Assn._, 1914, vol. LXII, p. 2003.
Vincent: “Ideals and Their Function in Medical Education,” _Jour. Amer.
Med. Assn._, 1920, vol. LXXIV, p. 1065.
ANON.
SPORT AND PLAY
Mr. Spalding, the well-known sporting goods manufacturer, is also the
publisher of the Spalding Athletic Library, which contains, besides
rule books and record books of various sports, a series of text-books,
at ten cents the copy, bearing such titles as “How to Play the
Outfield,” “How to Catch,” “How to Play Soccer,” “How to Learn Golf,”
etc. Authorship of these works is credited to famous outfielders,
catchers, soccer players, and golfers, but as the latter can field,
catch, play soccer, and golf much better than they can write, the
actual writing of the volumes was wisely left to persons who make their
living by the pen. The books are recommended, as a cure for insomnia
at least. The best sporting fiction we know of, practically the only
sporting fiction an adult may read without fear of stomach trouble, is
contained in the collected works of the late Charles E. Van Loan.
R. W. L.
AMERICAN CIVILIZATION FROM THE FOREIGN POINT OF VIEW[1]
Frances Milton Trollope: “The Domestic Manners of the Americans,”
London, 1832.
The rest is silence ... or repetition.
E. B.
[1] The views of foreign travellers in the United States are
summarized in John Graham Brooks’s “As Others See Us,” New
York, 1908.--_The Editor._
WHO’S WHO OF THE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME
=Conrad Aiken= was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1889, and was
graduated from Harvard in 1912. His books include several volumes of
poems, “Earth Triumphant,” “Turns and Movies,” “The Jig of Forslin,”
“Nocturne of Remembered Spring,” “The Charnel Rose,” “The House of
Dust,” and “Punch: The Immortal Liar,” and one volume of critical
essays, “Scepticisms: Notes on Contemporary Poetry.”
=Anonymous=, the author of the essay on “Medicine,” is an American
physician who has gained distinction in the field of medical research,
but who for obvious reasons desires to have his name withheld.
=Katharine Anthony= was born in Arkansas, and was educated at the
Universities of Tennessee, Chicago, and Heidelberg. She has done
research and editorial work for the Russell Sage Foundation, National
Consumers’ League, The National Board, Y. W. C. A., and other national
reform organizations, and is the author of “Feminism in Germany and
Scandinavia,” “Margaret Fuller: A Psychological Biography,” and other
books.
=O. S. Beyer, Jr.=, was graduated from the Stevens Institute of
Technology as a mechanical engineer in 1907, and did graduate work in
railway and industrial economics in the Universities of Pennsylvania
and New York. After some experience as an engineering assistant and
general foreman on various railways, and as research engineer in the
University of Illinois, he helped organize the U. S. Army School of
Military Aeronautics during the War, and later took charge of the
Department of Airplanes. He was subsequently requested by the U. S.
Army Ordnance Department to organize and operate schools for training
ordnance specialists and officers, and in order to conduct this
work, he was commissioned Captain. After the termination of the War,
he helped promote, and subsequently assumed charge in the capacity
of Chief, Arsenal Orders Section, of the significant industrial
developments carried forward in the Army arsenals. He has contributed
numerous articles to technical periodicals and proceedings of
engineering and other societies.
=Ernest Boyd= is an Irish critic and journalist, who has lived in
this country for some years, and is now on the staff of the New York
_Evening Post_. He was educated in France, Germany, and Switzerland
for the British Consular Service, which he entered in 1913. After
having served in the United States, Spain, and Denmark, he resigned
from official life in order to take up the more congenial work of
literature and journalism. He has edited Standish O’Grady’s “Selected
Essays” for Every Irishman’s Library and translated Heinrich Mann’s
“Der Untertan” for the European Library, and is the author of three
volumes dealing with modern Anglo-Irish Literature: “Ireland’s Literary
Renaissance,” “The Contemporary Drama of Ireland,” and “Appreciations
and Depreciations.”
=Clarence Britten= was born in Pella, Iowa, in 1887, and was graduated
from Harvard in 1912 as of 1910. He was Instructor of English in the
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, in the Department of
University Extension, State of Massachusetts, and in the University of
Wisconsin. He has been editor of the _Canadian Journal of Music_, and
from 1918 to 1920 was an editor of the _Dial_.
=Van Wyck Brooks= was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, in 1886, and
was graduated from Harvard in 1907, as of 1908. He was instructor in
English in Leland Stanford University from 1911 to 1913, and is now
associate editor of the _Freeman_. Among his books are “America’s
Coming-of-Age,” “Letters and Leadership,” and “The Ordeal of Mark
Twain.”
