Note 18 — Chapter IV · • The Darkening Skies of Letters

Stuart P. Sherman, On Contemporary Literature, New York, 1923, p. 94. In the syllabus Professor Parrington says: “The most intelligent estimates of Dreiser are in Randolph Bourne, History of a Literary Radical; H. L. Mencken, Prefaces; and Carl Van Doren, Contemporary American Novelists. All other commentators are stupid.”