Chapter XII: Subject Index (including Background)

(This list is not complete but merely suggestive. Titles are given only in cases where the books might not be readily identified. Some special information is also given in parenthesis.)

AFRICA
White, Stewart Edward

ALASKA
Beach, Rex
London, Jack

ANIMALS. _See_ Nature.

ARIZONA
White, Stewart Edward

ART AND ARTISTS
Ficke, Arthur Davison (Japanese)
Howells, W.D. (The Coast of Bohemia)
James, Henry
Norris, Charles G. (The Amateur)

BOSTON
Grant, Robert
Howells, William Dean

BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONS
Aikman, H.G.
Cahan, Abraham (The Rise of David Levinsky)
Chester, George Randolph
Dreiser, Theodore (The Financier, The Titan)
Ferber, Edna
Herrick, Robert
Howells, William Dean (The Rise of Silas Lapham, The Quality of Mercy)
Hurst, Fannie
Kyne, Peter B.
Lefevre, Edwin
Tarkington, Booth (The Turmoil)

CALIFORNIA
Atherton, Gertrude
Austin, Mary
Irwin, Wallace (Japanese)
Lindsay, Vachel
Markham, Edwin
Sterling, George
White, Steward Edward

CANADA
Curwood, James Oliver
Roberts, Charles G.D.
Stringer, Arthur

CAPITAL AND LABOR
Anderson, Sherwood (Marching Men)
Atherton, Gertrude (Perch of the Devil)
French, Alice (The Man of the Hour, The Lion's Share)
Sinclair, Upton (The Jungle, Jimmy Higgins, King Coal)
Tobenkin, Elias (The House of Conrad)
Webster, H.K. (An American Family)
Wharton, Edith (The Fruit of the Tree)

CHICAGO
Dell, Floyd (The Briary Bush)
Dreiser, Theodore
Ferber, Edna (The Girls)
Fuller, Henry B. (The Cliff Dwellers, With the Procession)
Harris, Frank (The Bomb)
Herrick, Robert
Sandburg, Carl
Webster, Henry Kitchell

CHILDREN
Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam
Björkman, Edwin (The Soul of a child)
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Comfort, Will Levington (Child and Country)
Conkling, Hilda
James, Henry (What Maisie Knew)
Martin, George Madden
Masters, Edgar Lee (Mitch Miller)
Robinson, Edwin Meade (Enter Jerry)
Tarkington, Booth (Penrod)

CLASSICAL WORLD
Aldington, Mrs. Richard ("H.D.")
Pound, Ezra

COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY LIFE
Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (The Bent Twig)
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Johnson, Owen
Williams, Jesse Lynch

COLORADO
Cather, Willa Sibert (Song of the Lark)
Sinclair, Upton (King Coal)

COUNTRY LIFE
Bachellor, Irving (Eben Holden)
Baker, Ray Stannard
Howells, William Dean (The Vacation of the Kelwyns)

COWBOYS
Clark, Badger
Knibbs, H.H.
White, Stewart Edward
Wister, Owen

CREOLES
Cable, George W.
King, Grace

DEMOCRACY
Bynner, Witter
Lindsay, Vachel
Sandburg, Carl

DESERT
Grey, Zane
Wood, C.E.S.

EDUCATION
Comfort, Will Levington (Child and Country)
Dell, Floyd (Were You Ever a Child?)
Norris, Charles G. (Salt)

ENGLAND
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
James, Henry
Wiggin, Kate Douglas

FRANCE
Hardy, Arthur Sherborne
James, Henry (The American, The Ambassadors)
Tarkington, Booth (The Guest of Quesnay)
Wharton, Edith

GENIUS
Austin, Mary (A Woman of Genius)
Drieser, Theodore (The Genius)
James, Henry (The Death of the Lion, The Coxon Fund)
Sedgwick, Anne Douglas (Tante)

GYPSIES
Bercovici, Konrad

HAWAII
London, Jack

HISTORICAL
Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman (The Perfect Tribute, The Counsel
Assigned--Lincoln; The Marshal--Napoleonic period.)
Atherton, Gertrude (The Conqueror--Hamilton)
Brooks, C.S. (Luca Sarto--15th century France)
Bacheller, Irving (A Man for the Ages--Lincoln)
Cable, George W. (Old Louisiana, especially New Orleans)
Churchill, Winston (Richard Carvel--18th century; The Crisis--Civil War;
The Crossing--early 19th century)
Glasgow, Ellen (Civil War and Reconstruction periods)
Hardy, Arthur Sherborne (Passe Rose--time of Charlemagne)
Harris, Frank (Great Days--time of Napoleon)
Hergesheimer, Joseph (The Three Black Pennys, Java Head--early American)
Johnston, Mary (Colonies--Virginia)
Mackaye, Percy (Various periods)
Rice, Cale Young (Various periods)
Tarkington, Booth (Monsieur Beaucaire--18th century England;
Cherry--18th century America)
Watts, Mary S. (Nathan Burke--early Ohio)
Wharton, Edith (The Valley of Decision--18th century Italy)

