of literature, 196
Schoolmaster, 301
Schools, function, 113;
suppression of freedom of mind, 86, 87
Science, 80, 436, 519, 522;
American contributions, 151–152;
applied, 146;
applied and pure, 155–156;
bibliography, 538;
hothouse growth in America, 155;
individual and organized, 156–157;
lack of fruitful background, 151–161;
medicine and, 444;
results and self-doubt, 169;
theology versus, 163
Scientific schools, first, 417
Scientists, equipment, 158;
spirit, 160
Scope of the present volume, iv
Scotch, 338
Scott, C. P., 38
Secondary schools, 83, 114, 115;
private, 115–116
Secret societies, 290, 291
Sects, 518, 519
Sensational news, 45
Sense and poetry, 104
Sentimentality, 247, 252
Servants, 320
Service, 523
Settlers, early, 300;
immigrant, 343
Sewers, 14
Sex, 247, 309–318, 501;
attitudes, 314;
bibliography, 548;
college relations, 129;
concept of sexuality, 437;
emotion, 310, 317, 437;
in children, 436;
morality, 322;
problem, 436;
relations, 316;
relations classified, 313, 314;
sublimation, 312;
suppression of instinct, 311;
youth and, 526
Shakespeare, William, 220, 250
Shaw, G. B., 179, 192, 243, 244;
on America, 285
“Shelburne Essays,” 498, 500
Sherman, Stuart, 493, 500, 503
Shirt-sleeve diplomacy, 489
Simplification of American life, 479, 480
Sinclair, Upton, and “The Brass Check,” 41
Single Tax, 273
Sissies, 142
Slang, 112
Slavery, 354, 365
Slopping over, 471, 488
Small Claims Courts, 71
Small town, 285–296;
bibliography, 546;
character, 288;
life, 289
Smith, J. Thorne, on advertising, 381–395
Smith, Reginald H., 71
Smith, Theobald, 449
Smoking, 440
Smuggling, 399
Soap, 392
Social hygiene, 453
Social life, 526, 527;
freedom of youth, 313, 315
Socialist Party, 278, 279
Society, 516
Society column, 333
Solicitor, advertising, 388
Soul and scholarship, 98
Soule, George, on radicalism, 271–284
Southern States, 139;
Negro repression, 358;
society, 354, 365;
white superiority, 366
Specialists, 80
Specialization, 79, 80, 158;
surgical, 446
Speculation in city land, 7, 8
Spingarn, J. E., 535;
on scholarship and criticism, 93–108
Spirit, 518
Spiritual activity, 93, 98
Spiritual needs, 527
Spiritual values, 520
Spoiled child, 334
“Spoon River Anthology,” 221, 222, 226, 503
Sport and play, 457–461;
bibliography, 554
Springfield Republican, 38
Standard Oil Co., 409, 412
Standardization, 149, 150, 335;
American, 111;
newspapers and readers, 36
Standards, economic, 268
State, business and, 264;
corporations and, 412;
diversity of legal systems, 65;
education and, 89;
German, 302;
legislatures, 24, 31
Stearns, H. E., on the intellectual life, 135–150
Sterility, 148
Stevens, Wallace, 218, 221, 223, 224
Stewart, A. T., 405
Stock Exchange, 410
Stockard, C. R., 452
Stories, newspaper, 45
Story, Joseph, 54, 56, 62
Strikes and the newspapers, 46
Stuart, H. L., on American civilization, 469–488
Student Councils, college, 124
Sturgis, Russell, quoted on art, 237
Style, 106
Sublimation of sex, 312
Suburbia, 15, 19
Success, 517, 518
Suffrage, 143
Sumner, W. G., 543
“Super-docs,” 447
Superstition, 78
Supply and demand, 261
Suppression of sex impulse, 311
Surgeons, 446
Swift, M. I., 172
Sydenstricker, Edgar, 325
Symbolists, 503
Symons, Arthur, 499
Sympathy, 175;
professional physician, 445
Symphony orchestras, 199, 202
Syphilis, 453
Taboos, 315, 441, 494
Talk, college, 130
Tariff, 399, 414;
works of art, 230
Tarkington, Booth, 243, 248
Taste, 106;
definition, 100, 107–108;
musical, 200;
theatrical, improvement, 243
Taylor, Deems, on music, 199–214
Teachers, control of teaching, 90;
status, 90;