=Harold Chapman Brown= was born in Springfield, Mass., in 1879, and
was educated at Williams and Harvard, from which he received the
degree of Ph.D. in 1905. He was instructor in philosophy in Columbia
University until 1914, and since then has been an instructor in Leland
Stanford University. During the War he was with the American Red Cross,
Home Service, at Camp Fremont. He has contributed numerous articles
on philosophy to technical journals, and is co-author of “Creative
Intelligence.”
=Zechariah Chafee, Jr.=, was born in Providence, R. I., in 1885, and
was educated at Brown University and the Harvard Law School. After
several years’ practice of the law in Providence, and executive work in
connection with various manufacturing industries, he became Assistant
Professor of Law in Harvard University in 1916, and Professor of Law in
1919. He is the author of “Cases on Negotiable Instruments,” “Freedom
of Speech,” and various articles in law reviews and other periodicals.
=Frank M. Colby= was born in Washington, D. C., in 1865, and was
graduated from Columbia in 1888. He was Professor of Economics in New
York University from 1895 to 1900, and has been editor of the “New
International Encyclopedia” since 1900, and of the “New International
Year Book” since 1907. He is the author of “Outlines of General
History,” “Imaginary Obligations,” “Constrained Attitudes,” and “The
Margin of Hesitation.”
=Garet Garrett= was born in Pana, Ill., in 1878, and from 1900 to 1912
was a financial writer on the New York Sun, the _Wall Street Journal_,
the New York _Evening Post_, and the New York _Times_. He was the first
editor of the New York _Times Annalist_ in 1913–1914, and was executive
editor of the New York _Tribune_ from 1916 to 1919. He is the author
of “The Driver,” “The Blue Wound,” “An Empire Beleaguered,” “The Mad
Dollar,” and various economic and political essays.
=Walton H. Hamilton= was born in Tennessee in 1881, was graduated from
the University of Texas in 1907, and received the degree of Ph.D. from
the University of Michigan in 1913. After teaching at the Universities
of Michigan and Chicago, he became Olds Professor of Economics in
Amherst College in 1915. He was formerly associate editor of the
_Journal of Political Economy_, and is associate editor of the series,
“Materials for the Study of Economics,” published by the University of
Chicago Press. During the War he was on the staff of the War Labour
Policies Board. He is co-editor with J. M. Clark and H. G. Moulton of
“Readings in the Economics of War,” and the author of “Current Economic
Problems” and of various articles in economic journals.
=Frederic C. Howe= was born in Meadville, Pa., in 1867, and was
educated at Allegheny College and Johns Hopkins University, from the
latter receiving the degree of Ph.D. in 1892. After studying in the
University of Maryland Law School and the New York Law School, he was
admitted to the bar in 1894, and practised in Cleveland until 1909. He
was director of the People’s Institute of New York from 1911 to 1914,
and Commissioner of Immigration in the Port of New York from 1914 to
1920. He has been a member of the Ohio State Senate, special U. S.
commissioner to investigate municipal ownership in Great Britain,
Professor of Law in the Cleveland College of Law, and lecturer on
municipal administration and politics in the University of Wisconsin.
Among his books are “The City, the Hope of Democracy,” “The British
City,” “Privilege and Democracy in America,” “Wisconsin: An Experiment
in Democracy,” “European Cities at Work,” “Socialized Germany,” “Why
War?” “The High Cost of Living,” and “The Land and the Soldier.”
=Alfred Booth Kuttner= was born in 1886, and was graduated from Harvard
in 1908. He was for two years dramatic critic of the _International
Magazine_, and is a contributor to the _New Republic_, _Seven Arts_,
_Dial_, etc. He has pursued special studies in psychology, and has
translated several of the books of Sigmund Freud.
=Ring W. Lardner= was born in Niles, Michigan, in 1885, and was
educated in the Niles High School and the Armour Institute of
Technology at Chicago. He has been sporting writer on the Boston
_American_, Chicago _American_, Chicago _Examiner_, and the Chicago
_Tribune_, and writer for the Bell Syndicate since 1919. Among his
books are “You Know Me Al,” “Symptoms of Thirty-five,” “Treat ’Em
Rough,” and “The Big Town.”
=Robert Morss Lovett= was born in Boston in 1870, and was graduated
from Harvard in 1892. He has been a teacher in the English Departments
of Harvard and the University of Chicago, and dean of the Junior
Colleges of the latter institution from 1907 to 1920. He was formerly
editor of the _Dial_, and is at present on the staff of the _New
Republic_. He is a member of the National Institute of Arts and
Letters, and is the author of two novels, “Richard Gresham” and “A
Winged Victory,” of a play, “Cowards,” and with William Vaughn Moody of
“A History of English Literature.”
