Charles H. Parkhurst. Later, when the novel
appeared in book form, the Comstocks began an action to have it
suppressed, and forced the publisher to bowdlerize it.
[76] An account of a typical prosecution, arbitrary, unintelligent and
disingenuous, is to be found in Sumner and Indecency, by Frank Harris,
in _Pearson's Magazine_ for June, 1917, p. 556.
[77] For further discussions of this point consult Art in America, by
Aleister Crowley, _The English Review_, Nov., 1913; Life, Art and
America, by Theodore Dreiser, _The Seven Arts_, Feb., 1917; and The
American; His Ideas of Beauty, by H. L. Mencken, _The Smart Set_, Sept.,
1913.
[78] _Vide_ The Cambridge History of English Literature, vol. XI, p.
225.
[79] The point is discussed by H. V. Routh in The Cambridge History of
English Literature, vol. XI, p. 290.
[80] In Boon; New York, George H. Doran Co., 1915.
[81] In a letter to Felix Shay, Nov. 24, 1916.
INDEX
Abolitionists, 213, 231
Agnosticism, 14, 17
Alden, W. L., on Conrad, 53
"Almayer's Folly," 12, 16, 37, 42, 47, 51, 52, 56, 59
American Bible Society, 239
American mind, 25, 197-8, 207 et seq.
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