Note 57 — Chapter XII · Ulysses’ Companions: Robert McAlmon, Ben Hecht, William Carlos Williams

In his novel called “What Happens” John Herrman gives us a pitiless and depressing document about the habits of college students of both sexes. If this be a faithful painting, American youth would then seem to have but two ideals—Vice and Alcohol. I leave the full responsibility of this verdict to the author. A similar, but more optimistic and moralizing representation, will be found in Mr. Percy Marks’ novel, “The Plastic Age,” The Century Company, New York.