PREJUDICES

SECOND SERIES

By

H. L. MENCKEN

JONATHAN CAPE

11 GOWER STREET

LONDON

1921

CONTENTS

I The National Letters,     9

1. Prophets and Their Visions,     9
2. The Answering Fact,   14
3. The Ashes of New England,   18
4. The Ferment Underground,   25
5. In the Literary Abattoir,   32
6. Underlying Causes,   39
7. The Lonesome Artist,   54
8. The Cultural Background,   65
9. Under the Campus Pump,   78
10. The Intolerable Burden,   87
11. Epilogue,   98

II Roosevelt: an Autopsy, 102

III The Sahara of the Bozart, 136

IV The Divine Afflatus, 155

V Scientific Examination of a Popular Virtue, 172

VI Exeunt Omnes, 180

VII The Allied Arts, 194

1. On Music-Lovers, 194
2. Opera, 197
3. The Music of To-morrow, 201
4. Tempo di Valse, 204
5. The Puritan as Artist, 206
6. The Human Face, 206
7. The Cerebral Mime, 208

VIII The Cult of Hope, 211

IX The Dry Millennium, 219

1. The Holy War, 219
2. The Lure of Babylon, 222
3. Cupid and Well-Water, 225
4. The Triumph of Idealism, 226

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