=Robert H. Lowie= was born in Vienna in 1883, and came to New York at
the age of ten. He was educated at the College of the City of New York
and Columbia University, from which he received the degree of Ph.D. in
1908. He has made many ethnological field trips, especially to the Crow
and other Plains Indians. He was associate curator of Anthropology in
the American Museum of Natural History, New York, until 1921, and since
then has become Associate Professor of Anthropology in the University
of California. He is associate editor of the _American Anthropologist_,
and was secretary of the American Ethnological Society from 1910
to 1919, and president, 1920–1921. He is the author of “Culture
and Ethnology” and “Primitive Society,” as well as many technical
monographs dealing mainly with the sociology and mythology of North
American aborigines.
=John Macy= was born in Detroit in 1877, and was educated at Harvard,
from which he received the degree of A.B. in 1899, and A.M. in 1900.
After a year as assistant in English at Harvard, he became associate
editor of _Youth’s Companion_, and later literary editor of the Boston
_Herald_. Among his books are “Life of Poe” (Beacon Biographies),
“Guide to Reading,” “The Spirit of American Literature,” “Socialism in
America,” and “Walter James Dodd: a Biography.”
=H. L. Mencken= was born in Baltimore in 1880, and was educated in
private schools and at the Baltimore Polytechnic. He was engaged in
journalism until 1916, and is now editor and part owner with George
Jean Nathan of the _Smart Set Magazine_, and a contributing editor
of the _Nation_. His books include “The Philosophy of Friedrich
Nietzsche,” “A Book of Burlesques,” “A Book of Prefaces,” “The
American Language,” and two volumes of “Prejudices.” In collaboration
with George Jean Nathan he has published “The American Credo,” and
“Heliogabalus,” a play.
=Lewis Mumford= was born in Flushing, Long Island, in 1895. He
was associate editor of the Dial in 1919, acting editor of the
_Sociological Review_ (London), a lecturer at the Summer School of
Civics, High Wycombe, England, and has contributed to the _Scientific
Monthly_, the _Athenaeum_, the _Nation_, the _Freeman_, the _Journal of
the American institute of Architects_, and other periodicals. He was a
radio operator in the United States Navy during the War.
=George Jean Nathan= was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1882, and was
graduated from Cornell University in 1904. He has been dramatic critic
of various newspapers and periodicals, and is at present editor and
part owner with H. L. Mencken of the _Smart Set Magazine_. Among his
books are “The Popular Theatre,” “Comedians All,” “Another Book on the
Theatre,” “Mr. George Jean Nathan Presents,” “The Theatre, the Drama,
the Girls,” and, with H. L. Mencken, of “The American Credo,” and
“Heliogabalus.”
=Walter Pach= was born in New York in 1883, and was graduated from the
College of the City of New York in 19013. He studied art under Leigh
Hunt, William M. Chase, and Robert Henri, and worked during most of the
eleven years before the War in Paris and other European art-centres,
exhibiting both here and abroad. He was associated with the work of
the International Exhibition of 1913, as well as other exhibitions of
the modern masters in America, and with the founding and carrying on
of the Society of Independent Artists. He is represented by paintings
and etchings in various public and private collections, has lectured
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, University of California,
Wellesley College, and other institutions, has contributed articles on
art subjects to the _Gazette des Beaux-Arts_, _L’Arts et les Artistes_,
_Scribner’s_, the _Century_, the _Freeman_, etc., and is the translator
of Elie Faure’s “History of Art.”
=Elsie Clews Parsons= was graduated from Barnard College in 1896, and
received the degree of Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1899. She has
been Fellow and Lecturer in Sociology at Barnard College, Lecturer in
Anthropology in the New School of Social Research, assistant editor
of the _Journal of American Folk-Lore_, treasurer of the American
Ethnological Society, and president of the American Folk-Lore Society.
She is married and the mother of three sons and one daughter. Among
her books are “The Family,” “The Old-Fashioned Woman,” “Fear and
Conventionality,” “Social Freedom,” and “Social Rule.”
=Raffaello Piccoli=, who has written the article on “American
Civilization from an Italian Point of View,” was born in Naples in
1886, and was educated at the Universities of Padua, Florence, and
Oxford. In 1913 he was appointed Lecturer in Italian Literature in the
University of Cambridge, and in 1916 was elected Foreign Correspondent
of the Royal Society of Literature. During the War he was an officer
in the First Regiment of Italian Grenadiers, was wounded and taken
prisoner while defending a bridge-head on the Tagliamento, and spent a
year of captivity in Hungary. After the Armistice he was appointed to
the chair of English Literature in the University of Pisa. During the
years 1919–21 he has acted as exchange professor at various American
universities. He has published a number of books, including Italian
translations of Oscar Wilde and of several Elizabethan dramatists.
