Mr. Mencken, the jeune fille, and the new spirit in letters.--Tradition.--Franklin and the age of enlightenment.--The Emersonian liberation.--Hawthorne: a Puritan critic of Puritanism.--Walt Whitman.--Joaquin Miller: poetical conquistador of the West.--A note on Carl Sandburg.--Andrew Carnegie.--Roosevelt and the national psychology.--Evolution in the Adams family.--An imaginary conversation with Mr. P. E. More.
