Transcriber's Notes

The duplicate book title and chapter titles have been removed. Also the following misprints have been corrected:

TOC: put in "Tippecanoe" without a hyphen (in "Tippecanoe County, Indiana")

TOC: "Mackaye" changed to "MacKaye", as in all other instances ("Percy Mackaye was born in New York City...")

p. 56: "countinent" changed to "continent" ("Yet in their time these men set the whole countinent in a roar.")

p. 75: period is added after the middle initial W (ROBERT W. CHAMBERS)

p. 78: period is added the following sentence: The most imaginative and fantastic romances must have their basis in real life.

p. 107: put in "dive-keeper" with a hyphen (no other instance in the text)

p. 112: put in "soulless" without a hyphen (no other instances in the text)

p. 178: opening double quote changed to single quote ('If ye had not plowed with my heifer....)

p. 218: put in "catch-words" with a hyphen (no other instances in the text)

p. 243: put in "motion-picture" with a hyphen (no other instances in the text)

p. 247: put in "off-hand" with a hyphen ("I can think off-hand of quite a group of writers....")

p. 283: put in "Dooryards" without a hyphen ("When Lilacs Last in Dooryards Bloomed")

p. 293: put in "everywhere" without a hyphen ("heresy is sin always and everywhere;")

p. 294: "Of couse" changed to "Of course" ("Of course, I'm not orthodox.")