=Louis Raymond Reid= was born in Warsaw, N. Y., and was graduated from
Rutgers College in 1911. Since then he has been engaged in newspaper
and magazine work in New York City. He was for three years the editor
of the _Dramatic Mirror_.
=Geroid Tanquary Robinson= was born in Chase City, Virginia, in 1892,
and studied at Stanford, the University of California, and Columbia. He
was a member of the editorial board of the _Dial_ at the time when it
was appearing as a fortnightly, and is now a member of the editorial
staff of the _Freeman_, and a lecturer in Modern European History at
Columbia University. He served for sixteen months during the War as a
First Lieutenant (Adjutant) in the American Air Service. Residence in
Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado, Arizona, and California has given
him the opportunity to observe at first hand some of the modes and
manners of race-prejudice.
=J. Thorne Smith, Jr.=, was born in Annapolis, Md., in 1892, and was
graduated from Dartmouth College in 1914. He was Chief Boatswain’s
Mate in the U. S. Naval Reserve during the War, and editor of the navy
paper, _The Broadside_. He is the author of “Haunts and By-Paths and
Other Poems,” “Biltmore Oswald,” and “Out-O’-Luck.”
=George Soule= was born in Stamford, Conn., in 1887, and was graduated
from Yale in 1908. He was a member of the editorial staff of the _New
Republic_ from 1914 to 1918, and during 1919 editorial writer for the
New York _Evening Post_. He drafted a report on the labour policy of
the Industrial Service Sections, Ordnance Department and Air Service,
for the War Department, and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in
the Coast Artillery Corps. He is a director of the Labour Bureau,
Inc., which engages in economic research for labour organizations, and
is co-author with J. M. Budish of “The New Unionism in the Clothing
Industry.”
=J. E. Spingarn= was born in New York in 1875, was educated at Columbia
and Harvard, and was Professor of Comparative Literature in Columbia
University until 1911. Among his other activities he has been a
candidate for Congress, a delegate to state and national conventions,
chairman of the board of directors of the National Association for the
Advancement of Coloured People, vice-president of a publishing firm,
and editor of the “European Library.” During the War he was a Major of
Infantry in the A. E. F. His first book, “Literary Criticism in the
Renaissance,” was translated into Italian in 1905, with an introduction
by Benedetto Croce; he has edited three volumes of “Critical Essays of
the 17th Century” for the Clarendon Press of Oxford, and contributed a
chapter to the “Cambridge History of English Literature;” his selection
of Goethe’s “Literary Essays,” with a foreword by Lord Haldane, has
just appeared; and his other books include “The New Hesperides and
Other Poems” and “Creative Criticism.”
=Harold E. Stearns= was born in Barre, Mass., in 1891, and was
graduated from Harvard in 1913. Since then he has been engaged in
journalism in New York, and has been a contributor to the _New
Republic_, the _Freeman_, the _Bookman_, and other magazines and
newspapers. He was associate editor of the _Dial_ during the last six
months of its appearance as a fortnightly in Chicago. Among his books
are “Liberalism in America” and “America and the Young Intellectual.”
=Henry Longan Stuart= is an English author and journalist who has
spent a considerable part of his life since 1901 in the United States.
He served through the War as a Captain in the Royal Field Artillery,
was attached to the Italian Third Army after Caporetto, and was press
censor in Paris after the Armistice and during the Peace Conference.
He is the author of “Weeping Cross,” a study of Puritan New England,
“Fenella,” and a quantity of fugitive poetry and essays.
=Deems Taylor= was born in New York in 1885, and was graduated from
New York University in 1906. He studied music with Oscar Coon from
1908 to 1911. He has been connected with the editorial staff of the
“Encyclopedia Britannica,” and has been assistant Sunday editor of the
New York _Tribune_ and associate editor of _Collier’s Weekly_, and at
present is a critic of the New York _World_. He has composed numerous
musical works, including “The Siren Song” (symphonic poem, awarded the
orchestral prize of the National Federation of Music Clubs in 1912),
“The Chambered Nautilus” (cantata), “The Highwaymen” (cantata written
for the MacDowell festival), and “Through the Looking Glass” (suite for
symphonic orchestra).
=Hendrik Willem Van Loon= was born in Holland in 1882, and received
his education in Dutch schools, at Cornell and Harvard, and at the
University of Munich, from which he received his Ph.D., magna cum
laude, in 1911. He was a correspondent of the Associated Press in
various European capitals, and for some time was a lecturer on modern
European history in Cornell University. He is at present Professor
of the Social Sciences in Antioch College, and is the author of “The
Fall of the Dutch Republic,” “A Short History of Discovery,” “Ancient
Man,” “The Story of Mankind for Boys and Girls,” “The Rise of the Dutch
Kingdom,” etc.
INDEX
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