ILLINOIS
Lindsay, Vachel
Masters, Edgar Lee

IMAGINARY COUNTRY
Cabell, James Branch (Poictesme)
Howells, William Dean (Altruria)
McCutcheon, George Barr (Graustark)

IMMIGRANTS
Antin, Mary (Russian)
Cahan, Abraham (Lithuanian)
Cather, Willa Sibert (Bohemian)
Cournos, John
Daly, T.A. (Irish, Italian)
Mackaye, Percy (The Immigrants)
Tobenkin, Elias (Russian)

INDIANA
Ade, George
Nicholson, Meredith
Riley, James Whitcomb
Tarkington, Booth

INDIANS
Austin, Mary
Eastman, Charles A.
Garland, Hamlin (The Captain of the Gray Horse Troop.)
Neihardt, John G.
Sarett, Lew R.
Wister, Owen (Red Men and White)
Wood, C.E.S.

INTERNATIONAL SCENES
Atherton, Gertrude (The Aristocrats, American Wives and English Husbands)
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Howells, William Dean
James, Henry
Wharton, Edith

IOWA
Garland, Hamlin
Quick, Herbert

IRISH
Daly, T.A.
Dunne, Finley Peter

ITALY AND ITALIANS
Daly, T.A.
Fuller, Henry B.
Howells, William Dean (A Foregone Conclusion)
James, Henry (Roderick Hudson, Daisy Miller, The Portrait of a Lady,
The Wings of a Dove, The Aspern Papers, etc.)
Wharton, Edith (The Valley of Decision)

JAPANESE
Irwin, Wallace (in California)

JEWS
Brody, Alter
Cahan, Abraham
Glass, Montague
Pinski, David
Ridge, Lola

JOURNALISM
Cournos, John (The Wall)
Howells, William Dean (A Hazard of New Fortunes, The World of Chance)

KENTUCKY
Allen, James Lane
Cobb, Irvin S.
Fox, John
Martin, George Madden
Rice, Alice Hegan

MARRIAGE
Aikman, H.G. (Zell)
Churchill, Winston (A Modern Chronicle)
Deland, Margaretta Wade
Dell, Floyd (The Briary Bush)
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (The Brimming Cup)
Herrick, Robert (Together)
Norris, Charles G. (Brass)
Poole, Ernest (His Second Wife)
Webster, Henry Kitchell (Thoroughbred)
Widdemer, Margaret (I've Married Marjorie)
Williams, Jesse Lynch (And So They Were Married)

MIDDLE WEST
Anderson, Sherwood
Cather, Willa Sibert
French, Alice ("Octave Thanet")
Gale, Zona
Garland, Hamlin
Lewis, Sinclair
Lindsay, Vachel
Masters, Edgar Lee
Neihardt, John G.
Piper, Edwin Ford
Quick, Herbert
Sandburg, Carl

MONTANA
Atherton, Gertrude (Perch of the Devil--Butte)

NATURE
Beebe, William
Burroughs, John
Eaton, Walter Prichard
London, Jack
Mills, Enos A.
Roberts, Charles G.D.
Seton, Ernest Thompson
Sharp, Dallas Lore
White, Stewart Edward

NEBRASKA
Cather, Willa Sibert
Piper, Edwin Ford

NEGROES
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Cable, George W.
Cohen, Octavus Roy (contemporary, city)
Du Bois, William B.
Howells, William Dean (An Imperative Duty)
King, Grace
Lindsay, Vachel (The Congo)
O'Neill, Eugene (The Emperor Jones)
Page, Thomas Nelson
Sheldon, Edward (The Nigger)
Torrence, Ridgely (Plays for a Negro Theatre)

NEW ENGLAND
Brown, Alice
Connolly, James Brendan (Gloucester fishermen)
Freeman, Mary Wilkins
Frost, Robert
Hergesheimer, Joseph (Java Head)
Howells, William Dean
Lee, Jennette
Lincoln, Joseph (Cape Cod)
Nathan, Robert
O'Neill, Eugene (Beyond the Horizon)
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
Wharton, Edith (Ethan Frome, Summer)
Wiggin, Kate Douglas

