The Odyssey Press

PREFACE Although American society is noted for the high degree of conformity that it imposes on its members and for the materialistic values tliat seem often to take precedence over human ones, it is a significant fact that much of the serious literature of America has since its beginnings been...

PREFACE to the Revised and Enlarged Edition It has been my pleasant duty to act as a remodeler or modernizer of the house that the late Professor William F. Thrall and the late Dean Addison Hibbard built in 1936. The figure of a house being remodeled seems to me an appropriate one to describe...