This volume contains various essays entitled: hey rub-a-dub-dub; chan some aspects of our national character; the dream; American financier; toil of the laborer; personality; counsel to perfection; neurotic America and the sex impulse; secrecy, its value; ideals, morals and the daily newspaper; equation inevitab phantasmagoria; Ashtorð the reformer; marriage and divorce; more democracy or less, an inquiry; essential tragedy of life; life, art and America; court of progress.