V. PHILISTINES AND DILETTANTE

POETRY FOR THE UNPOETICAL EYE, EAR, AND MIND
OUT WITH THE DILETTANTE
FLAT PROSE

VI. MEN AND THEIR BOOKS

CONRAD AND MELVILLE
THE NOVELIST OF PITY
HENRY JAMES THE SATIRIC
RAGE OF BUTLER

CONCLUSION

DEFINING THE INDEFINABLE




I

ON FICTION

SENTIMENTAL AMERICA


The Oriental may be inscrutable, but he is no more puzzling than
the average American. We admit that we are hard, keen, practical,