XII Two Hundred Omissions
The following list contains two hundred of the many hundreds of writers, painters, musicians and scientists who are denied biographies in the Britannica. There is not a name here which should not be in an encyclopædia which claims for itself the completeness which the Britannica claims. Many of the names stand in the forefront of modern culture. Their omission is nothing short of preposterous, and can be accounted for only on the grounds of ignorance or prejudice. In either case, they render the encyclopædia inadequate as an up-to-date and comprehensive reference work.
It will be noted that not one of these names is English, and that America has suffered from neglect in a most outrageous fashion. After reading the flamboyant statements made in the Encyclopædia Britannica’s advertising, glance down this list. Then decide for yourself whether or not the statements are accurate.
Objection may be raised to some of the following names on the ground that they are not of sufficient importance to be included in an encyclopædia, and that their omission cannot be held to the discredit of the Britannica. In answer let me state that for every name listed here as being denied a biography, there are one or two, and, in the majority of cases, many, Englishmen in the same field who are admittedly inferior and yet who are given detailed and generally laudatory biographies.
Literature
“A. E.” (George W. Russell)
Andreiev
Artzibashef
Hermann Bahr
Henri Bernstein
Otto Julius Bierbaum
Ambrose Bierce
Helene Böhlau
Henry Bordeaux
René Boylesve
Enrico Butti
Cammaerts
Capuana
Bliss Carman
Winston Churchill
Pierre de Coulevain
Richard Dehmel
Margaret Deland
Grazia Deledda
Theodore Dreiser
Eekhoud
Clyde Fitch
Paul Fort
Gustav Frenssen
Fröding
Fucini (Tanfucio Neri)
Garshin
Stefan George
René de Ghil
Giacosa
Ellen Glasgow
Rémy de Gourmont
Robert Grant
Lady Gregory
Grigorovich
Hartleben
Heidenstam
Hirschfeld
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Arno Holz
Richard Hovey
Bronson Howard
Ricarda Huch
James Huneker
Douglas Hyde
Lionel Johnson
Karlfeldt
Charles Klein
Korolenko
Kuprin
Percy MacKaye
Emilio de Marchi
Ferdinando Martini
Stuart Merrill
William Vaughn Moody
Nencioni
Standish O’Grady
Ompteda
Panzacchi
Giovanni Pascoli
David Graham Phillips
Wilhelm von Polenz
Rapisardi
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Romain Rolland
T. W. Rolleston
Rovetta
Albert Samain
George Santayana
Johannes Schlaf
Schnitzler
Severin
Signoret
Synge
John Bannister Tabb
Tchekhoff
Gherardi del Testa
Jérôme and Jean Tharaud
Ludwig Thoma
Augustus Thomas
Tinayre
Katherine Tynan
Veressayeff
Clara Viebig
Annie Vivanti
Wackenroder
Wedekind
Edith Wharton
Owen Wister
Ernst von Wolzogen
Painting
George Bellows
Carrière
Mary Cassatt
Cézanne
Louis Corinth
Maurice Denis
Gauguin
Habermann
C. W. Hawthorne
Robert Henri
Hodler
Sergeant Kendall
Ludwig Knaus
Krüger
Jean Paul Laurens
Leibl
Von Marées
René Ménard
Redon
Charles Shuch
Lucien Simon
Steinlen
Toulouse-Lautrec
Trübner
Twachtman
Van Gogh
Vallotton
Zorn
Music d’Albert
Arensky
Mrs. Beach
Busoni
Buxtehude
Charpentier
Frederick Converse
Cui
Arthur Foote
Grechaninov
Guilmant
Henry K. Hadley
Josef Hofmann
Edgar Stillman Kelly
Kreisler
Leschetitzky
Gustav Mahler
Marschner
Nevin
Nordraak
John Knowles Paine
Horatio Parker
Rachmaninov
Ravel
Max Reger
Nikolaus Rubinstein
Scharwenka brothers
Georg Alfred Schumann
Scriabine
Sibelius
Friedrich Silcher
Sinding
Taneiev
Wolf-Ferrari
Science and Invention
William Beaumont
John Shaw Billings
Luther Burbank
George W. Crile
Harvey Cushing
Rudolph Diesel
Daniel Drake
Ehrlich
Simon Flexner
W. W. Gerhard
Samuel David Gross
William S. Halsted
Wilhelm His
Abraham Jacobi
Rudolph Leuckart
Franz Leydig
Jacques Loeb
Percival Lowell
Lyonet (Lyonnet)
S. J. Meltzer
Metchnikoff
T. H. Morgan
Joseph O’Dwyer
Ramón y Cajal
Nicholas Senn
Marion Sims
Theobald Smith
W. H. Welch
Orville Wright
Wilbur Wright
Psychology and Philosophy
Ardigò
Bergson
Boutroux
Hermann Cohen
John Dewey
Edelmann
Freud
Guyau
G. Stanley Hall
Hildebrand
Jung
Külpe
Lipps
Josiah Royce
Alois Riehl
Sibbern
Soloviov
Tetans
Windelband