suppression of freedom of mind, 86, 87;
unions, 91
Teasdale, Sara, 221, 222
Teeth, infected, 448, 449
Telegraph, Morse code, 403
Ten Commandments, 307
Tennis, 460
Teutonic school, 303
Texas fever, 449
Textile industry, 402
Theatre, 243–253;
bibliography, 543;
New York City, 243, 246;
newspapers and, 249
Theology versus science, 163
Things, 397
Thomas, Augustus, 249
Thomas, Theodore, 213
Thoreau, H. D., 184, 194, 494
Thorndike’s tests, 154
Thought, 105, 148, 479;
uniformity, 439
Threshing-machines, 402
Thrift, family, 325
Thucydides, 307
Ticknor, George, 95, 96
Tildsley, John, 87
Tolstoy, Leo, 190, 499, 503
Tom, Blind, 207–208
Tonsils, 448, 449
Towns, New England, 3;
see also Small town
Trade-mark, 409
Trade secrets, 421
Trade-union movement, 283
Traditions, 528;
college, 118;
college and life at large, 131–132
Transportation, 401, 402, 408
Trinity Church, Boston, 11
Truth, 86, 92;
love of, 144
Tschaikovsky, P. I., 200, 213
Tuberculosis, bovine and human, 449
Turgeniev, I. S., 190
Twachtman, J. H., 235
Twain, Mark, 182, 187, 191, 194, 464
Typhoid, 450
Typography, 391
Unconscious, the, 435, 436
Undergraduate, 116
Unemployment, 414
Uniform Negotiable Instruments Law, 64
Uniformity, colleges and life, 131–132
Unions, 283
U. S. Geological Survey, 158
Universal Negro Improvement Assn., 369
Universities, 524, 526;
materialism, 97;
mediocity of life and scholarship, 95, 96, 97;
professors, 96, 97, 193, 491, 527;
see also College life; Colleges
Untermeyer, Louis, on our poetry, 215
Uplifters, 450, 497
Vaccination for typhoid, 450
Valparaiso University, 119, 124
Van Dyke, Henry, 496
Van Loon, H. W., on history, 297–308
Van Slyke, D. D., 456
Vanderlyn, John, 232
Vaughan, V. C., 444
Veblen, T. B., 544, 545
Venereal peril, 453
Venereal prophylaxis, 454
Verihood, 86
Versailles, 305
Victrolas, 212
Villagers, 285
Villages, atmosphere, 290
Virginia schools, white and Negro, 359
Vision, 177, 480, 481
Vital statistics, 319, 320
Volstead Act, debate on, 28
Volunteer firemen’s organizations, 292
Wanamaker, John, 46
War. See World War
Washington, D. C., dramatic taste, 246
Washington Square Players, 252
Waste, business, 413;
economic, 284;
industrial, 419
Water, danger of excessive use, 451
Wealth, 413
Weir, J. A., 235
Welfare of employés, 483
Wellman, Rita, 248
Wells, H. G., 457
Weltanschauung, 101, 102
Wendell, Barrett, quoted on education, 77
Werner, Judge, W. E., 73
West, the, 112
Wharton, Mrs. Edith, 179
Whistler, J. A. M., 234, 237
White, Stanford, 11
White City, 13
White Ways, 13
Whitman, Walt, 149, 185, 186, 187, 188, 190, 194, 215, 217, 504, 523
Who’s who in this volume, 559–564
Widowhood, prevention, 329
Widows, 328, 329
Wigmore, J. H., 69, 75
Wild oats, 316
Wilson, Woodrow, 25, 450
“Winesburg, Ohio,” 137
Winsett, Ned, 179
Wissenschaftlichkeit, 303, 304
Witchcraft, 429
Wives, thrifty, 324, 325
Women, beauty, 431, 438;
dominance in art, 229;
dominance in intellectual life, 135;
dominance in music, 205;
hours of work, 73;
in industry, 326;
interests, 142;
longevity, 328;
maintenance at leisure, 139, 141;
men and, dichotomy, 142;
men’s circumspection as to, 316;
nervous, 432;
personality, 317, 318;
psychology, 317;
surplus, 326, 327
Women’s clubs, 142
Woodberry, G. E., 101
Woods, A. H., 245, 251
Work for work’s sake, 491
Workmen’s compensation, 72
Workmen’s families, 325, 326
World news, 48
World War, business and, 413;
historians and, 304
World’s Fair, Chicago, 13
Wyant, A. H., 233
Yeast, 444
Yeats, W. B., 499
Yellow fever, 450
Y.M.C.A., 144;
instruction, 83
Youth, sex life, 526
Zenger, Peter, 55