Harvey Jerrold O'Higgins was an American novelist and journalist. He started out writing detective stories and later political and sociological articles for journals in the United States. O'Higgins was led to psychoanalysis by personal illness, and utilized it in some literary efforts. He then moved on to do some literary works centered on women. He developed several plays, sometimes in collaboration with others. This book contains: - Silent Sam. - His Mother. - In The Matter Of Art. - Tammany's Tithes. - The Devil's Doings. - The Hired Man. - Larkin.