oubleday, Page & Co. (1915).

[2] The Advance of the English Novel. New York, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1916,
p. 215.

[3] Conrad, in the _Forum_, May, 1915.

[4] New York and London. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1907.

[5] The Intelligence of Woman. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1916, p.
6-7.

[6] In _The New Review_, Dec., 1897.

[7] Printed in the United States as Children of the Sea, but now
restored to its original title.

[8] Here are some actual prices from booksellers' catalogues:

1914 1916 1920

Almayer's Folly (1895) $12. $24. $40.
An Outcast of the Islands (1896) 11.50 20. 35.
The Nigger of the Narcissus (1898) 7.50 20. 35.
Tales of Unrest (1898) 12.50 20. 35.
Lord Jim (1900) 7.50 22.50 25.
The Inheritors (1901) 12. 20. 30.
Youth (1902) 5. 7.50 25.
Typhoon (1903) 4. 5.50 16.
Romance (1903) 5. 7.50 9.
Nostromo (1904) 2.50 4.50 7.50
The Mirror of the Sea (1906) 5. 11. 15.
A Set of Six (1908) 3. 7.50 10.
Under Western Eyes (1911) 4.50 4.50 6.
Some Reminiscences (1912) 4.50 9. 15.
Chance (1913) 2. 5. 15.
Victory (1915) 2. 2.50 4.25

[9] New York, Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1915, pp. 1-21.

[10] New York, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1916, pp. 192-217.

[11] Some English Story Tellers: A Book of the Younger Novelists; New
York, Henry Holt & Co., 1912, pp. 1-30.

[12] A Disquisition on Conrad, _Fortnightly Review_, April, 1908.

[13] The Genius of Mr. Joseph Conrad, _North American Review_, June,
1904.

[14] Joseph Conrad: A Study; New York, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1914.

[15] Joseph Conrad; London, Nisbet & Co. (1916).

II

THEODORE DREISER

Sec. 1

Out of the desert of American fictioneering, so populous and yet so
dreary, Dreiser stands up--a phenomenon unescapably visible, but
disconcertingly hard to explain. What forces combined to produce him in
the first place, and how has he managed to hold out so long against the
prevailing blasts--of disheartening misunderstanding and
misrepresentation, of Puritan suspicion and opposition, of artistic
isolation, of commercial seduction? There is something downright heroic
in t