History of a literary radical.--Our cultural humility.--Six portraits: Karen. Sophronisba. Mon amie. Fergus. The professor. One of our conquerors.--This older generation.--A mirror of the Middle West.--Ernest; or, Parent for a day.--On discussion.--The puritan's will to power.--The immanence of Dostoevsky.--The art of Theodore Dreiser.--The uses of infallibility.--Impressions of Europe, 1913-14.--Trans-national America.--Fragment of a novel.