NEW MEXICO
Corbin, Alice

NEW ORLEANS
Cable, George W.
King, Grace

NEW YORK
Bercovici, Konrad (The Dust of New York)
Ford, Sewell
Glass, Montague (Jewish)
Guiterman, Arthur (Old New York)
Howells, William Dean (A Hazard of New Fortunes, The World of Chance)
Hurst, Fannie
James, Henry (Washington Square)
Poole, Ernest (The Harbor)
Strunsky, Simeon
Wharton, Edith (The Age of Innocence)

NONSENSE
Bangs, John Kendrick
Burgess, Gelett
Leacock, Stephen
Marquis, Don

OHIO
Anderson, Sherwood
Howells, William Dean (The Leatherwood God, The New Leaf Mills)
Watts, Mary S.

ORIENT
Benét, William Rose (The Great White Wall)
Comfort, Will Levington
Guiterman, Arthur (Chips of Jade)
Lindsay, Vachel (The Chinese Nightingale)
Lowell, Amy (Fir-Flower Tablets)
Pound, Ezra
Tietjens, Eunice

PARIS
Hardy, Arthur Sherborne
Wharton, Edith (Madame de Treymes)

PENNSYLVANIA
Deland, Margaretta (Alleghany)
Hergesheimer, Joseph
Martin, Helen R. (Dutch)
Singmaster, Elsie (Dutch)

PHILOSOPHY (popular)
Baker, Ray Stannard ("David Grayson")
Brooks, Charles S.
Crothers, Samuel McChord
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, and Cleghorn, Sarah (Fellow-Captains)
Morley, Christopher
Van Dyke, Henry

PIONEERS
Cather, Willa Sibert (O Pioneers, My Antonia)
Neihardt, John G.

POLITICS
Atherton, Gertrude (Senator North)
Churchill, Winston (Coniston, Mr. Crewe's Career)
Tarkington, Booth (The Gentleman from Indiana)
Whitlock, Brand
Williams, Ben Ames (The Great Accident)

PRAIRIE LIFE
Garland, Hamlin
Piper, Edwin Ford
Stringer, Arthur

PRIMITIVE LIFE
London, Jack
White, Stewart Edward

PSYCHO-ANALYSIS
Aiken, Conrad
Aikman, H.G. (Zell)
Anderson, Sherwood (The Triumph of the Egg)
Björkman, Edwin (The Soul of a Child)
Dell, Floyd (Moon-Calf)

RELIGION
Churchill, Winston (The Inside of the Cup)
Deland, Margaretta (John Ward, Preacher)
Kennedy, Charles Rann (The Servant in the House, The Army with Banners)
Van Dyke, Henry
Wattles, Willard

SAN FRANCISCO
Atherton, Gertrude

SEA AND SAILORS
Connolly, James B. (Gloucester fishermen)
Lincoln, Joseph C. (Cape Cod)
O'Neill, Eugene
Williams, Ben Ames

SOCIAL SERVICE AND SETTLEMENT WORK
Bercovici, Konrad
Harrison, Henry Sydnor (V.V.'s Eyes)
Rice, Alice Hegan
Wiggin, Kate Douglas

SOCIALISM
Eastman, Max
Giovannitti, Arturo
Howells, William Dean (A Hazard of New Fortunes, Annie Kilburn,
The Eye of the Needle, A Traveler from Altruria)
Kennedy, Charles Rann
Markham, Edwin
Oppenheim, James
Poole, Ernest
Sinclair, Upton
Traubel, Horace
Whitlock, Brand (The Turn of the Balance)

SOCIETY
Adams, Henry (Democracy, Esther)
Atherton, Gertrude
Grant, Robert
James, Henry
Wharton, Edith

SOUTH AMERICA
Scott, Evelyn (Brazil)

SOUTH SEAS
O'Brien, Frederick
London, Jack

SPIRITUALISM, SUPERNATURAL
Belasco, David (The Return of Peter Grimm)
Brown, Alice (The Wind between the Worlds)
Freeman, Mary Wilkins (The Wind in the Rosebush)
Garland, Hamlin (The Tyranny of the Dark, The Shadow World, Victor
Ollnee's Discipline)

STAGE
Cather, Willa Sibert (Song of the Lark)
Hurst, Fannie
Sheldon, Edward B. (Romance)
Watts, Mary S. (The Board-man Family)
Webster, Henry Kitchell (The Real Adventure, The Painted Scene)

VERMONT
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield (The Brimming Cup, Hillsboro People)
Nathan, Robert (Autumn)

