seq.;
materials, 40 et seq.;
irony, 13, 18;
ethical agnosticism, 17, 29-32;
on women, 33-5;
statement of his task, 29;
contrasted with other authors, 30, 45, 48-9, 88 et seq., 96

_Cowperwood, Frank_, 79, 114 et seq., 135, 201

Criticism in America, 153 et seq., 191-2

Curle, Richard, 60

_Delineator_, 104

de Pachmann, Vladimir, 171, 178

Dewey, John, 152-3

Dime novels, Dreiser as editor of, 103

Doubleday, Page & Co., 70, 100-1, 102

Drama League of America, 180, 182

Dreiser, Theodore, birth and parentage, 76-7, 106;
early influences, 68 et seq.;
career in journalism, 98-105;
first book, 70, 98 et seq.;
dates of books, 100, 105;
plays, 105, 125-6;
travel books, 105, 127-131;
style, 79 et seq., 113;
mysticism, 12;
agnosticism, 88 et seq., 147;
his novels criticized, 106 et seq.;
academic attitude toward, 131 et seq.;
attacked by Comstocks, 139 et seq.;
contrasted with Conrad, 34, 88 et seq.

Dresser, Paul, 106, 130

"Egoists," 179, 181

"End of the Tether, The," 47

"Falk," 16, 36, 39, 47, 59, 64

Fiction, English, 18, 19

"Financier, The," 81, 86, 101, 105, 107, 114, 122, 138

Flaubert, Gustave, 73, 84, 136, 181

Follett, Wilson, 11, 13, 17, 60

Garnett, Edward, 52

"'Genius,' The," 80-1, 83, 86, 87, 93, 105, 107, 115, 122, 125,
139, 226, 270, 273, 282

_Gerhardt, Jennie_, 109-10, 119, 137

_Gerhardt, Jennie's_ father, 96, 117

German mind, 25

"Girl in the Coffin, The," 125

Good Templars, 228-30

_Goorall, Yanko_, 12

Great Awakening of 1734, 227

Greenwich Village, 124, 145, 224

"Hand of the Potter, The," 105

_Hanson, Minnie_, 85

Hardy, Thomas, 16, 62, 69, 71, 72, 76, 260

Harper & Bros., 100-2, 105

Harvard, 163, 169, 177

"Heart of Darkness," 35, 36, 41, 64

_Herrenmoral_, 236

_Heyst_, 12, 34, 59

"Hoosier Holiday, A," 76, 86, 88, 92, 105, 106, 125, 127 et seq.

Hope, Dreiser on, 126

Howells, W. D., 28, 58, 74, 76, 97, 156, 159, 188, 205, 217, 218,
275, 282

Hueffer, Ford Madox, 53, 54

Huneker, James, birth and parentage, 164;
in journalism, 167, 183;
as music student, 166-7;
as a critic, 159 et seq., 190-4;
books on music, 168-175;
stories, 188-90;
on Conrad, 59;
his aims, 193;
style, 180 et seq.

_Hurstwood_, 99, 108-9

Ibsen, Henrik, 15, 23, 24, 40, 83, 124, 156, 160-1, 162, 182, 200

"Iconoclasts," 169, 170, 179, 181

"Inheritors, The," 42, 53, 56