Taking the literary pulse : psychological studies of life and letters / by Joseph Collins.

Contents: Purity and pornography -- Sophism and Mr. Sherwood Anderson -- The big four of American women writers -- Heredity in fictional literature -- The psychology of the midget -- Gallantry and our women writers -- Nature versus art in recent French novels -- Footprints on the literary sands of time -- Unpleasant novels -- The study of the individual in fiction: psychological novels -- Mr. Frank Swinnerton and his books -- Reading matter for invalids and the novels of Mrs. Mary Webb -- Appetizing first fruits -- Some French writers of the present day -- Vicarious sadism; or, Pleasure from smashing literary idols -- Doctors as men of letters -- Feminism and fetid and foolish literature -- Lunatics of literature