First gallery: Sherwood Anderson's Tales of the new life ; D.H. Lawrence cultivates a beard ; Willa Cather and the changing world ; Floyd Dell on the coast of Bohemia ; Ben Hecht and the supermen ; Ellen Glasgow: the fighting edge of romance ; Rose Macaulay and women ; H.G. Wells: dreaming for the world --

Second gallery: Mr. Brownell on the quest of perfection ; Chekhov, Chekhovians, Chekhovism ; Llewelyn Powys: a sick man's vision or the naked truth? ; R.L.S. encounters the "modern writers" on their own ground ; Anatole France: a secretary and his "immortal" ; Oscar Wilde: a dandy of letters and acquainted with grief ; Pierre Loti and exotic love ; Don Marquis, poet ; William Osler: the high calling of medicine ; H.L. Mencken as liberator ; Barrett Wendell: farewell, New England gentleman --

Third gallery: Mandeville on the seamy side of virtue ; Boswell on his own hook ; Laurence Sterne: a graceless man of God ; George Washington as diarist ; Brigham Young: a fundamentalist who got what he wanted ; Interpreting Jesus ; Known soldier.