| Preface | | ix | |
| Introduction | | xi | |
| Part I. Tradition | |
| | 3 | (6) |
| | 4 | (2) |
| Literature and the Unlettered |
| | 6 | (3) |
| | 9 | (14) |
| Galvanic Shocks in Essay form Review of Learning and Other Essays |
| | 10 | (2) |
| Excellent Aeschylus Translation Review of Aeschylus with an English Translation |
| | 12 | (3) |
| An Admirable Translation Review of the Aeneid of Virgil |
| | 15 | (2) |
| Greatness Review of Socrate |
| | 17 | (3) |
| Cheers for Humanity Review of The Platonic Legend |
| | 20 | (3) |
| | 23 | (12) |
| The Stuff of Our Unwritten Epic Review of Economic Beginnings of the Far West |
| | 24 | (1) |
| Valuable and Enthralling Review of Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains |
| | 25 | (1) |
| We Forget them Review of John Colter |
| | 26 | (2) |
| A Magnificent Story Review of The Santa Fe Trail |
| | 28 | (1) |
| A Book with Light in it Review of Ancient Life in the American Southwest |
| | 29 | (1) |
| Review of the Pony Express Goes Through |
| | 30 | (5) |
| Part 2: Troubled Planet | |
| | 35 | (8) |
| War and Society Review of Social Progress and the Darwinian Theory |
| | 35 | (2) |
| Excellent Intentions Review of The Fight for Peace |
| | 37 | (1) |
| Hitler's Book Review of My Battle |
| | 38 | (2) |
| Burning Conviction Review of ``Halt!'' Cry the Dead |
| | 40 | (3) |
| Breadlines and Bursting Granaries |
| | 43 | (10) |
| Dissertation on Fear Review of Casting Out Fear |
| | 44 | (1) |
| Perpetual Motion Review of Our Biggest Customer |
| | 45 | (2) |
| Review of Criminals and Politicians |
| | 47 | (1) |
| For Those Who Care Review of Human Aspects of Unemployment and Relief |
| | 47 | (2) |
| Do They Know Enough? Review of Finding a Job |
| | 49 | (2) |
| Beware of Substitutes! Review of Let's Get What We Want |
| | 51 | (2) |
| | 53 | (18) |
| A Plea for Education Review of College Sons and College Fathers |
| | 54 | (1) |
| Civilization and Mrs. Shimmyall |
| | 55 | (2) |
| How Shall we Be Saved? Review of The Escape from the Primitive and Thinking about Thinking |
| | 57 | (7) |
| Straws in the Wind Review of This Ugly Civilization, and Our Business, Civilization |
| | 64 | (2) |
| | 66 | (1) |
| Merejkowski's thesis Review of The Secret of the West |
| | 66 | (5) |
| Part 3. Trends in Contemporary Literature | |
| | 71 | (6) |
| The Socratic Spirit Review of On Contemporary Literature |
| | 72 | (1) |
| Provincialism Review of The American Credo |
| | 73 | (1) |
| Contemporary Literature Is News |
| | 74 | (2) |
| Luminous Sanity Review of Essays on Literature |
| | 76 | (1) |
| | 77 | (12) |
| Modern American Poetry Review of The New Era in American Poetry |
| | 77 | (1) |
| | 78 | (2) |
| Revaluing the Classics Review of Literary Blasphemies |
| | 80 | (1) |
| Why Scream? Review of All Else Is Folly |
| | 81 | (2) |
| Growing Debt Review of Life and Letters of Stuart P. Sherman |
| | 83 | (1) |
| An Honest Book Review of Our Singing Strength |
| | 84 | (2) |
| | 86 | (1) |
| An Athletic Mind in Action Review of The New American Literature |
| | 87 | (2) |
| | 89 | (24) |
| | 90 | (4) |
| The Personal Note Wears Out Review of Dark of the Moon |
| | 94 | (3) |
| The Truth About Small Towns Review of Home Town Sketches |
| | 97 | (1) |
| Genuine Realism Review of God Got One Vote |
| | 98 | (2) |
| | 100 | (2) |
| | 102 | (2) |
| | 104 | (1) |
| Realism Review of As the Earth Turns |
| | 105 | (2) |
| Great Skill for What? Review of Only the Fear |
| | 107 | (6) |
| Part 4: Of Making Many Books | |
| | 113 | (16) |
