Professor Wallace Stegner, of Stanford University; Mrs. Janet Tudor,
of Ohio University; and Mrs. Neda Westlake, of the University of
Pennsylvania Library. Since most of them had only a hazy notion of
what they were aiding and abetting, I testify to their innocence of
any of the book's faults. Yet if, as Stephen Crane's little Easterner
insists, every sin is the result of a collaboration, so is every textbook.

To several people I owe unusual debts. Mr. William B. Goodman,
of New York City, shared with me the original, vital "shock of rec-
ognition" about Naturalism. Miss Catherine Nelson, of the Ohio Uni-
versity Library, was my right (bibliographical) hand. And Appleton-
Century-Crofts, Inc. enabled me to reintroduce into student society
many fine old members of an even older family--their own.

Ohio University E. S.

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