Apologies are due the various authors whose style and, more
particularly, whose Weltanschauung I have here attempted to
reproduce; thanks are due The Bookman for permission to reprint
such of these chapters as appeared in that publication. I give
both freely. D. O. S.



Contents

I INTRODUCTION: A Critical Survey of American History In
the Manner of William Lyon Phelps

II CRISTOFER COLOMBO: A Comedy of Discovery In the Manner of
James Branch Cabell

III MAIN STREET: Plymouth, Mass In the Manner of Sinclair
Lewis

IV THE COURTSHIP OF, MILES STANDISH In the Manner of F. Scott
Fitzgerald

V THE SPIRIT OF '75: Letters of a Minute Man In the Manner of
Ring Lardner

VI THE WHISKY REBELLION In the Bedtime Story Manner of Thornton
W. Burgess

VII HOW LOVE CAME TO GENERAL GRANT In the Manner of Harold Bell
Wright