422 pp. Linen endpapers. Color frontispiece and plates by James Montgomery Flagg. Meredith Nicholson helped usher in, along with Booth Tarkington, George Ade, and James Whitcomb Riley, et al, a golden age of Indiana literature. Three of his books were bestsellers. Excerpt: "If anything really interesting should happen to me I think I should drop dead, declared Ardmore as he stood talking to Griswold in the railway station at Atlanta. I entered upon this life under false pretenses, thinking that money would make the game easy, but here I am, twenty-seven years old, stalled at the end of a blind alley, with no light ahead; and to be quite frank, old man, I don't believe you have the advantage of me. What's the matter with us, anyhow'"
