Misinforming a Nation/Chapter 12
XII
TWO HUNDRED OMISSIONS
The following list contains two hundred of the many hundreds of writers, painters, musicians and scientists who are denied biographies in the Britannica. There is not a name here which should not be in an encyclopædia which claims for itself the completeness which the Britannica claims. Many of the names stand in the forefront of modern culture. Their omission is nothing short of preposterous, and can be accounted for only on the grounds of ignorance or prejudice. In either case, they render the encyclopædia inadequate as an up-to-date and comprehensive reference work.
It will be noted that not one of these names is English, and that America has suffered from neglect in a most outrageous fashion. After reading the flamboyant statements made in the Encyclopædia Britannica's advertising, glance down this list. Then decide for yourself whether or not the statements are accurate.
Objection may be raised to some of the following names on the ground that they are not of sufficient importance to be included in an encyclopædia, and that their omission cannot be held to the discredit of the Britannica. In answer let me state that for every name listed here as being denied a biography, there are one or two, and, in the majority of cases, many, Englishmen in the same field who are admittedly inferior and yet who are given detailed and generally laudatory biographies.
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LITERATURE | |
| “A. E.” (George | Eekhoud |
| W. Russell) | Clyde Fitch |
| Andreiev | Paul Fort |
| Artzibashef | Gustav Frenssen |
| Hermann Bahr | Fröding |
| Henri Bernstein | Fucini (Tanfucio Neri) |
| Otto Julius Bierbaum | Garshin |
| Ambrose Bierce | Stefan George |
| Helene Böhlau | René de Ghil |
| Henry Bordeaux | Giacosa |
| René Boylesve | Ellen Glasgow |
| Enrico Butti | Rémy de Gourmont |
| Cammaerts | Robert Grant |
| Capuana | Lady Gregory |
| Bliss Carman | Grigorovich |
| Winston Churchill | Hartleben |
| Pierre de Coulevain | Heidenstam |
| Richard Dehmel | Hirschfeld |
| Margaret Deland | Hugo von Hofmannsthal |
| Grazia Deledda | Arno Holz |
| Theodore Dreiser | Richard Hovey |
| Bronson Howard | Rovetta |
| Ricarda Huch | Albert Samain |
| James Huneker | George Santayana |
| Douglas Hyde | Johannes Schlaf |
| Lionel Johnson | Schnitzler |
| Karlfeldt | Severin |
| Charles Klein | Signoret |
| Korolenko | Synge |
| Kuprin | John Bannister Tabb |
| Percy MacKaye | Tchekhoff |
| Emilio de Marchi | Gherardi del Testa |
| Ferdinando Martini | Jérôme and Jean Tharaud |
| Stuart Merrill | Ludwig Thoma |
| William Vaughn Moody | Augustus Thomas |
| Nencioni | Tinayre |
| Standish O'Grady | Katherine Tynan |
| Ompteda | Veressayeff |
| Panzacchi | Clara Viebig |
| Giovanni Pascoli | Annie Vivanti |
| David Graham Phillips | Wackenroder |
| Wilhelm von Polenz | Wedekind |
| Rapisardi | Edith Wharton |
| Edwin Arlington Robinson | Owen Wister |
| Romain Rolland | Ernst von Wolzogen |
| T. W. Rolleston | |
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PAINTING | |
| George Bellows | C. W. Hawthorne |
| Carrière | Robert Henri |
| Mary Cassatt | Hodler |
| Cézanne | Sergeant Kendall |
| Louis Corinth | Ludwig Knaus |
| Maurice Denis | Krüger |
| Gauguin | Jean Paul Laurens |
| Habermann | Leibl |
| Von Marées | Toulouse-Lautrec |
| René Ménard | Trübner |
| Redon | Twachtman |
| Charles Shuch | Van Gogh |
| Lucien Simon | Vallotton |
| Steinlen | Zorn |
|
MUSIC | |
| d'Albert | Marschner |
| Arensky | Nevin |
| Mrs. Beach | Nordraak |
| Busoni | John Knowles Paine |
| Buxtehude | Horatio Parker |
| Charpentier | Rachmaninov |
| Frederick Converse | Ravel |
| Cui | Max Reger |
| Arthur Foote | Nikolaus Rubinstein |
| Grechaninov | Scharwenka brothers |
| Guilmant | Georg Alfred Schumann |
| Henry K. Hadley | Scriabine |
| Josef Hofmann | Sibelius |
| Edgar Stillman Kelly | Friedrich Silcher |
| Kreisler | Sinding |
| Leschetitzky | Taneiev |
| Gustav Mahler | Wolf-Ferrari |
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SCIENCE AND INVENTION | |
| William Beaumont | Simon Flexner |
| John Shaw Billings | W. W. Gerhard |
| Luther Burbank | Samuel David Gross |
| George W. Crile | William S. Halsted |
| Harvey Cushing | Wilhelm His |
| Rudolph Diesel | Abraham Jacobi |
| Daniel Drake | Rudolph Leuckart |
| Ehrlich | Franz Leydig |
| Jacques Loeb | Ramón y Cajal |
| Percival Lowell | Nicholas Senn |
| Lyonet (Lyonnet) | Marion Sims |
| S. J. Meltzer | Theobald Smith |
| Metchnikoff | W. H. Welch |
| T. H. Morgan | Orville Wright |
| Joseph O'Dwyer | Wilbur Wright |
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PSYCHOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY | |
| Ardigò | Jung |
| Bergson | Külpe |
| Boutroux | Lipps |
| Hermann Cohen | Josiah Royce |
| John Dewey | Alois Riehl |
| Edelmann | Sibbern |
| Freud | Soloviov |
| Guyau | Tetans |
| G. Stanley Hall | Windelband |
| Hildebrand | |