American neglect of American literature.--Edwin Arlington Robinson.--Robert Frost.--The voice of Chicago; Edgar Lee Masters and Carl Sandburg.--Amy Lowell.--Edith Wharton.--Booth Tarkington.--Theodore Dreiser.--Mr. Cabell expounds himself.--Willa Cather.--The short story.--The drift of the drama.--Bostonia and Bohemia.--The younger set and the Puritan bogey.--Biography and the personal equation.--Pessimism and the critical code.