| Fitzgerald Again Review of Flappers and Philosophers |
| | 114 | (1) |
| An Excellent Biography Review of George Eliot and Her Times |
| | 115 | (1) |
| An Old-Timer Remembers Review of A Two-Gun Cyclone |
| | 116 | (1) |
| Hurrah for Dorothy Review of Sunset Gun |
| | 117 | (1) |
| A Book By a Seer Review of Jesus, the Son of Man |
| | 118 | (1) |
| The Heart of a Hun Review of All Quiet on the Western Front |
| | 119 | (2) |
| An Oklahoma Epic Review of The Range Cattle Industry |
| | 121 | (1) |
| | 122 | (1) |
| Windstroms of the Spirit Review of An Upton Sinclair Anthology |
| | 123 | (2) |
| Wells at 67 Review of Experiment in Autobiography |
| | 125 | (4) |
| | 129 | (18) |
| A New England Poet Review of Mountain Interval |
| | 130 | (1) |
| Book of Great Significance Review of Is Five |
| | 131 | (2) |
| Review of The Collected Poems of Ezra Pound |
| | 133 | (1) |
| | 133 | (1) |
| Cervantes Read Backwards Review of The Life of Don Quixote and Sancho |
| | 134 | (2) |
| Knowledge and Opinion Review of The Outline of Man's Knowledge |
| | 136 | (2) |
| The Benefit of the Doubt Review of The Story of the American Indian |
| | 138 | (2) |
| Mob Flattery Review of The Ways of Behaviorism |
| | 140 | (2) |
| Review of Green Hills of Africa |
| | 142 | (5) |
| Part 5. This Mysterious Universe | |
| | 147 | (14) |
| Socratic Questioning Review of The Breath of Life |
| | 148 | (2) |
| Einstein and The Average man Review of Relativity |
| | 150 | (2) |
| The Mathematical Mind Review of Mole Philosophy and Other Essays |
| | 152 | (2) |
| Swapping Illusions Review of The Future of an Illusion |
| | 154 | (1) |
| Dare We Giggle Now? Review of Our Changing Human Nature |
| | 155 | (2) |
| Light On The Peaks Review of The Revolt against Dualism |
| | 157 | (2) |
| A Burning Issue Review of The Supreme Law |
| | 159 | (2) |
| | 161 | (11) |
| Scientific Pessimism Review of Eos, or The Wider Aspects of Cosmogony |
| | 161 | (2) |
| Seed and The Soil Review of What's Life All About? |
| | 163 | (3) |
| Something to Think About Review of The Story of Psychic Science |
| | 166 | (2) |
| The Practicality of Prayer Review of Can Prayer Be Answered? |
| | 168 | (1) |
| Daring Academic Departure Review of Extra Sensory Perception |
| | 169 | (3) |
| | 172 | (13) |
| O'Neill's New Play Review of Marco Millions |
| | 173 | (2) |
| A Valuable Interpretation Review of The Story of Oriental Philosophy |
| | 175 | (1) |
| Why Not Both? Review of Mysticism and Logic |
| | 176 | (2) |
| Humane Philosophy Review of Matter, Life and Value |
| | 178 | (2) |
| The Message of the Dust Review of Deserts on the March |
| | 180 | (5) |
| Part 6: Poetic Values | |
| | 185 | (18) |
| Building of A Masterpiece Review of The Heart of Emerson's Journals |
| | 185 | (4) |
| | 189 | (1) |
| A Lesson From Oriental Song Review of Lotus and Chrysanthemum |
| | 189 | (1) |
| | 190 | (2) |
| Concentrated Beauty Review of Eden |
| | 192 | (2) |
| | 194 | (2) |
| A Great Personality Review of America, the Dream |
| | 196 | (1) |
| Poet Review of Lonesome Water |
| | 196 | (2) |
| | 198 | (1) |
| | 199 | (2) |
| Two Adult Lyric Poets Review of Poems: 1911--1936, and Hill Garden |
| | 201 | (2) |
| What is Literature Good For? |
| | 203 | (14) |
| The Renascence of Poetry in America |
| | 204 | (3) |
| | 207 | (3) |
| | 210 | (2) |
| Living water Review of Selected Lyrics of Amelia Josephine Burr |
| | 212 | (1) |
| Literature as Environment |
| | 213 | (4) |
| Notes | | 217 | (10) |
| Sources | | 227 | (6) |
| Index | | 233 | |