VILLAGE AND PROVINCIAL TOWN LIFE
Anderson, Sherwood (Winesburg, Ohio)
Brown, Alice (New England)
Deland, Margaretta (Pennsylvania)
Freeman, Mary Wilkins (New England)
Gale, Zona (Wisconsin)
Lewis, Sinclair (Main Street--Minnesota)
Lindsay, Vachel (The Golden Book of Springfield)
Masters, Edgar Lee (Illinois)
Williams, Ben Ames (The Great Accident)

VIRGINIA
Cabell, James Branch
Glasgow, Ellen
Johnston, Mary
Page, Thomas Nelson

WALES
Marks, Jeannette

WAR
Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman
Atherton, Gertrude (The White Morning)
Broun, Heywood
Comfort, Will Levington (Red Fleece)
Deland, Margaretta Wade (Small Things)
Dos Passos, John
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
Kilmer, Joyce
Poole, Ernest (Blind)
Seeger, Alan
Wharton, Edith
Whitlock, Brand
Wilde, Percival (The Unseen Host)

WASHINGTON, D.C.
Atherton, Gertrude (Senator North)
Burnett, Frances Hodgson (Through One Administration)

WISCONSIN
Gale, Zona
Garland, Hamlin

WOMEN (PSYCHOLOGY OF)
Churchill, Winston (A Modern Chronicle)
Cleghorn, Sarah
Deland, Margaretta (The Awakening of Helena Richie, The Rising Tide)
Dreiser, Theodore (Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt)
Ferber, Edna (The Girls)
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
Hergesheimer, Joseph (Linda Condon)
Johnson, Owen (The Salamander, Virtuous Wives)
Norris, Kathleen
Tarkington, Booth (Alice Adams, Gentle Julia)
Watts, Mary S. (The Rise of Jennie Cushing)

YOUTH (PSYCHOLOGY OF)
Aikman, H.G. (Zell)
Allen, James Lane (A Summer in Arcady, The Kentucky Warbler)
Anderson, Sherwood
Björkman, Edwin (The Soul of a Child)
Davies, Mary Carolyn
Dell, Floyd
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Hecht, Ben
James, Henry (The Awkward Age)
Nathan, Robert (Peter Kindred)
Norris, Charles G. (Salt)
Tarkington, Booth (Seventeen, Clarence)
Widdemer, Margaret (The Boardwalk)
Williams, Ben Ames (The Great Accident)

Transcriber's Note

The following errors and inconsistencies have been maintained.

Misspelled words and typographical errors:

Page Error
xii "Loveman, Amy," should end with a .
xii "Littell, Philip," should end with a .
xii "Underwood, John Curtis," should end with .
xiii "Aiken, Conrad," should end with .
xv "Miscellany of American Poetry," should end with .
xv "Stork, Charles Wharton," should end with .
xviii "Morley, Christopher," should end with .
xix "Mackay, Constance D'Arcy," should end with .
xix "Mayorga, Margaret Gardner," should end with .
xix "Shay, Frank," should end with .
xix "Stratton, Clarence," should end with .
38 "By the Chrismas Fire" should read "Christmas"
80 "31 ('14)" should be "31 ('10)"
82 "my 'story,' he said," missing " after story,'
103 "Jeannette(Augustus)" missing space before (
146 "portrait)" should read "(portrait)"
147 "Lit. Digest, 58 (18')" should read "Lit. Digest, 58 ('18)"
169 "Brown, Robert Carleton. Others, 1916" should have . at end
171 "Kennedy Charles Rann" should have , after Kennedy
172 "Gerould, Katherine Fullerton" should read Katharine
178 "Child, Richard Washburn" does not have an entry in the main
text of the book
178 "Gerould, Katherine Fullerton" should read Katharine
178 "Hardy, Arthur Sherborne" should read Sherburne
179 "Jeanette" should read Jeannette
180 "Glass, Montague, (England)" has an extra , after Montague
182 "Bachellor" should read Bacheller
182 "Hardy, Arthur Sherborne" should read Sherburne
183 "Drieser, Theodore" should read Dreiser
183 "Hardy, Arthur Sherborne" should read Sherburne
183 "(The Captain of the Gray Horse Troop.)" has an extra . before
the )
186 "Hardy, Arthur Sherborne" should read Sherburne

The following words were inconsistently capitalized:

One-Act / One-act
Present-Day / Present-day
Who's Who In America / Who's Who in America

The following word was inconsistently spelled:

Björkman / Bjorkman

Other inconsistencies:

ff. used in page references is sometimes closed up with the page numbers and sometimes spaced.