Epigraph
“To write in favor of that
which the great interests of the
world are against is what I
conceive to be the duty and the
privilege of the intellectual.”
Padraic Colum
Note
Most of the papers included in this volume have already appeared in one or another of the following magazines: The Atlantic Monthly, The Dial, The New Republic, The Seven Arts, The Yale Review, The Columbia University Quarterly, and are reprinted here with the kind permission of the editors.